@misc{GriestopKleegreweDeCarloetal.2025, author = {Griestop, Charlotte and Kleegrewe, Maria and De Carlo, Fedane and Fiala, Valentin and Eich, Linda and Welp, Martin and Mann, Carsten and Ferreira, Ana Filipa}, title = {• Citizen Science in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Workshop Proceedings.}, doi = {10.57741/opus4-1014}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-10142}, year = {2025}, abstract = {From 3rd to 7th February 2025, 33 participants from 17 European countries gathered on the Isle of Vilm, Germany, to explore the potential of citizen science (CS) in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs). Hosted by the Biosphere Reserves Institute (BRI) and funded by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), the workshop aimed to advance the Lima Action Plan and the Eberswalde Declaration by exploring how CS in BRs can increase collaboration with local communities, support environmental education, advance data collection and analysis and strengthen research. The workshop programme included presentations, discussion rounds, group work and opportunities for informal exchange. While some presentations focused on conceptualising CS, most shared and reflected on practical experiences with it in BRs. It was noted that CS encompasses a wide spectrum of activities, ranging from citizens using apps to collect data (e.g., on birds) to research projects initiated and conducted by non-(academic) scientists. Participants shared a strong belief in the power of CS to generate data, engage communities and inspire action. Furthermore, some presentations revealed an intrinsic motivation among local communities to be involved in CS. In terms of education, it was revealed that CS can foster a sense of locality and place attachment, as well as trigger community action through experiential learning. Many speakers emphasised collaboration on both local and global scales as essential for ensuring effective CS, emphasising the value of existing networks, early engagement and transdisciplinary partnerships. Identified challenges included difficulties in recruiting and retaining skilled participants, ensuring data quality and long-term data governance and the lack of (long-term) funding. The case studies revealed that the co-creation of knowledge through CS requires spaces of respectful communication, which often means that scientists need to leave their disciplines to acknowledge different knowledge domains and framings of issues. Participants also called for more meaningful collaboration with schools, policymakers and local groups, while the need for user-friendly tools, training, expert validation and inclusive communication was repeatedly stressed. Furthermore, it was revealed that evaluation criteria specifically designed to assess CS projects and their impacts are still lacking. Additionally, participants called for increased promotion of CS by UNESCO. Solutions proposed included the better identification of local research needs, the continuous reflection of the research process and evaluating to what extent different expectations have been met. Participants emphasised the need for better platforms to exchange knowledge and good practices across BRs, and special attention was given to providing opportunities for youth to be part of CS in BRs, which would contribute not only to the production of knowledge, but also nurture the emotional connection to nature and create opportunities for lifelong learning. Many participants highlighted the need for BR-specific research guidelines, and these were further developed during the workshop, with a focus on the synergies between research and CS. Importantly, as a result of this workshop, the German Commission for UNESCO decided to add CS as a criterion for the designation and evaluation of German BRs. Overall, the workshop showed that CS holds great potential for BRs to bridge science and society and to foster inclusive, participatory sustainable development.}, language = {en} } @misc{LinHordasevychMatiasetal.2024, author = {Lin, Yen-You and Hordasevych, Solomiia and Matias, Denise Margaret S. and M{\"u}ller, Jens and Aschenbrand, Erik and Kopsieker, Lisa and Ferreira, Ana Filipa}, title = {Research in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves - Workshop Proceedings (Revised)}, doi = {10.57741/opus4-1007}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-10075}, pages = {1 -- 36}, year = {2024}, abstract = {The international workshop "Research in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves" took place from 13th to 16th February 2024 at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany. This event was part of a series of workshops funded by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation that aim to connect European biosphere reserve practitioners and facilitate the exchange of knowledge and good practices. The workshop brought together a total of 28 participants from 15 European countries, including managers and researchers, and it built on the Eberswalde Declaration and the Lima Action Plan to advance research in biosphere reserves. Specific themes addressed in the workshop included: current research progress, research gaps and needs, monitoring and research data accessibility/management and research collaborations. The workshop emphasised the critical intersection of scientific research, policymaking and the practical realities of managing