Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Planning and Public Policy." Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-306).

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv. / Härtill 6 uppsatser.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:02:50Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 amaral_bd_dr_rcla.pdf: 3670026 bytes, checksum: 346b0114e0228d9713d3a6f11545b1ee (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / o estudo buscou desenvolver uma modelagem da paisagem para a tomada de decisão na gestão socioambiental na bacia a montante do APM - Manso (MT). O banco de dados e as análises envolvidas na modelagem foram estruturados em SIG. As análises não espaciais foram delineadas com as ferramentas de qualidade, o processo hierárquico analítico (AHP) e o emprego das análises de correspondência (CA e DCA). A modelagem espacial foi realizada através da sobreposição, reclassificação, distância e custo/distância, das análises multi-critérios e similaridades. As demandas foram processadas pela AHP para os setores agropecuário, hidrelétrico e turístico e suscitou as matrizes de vetores de decisão. Os resultados das análises multi-critérios foram comparados entre si e em seguida com os usos do solo sugerido pelo Zoneamento Ecológico-Econômico (ZEE-MT). As similaridades entre os mapas de cenários se demonstram médias entre os setores hidrelétrico e turístico, bem como quando comparados às áreas da agropecuária. Já as similaridades entre os setores da agropecuária foram todos congruentes entre si, com destaque para as interações entre a agricultura empresarial e pecuária, e agricultura familiar e o setor agropecuário. Os resultados das similaridades entre os mapas de cenários e os usos do solo sugeridos pelo ZZE-MT na maioria foram baixas a médias as associações, exceto para o setor de turismo que obteve uma melhor associação. Assim, o processo decisório aplicado à gestão socioambiental de bacias se demonstrou como um instrumento dinâmico e analítico entre os setores produtivos na geração de cenários na paisagem que incidem sobre o desenvolvimento regional e suas tendências futuras. / the study tried to develop a modeling of the landscape in order to make a decision in the socio-environmental management in the basin at the riverhead of the APM - Manso (MT). The data base and the involved analyses in the modeling were structuralized in GIS. The non space analyses were delineated with the quality tools, the analytical hierarchic process (AHP) and the use of the correspondence analyses. The space modeling was carried out through the overlapping, reclassification, distance and cost/distance, the multi-criteria analyses and similarities. The demands were processed by the AHP for the farming, hydroelectric and tourism sectors and excited the matrices of decision vectors. The results of the multi-criteria analyses were compared between themselves and after that with the use of the ground suggested by the Ecological-Economic Zoning (ZEE-MT). The similarities between the maps of sustainability demonstrated averages between the hydroelectric and the tourism sectors, as well as when compared to the areas of farming. The similarities between the sectors of farming were all congruent between themselves, with prominence of the interactions enterprise and cattle agriculture, and familiar agriculture and the farming sector. The results of the similarities between the maps of sustainability and the uses of the ground suggested by the ZZE-MT, the associations in their majority were low to average, except for the tourism sector that had a better association. Thus, the process of decision applied to the basins socio-environmental management showed itself as a dynamic and analytical instrument between the productive sectors in the generation of scenes in the landscape that happen on the regional development and on its future trends.

