Potential trade-offs between providing sufficient food for a growing human population in the future and sustaining ecosystems and their services are driven by various biophysical and socio-economic parameters at different scales. In this study, we...

The ambitious climate policy objectives of the COP21 agreement require the design and the implementation of effective and efficient policy instruments.

When modeling medium and long-term challenges we need a reference path of economic development (the so-called baseline). Because sectoral models often o

In a recent report published in Science (“The global tree restoration potential”, 5 July 2019, p. 76) Bastin et al. claim that forest restoration is

Labor time has been proposed as an alternative payment vehicle in eliciting preferences for public goods in nonmone-tized communities. However, we so fa

Ethiopia has experienced a long-term deforestation with broad implications for human life and economic activities, but conventional frameworks of econom

Sound policy needs tools for production analysis under uncertainty such as the state-contingent approach. Apart from demonstrating the potential applicability of the approach for the grain producing sector in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, this contribution...

Urban green spaces, including parks, provide numerous ecosystem services (ES) for city inhabitants. Besides provisioning and regulating services, they a

Two possible adaptation scenarios to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area...

South Africa is likely to experience higher temperatures and less rainfall as a result of climate change. Resulting changes in regional water endowments and soil moisture will affect the productivity of cropland, leading to changes in food production...