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Ist der Suchschlitz ein Vintage Look&Feel des letzten Jahrhunderts? Oder- die Frage sei erlaubt, - unter welchen Bedingungen es Bibliotheken schaffen könnten, dass Nutzerinnen und Nutzer die Erstsuche nach Informationen über sie laufen lassen? Das sind beispielhafte Fragen, die man sich angesichts gewonnener Erfahrungen aus bisherigen Innovationen stellen kann, aber ebenfalls mit Blick auf das, was Neues an Technologien sich auf dem Markt befindet und zunehmend viele Lebensbereiche durchdringt. Das Forschungsgebiet der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) ist in aller Munde und fordert von Informationseinrichtungen eine Antwort darauf, ob der Einsatz von KI-Technologien als weitere Facette der Automatisierung und Digitalisierung von Workflows und Service in Bibliotheken sinnvoll und hilfreich, und ob Engagement auf dieser Linie notwendig ist. Auch wenn sich Bibliotheken in ihrem steten Bemühen um Innovation mit ihrer Belegschaft und Leitungen noch differenziert bis reserviert zu KI bekennen, ist ein weiterer Verlauf der Entwicklungen gemäß dem chinesischen Sprichwort: „Was du nicht aufhalten kannst, solltest du begrüßen", absehbar. Was heißt das aber für Bibliotheken, den Wandel zu gestalten bis hin zu dem Moment, wenn ein Dienst über die Pilot-, Prototyp- und damit Projektphase hinaus als fester Bestandteil des Serviceangebots fest etabliert und verstetigt werden soll? Welche Ressourcen und Kompetenzen sind z.B. in der Konsequenz von der Einrichtung selbst vorzuhalten? Weitere Fragen betreffen die Bewältigung der Masse an Daten und ihre Offenheit für die Anwendung von KI- Algorithmen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data Stewards work at the interface between research and research infrastructure. Vienna University Library has offered the first Data Steward certificate course in Austria since 2022 to equip individuals for this emerging role. The course covers the fundamentals of Research Data Management (RDM), Open Science, programming, and didactics. The first 25 individuals from 10 countries completed the Englishlanguage training in September 2023. This paper introduces the University of Vienna‘s Data Stewardship program, the concept of the certificate course, and experiences from the initial implementation. The objective is to provide other libraries with innovative training ideas and provide prospective participants with insights into the course structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google Scholar, ein Eckpfeiler der wissenschaftlichen Forschungslandschaft, dient täglich Millionen von Nutzern als unverzichtbare Ressource zur Ermittlung von Zitierungen und Literaturverweisen. Doch ein neuer wissenschaftlicher Artikel von Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu und Talal Rahwan zeigt zwei Seiten dieser beliebten Plattform und deckt alarmierende Schwachstellen auf, die die Integrität wissenschaftlicher Metriken untergraben könnten. In ihrer Untersuchung „Google Scholar is manipulatable“, veröffentlicht auf arXiv, enthüllen die Forscher, wie einfach es ist, die Zitationszahlen zu manipulieren – ein Problem, das weitreichende Folgen für die Bewertung akademischer Leistungen haben kann. Dieser Bericht zeigt, wie tiefgreifend die Herausforderungen sind, denen sich Forschende und Institutionen gegenübersehen, wenn sie auf transparente und gerechte Bewertungsmechanismen angewiesen sind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An electronic lab notebook (ELN) will replace the paper lab books that have been used for decades in every research laboratory in the future. To this purpose, digital entries are being created at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) in the web-based software eLabFTW. Under the theme „Preserve your data & empower your research“ of the e-Science Days 2023, Bert Zulauf and Nina Knipprath presented the process of laboratory digitisation on a poster.1 This article explains the content of the poster and addresses the points of digitally reusable laboratory documentation, improving research quality, strengthening one‘s own research, forms and infrastructure as well as security requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that several years ago Viennese designer Victor Papanek published "Design for the Real World", a critique of the environmentally harmful culture of designing things that are consumed and then thrown away and for Papanek, there was a "Kleenex culture" in western societies as today these countries have struggle with the consequences of their unsustainable consumption.