Orientador: Juércio Tavares de Mattos / Banca: Diana Sarita Hamburger / Banca: Jairo Roberto Jimenez Rueda / Banca: Paulo Milton Barbosa Landim / Banca: Suely Yoshinaga Pereira / Resumo: o estudo buscou desenvolver uma modelagem da paisagem para a tomada de decisão na gestão socioambiental na bacia a montante do APM - Manso (MT). O banco de dados e as análises envolvidas na modelagem foram estruturados em SIG. As análises não espaciais foram delineadas com as ferramentas de qualidade, o processo hierárquico analítico (AHP) e o emprego das análises de correspondência (CA e DCA). A modelagem espacial foi realizada através da sobreposição, reclassificação, distância e custo/distância, das análises multi-critérios e similaridades. As demandas foram processadas pela AHP para os setores agropecuário, hidrelétrico e turístico e suscitou as matrizes de vetores de decisão. Os resultados das análises multi-critérios foram comparados entre si e em seguida com os usos do solo sugerido pelo Zoneamento Ecológico-Econômico (ZEE-MT). As similaridades entre os mapas de cenários se demonstram médias entre os setores hidrelétrico e turístico, bem como quando comparados às áreas da agropecuária. Já as similaridades entre os setores da agropecuária foram todos congruentes entre si, com destaque para as interações entre a agricultura empresarial e pecuária, e agricultura familiar e o setor agropecuário. Os resultados das similaridades entre os mapas de cenários e os usos do solo sugeridos pelo ZZE-MT na maioria foram baixas a médias as associações, exceto para o setor de turismo que obteve uma melhor associação. Assim, o processo decisório aplicado à gestão socioambiental de bacias se demonstrou como um instrumento dinâmico e analítico entre os setores produtivos na geração de cenários na paisagem que incidem sobre o desenvolvimento regional e suas tendências futuras. / Abstract: the study tried to develop a modeling of the landscape in order to make a decision in the socio-environmental management in the basin at the riverhead of the APM - Manso (MT). The data base and the involved analyses in the modeling were structuralized in GIS. The non space analyses were delineated with the quality tools, the analytical hierarchic process (AHP) and the use of the correspondence analyses. The space modeling was carried out through the overlapping, reclassification, distance and cost/distance, the multi-criteria analyses and similarities. The demands were processed by the AHP for the farming, hydroelectric and tourism sectors and excited the matrices of decision vectors. The results of the multi-criteria analyses were compared between themselves and after that with the use of the ground suggested by the Ecological-Economic Zoning (ZEE-MT). The similarities between the maps of sustainability demonstrated averages between the hydroelectric and the tourism sectors, as well as when compared to the areas of farming. The similarities between the sectors of farming were all congruent between themselves, with prominence of the interactions enterprise and cattle agriculture, and familiar agriculture and the farming sector. The results of the similarities between the maps of sustainability and the uses of the ground suggested by the ZZE-MT, the associations in their majority were low to average, except for the tourism sector that had a better association. Thus, the process of decision applied to the basins socio-environmental management showed itself as a dynamic and analytical instrument between the productive sectors in the generation of scenes in the landscape that happen on the regional development and on its future trends. / Doutor

Numerous scholars describe agroforestry as an extraordinary food production system that generates viable ecosystems and accommodates regenerative capabilities. Agroforestry may therefore be a promising solution to the future environmental challenges facing food production. This multifunctional land management system is practised in temperate and tropical regions alike, however, it exists to a remarkably limited extent in Sweden. This research points to the complexities in agricultural and forestry policy as a main barrier for wider agroforestry adoption. The foundation of inquiry is thus to analyze various Swedish legislatives and support systems that either facilitate or adverse agroforestry practice, through the lens of political ecology. The research findings derive from a qualitative study, consisting of conducted interviews with key stakeholders in Swedish agricultural and forestry policy. The study contends that a core obstacle for agroforestry development is the dualistic approach to governmental sectors, i.e. forestry and agriculture, and the lack of coordination between them, since agroforestry cannot be classified as neither . A perpetual policy prioritized towards large-volume crop yields, rapid production, large scale investments, calculative assessments and a competitive business sector is moreover identified. The research asserts that these hegemonic discourses permeating policy, consequently act as a disincentive for agroforestry adoption due to the ofttimes long implementation period, high initial investment and uncertain food market for agroforestry produce. In addition, the study illustrates that cultural expectations of landscape mainly give trees a cultural and environmental value, therein neglecting the multifunctionality of woody vegetation - which hence suggest a lack of a holistic approach to food systems. The thesis finally argues that these hegemonic discourses concerning assessment and management of land, together influence the design of state policy and farmers’ attitude towards agroforestry systems. Overall, current policy regulations portray a rather static and incomplete way of managing the dynamic symbiosis of multifunctional food systems.

