ELI - European Land Use Institute

Keywords

Integrated Land Use Planning, Land management, Land use, Land use policies, Land governance, Interdisciplinary Network

Countries

Austria, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, France, India, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom

Summary

The European Land-use Institute is a cooperation agreement based network on integrated land use and land system sciences that supports a highly inter- and disciplinary research approach and developed an independent governance model for research cooperation beyond projects. ELI acts also as European Nodal Office of the Global Land Project.

Methodology

The research cooperation in ELI is organized in a matrix that comprises the major land sectors and identifies cross-cutting topics for research. The research agenda can be downloaded under:
www.eli-web.com/PDF/ELI_profile_2013.pdf

Main Cooperation Partners

See: www.eli-web.com => partners

Main Funding Partners

German Federal Ministry for Education and Research; in-kind contributions of the partners.

Publications

Fürst, C., Opdam, P., Inostroza, L., Luque, S., (in prep.): A balance score card tool for assessing how successful the ecosystem services concept is applied in participatory land use planning. Landscape Ecology, SI “Integrating Ecosystem Services in Land use planning and Decision-Making Practice”.

Opdam, P., Albert, C., Grêt-Regamey, A., Kleemann, J., La Rosa, D., Parker, D., Schmidt, K., Villamor, G., Fürst, C. (in prep.): Ecosystem services for connecting actors – lessons learnt from discussion. Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems.

Hauck, J., Schweppe-Kraft, B., Albert, C., Görg, C.,  Jax, K., Jensen, R., Fürst, C., Maes, J., Ring, I., Hönigová, I., Burkhard, B., Mehring, M., Tiefenbach, M., Grunewald, K., Schwarzer, M., Meurer, J., Sommerhäuser, M., Priess, J.A., Schmidt, J., Grêt-Regamey, A. (2013): The Promise of the Ecosystem Services Concept for Planning and Decision-Making. GAIA 22(4), 232 – 236. IF: 1.197

Fürst, C., Helming, K., Lorz, C., Müller, F., Verburg, P. (2013): Integrated land use and regional resource management – A cross-disciplinary dialogue on future perspectives for a sustainable development of regional resources. Journal of Environmental Management, 127, 1-5, IF: 3.245

Fürst, C., Volk, M., Makeschin, F. (2010): Squaring the circle - how to combine models, indicators, experts and end-users for integrated land use management support? editorial / leading paper, Environmental Management 46(6), p. 829-833., IF: 1.744

Duration of the Project

05/2010 – ongoing (based on cooperation agreement)

Project Homepage

http://www.eli-web.com