LIFE is the only European Union funding instrument that exclusively addresses wildlife, the environment, and climate protection. Within the framework of the integrated LIFE project (Atlantic) Sand Landscapes (IPSL) – as well as through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), among others – investment-based nature conservation measures are being implemented. IPSL is characterised by a project-specific implementation design, such as stakeholder participation, the spatial scale, the use of leverage funds, the range of conservation measures implemented, the service approach, project duration and funding, and flexibility. In this paper, the case of IPSL's implementation design is considered in detail, based on the results of guided interviews, and the strengths and weaknesses are elaborated. The results indicate that the implementation design has a predominantly positive effect on the implementation of investment-based nature conservation measures and could also provide approaches for the design of other funding instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compiles international literature on COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 regarding outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism. It is based on a bibliometric and qualitative analysis of 287 papers. The paper illustrates and summarizes the recent publications on COVID-19. The synopsis describes the impact of the pandemic, handling of the protective measures, as well as consequences for behaviour and the necessary management consequences to analyze the possible after-effects, including the long-term impacts. Against this background, solutions and new strategies are analyzed. In the discussion part, we take a closer look at the consequences of the presentations in the literature with regard to adapted visitor management and an improved urban green concept. Furthermore, we discuss whether the pandemic may also have positive consequences in the appreciation of nature, which may lead to a new target group in the field of outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores how Shi ˘ ite and Protestant groups use the metaphor of sacrifice to cope with traumatic child deaths. The theoretical framework for this study is shaped by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss' theory of sacrifice and Mahmoud M. Ayoub and Jürgen Moltmann's theology of suffering. In this paper, religious services from digital media are examined, including sermons, hymns, songs, poems, laments, and social media posts, in the context of nine child deaths in the US, Germany, Iran, Afghanistan, and Yemen. The shared function of sacrificial imagery in Shi ˘ ite and Protestant communities is driven by common themes of 'comfort and anxiety', 'narrative fusion' and 'consecration of social order'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is about a response letter from students in Trier regarding the continental stage of the Synod on Synodality. The students were disappointed that they were not aware of the opportunity to participate in the diocesan phase of the World Synod. They have written a response letter that addresses various aspects, including youth issues, reflection on the current state of the Church, a return to the core mission of the Church, and the topic of synodality. The working paper has been sent to various individuals and institutions, including Cardinal Kurt Koch and the Synod Secretariat in Rome. [Extracted from the article]

The presented study shows the effects of climate uncertainty, characterized using three different climate projections, on growth and yield in four regions of the north German lowlands (tab. 1). We examine whether climate uncertainty affects forest management or whether different silvicultural concepts might eviscerate the climatic effects in forest development. Three silvicultural concepts are applied: the reference scenario defined by the principles of close-to-nature silviculture, the biodiversity strategy indending to increase the area of natural vegetation, and the climate protection path trying to maximize CO2 sequestration (tab. 3). The simulation system WaldPlaner with site- and climate- sensitive growth functions projects forest development in the four regions from 2011 to 2070 applying the three silvicultural concepts as well as three climate projections (fig. 1). Climatic and silvicultural effects are directly comparable as the projection excludes any tree or forest losses due to risk factors, i.e. no interaction of mortality and forest development is simulated. The starting conditions in the four regions, i.e. site and climate characteristics (tab. 2, fig. 2), age class distribution (fig. 3) and species proportions (tab. 5) heavily influence the projected forest development. The scenario study shows the clear effects of climatic uncertainty on standing and harvested volume (fig. 4, tab. 6), on periodic annual increment (fig. 5) and on the prescribed yield index (fig. 6, tab. 8). Climatic uncertainty increases with time. Nevertheless, we show that silvicultural measures are capable to control forest development to a much stronger degree. A subsequent risk analysis is indispensable to recommend management options or to derive adaptation strategies. Here, we show the effect of climate uncertainty and silvicultural practices on risk factors using drought vulnerability as an example (tab. 5, fig. 6). Obviously the climate effect is much stronger on drought vulnerability than the silvicultural effect. This result is contrary to the effects on growth and yield. Keeping in mind the strong influence of climatic uncertainty on climate-sensitive risk factors forest management needs to plan responsibly and forest conversion must not be in stereotypes. A flexible formulation of adaptation strategies continuously acknowledging progress in climate change research is necessary. The results of the presented scenario study help to evaluate the climate effects, the degree of uncertainty and silvicultural alternatives on forest development in order to recommend management options and to derive adaptation strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pastoral care and leadership