Verknüpfter Boden- und Biodiversitätsschutz als Herausforderung für die Akteure

Combined Soil and Biodiversity Protection—a Challenge for Stakeholders

The destruction of soil and biodiversity are preeminent global problems. The interdependence of soil and biodiversity, and consequently, of soil and biodiversity destruction, is now gradually being recognised. Yet, the collaboration and interaction of various groups, concerned with either biodiversity protection or soil protection, has not been realised. This is particularly unfortunate because efforts to reduce the threats to biodiversity will have little success if its linkage to soil destruction is not addressed and vice versa. This paper summarises some recent studies examining the interdependency of soil and biodiversity and discusses the difficulties faced by involved groups when this interdependency is under discussion. Our investigation showed, that none of the groups we looked at, parties in the fields of research, civil services, agriculture and real estate, focuses primarily on the interdependency of soil and biodiversity, and that the methods to realise their objectives differ. We then present four practical approaches to overcoming the differences in objectives and methods among the stakeholder groups - trading zones, intermediary specialists, design of farm landscapes based on the natural preconditions, and cooperative planning such as landscape development concepts (Landschaftsentwicklungskonzepte).