Welcome to CIVILand

CIVILand is a junior research group, which is engaged in payments for environmental and cultural landscape services also called Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the context of civil society initiatives.

Through their work, CIVILand hopes to raise a new perspective in the current international discussion on the PES. The junior research group will conduct empirical studies in Germany, Great Britain and the US.

The research group is based at the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and will conduct research in cooperation with various partners in Germany and the US. The Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) funds this junior research group through the research program “Social-ecological Research” (SÖF).

Runtime: 2009 – 2013
Budget: 1.22 Mio. € + co-financing via individual equity stake from ZALF

Events and News

• The evaluation of the CIVILand Symposium in Cardiff is now available

• 10 – 12 November 2011 International Conference in Berlin: “Payments for Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions”. Post-conference update is now available..
  

• October 2011
  The CIVILand team’s proposal for its sister project has been accepted. We are proud to announce our sister project CiVi.net, an EU project that is scheduled to start in October 2011. The project will run till September 2014. A link to the project website will soon be available here.