GRK 642:  Valuation and Management of Biodiversity. Implementation of Nature Conservation Strategies within the Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity

• Subject Area: Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine ; Geography ; Basic Research in Biology and Medicine ; Jurisprudence ; Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies ; Economics
• Term: from 2000 to 2003
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273169

The goal of the interdisciplinary research training group is to identify the problems and perspectives of implementation of the biodiversity treaty. The field of research concentrates on areas of conservancy noted in Art. 8 of the treaty. The main starting point is the so-called "reconciliation of interests" problem describing the phenomenon that costs and benefits for maintaining biodiversity are distributed unequally. Thus, it is necessary for the respective instruments to be developed for just compensation. This dilemma defines the interdisciplinary problem for the research training group and implies its primarily social science orientation.The program of study is tailored to a large degree to the demands of the above mentioned complex of topics. In addition to expanding the intradisciplinary competence of the students, it is especially important to foster the essential to work interdisciplinarily in the scientific and politically relevant area of sustainable development. The commitment in the treaty's text to educate experts in this area is thus fulfilled. Besides the proven forms of instruction within the research training group, emphasis will be placed on elements in which interdisciplinary problem solving is supported and trained.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Rainer Marggraf
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Jürgen Bloech; Professor Dr. Ulrich Braukämper (†); Professor Dr. Gerhard Gerold; Professor Dr. Volkmar Götz; Professor Dr. Bernd Herrmann; Professorin Dr. Heide Inhetveen; Professor Dr. Max Krott; Professor Dr. Michael Mühlenberg; Professor Dr. Hermann Sautter; Professor Dr. Matthias Schaefer; Professor Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll; Professor Dr. Manfred Zeller