are two central tasks of the pastoral profession. Nevertheless, their relationship to each other remains underdetermined in the theorizing of the respective sub-disciplines as well as in practical theology as a whole. This paper attempts to constructively define the relationship by understanding pastoral care primarily as a leadership task, namely as the organization and staging of pastoral care. Then he unfolds the thesis that the neglect of this ecclesial cybernetic dimension of pastoral care, but also of ecclesial cybernetics as a whole, results in a weakening of both theory and practice of the common priesthood of the believers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efficiency and sustainability play a central role in the continuing development of research data management services. Given the steady increase in research data and their usage, these objectives can hardly be achieved continuing to develop manual processes. The paper will discuss an example of process transformation implemented to achieve efficiency and sustainability when publishing data with DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers). It will present the Django web application that the Science Data Management team at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has developed to automate the registration process using the API made available by the DOI provider DataCite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Five years ago the company dresden elektronik verkehrstechnik gmbh installed its first e-paper timetable at a public bus stop. Much has happened since then. A constant development over the years has made the product more versatile, more intelligent and even more robust. Also the size of the display has evolved from 15" up to 32" which extends the application possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discussion on Onleihe experiencing a historic one with 1.3 million users and around 46 million loans leading e-lending service in public libraries in German-speaking countries.

The paper examines which new phenomena are emerging in the discourse around life in the vicarage due to advancing digitalisation. On Instagram, it becomes apparent that, in addition to the pastors and various liturgical formats, the private spaces, often the vicarages, are also being staged in a new way. This explorative-qualitative study examines this finding in more detail by analyzing awell-known pastor and influencers' use of the vicarage. It becomes clear that the smartphone provides a direct insight into the vicarage, whereby the focus of the discourse is less on the house per se than on the (religious) life led in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper introduces Clarivate‘s Data Citation Index and asks whether it is a valuable resource for research as well as for libraries. The paper discusses the coverage of research data in the Data Citation Index, its selection criteria and indexing process, but also filtering functions and external links. This article demonstrates that the Data Citation Index can be a valuable resource for researchers as well as librarians, because it covers data of different disciplines and countries. It also makes it easier to find relevant research data and related literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Liebenburg forest district near Salzgitter in Lower Saxony, one of Germany's largest projects for restoring traditional coppice-with-standards forest management under today's economic and technical conditions has been underway for 35 years. This paper shows how species diversity, vegetation, and forest structure of this ancient coppice-with-standards woodland have been conserved and developed in comparison to a neighbouring site under high forest management. Based on this, the framework conditions are discussed under which conservation-oriented coppice-with-standards forest management can be successful today. Due to the natural site conditions and its centuries-long history of coppice-with-standards forest management, the study area has proven to be very suitable for reactivating this management technique. Ecological continuity had not been disrupted and the occurrences of animal and plant species typical for coppice-with-standards woodlands were successfully conserved and supported. The comparison of species' occurrences in the coppice-with-standards and high forest stands shows that the overall species richness and especially the number of exclusive species are significantly higher in the coppice-with-standards stand. Overall, the evaluation of animal and plant occurrences after the initial reactivation cycle documents a rich biodiversity that is typical for coppice-with-standards woodlands. The rotational felling of the underwood causes a small-scale coexistence of different succession stages and thus different microclimatic conditions. These habitats are missing in closed high forests. It becomes clear that active coppice-with-standards forest management is very well suited to permanently restore and secure the favourable conservation status of Galio-Carpinetum oakhornbeam forests and thus EU Habitats Directive habitat type 9170. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Bavarian Forest National Park and Šumava National Park are located in the Bavarian-Czech border area. These national parks form a cross-border protected area attracting locals, day visitors, and tourists; they come not only due to its ecology, but also due to its history and culture. Against the background of increasing visitor numbers, protected area management faces the challenging task of preserving biodiversity as well as enabling high-quality recreational use in the parks. To identify potential conflicts between nature conservation and recreational use, and to gain in-depth knowledge about the visitors in the national parks, joint cross-border socioeconomic monitoring (SÖM) was implemented. One of the SÖM work packages focuses on visitors undertaking cross-border recreational activities. This paper presents the main results of this work package, based on a visitor survey and census. First, it points out the socio-demographic characteristics, motivation, and