Submitted by Claudia Rocha (claudia.rocha@udesc.br) on 2017-12-08T12:19:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PGEF16MA060.pdf: 200273 bytes, checksum: c59f22cc1e5f18c0272f4b828aab3423 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-08T12:19:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PGEF16MA060.pdf: 200273 bytes, checksum: c59f22cc1e5f18c0272f4b828aab3423 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / Capes / This work aimed to evaluate the influence of landscape structure on the floristic-structural organization and the demographics rates of the tree component of Araucaria Forest fragments in South Plateau of Santa Catarina State, in Brazil. Studies of this nature are important to the development of conservation strategies in fragmented landscapes, situation of the study area. Two chapters are presented, in the first i) the influence of landscape structure on the floristic-structural patterns in forest fragments was analyzed; and in the second ii) the inter-relationships between the landscape spatial configuration x floristic-structural organization x demographics rates of tree component were verified in a system formed by forest fragments and corridors. For nine forest fragments in the region, surrounding land cover maps and landscape metrics (shape, connectivity and influence of edge) were generated from the Landsat 8 satellite images; and information about floristic-structural composition of tree component was obtained. For the forest fragment-corridor system the demographics rates for a four years period (2010-2014) were also obtained. The data were analyzed through Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS), Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA), Structural Equations Models, and Generalized Linear Models (GLM). In the first chapter, it was observed that the spatial configuration of the fragments in the landscape (shape complexity and area) and the surrounding land cover (forest, swamp, grassland, urbanization) significantly influenced the floristic-structural organization of the arboreal vegetation. In the second chapter, it was evidenced that the floristic-structural organization of the tree component was influenced by landscape spatial configuration and the tree abundance; and the demographics rates were only influenced by 14 vegetation structure (abundance and basal area). We conclude that the landscape spatial configuration influences the floristic-structural organization in FOM areas and that demographic rates of the tree component are determined primarily by structural aspects, which reflect the successional stage of vegetation / A presente dissertação objetivou avaliar a influência da estrutura da paisagem sobre a organização florística-estrutural e sobre as taxas demográficas do componente arbóreo de fragmentos de Floresta Ombrófila Mista (FOM) no Planalto Sul Catarinense. Estudos dessa natureza são importantes para o desenvolvimento de estratégias de conservação em paisagens fragmentadas, situação em que se encontra a região de estudo. São apresentados dois capítulos, sendo que no primeiro i) foi analisada a influência da estrutura da paisagem sobre os padrões florístico-estruturais em fragmentos florestais; e no segundo ii) foram verificadas as inter-relações entre a configuração espacial da paisagem x organização florística-estrutural x taxas demográficas do componente arbóreo, em um sistema composto por fragmentos e corredores florestais. Para nove remanescentes florestais na região, foram gerados mapas de cobertura do solo no entorno e obtidas as métricas de paisagem de área (forma, conectividade, influência de borda e área das classes de cobertura na vizinhança), a partir de imagens do satélite Landsat 8; e obtidas informações sobre a composição florística-estrutural, além das taxas demográficas do sistema de fragmentos e corredores para um período de quatro anos (2010-2014). Os dados foram analisados por meio de Análise de Componentes Principais (PCA), Escalonamento Multidimensional Não-Métrico (NMDS), Análise de Coordenadas Principais (PCoA), Modelagem de Equações Estruturais e Modelos Lineares Generalizados (GLM). No primeiro capítulo, observou-se que a configuração espacial dos fragmentos na paisagem (complexidade da forma e área) e a cobertura do solo do entorno (floresta, banhado, campo, urbanização) influenciaram de forma significativa a organização florística-estrutural da vegetação arbórea. No segundo capítulo ficou evidenciado que a organização 12 florística-estrutural do componente arbóreo foi influenciada pela configuração espacial da paisagem e pela a abundância de árvores, e as taxas demográficas foram influenciadas apenas por aspectos estruturais (abundância e área basal) da vegetação. Conclui-se que a configuração espacial da paisagem exerce influência sobre a organização florística-estrutural em áreas de FOM e que as taxas demográficas do componente arbóreo são determinadas fundamentalmente por aspectos estruturais, que refletem o estágio sucessional da vegetação

With the global population becoming more urban and less rural, increasingly research has argued for concepts such as establish Green Infrastructure (GI) as a tool for enhancing wildlife survival and human’s living quality (e.g. Harrison et al., 1995; Benedict and McMahon, 2006). However, an interdisciplinary planning approach underpinned by ecological and social evidence has not yet been fully developed. This research therefore seeks to integrate an ecological network with a green space planning standard by exploring the use of biotope and sociotope mapping methods. Seeking a comprehensive planning that takes all green resources into account, a green space typology is firstly developed according to Taiwanese contexts for identifying green spaces from land use maps. In order to specify effective features of these green spaces to bird survival and user preferences, an insight was conducted into the relationship of ‘birds and urban habitats’, as well as ‘human preferred urban green spaces’ in Taipei City. Important environmental factors influencing bird distribution and influencing human experiences in urban green spaces are respectively specified and developed into an ecological value index (EVI) to detail potential habitats and a social value index (SVI) to evaluate recreational green space provision. Interestingly, proximity to green space appears to plays a more critical role in human preferences than bird survival in Taipei city; size is important both as a habitat and for creating an attractive green space; and green space quality tends to be a more significant factor than its structure for both wildlife and people. Utilising the bio-sociotope maps, this thesis argues for a number of strategies: conserving, enlarging, or creating large green spaces in green space deficient areas; increasing ecological and recreational value by enhancing green space quality of specific characteristics; and tackling gravity distance by combining green space accessibility and attractiveness in optimising urban green structure. As these suggestions are a challenge to apply in intensively developed urban areas, barriers from land use, political mechanisms, technical shortages, and cultural characteristics are also explored with possible resolutions presented for facilitating implementation. It is clear that optimising a multifunctional GI for both wildlife and people requires interdisciplinary knowledge and cooperation from various fields. The EVI and SVI developed within this thesis create the potential for a more place-specific and quantifiable green spaces strategy to help better link ecological and social functions in urban areas.

