Objectives and emphasis
- Contribute to understanding the interactions between land management and climate protection measures
- Model and assess diverse policy options for sustainable land management
- Assess regional policies in terms of their sustainability, effectiveness and potential to be implemented
- Improve the analysis and valuation of the dynamics of regional ecosystem functions and services (ESF/ESS)
- Use our improved understanding of ESF/ESS to develop instruments and processes that enable their recognition in the development of new policy options
- Improve our understanding of the transregional and global effect of regional policies by accounting for their substitution and secondary impacts elsewhere