biosphere reserves, highlighting both the achievements and ongoing challenges faced by biosphere reserve practitioners and researchers in Europe while offering opportunities to exchange and connect, as well as an outlook for future action and collaboration. Biosphere reserves serve as invaluable landscapes for learning and research, and they contribute significantly towards improving the effectiveness of management measures. Workshop discussions highlighted the diversity of research projects conducted across a broad spectrum of topics, involving numerous institutions and stakeholders. However, a noticeable gap exists between scientific and academic requirements, policy and funding cycles and the on-the-ground realities of biosphere reserve management, which often hinders progress due to a lack of collaboration and communication between managers, practitioners and researchers, thereby negatively affecting effective management and governance. A recurring theme is the lack of visibility of biosphere reserves, as they frequently overlap with other protected area categories that have higher visibility among the population and policymakers alike. Some possible solutions suggested in the workshop included raising awareness among funders about the value of biosphere reserves and their contribution to broader policy objectives, enhancing experience and result-sharing across the network, establishing and sharing databases to connect researchers with practitioners, co-designing projects to foster collaboration among a diverse range of stakeholders and the better integration of research results into management practices.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{AschenbrandGraebenerIbischetal.2023, author = {Aschenbrand, Erik and Gr{\"a}bener, Uli Frank and Ibisch, Pierre L. and Luthardt, Vera and Matias, Denise Margaret and Mutschler, Lena-Marie}, title = {Science and Research in, for and with UNESCO Biosphere Reserves}, editor = {Biosphere Reserves Institute (BRI),}, organization = {Hochschule f{\"u}r nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde}, doi = {10.57741/opus4-832}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-8323}, pages = {100}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @article{OrtizJameroCrespinetal.2023, author = {Ortiz, Andrea Monica D. and Jamero, Ma. Laurice and Crespin, Silvio Javier and Smith Ramirez, Cecilia and Matias, Denise Margaret and Reyes, Jameela Joy and Pauchard, An{\´i}bal and La Vi{\~n}a, Antonia G. M.}, title = {The land and sea routes to 2030: a call for greater attention on all small islands in global environmental policy}, series = {npj Biodiversity}, journal = {npj Biodiversity}, number = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK}, issn = {2731-4243}, doi = {10.1038/s44185-023-00023-5}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-6780}, pages = {8}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Islands have unique vulnerabilities to biodiversity loss and climate change. Current Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement are insufficient to avoid the irreversible loss of critical island ecosystems. Existing research, policies, and finance also do not sufficiently address small islands' social-environmental challenges. For instance, the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) mentions islands in the invasive species management target. This focus is important, as islands are at high risk to biological invasions; however, this is the only GBF target that mentions islands. There are threats of equal or greater urgency to small islands, including coastal hazards and overexploitation. Ecosystems such as coral reefs and mangroves are crucial for biodiversity, coastal protection, and human livelihoods, yet are unaddressed in the GBF. While research and global policy, including targeted financial flows, have a strong focus on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the situation of other small islands has been largely overlooked. Here, through a review of policy developments and examples from islands in the Philippines and Chile, we urge that conservation and climate change policies place greater emphasis on acknowledging the diversity of small islands and their unique governance challenges, extending the focus beyond SIDS. Moving forward, global policy and research should include the recognition of small islands as metacommunities linked by interacting species and social-ecological systems to emphasize their connectivity rather than their isolation. Coalition-building and knowledge-sharing, particularly with local, Indigenous and traditional knowledge-holders from small islands, is needed to meet global goals on biodiversity and sustainable development by 2030.