The transition to a low carbon future is starting to affect landscapes around the world. In
order for this landscape transformation to be sustainable, renewable energy technologies …

The production of decentralized renewable electricity often collides with provisioning,
regulating and cultural services of the landscape. In this paper we operationalize the …

Planners and engineers increasingly discovered nature as a source of inspiration to mitigate
hydro-meteorological risks resulting from extreme weather events. Actors are realizing …

Green infrastructure is a concept aimed at realizing a strategically planned network of
valuable natural and semi-natural areas, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of …

While policy-makers in the bioenergy sector have paid considerable attention over the past
decade to the risks that energy cropping can pose to forests, soils and food security, there …

This paper investigates how risks are anticipated in national bioenergy policies and in which
way related expectations that harms can be prevented or mitigated have actually been met …

Cellulosic energy crops have been promoted in various jurisdictions for their potential to
mitigate climate change and enhance energy security while avoiding some of the negative …

A evolução da política energética dos países desenvolvidos, associada à procura por fontes
renováveis como a biomassa florestal, impulsionou, desde o início dos anos 2000, o …

Purpose The transition to a low carbon future is an emerging challenge and requires the
planning and designing of sustainable energy landscapes–landscapes that provide …

The implementation of the ecosystem services (ES) concept in planning and administration
has gained momentum in Germany, so far the focus has been on landscape planning. We …