satisfaction of this specific visitor group. Second, it analyses the socio-temporal patterns of cross-border recreational use in the transboundary protected area. Finally, the results indicate the great importance of cross-border recreational use, as well as the heterogeneity of visitors crossing the border in terms of their origin, language skills, and activities. Based on these findings, practical recommendations for coordinated cross-border visitor management are derived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditional cultural landscapes are the basis for providing a variety of ecosystem services. Their preservation is linked to adapted land use practices and the associated social and ecological conditions. Using common pastures of the Black Forest biosphere area as an example, this paper examines possible solutions for the continuation of agricultural practices that are associated with positive effects for the traditional cultural landscape. We use socio-ecological resilience as a analytical framework. Resilience is understood as the ability of agriculture and the landscape to cope with disturbances and changes without losing central characteristics and functions. Based on the results of 44 farm consultations and 23 semi-structured interviews, we show how forward-looking guidelines and measures proposed by farmers operationalise resilience. Central to this are improved networking between stakeholders, increased learning, and expanded participation in cultural landscape preservation. From a resilience and regional governance perspective, we recommend that polycentric approaches (i.e., linking horizontal and vertical axes of decision making and governance) be given greater consideration in agricultural management and landscape stewardship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discussion on communication sites, meeting points, places of exchange, centers of urban society. Topics include projects for the cooperative further development of public libraries and other cultural and educational institutions to so-called third places; and urban society often being the only one in rural areas cultural place in the community.

The article reports that since the financial crisis of 2007/2008 Deutsche Bank has been involved in several scandals, and mentions about Eric Ben-Artzi and two other whistleblowers made the case public regarding the fraud.

Native seeds – opportunity or risk for biodiversity conservation? A thesis paper on the implementation of § 40 BNatSchG According to § 40 BNatSchG, since March 2020 only plants that “have their genetic origin in the area concerned” may be spread in the wild. This article discusses possibilities for implementing this regulation with regard to the use of wild plant seeds (excluding woody plants) with special consideration of faunistic aspects. It emerged from an expert workshop with the aim of initiating a reflective interdisciplinary debate on the consideration of genetic diversity, which sheds light on the implications for nature conservation practice from a holistic perspective. It became clear that existing regulations are based on great uncertainties and entail massive restrictions for the effectiveness of restoration and for the attainability of higher-level nature conservation goals. This applies in particular to the excluded relevance of phytodiversity for the occurrence of numerous animal species and, thus, for species-rich ecological communities that are as complete as possible and the restoration of biotopes. Possible solutions are derived from the analysis, which should be urgently discussed in order to establish goal-oriented regulations for nature conservation practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dissolution of existing relationships in the context of changes in the timber selling process made new ways of cooperation necessary. New ways of cooperation can be understood as social innovations. In previous research, interaction relationships for social innovation have been cited as important but not considered in detail (e. g. KLUVÁNKOVÁ et al., 2018; NIJNIK et al., 2019) Thus, the aim of the paper is to identify factors that promote and inhibit social innovation within forest management cooperatives (FMC), which are based among other things on interactions. This paper is based on a theoretical approach informed by actor-centered institutionalism and complemented by the concept of path dependency (see Fig. 1), in order to take into account actor constellations, their interactions, the influence of historical events and decisions that have existed for years or decades. The results are based on the one hand on a qualitative content analysis of guideline interviews with board members and managing directors of FMC in Baden-Württemberg and on the other hand on the evaluation of a quantitative online survey of 86 FMC in Baden-Württemberg. By using the described mixed-method approach, five clusters could be identified (see Table 5): Entrepreneurs, Self-employed in timber supply and sales, Outsourcers, Volunteers with state help and State influenced. Certain constellations, the underlying strategies, the forms of interaction of FMC and their cooperation partners are highlighted as promoting or inhibiting factors for cooperation and thus social innovation. Furthermore, extraordinary events and their development paths determine new ways of cooperation between actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the debate on climate protection and the promotion of renewable energies, the increased material and thermal use of wood as a supposedly climate-neutral building material and energy source is often promoted as necessary and sensible. The adoption of this narrative is increasingly leading to more intensive use of forests, to a further increase in the global supply of raw wood with a concomitant reduction in wood reserves, and is also contributing to the disappearance of the last primeval forests in Europe. This second part of a literature-based review on primeval forests, natural forests and managed forests in the context of biodiversity and climate protection analyses the development of wood reserves and wood use in Germany and