}, language = {en} } @misc{TarneBatjavMatiasetal.2022, author = {Tarne, Anika and Batjav, Batbuyan and Matias, Denise Margaret and Mehring, Marion}, title = {Rural to urban migration in Mongolia - Social-ecological conditions for a stepwise process}, series = {ISOE-Diskussionspapiere}, journal = {ISOE-Diskussionspapiere}, number = {47}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, issn = {1436-3534}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-6728}, pages = {17}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Since the 1990s, Mongolia's capital city Ulaanbaatar has recorded steady and rapid population growth due to rural-urban migration. So far, little is known about how the social and ecological conditions of migration interact. Thus, in our study we investigated the rural-urban migration process from the countryside to the capital in the Eastern Steppe conducting semi-structured interviews. Our results show that this rural-urban migration often follows a stepwise process from smaller settlements to larger urban agglomerations. The results also demonstrate a complex interplay between the prevailing social, economic, and ecological factors. While social factors (kinship, education) show the same relevance at each step of migration, ecological factors such as the occurrence of dzud seem more relevant at the early stages, from the steppe to the sum centres. Ecological factors only seem to rank second in importance, after social reasons. Economic reasons are also revealed to be very significant but seem most relevant the closer the migrations are to the capital. These results are essential in order to cope with current and future challenges of population development and find solutions to enable traditional Mongolian nomadism even under a modern lifestyle.}, language = {en} } @article{LuthardtBraunerHammerichetal.2023, author = {Luthardt, Vera and Brauner, Oliver and Hammerich, Jenny and Probst, Robert and Schulz, Corinna and Wachtel, Silke Finn}, title = {Resilienz naturnaher Moore im Klimawandel - Fallbeispiele aus dem Biosph{\"a}renreservat Schorfheide-Chorin}, series = {Natur und Landschaft}, volume = {98}, journal = {Natur und Landschaft}, number = {3}, publisher = {W. Kohlhammer}, issn = {0028-0615}, doi = {10.19217/NuL2023-03-04}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-6597}, pages = {124 -- 131}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Der Klimawandel wirkt auf die wenigen noch wachsenden Moore ein, so dass die Frage besteht, inwieweit die Resilienz dieser autochthonen {\"O}kosysteme in all ihrer Vielfalt gest{\"u}tzt werden kann. Zur Beantwortung werden Dauerbeobachtungsreihen von weitgehend ungest{\"o}rten Mooren aus dem Biosph{\"a}renreservat Schorfheide-Chorin (Brandenburg) ausgewertet. Diese werden mit den Ergebnissen einer Erfolgskontrolle wiedervern{\"a}sster Waldmoore in Kontext gesetzt. Zur Einsch{\"a}tzung der Moorzust{\"a}nde wird ein neu entwickeltes Indikatorensystem zur Bewertung moorspezifischer Biodiversit{\"a}t angewendet. Es wird zudem eine Absch{\"a}tzung der Treibhausgasemissionen nach der Treibhaus-Gas-Emissions-Standort-­Typen(GEST)-Methodik vorgenommen und die potenzielle Torfneubildung betrachtet. Die Analysen zeigen, dass das Pufferverm{\"o}gen wachsender Moore im Untersuchungsraum noch intakt ist und St{\"o}rungen ohne Systemwechsel {\"u}berwunden werden. Die Vern{\"a}ssungsmaßnahmen waren durchweg erfolgreich und haben zu einer messbaren Revitalisierung gef{\"u}hrt. Es wird auf die dringende Notwendigkeit hingewiesen, heute alle noch weitestgehend naturnahen Moore in ihrem Wasserhaushalt bestm{\"o}glich zu stabilisieren, um sie als wichtige Glieder der autochthonen Biodiversit{\"a}t mit allen ihren positiven Landschaftsfunktionen zu erhalten.}, language = {de} } @article{DabardMann2023, author = {Dabard, Caroline H{\´e}l{\`e}ne and Mann, Carsten}, title = {Sustainability innovations: a proposal for an analytical framework and its empirical application in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve}, series = {Sustainability Science}, volume = {18}, journal = {Sustainability Science}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, issn = {1862-4057}, doi = {10.1007/s11625-022-01241-9}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-6558}, pages = {1085 -- 1098}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Sustainability innovations influence societal transformations through the development of new products, processes, organizations, behaviors or values. Although various research approaches have tackled technological innovations in the last few decades, the specificities and enabling conditions of individual sustainability innovations remain rather unknown. We therefore propose an analytical framework, built on learning from the social-ecological systems and transitions literature. The sustainability innovation framework features four dimensions: context, actors, process and outcomes, which are detailed in 31 variables. We use the sustainability innovation framework to analyze two case studies selected in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve, Germany. The first refers to technological and organizational innovation in mobility, while the second relates to social and organizational innovation in agriculture. As a result, we highlight commonalities and differences in enabling conditions and variables between the two cases, which underpin the influence of trust, commitment, resource availability, experimenting, learning, advocating, and cooperating for innovation development. The cases further demonstrate that sustainability innovations develop as bundles of interdependent, entangled novelties, due to their disruptive character. Their specificity thereby resides in positive outcomes in terms of social-ecological integrity and equity. This study therefore contributes to transitions studies via a detailed characterization of sustainability innovations and of their outcomes, as well as through a generic synthesis of variables into an analytical framework that is applicable to a large and diverse range of individual sustainability innovations. Further empirical studies should test these findings in other contexts, to pinpoint generic innovation development patterns and to develop a typology of sustainability innovation archetypes.