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This report is the result of a research project supported by the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), using research funding provided by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The report is based on a review of existing research literature and other relevant documents, data on environmental infringements received from authorities in several German federal states (Bundesländer) and more than 30 qualitative research interviews with enforcement practitioners in courts, prosecutors' offices, police/customs and environmental administrative authorities in five states and at the federal level. The report provides an overview of the political discussion on environmental crime at the international, European and German levels. It discusses the data situation on environmental crime and environmental infringements in Germany and presents selected data. Further sections introduce central findings of the economic analysis of environmental law and summarises the literature on the implementation of environmental law by German authorities. The results of the research interviews are also presented. Moreover, the report also identifies areas for further research. It ends with a summary of key findings and recommendations. The report confirms previous findings on an existing deficit in the implementation of environmental (criminal) law in Germany. Important contributing factors are a lack of staff in competent authorities, the lack of specialisation of authorities, the technical and scientific character of investigations into environmental crimes, the complexity of the legal framework and the fact that environmental crimes often do not enjoy a high priority in enforcement compared to other types of crime.

This guide presents the work of the team of scientists that have been working in the project "Benefit of Governance in Drought Adaptation" (in short: the DROP project), which has received funding from the Interreg IVB programme of the European Union. As a result of climate change, it is expected that extreme events influencing water management (flooding or drought) will increase. Early adaptation to this trend of increasing climatic extremes is therefore required. Governance plays a crucial role in the adaptation process particularly in restricting or facilitating the implementation of adaptation measures. In-depth knowledge about the governance setting of a given region and how to influence governance processes is therefore essential in realizing effective adaptation.

This guide presents the work of the team of scientists that have been working in the project "Benefit of Governance in Drought Adaptation" (in short: the DROP project), which has received funding from the Interreg IVB programme of the European Union. As a result of climate change, it is expected that extreme events influencing water management (flooding or drought) will increase. Early adaptation to this trend of increasing climatic extremes is therefore required. Governance plays a crucial role in the adaptation process particularly in restricting or facilitating the implementation of adaptation measures. In-depth knowledge about the governance setting of a given region and how to influence governance processes is therefore essential in realizing effective adaptation.

This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this record ; Climate change adaptation (CCA) is argued to require coordinated policy responses because it is a complex, long-term, knowledge intensive, cross-sectoral, and multi-level governance challenge that involves many interdependencies and actors with different perceptions, goals, and approaches. This study, therefore, examines approaches of a set of European Union (EU) member states (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (England)) to pursue a more coordinated approach to CCA policy. It specifically addresses the co-ordination approaches that the selected countries use for the development and implementation of their national CCA policies in the immediate period following the publication of the EU's 2013 Adaptation Strategy. The analysis demonstrates that while useful coordination processes have been established in the analyzed EU member states, they have difficulty in challenging existing institutional hierarchies and decision rules. Consequently, longer-term opportunities for managing CCA conflicts and synergies among sectoral policies have to date been limited. ; European Union FP7