Bisher sind Indikatoren für die Landschaftsvielfalt auf bundesweiter Ebene trotz vorhandener früherer Ansätze, beispielsweise zur Umweltökonomischen Gesamtrechnung, noch unterrepräsentiert. Auch auf EU-Ebene existieren dazu nur erste Ansätze. Die Vielfalt der Nutzung einer Landschaft kann auf der Basis von Flächennutzungsinformationen mittels geeigneter Maßzahlen beschrieben werden. Dabei dienen Indizes der Landschaftsstruktur („Landschaftsstrukturmaße“) zur Beschreibung der Zusammensetzung und räumlichen Ordnung einer Landschaft. Aus der flächendeckenden Datengrundlage des Monitors der Siedlungs- und Freiraumentwicklung (IÖR-Monitor) lassen sich räumliche Maßzahlen zu Größe, Form, Anzahl, Art und Anordnung der Landschaftselemente ableiten und mit weiteren Fachdaten verknüpfen. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über bisher vorhandene Ansätze und Indikatoren in Deutschland sowie der Europäischen Union. Abschließend werden Überlegungen für Indikatoren zur Landschaftsvielfalt im IÖR-Monitor sowie erste Ergebnisse vorgestellt.

Die Jahrestagung 2013 der deutschen Sektion der International Assiciation for Landscape Ecology (IALE) fand vom 10.-12.Oktober 2013 in Dresden statt. Motto der Tagung mit circa 70 Teilnehmern war "Vielfältige Landschaften: Biodiversität, Ökosystemdienstleistungen und Lebensqualität". Der Tagungsband entält die Kurzfassung der ca. 30 Tagungsbeiträge und 20 Poster.:FACHBEITRÄGE ANGELA LAUSCH, STEFFEN ZACHARIAS, ULRIKE WERBAN: Eignung der Fernerkundung zur Ableitung von räumlichen Vegetationsmustern als Funktion von Bodencharakteristik und Bodenfeuchte .................................................................. 7 JÜRGEN BREUSTE, AISA HENSEKE: Potenziale und Probleme der Anpassung an den Klimawandel durch Ökosystemdienstleistungen der Stadtvegetation – Das Beispiel Linz, Österreich ............................................................. 9 JULIANE MATHEY, STEFANIE RÖßLER: Ökosystemdienstleistungen von grünen Brachflächen in Städten – methodische Ansätze und planerische Umsetzung ............................................................................................................................... 11 PETER WERNER: Neue Herausforderungen für Biodiversitätsstrategien in Städten ......................................................... 12 DAGMAR HAASE: Urbane Ökosystemdienstleistungen in europäischen Städten – wo stehen wir? .................................. 13 GEORG SCHILLER, MICHAEL HOLFELD: Flächenbezogene Bewertung des potenziellen Bedarfs oberflächennaher Rohstoffe ......................................................................................................................................................................... 14 NEELE LARONDELLE, DAGMAR HAASE: Generische Landbedeckungs- und -nutzungsklassifikation zur Reduktion der Unsicherheit bei der Ableitung von Ökosystemfunktionen und -dienstleistungen: der Vergleich Berlin und New York City (NYC) ............................................................................................................................................................................... 15 NADJA KABISCH, DAGMAR HAASE: Gerecht verteilt? Urbane Grünflächen in Berlin. .......................................................... 16 LINDA HEUCHELE, GERD LUPP, CHRISTINA RENNER, WERNER KONOLD, DOMINIK SIEGRIST: Tourismusregionen als Modellregionen zur Entwicklung von Anpassungsstrategien im Kontext Biologische Vielfalt, Tourismus und Klimawandel – Das Beispiel Südschwarzwald ......................................................................................................................................... 17 ULRICH WALZ, ELISA MICHEL, RALF-UWE SYRBE: Biodiversität und Landschaftsstruktur – Arten und Landschaftsvielfalt ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 MICHAEL GLEMITZ, R. PLATEN, R. KRECHEL, J. KONRAD, F.WAGENER: Welche Beiträge können streifenförmige Energiegehölze zur biotischen Aufwertung von Arglandschaften liefern? – Ergebnisse aus dem Beispielsvorhaben Scheyern ........................................................................................................................................................................ 20 CHRISTIAN ALBERT, CHRISTOPH GÖRG: Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten für ein Nationales Ökosystem Assessment in Deutschland – Zwischenergebnisse einer Sondierungsstudie ................................................................................... 