Addressing recent land-use pressures in Germany through landscape planning and monitoring

Human interventions cause rapid changes in the landscape. The demand on land for settlements and traffic in Germany and other European states is still on a very high level and partly is even rising. Changes of land use often take place as small-scale individual measures considered insignificant by themselves. However, by spatial and temporal accumulation they can lead to
significant changes in the regional structure and in the environmental conditions. Substantial goals of the research of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) are the development of methods for the detection of land-use changes and for the description of this development by indicators as well as the analysis and evaluation of the effects
of such processes on selected environmental protection goods. Ulrich Walz will give some insights in the research of the IOER and will show results on recent land-use processes in Germany, the developed indicators and the possibilities of the German system of landscape planning to deal with these issues.

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