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The potential of agriculture, forestry, and other land uses to sequester carbon offers a powerful tool for controlling the global climate regime, but practices capable of creating “collateral” benefits for landscape conservation have thus far been disregarded. This paper calls for greater integration of scattered trees into agricultural landscapes, hypothesizing that agroforestry practices effectively store carbon and deliver other important ecosystem services as well. Several agroforests from the Upper Lusatia area in Eastern Germany have been selected for analysis. They cover relatively large areas of land (8.2%), even within this intensively used agricultural landscape, and their extent increased from 1964-2008 by 19.4%. Practices of conserving or promoting the six agroforest classes are compared with a catalogue of essential properties for becoming effective “carbon offset projects”. Criteria from mandatory and voluntary carbon markets for carbon sequestration are then applied (additionality, baselines, permanence, and carbon leakage). The study concludes that steps towards realization of “carbon sequestration projects” should include collecting empirical evidence regarding the carbon sequestration potential of temperate agroforestry systems, developing localised demonstration projects, and upscaling these projects to participate in established carbon markets.
Dieses Arbeitspapier gibt einen Überblick über den thematischen und strukturellen Rahmen der an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) angesiedelten Arbeitsgruppe „Zukunftsorientierte Nutzung ländlicher Räume“. Zunächst diskutiert es die Bedeutung und Vielfalt des „Ländlichen Raums“ und beschreibt die im ländlichen Raum Ostdeutschlands ablaufenden Transformationsprozesse. Dabei wird auch das Spektrum möglicher Optionen zur dauerhaft-umweltgerechten Inwertsetzung des ländlichen Raums analysiert. Aufbauend auf einer Analyse der Beschäftigung der Wissenschaft mit dem ländlichen Raum folgt eine Vorstellung des Forschungsansatzes der Arbeitsgruppe sowie des brandenburgischen Untersuchungsgebiets.