Services provided by the Department of Resource Protection & Landscape Ecology
The Department of Resource Protection & Landscape Ecology is staffed by scientists whose qualifications range from sociology, political science, law and cultural sciences to geography and landscape planning and classic biology (focal areas: botany, entomology, ornithology). Staff members collaborate across disciplines to implement projects creatively.
They can draw on many years of experience with the most varied processes of public and stakeholder participation as well as participatory technology assessment, e.g.:
- mediation,
- round tables,
- future workshops,
- World Cafés,
- multi-criteria analysis and decision-making
- citizens’ conferences.
In addition, their broad experience includes conducting acceptance studies as well as discourse and media analyses, and also organizing and moderating continuing education seminars, for example on climate protection and new methods of environmental communication. The Department’s staff has carried out accompanying social-science research on various new technologies (genetic engineering, nanotechnology, hydrogen technology). Moderating and coordinating public participation for environmentally relevant planning processes, esp. concerning the protection of water bodies, is another area of work.
The focal areas of research in the natural sciences include:
- botanical and zoological surveys and assessments as well as monitoring the success of nature conservation planning and intervention regulation expert opinions in the framework of environmentally relevant plans