discusses the CO2 sink performance of wood in the prevailing usage pathways. This issue has important implications for biodiversity conservation. The climate relevance of wood as a substitute for other resources and the supposed CO2 neutrality of wood as an energy source are critically examined. The climate policy goals of the EU and Germany and their instrumental implementation overestimate the performance of forests as CO2 sinks and their potential supply of wood. This is especially true in light of the consequences of climate change. The demand this paper makes of policy-makers is to prohibit logging in primeval and natural forests and to introduce corresponding normative requirements and criteria to restrict the use of timber for energy purposes. This applies in particular to imports of pellets and wood chips for electricity generation in large power plants. Thermal use of wood and short-life wood products usually leads to little or no reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to the fossil fuel benchmark. Wood that cannot be further utilised for materials, along with residual or sawmill by-products, may be utilised thermally, but then as locally as possible and only in efficient facilities. Wood that remains in the forest in the form of living trees or deadwood can make at least as great and often even greater a contribution to climate protection than when it is used for energy and inefficient materials. The primary goal of forestry must not be maximum yield but forest preservation with stands that are as robust and resilient as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper starts off by giving a tentative definition of 'theopoetics', in order to distinguish between different versions of this program. At the heart of this definition lies a genuinely theological qualification of the theopoetic element according to which dogmatic consequences for the concept of God have to be drawn from the poetic form. It is this elementwhich turns theopoetics so intriguing – and yet, delicate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

So far, around 30,000 wind turbines (WT) have been installed in Germany, and the trend is still rising. To protect bats and birds, operators must in many cases implement shutdown algorithms to reduce mortality. Risks are posed by a possible collision with the rotor blades or, especially in the case of bats, due to barotrauma caused by pressure differences near the rotor blades. In this paper, a technological approach is presented which can provide first indications for monitoring compliance with species protection regulations for WT operation. The technical developments include sensor technology, a web portal, and the timely detection of a potential malfunction. Within the scope of field studies, the first prototypes were successfully tested both with mobile WT demonstrators and with an active WT (type Vestas V82). With a correlation coefficient of 0.982, the rotational speeds determined achieve very good conformity with WT operating protocol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The implementation of the EU Nature Directives forms the basis of any efforts for the conservation and restoration of biological diversity in Germany and the whole EU. A comprehensive Fitness Check of the Directives in 2016 identified the lack of sufficient financing as a key reason for limited progress in this regard. In particular financial means are missing to create economic incentives for land users so they undertake targeted conservation measures. In 2018 the German Federal Government quantified this financing deficit to almost one billion EUR annually for Germany. For the EU level environmental organisations estimate a need of 20 billion EUR annually as opposed to current financial mobilisation of maximum 2–3 billion EUR. This paper investigates aspects and underlying causes of this deficit in Germany and at EU level, as well as key recommendations to address it. Especially important is in this context future legally binding ring fencing of sufficient funding in the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) that currently is under negotiation for the period 2021- 2027. Another key element is a greater competence and binding role of the relevant conservation authorities and their planning tools at all levels. The paper concludes with a political outlook for chances of better EU nature financing in the next EU budget period. Hereby the European Commission's proposals for the future CAP have been briefly analysed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With this article we try to give an extensive overview of the development of the Faustmann model (cf. Figure 1). Goal of the article is to outline and discuss the basic assumptions behind the Faustmann formula and describe the developments of the Faustmann model with regard to main trends and changes in forestry throughout history. The basic idea of the Faustmann theory was outlined in Great Britain by HOUGHTON ([1683] 1727-1728), HOUGHTON ([1701] 1727-1728), RICHARDS ([1730] 1971) and, finally, by WATSON (1794) and MARSHALL (1808) explaining that the interest rate of a forest stand is closely linked to its tree growth. In Germany, KÖNIG (1835) gave recommendations for forest evaluation and methodological insights regarding the determination of the optimal rotation period. However, only with the article of FAUSTMANN (1849) and his introduction of the land expectation value, forest evaluation gained interest and relevance in forest economics. With the discussion about the land rent theory at the end of the 19th century, the model moved into focus (PRESSLER, 1860b). We point out that with OHLIN (1921), besides questions of forest evaluation, the issue of determining the optimal rotation period became more important. OHLIN (1921) formulated the first order condition for an interior solution of the rotation period problem. Although Ohlin, Pressler and Faustmann discussed the Faustmann model throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, only after the Second World War, the Faustmann model increasingly gained in importance in forest economics. In the context of the general investment theory, the