Аннотация:The program is ambitious. Essential elements are: to consider temporal and spatialinteractions, to involve an adapted management of all ecosystems, an integrative monitoring ofchanges in ecosystem structures and functions, the interdisciplinary research with a broadperspective and a close cooperation with stakeholders and decision makers, cooperative decisionmaking including scientists, landscape planners, politicians and the local and regional population, toinclude integrative ecological perspectives in the spatial and temporal planning procedures, theattempt to carry out appropriate decentralized decision-making and, last not least, to implement allregions with various population densities into a sustainable ecosystem management.