}, language = {en} } @book{ZbaraszewskiBalasDmytrowetal.2022, author = {Zbaraszewski, Wojciech and Balas, Martin and Dmytr{\´o}w, Krzysztof and Majewska, Agnieszka and Mayer, Marius and Steingrube, Wilhelm}, title = {Socio-economic research in protected areas of the Euroregion Pomerania: Visitor satisfaction, economic impacts and park-people relationships}, publisher = {Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe}, address = {Poznań}, isbn = {978-83-7986-420-1}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-6541}, publisher = {Hochschule f{\"u}r nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde}, pages = {222}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @techreport{BalašStrasdasNeumannetal.2021, author = {Balaš, Martin and Strasdas, Wolfgang and Neumann, Franziska and Mattes, Anselm and Becker, Lisa Sophie and Giese, Jan Christian Polan{\´i}a and Renner, Anja and Weber, Andreas and Kohl, Kathrin and Pinnow, Diana and Zeiner, Manfred and Rein, Hartmut and Heck, Silke}, title = {Messung der Nachhaltigkeit des Tourismus in Deutschland - Entwicklung eines Tourismus-Nachhaltigkeits- Satellitenkontos}, number = {61}, editor = {Umweltbundesamt,}, publisher = {Umweltbundesamt}, issn = {1862-4804}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-6524}, pages = {176}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Ziel des hier vorgelegten Projektes war die Erarbeitung eines praktikablen Systems zur Messung der Nachhaltigkeit im Deutschlandtourismus. Bezugsraum ist Deutschland als Destination f{\"u}r in- und ausl{\"a}ndische Touristen sowie als Standort von Tourismusunternehmen. Zun{\"a}chst wurden 18 f{\"u}r den Tourismus zentrale Nachhaltigkeitskriterien identifiziert, die in einem zweiten Schritt einer Analyse bzgl. ihrer Messbarkeit mit Hilfe von Indikatoren in einem koh{\"a}renten Bilanzierungssystem unter Beachtung internationaler Empfehlungen unterzogen wurden. Ergebnis ist ein erweitertes Tourismus-Satellitenkonto, das Tourism Sustainability Satellite Account (TSSA), ein Kennzahlensystem, welches im Wesentlichen auf den statistischen Rahmenwerken der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) und der Umwelt{\"o}konomischen Gesamtrechnungen (UGR) beruht. Hinzu kommen soziale Indikatoren, die die Nachhaltigkeit der Arbeitsverh{\"a}ltnisse im Tourismus messen. Das TSSA erlaubt somit eine systematische Zuordnung der {\"o}konomischen, {\"o}kologischen und sozialen Auswirkungen des Tourismus zu den tourismusrelevanten Wirtschaftszweigen auf nationaler Ebene. F{\"u}r einige Nachhaltigkeitsindikatoren, vor allem aus dem Management-, z. T. aber auch aus dem {\"o}kologischen Bereich, besteht allerdings noch Entwicklungsbedarf. Die TSSA-Indikatoren wurden testweise bereits mit den jeweils aktuell erh{\"a}ltlichen Daten bef{\"u}llt. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass der Tourismus in Deutschland signifikant zur Wertsch{\"o}pfung und zur Schaffung von Arbeitspl{\"a}tzen beitr{\"a}gt, bei allerdings niedriger Arbeitsproduktivit{\"a}t. Bei den {\"o}kologischen Auswirkungen stehen die Klimawirkungen mit einer geringf{\"u}gig {\"u}berdurchschnittlichen Treibhausgasintensit{\"a}t im Vergleich zur Gesamtwirtschaft im Vordergrund, die allerdings innerhalb der touristischen Teilbranchen sehr unterschiedlich ausgepr{\"a}gt ist. Die Arbeitsbedingungen sind im Vergleich zu anderen Branchen generell als weniger nachhaltig einzusch{\"a}tzen. Lediglich der Verdienstabstand zwischen M{\"a}nnern und Frauen ist deutlich geringer als in anderen Wirtschaftszweigen.}, language = {de} } @article{GoesslingBalasMayeretal.2023, author = {G{\"o}ssling, Stefan and Balas, Martin and Mayer, Marius and Sun, Ya-Yen}, title = {A review of tourism and climate change mitigation: The scales, scopes, stakeholders and strategies of carbon management}, series = {Tourism Management}, volume = {95}, journal = {Tourism Management}, publisher = {Elsevier}, issn = {1879-3193}, doi = {10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104681}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-6510}, pages = {18}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Tourism needs to reduce emissions in line with other economic sectors, if the international community's objective of staying global warming at 1.5°-2.0 °C is to be achieved. This will require the industry to half emissions to 2030, and to reach net-zero by mid-century. Mitigation requires consideration of four dimensions, the Scales, Scopes, Stakeholders and Strategies of carbon management. The paper provides a systematic review of these dimensions and their interrelationships, with a focus on emission inventory comprehensiveness; allocation principles at different scales; clearly defined responsibilities for decarbonization; and the identification of significant mitigation strategies. The paper concludes that without mitigation efforts, tourism will deplete 40\% of the world's remaining carbon budget to 1.5 °C. Yet, the most powerful decarbonization measures face major corporate, political and technical barriers. Without worldwide policy efforts at the national scale to manage the sector's emissions, tourism will turn into one of the major drivers of climate change.}, language = {en} }