@misc{gee_offshore_wind_2012, 
author={Gee, K., Burkhard, B.},
title={Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: Tracing regime shifts across scales},
year={2012},
howpublished = {book part},
abstract = {This chapter embeds OWF in a complex social-ecological system, which consists of marine ecosystems and planned OWF sites in the North Sea on the one hand and the administrative districts of North Frisia and Dithmarschen on land on the other (Figure 1). The dynamics of the OWF system can broadly be characterized as follows: Nationally, economic instruments such as the German Renewable Energies Act provide a stimulus to private sector agents to invest in large-scale OWF projects, which then affect the integrity of marine ecosystems. This in turn impacts on the production of ecosystem goods and services utilized by humans, with attending impacts on human well-being (Kannen & Burkhard, 2009, Busch et al., 2010). Impacts on human well-being include direct impacts of OWF on the coastal economy through employment and income generation, but also indirect impacts on personal well-being through changes in marine ecosystem service provision. Using resilience and ecosystem services as conceptual background, this chapter focuses on possible regime shifts in the sea and effects across scales that may be triggered by OWF. It questions how regime shifts and their consequences can be traced and whether the resilience of a particular system should be encouraged or not.},
note = {Gee, K.; Burkhard, B.: Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: Tracing regime shifts across scales. In: Plieninger, T.; Bieling, C. (Ed.): Resilience and the Cultural Landscape - Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments. Cambridge University Press. 2012. 185-202.}}