CC-LandStraD - Interdependencies between Land use and Climate Change – Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany - subprojekt 5: Regulatory Systems of Environmental and Spatial Planning Law in Land Use (CC-LandStraD)

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Land surface in Germany is used intensively. Land fulfils many societal requirements including the production of food, energy and wood, or provides area for settlement and transportation infrastructure and recreation. Global changes such as climate change and globalisation of economic systems will increase the competition for the limited land resources that exist between the various societal demands in Germany and in many other regions of world.How to integrate aspects of preserving an intact environment, climate protection, and sustainable resource management into this complex realm of land use conflicts is the research focus of the joint project CC-LandStraD "Interdependencies between Land use and Climate Change - Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany".The subproject focuses on the regulatory system of environmental and spatial planning instruments according to land use and its management. It contributes to enhance the understanding of complex interdependencies between land use decisions, e.g. of land owners on one hand, and the socio-economic as well as statutory and informal framework of contemporary governance on the other. So the development of sustainable land management strategies in the project will not only be guided by aspects of the natural sciences but also by socio-economic issues and regulatory planning aspects.