Abstract The regions in central Europe are characterized by a variety of agricultural landscapes,... more Abstract The regions in central Europe are characterized by a variety of agricultural landscapes, which are in turn influenced by specific traditional production methods and culinary traditions. Traditional and local knowledge associated with indigenous species and traditional food represents a valuable pool of accumulated practical knowledge and constitutes a crucial component of the culinary heritage of these regions (see Wirsig et al., 2010). World- or European-wide intellectual property concepts, rules and mechanisms such as Protected Geographical Indications (GIs) represent an option to control access to local and traditional resources and ensure the principles of benefit sharing in the exploitation of these, as promoted in the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nevertheless, due to flaws in the existing rules and legislations the protection of GIs does not completely impede the misappropriation of traditional knowledge. On a national level protection schemes such as the colle...
Seit der sogenannten Grünen Revolution in der Land-wirtschaft in den 1960er Jahren sind die Wuchs... more Seit der sogenannten Grünen Revolution in der Land-wirtschaft in den 1960er Jahren sind die Wuchsleistun-gen und Erträge von Nutztierrassen und Kultursorten gestiegen – in der Regel bei erhöhtem Aufwand von Fütterung, Düngung und Pestiziden bzw. Arzneimit-teln –; dabei hat die Anzahl der Rassen und Sorten (so-wie der wildlebenden Tiere und Pflanzen) deutlich ab-genommen. Manche sprechen von einem Verlust z. B. von 75% aller Kulturpflanzensorten 1 – ist das ein Verlust für die Ernährungskultur und die Kulturlandschaft? In diesem Beitrag sollen beispielhaft Projekte der interna-tionalen Bewegung von Slow Food und deren Stiftung für Biodiversität vorgestellt und über einige Wiederbe-lebungen und Schutzbestrebungen von sogenannten Archepassagieren und Förderkreisen berichtet werden. Since the so-called Green Revolution in agriculture in the 1960s the growth performance and yields of livestock and cultivated plant varieties have risen – as a rule, with increased expenditures for animal f...
Emissions of isoprene are strongly dependent on leaf temperature and photosynthetic photon flux d... more Emissions of isoprene are strongly dependent on leaf temperature and photosynthetic photon flux density. Temperature and surface solar radiation are key driving variables in published emission algorithms (Guenther et al., 1993, 1995 (G95), 2006 (MEGAN); Schuh et al. 1997). The European landscape is characterised by a great variety of climatic and orographic zones and biomes, ranging from boreal forests in Scandinavia and Russia to Mediterranean shrub vegetation. For millennia, the European land cover has been intensively modified by man to create an extremely patchy landscape; therefore it is of great importance to use high resolved spatial meteorological surface data and land cover data for modelling isoprene emissions. Distribution of tree species from the ICP Forest level1 network, and of crop species from the CAPRI-project were combined with land cover (CLC2000/GLC2000) maps to a new land cover map covering the European continental domain (-20°W,20°N to 40E°,70°N). The forest ra...
Abstract The regions in central Europe are characterized by a variety of agricultural landscapes,... more Abstract The regions in central Europe are characterized by a variety of agricultural landscapes, which are in turn influenced by specific traditional production methods and culinary traditions. Traditional and local knowledge associated with indigenous species and traditional food represents a valuable pool of accumulated practical knowledge and constitutes a crucial component of the culinary heritage of these regions (see Wirsig et al., 2010). World- or European-wide intellectual property concepts, rules and mechanisms such as Protected Geographical Indications (GIs) represent an option to control access to local and traditional resources and ensure the principles of benefit sharing in the exploitation of these, as promoted in the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nevertheless, due to flaws in the existing rules and legislations the protection of GIs does not completely impede the misappropriation of traditional knowledge. On a national level protection schemes such as the colle...
Seit der sogenannten Grünen Revolution in der Land-wirtschaft in den 1960er Jahren sind die Wuchs... more Seit der sogenannten Grünen Revolution in der Land-wirtschaft in den 1960er Jahren sind die Wuchsleistun-gen und Erträge von Nutztierrassen und Kultursorten gestiegen – in der Regel bei erhöhtem Aufwand von Fütterung, Düngung und Pestiziden bzw. Arzneimit-teln –; dabei hat die Anzahl der Rassen und Sorten (so-wie der wildlebenden Tiere und Pflanzen) deutlich ab-genommen. Manche sprechen von einem Verlust z. B. von 75% aller Kulturpflanzensorten 1 – ist das ein Verlust für die Ernährungskultur und die Kulturlandschaft? In diesem Beitrag sollen beispielhaft Projekte der interna-tionalen Bewegung von Slow Food und deren Stiftung für Biodiversität vorgestellt und über einige Wiederbe-lebungen und Schutzbestrebungen von sogenannten Archepassagieren und Förderkreisen berichtet werden. Since the so-called Green Revolution in agriculture in the 1960s the growth performance and yields of livestock and cultivated plant varieties have risen – as a rule, with increased expenditures for animal f...
Emissions of isoprene are strongly dependent on leaf temperature and photosynthetic photon flux d... more Emissions of isoprene are strongly dependent on leaf temperature and photosynthetic photon flux density. Temperature and surface solar radiation are key driving variables in published emission algorithms (Guenther et al., 1993, 1995 (G95), 2006 (MEGAN); Schuh et al. 1997). The European landscape is characterised by a great variety of climatic and orographic zones and biomes, ranging from boreal forests in Scandinavia and Russia to Mediterranean shrub vegetation. For millennia, the European land cover has been intensively modified by man to create an extremely patchy landscape; therefore it is of great importance to use high resolved spatial meteorological surface data and land cover data for modelling isoprene emissions. Distribution of tree species from the ICP Forest level1 network, and of crop species from the CAPRI-project were combined with land cover (CLC2000/GLC2000) maps to a new land cover map covering the European continental domain (-20°W,20°N to 40E°,70°N). The forest ra...
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