21 FRANZISKA NYCH, ECKEHARD-GUNTER WILHELM, SUSANNE WINTER: Vegetationsökologische Untersuchung von Waldrändern in Ostsachsen .......................................................................................................................................... 22 ECKEHARD-GUNTER WILHELM, FRANZISKA NYCH, SUSANNE WINTER: Zur Phytodiversität in Kurzumtriebsplantagen ... 24 SUSANNE FRANK, CHRISTINE FÜRST, KATRIN PIETZSCH: Bewertung forstlicher und landwirtschaftlicher Managementstrategien mit Fokus auf holzartige Biomasse .......................................................................................... 26 VIKTORIA MADER, DANIELA FIEDLER, KLAUS BIRKHOFER, VOLKMAR WOLTERS, EVA DIEHL: Einfluss von lokaler Bewirtschaftung und Landschaftskontext auf netzbauende Spinnen und deren Potenzial zur biologischen Schädlingskontrolle ...................................................................................................................................................... 27 PAUL SCHULZE, CLAUDIA SCHRÖDER, VERA LUTHARDT, JUTTA ZEITZ: Ein Entscheidungs-unterstützungssystem zur torferhaltenden Bewirtschaftung organischer Böden ................................................................................................... 28 SIMONE BEICHLER, SONJA DEPPISCH: Was leistet ihre Stadt heute, und morgen? – Partizipative Erhebung von kulturellen Ökosystemdienstleistungen in Rostock ...................................................................................................... 29 JÖRG PRIES: Die ÖDL-App – neue Smartphoneanwendung zur Erfassung von Ökosystemdienstleistungen ............... 31 KAROLINE BRANDT, MICHAEL GLEMNITZ, STEPHANIE KRÄMER: Der Einfluss der Umgebungsstruktur und des landwirtschaftlichen Managements auf das Vorkommen von Blütenbesuchern in der Agrarlandschaft? ...................... 32 FRANK ROSER: Modellierung einer landesweiten Planungsgrundlage für das Schutzgut Landschaftsbild in Baden-Württemberg ............................................................................................................................................................... 33 TILL HERMANNS, KATHARINA HELMING: Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung zukünftiger Land- und Wassermanagementstrategien ……................................................................................................................................................................................ 35 OLAF BASTIAN, RALF-UWE SYRBE: Mehrwert Natur Osterzgebirge - Werte und Leistungen ausgewählter Ökosysteme .. 37 RALF-UWE SYRBE, OLAF BASTIAN, KARSTEN GRUNEWALD: Ökosystemdienstleistungen und Energiewende – Leistungen von AgrarÖkosystemen im Landkreis Görlitz …............................................................................................................. 38 KARSTEN GRUNEWALD, OLAF BASTIAN, A. KOROSHEV: Bedeutung des Geosystem- und Landschafts-konzepts für die Erfassung und Bewertung von Ökosystemdienstleistungen. Review und Anwendungsperspektiven in Deutschland und Russland ..................................................................................................................................................................... 39 MARKUS LEIBENATH, PETER WIRTH: Widerspiegelung der Energiewende und ihrer Wirkungen auf die Landschaft anhand von Landesentwicklungsplänen in Sachsen ................................................................................................................ 40 JOCHEN A. G. JAEGER, CHRISTIAN SCHWICK, FELIX KIENAST: Ist die Zersiedelung Europas unvermeidbar? Von der Messung zur Vermeidung….......................................................................................................................................... 41 JOCHEN A. G. JAEGER, MEGAN DESLAURIERS,ADRIENNE ASGARY: Messung der Konnektivität städtischer Grünflächen als Indikator im City Biodiversity Index (CBI) …................................................................................................................. 43 MARTINA ARTMANN: Straßenverkehrslärm im Siedlungsbereich – Gemeinden entlang von Autobahnen im Spannungsfeld ökonomischer, ökologischer und sozialer Interessen ….............................................................................................. 