Abstract
The Federal Republic of Germany lies at the heart of Europe. It is encircled by nine other countries: Denmark to the north, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France to the west, Switzerland and Austria to the south and the Czech Republic and Poland to the east. Germany’s natural boundaries are the Baltic Sea to the north as well as the North Sea. Its population of 82 million citizens inhabit a landmass of approximately 357,000 km2 (Statistical Agencies of the Bund and the Länder 2016). Germany is a federation made up of 16 largely autonomous federal states: Bavaria, Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Saarland, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the city states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Within the framework of the discussion on No Net Loss of biodiversity, the so-called Impact Mitigation Regulation plays a key role in Germany.
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Wende, W., Albrecht, J., Darbi, M., Herbert, M., May, A., Schumacher, J., & Szaramowicz, M. (2018). Germany. In Biodiversity Offsets: European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (pp. 123–156). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72581-9_8
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