Faustmann model is based on the idea of dynamic investment calculation and is a special case of the net present value reflecting not only the limitation of capital but also the limitation of the forest land (MÖHRING, 2009). Various research was published discussing the question about determining the optimal rotation period, first under simple but later also under more complex silvicultural scenarios (PEARSE, 1967; WORRELL, 1953). In this context, the thinning problem as a problem of the control theory which can be solved with dynamic optimization was introduced by SCHREUDER (1971) and further developed throughout the last decades (BORCHERT, 2002). Moreover, with its increasing relevance through the second half of the 20th century, methodological discussions about the Faustmann formula and its assumptions arose. SAMUELSON (1976) presented one of the most important critical reviews about the Faustmann model not criticizing the model itself but its application in research and practice. He stated that the basic assumptions made within the Faustmann theory are the premise for the development of simple solutions for complex problems. These assumptions needed to be clarified and discussed as part of the scientific research (SAMUELSON, 1976). We outline the basic assumptions of the Faustmann theory in this paper and how various research tried to overcome selected basic assumptions to generate additional insights in forest management behavior. Examples are the assumption of stable conditions of costs and prices, or the validity of the Faustmann model on business instead of stand level. CHANG (1998) generalized the Faustmann theory to meet the demand of a volatile economic environment in forest economics. This generalization enables the application of the Faustmann model in an environment of changing costs, prices and discount rates (CHANG, 1998). Whereas CHANG (1998) discussed the effect of changing costs and prices on a theoretical basis, MÜLLER und HANEWINKEL (2018) took up the discussion and set it into the context of historical cost and price changes. They concluded with respect to historical developments that already within one rotation period parameter changes can have a significant effect on the land expectation value (cf. Figures 2 and 3). Another example is the extension of the Faustmann model from stand level to the forest level (REED und ERRICO, 1986) which is also based on a control theory approach and was intensively discussed through the end of the last century (YIN und NEWMAN, 1997; TAHVONEN und VIITALA, 2006). Besides methodological discussions in the 1970s and influenced by the environmental movement, the Faustmann model was set in the context of ecosystem services beyond timber production for the first time. HARTMAN (1976) discussed how the optimal rotation period changes once the recreational value is incorporated as part of the land expectation value. In this paper we outline the challenges coming with the evaluation of eco - system services such as biodiversity protection (CHRISTIE et al., 2006; YOUSEFPOUR und HANEWINKEL, 2009; AMACHER et al., 2014), recreational value generation (OESTEN, 1994; ELSASSER und WELLER, 2013; EDWARDS et al., 2011) and carbon sequestration (KÖTHKE und DIETER, 2010). Until today, the valuation of such ecosystem services is an important research topic in forest economics (YOUSEFPOUR et al., 2010). Under the impression of the forest dieback discussion in the 1980s, the winter storms of the 1990s and the recent climate change discussions, the role of risk and uncertainty gained high relevance as additional factor within the Faustmann model. REED (1984) incorporated risks from natural hazards within the Faustmann model and outlined that it can be seen as premium to the discount rate. LOISEL (2011) described the effect of storm risk on the LEV, the optimal rotation period and other forest management decisions. With respect to the uncertainties from climate change, HANEWINKEL et al. (2013) demonstrated that, depending on the applied climate scenarios, the loss of the current land expectation value within European forests amounts to 14-50% due to climate change. Finally, this article discusses the importance of the Faustmann model in forestry showing that today the Faustmann model is of more relevance for forestry practice outside Germany - especially in Scandinavia and North America. Furthermore, it is discussed that the Faustmann model nowadays is only one of many elements in forest valuation due to the fact that profit maximization as limiting principle of the Faustmann theory is of decreasing relevance for forest economics. Finally, this article highlights the diversity of applications of the Faustmann model which evolved throughout 170 years of forest history. Whereas the Faustmann model was originally developed to determine the value of forest land (FAUSTMANN, 1849), with PRESSLER (1860b) and OHLIN (1921) the Faustmann theory became the most important instrument of the forest investment theory. However, the value of the Faustmann model for forest investment decisions is limited especially for forestry regions with long rotation periods due to high uncertainties resulting from production times (COORDES, 2014). However, even under long rotation periods, the Faustmann theory is a useful framework to facilitate and structure investment decision-making in forestry. Furthermore, throughout the last 170 years, the Faustmann model developed towards a main analysis instrument of forest economics. In this article, we show that within a predefined theoretical framework countless analyses were conducted to describe forest management decisionmaking on the one hand and to evaluate the effect of changing environmental conditions on the other hand. Finally, the variety of the Faustmann model in science is the basis on which future research can be build on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article delves into the question of whether the Brothers Grimm fabricated their fairy tales, debunking the myth through the research findings of Professor Holger Ehrhardt from Kassel University, who discovered previously unknown original manuscripts among the Grimm Brothers' papers in Germany.