45 FELIX MÜLLER, BENJAMIN BURKHARD: Ökosystemleistungen als integratives Konzept für das Landschaftsmanagement............................................................................................................................................ 46 POSTERBEITRÄGE KENNETH ANDERS, LARS FISCHER: Werbung für Ecosystem Services ........................................................................ 49 JANA GEVERS, MICHAEL GLEMNITZ, TOKE T. HǾYE, CHRIS J. TOPPING, BORIS SCHRÖDER: Biotische Effekte eines zunehmenden Maisanbaus in unterschiedlichen Landschaftstypen …........................................................................ 50 ANDREA FRÜH-MÜLLER, FRED JOPP, VOLKMAR WOLTERS: Analyzing soil- and water related ecosystem services in cultural landscapes ................................................................................................................................................................ 52 JAN THIELE, SASCHA BUCHHOLZ, JENS SCHIRMEL: Diversity of carabids, spiders and vascular plants in agricultural landscapes: at local and landscape scales in relation to connectivity of semi-natural habitat networks .................................................................................................................................................................................... 53 JOCHEN A. G. JAEGER, LUIS F. MADRIÑÁN, CHRISTIAN SCHWICK, TOMAS SOUKUP,FELIX KIENAST: Socio-economic drivers of landscape fragmentation in Europe ........................................................................................................................ 54 NAGHMEH NAZARNIA, CHRISTIAN SCHWICK, JOCHEN A. G. JAEGER: Comparison of the increase in urban sprawl in the metropolitan areas of Montréal, Québec, and Zurich: How do they differ, and why? ................................................................................................................................................................................... 56 UNDINÉ-CELESTE THOMPSON, JEAN-FRANÇOIS MARSAN, BASTIEN FOURNIERPEYRESBLANQUES,CHANTAL FORGUES, ANITA OGAA, JOCHEN A. G. JAEGER: Using Compliance Analysis for PPP to bridge the gap between SEA and EIA: Lessons from the Turcot Interchange reconstruction in Montréal ..................................................................................................... 58 ROGER KELLER: Bedeutung und Wahrnehmung kultureller Ökosystemleistungen in der Schweiz – Überprüfung der Anwendbarkeit des Konzepts der Ökosystemleistungen für die Biodiversitäts- und Landschaftspolitik........................................................................................................................................................ 59 RALF SAUERBREI, KLEMENS EKSCHMITT, VOLKMAR WOLTERS, THOMAS K. GOTTSCHALK Increased energy maize production reduces farmland bird diversity .................................................................................................................. 61 CHRISTIAN STEIN, ULRICH WALZ: Indicators of hemeroby for land use monitoring in Germany .................................. 62 ANNA BUGEY, UTA STEINHARDT, HEIDE STEPHANI-PESSEL: Abwasser auf neuen Wegen Zukunftsfähige Schmutzwasserentsorgung im ländlichen Raum am Beispiel einer Gemeinde in der Uckermark (Brandenburg) .......... 64 MILENA MARTINSEN, PATHRICK THUR, SVEN KNOTHE, RALF ULLRICH, CLAUDIA HENZE, UTA STEINHARDT: Klimaadaptierte Regionalplanung – Aber wie? ...................................................................................................................................... 66 JENNIFER NAGEL, UTA STEINHARDT: Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft planerisch steuern? ............................................... 68 UTA STEINHARDT, INKA SCHWAND: Entwicklung von Szenarien – ein Prozess mit Unsicherheiten, Expertenwissen und Zukunftsideen auf dem Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Landnutzung…............................................................................ 70 ANJA MÜLLER, BENJAMIN BURKHARD, FELIX MÜLLER: Anwendung eines Bewertungskonzeptes für Ökosystemleistungen am Beispiel der Darss-Zingster Boddenkette …............................................................................................................ 72 M. KANDZIORA, U. SCHLEUß, F. MÜLLER: Verwendung von Bodendaten zur Ableitung von Regulierungsleistungen im Bereich der Bornhöveder Seenkette ……...................................................................................................................... 