The paper presents the habitats of reproduction and the phenology of the endangered Scarce Swallowtail within the district Assmannshausen (District Rheingau-Taunus, UNESCO World Heritage ‘Upper Middle Rhine Valley'). The historical management and land use in this area has created a cultural landscape which is characterised by human intervention. During the last decades, many farmers have abandoned cultivation, which has led to widespread natural succession. The results of this paper show that the Scarce Swallowtail is a thermophilic species, which depends on hot and dry rock with Mahaleb Cherry trees. They can be found on dry stone walls or on nutrient-poor grassland patches with scarce vegetation. On this basis the paper provides detailed management suggestions to improve the existing habitats, such as the restoration and protection of nutrient-poor grassland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ecosystem services provide a promising approach to enforce and harmonize nature protection and sustainable resource use. The present paper describes methods and results of GIS-based assessment and mapping of ecosystem services in the Osterzgebirge, a mountain range along the Czech-German border. The assessment focuses on five ecologically valuable biotope types typical for the area: mountain meadows, natural forests, peat bogs, natural streams and agricultural clearance cairns (stone heaps that have been accumulated to enable tillage in past centuries), altogether covering 1,285ha on the German side and 7,246ha on the Czech side. The paper presents and discusses the assessment of four particular ecosystem services, namely the provision of wood and timber, the provision of hay, carbon fixation, and the regulation of flood events. First, suitable indicators have been defined. Second, the physical performance and its potentials have been identified. In the third place, the benefits and values have been derived. Tangible results have been acquired in the form of a transborder case study. The annual yields include 22,000m³ of timber resp. firewood and 127,000dt of hay with a market value of about 0.5m €. For the other two ecosystem services, the calculations identified 6m t of carbon storage and 0.5m m³ flood water reserve, which equals to about 1.35m €. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Still Diaconal Work and Theology? – Responses from the New Testament and its Surroundings The present study deals with the origins and motivational contexts of such social welfare work, which in Germany is known as 'Diakonie'. For this purpose, this article follows an exegetical-hermeneutical approach, which brings the social and caring activities of ancient associations into a discussion with NewTestament texts on this topic. This lays the foundations for systematic-theological reflections on the possible role of 'Diakonie' within the canon of theology, which conclude the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The challenges for nature conservation in the new decade are growing immensely. Nature and the landscape are under ever increasing pressure to change, which will result in very significant consequences and substantial losses unless drastic measures are implemented. There is no shortage of policy objectives and analyses. The implementation of efficient and effective nature conservation in the area is only hesitant and restrained in terms of requirements. In the opinion of the Federal Association for Professional Nature Conservation (BBN), a turnaround must be initiated and new standards for nature conservation policy in Germany must be set. In the run-up to the next Bundestag election, the BBN has presented a memorandum paper, in which, in addition to a general analysis and description of the situation in 13 specialist chapters, the relevant requirements and the necessary recommendations for action are presented. In the concluding section, the necessary steps are summarized. The statements are addressed to politicians and to all actors involved in nature conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Open Access that is well on the way from utopia to reality. Topics incldue exmaines the criticism of the paper-based system for the publication of scientific publications, which has been established for centuries and has been transferred to the electronic world, is not only being met with open ears by an increasing number of those involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]