73 ANNEGRET HAASE, DAGMAR HAASE, DIETER RINK: Der Einfluss städtischer Schrumpfung auf urbane Ökosystemdienstleitungen – Synergien und Konflikte ................................................................................................ 74 PEER VON DÖHREN, DAGMAR HAASE: Urban Ecosystem Disservices ........................................................................... 75 OLAF BASTIAN, RALF-UWE SYRBE, BIRGIT KOCHAN, SYLKE STUTZRIEMER: Mehrwert Natur Osterzgebirge: Ökosystemdienstleistungen erkennen, bewerten und kommunizieren ...................................................................... 76 ANDREAS TRÄNKNER: Positive Effekte eines unwirtlichen Lebensraumes – die Heideart Lycophotia porphyrea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in der Wanderdünenlandschaft auf Sylt...............................................................................77 MIKE HÖLZEL, MELANIE FORKER, CLAUDIA WALCZAK, MARITA ZIEVERINK: Erprobungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben Grünlandverbund Oelsen (Osterzgebirge), Phase II ....................................................................................................78

This project engages with the Kogi, an Amerindian indigenous people from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in northern Colombia. Kogi leaders have been engaging in a consistent ecological-political activism to protect the Sierra Nevada from environmentally harmful developments. More specifically, they have attempted to raise awareness and understanding among the wider public about why and how these activities are destructive according to their knowledge and relation to the world. The foreign nature of these underlying ontological understandings, statements, and practices, has created difficulties in conveying them to mainstream, scientific society. Furthermore, the pre-determined cosmological foundations of Kogi society, continuously asserted by them, present a problem to anthropology in terms of suitable analytical categories. My work aims to clarify and understand Kogi environmental activism in their own terms, aided by anthropological concepts and “Western” forms of expression. I elucidate and explain how Kogi ecology and public politics are embedded in an old, integrated, and complex way of being, knowing, and perceiving on the Sierra Nevada. I argue that theoretically this task involves taking a realist approach that recognises the Kogi’s cause as intended truth claims of practical environmental relevance. By avoiding constructivist and interpretivist approaches, as well as the recent “ontological pluralism” in anthropology, I seek to do justice to the Kogi’s own essentialist and universalist ontological principles, which also implies following their epistemological rationale. For this purpose, I immersed myself for two years in Kogi life on the Sierra, and focused on structured learning sessions with three Mamas, Kogi spiritual leaders and knowledge specialists. I reflect on how this interaction was possible because my project was compatible with the Mamas’ own desire to clarify and contextualise the Kogi ecological cause. After presenting this experience, I analyse the material as a multifaceted, interrelated, and elaborate system to reflect the organic, structured composition of Kogi and Sierra, also consciously conveyed as such by the Mamas. I hereby intend to show how the Kogi reproduce, live, and sustain this system through daily practices and institutions, and according to cosmological principles that guide a knowledgeable, ecological relationality with things, called ‘the Law of Origin’. To describe this system, I develop a correspondingly holistic and necessary integration of the anthropological concepts of cosmology, ontology, epistemology, and ecology. Based on this, I argue that Kogi eco-politics are equally embedded in this system, and constitute a contemporary attempt to maintain their regulatory relations with the Sierra Nevada and complement their everyday care-taking practices and rituals. In Kogi terms, this continuity and coherence is a moral imperative and environmental necessity. Thus framing and clarifying Kogi eco-politics may enrich insights into the nature of indigenous ecological knowledge, and may help address environmental problems.