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 =Introduction=
-At the latest since the disappointing United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen<ref> More information about the conference can be found under [http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_15/items/5257.php ''United Nations Climate Change Conference'']</ref> in December 2009 it became obvious that we are living meanwhile in a world risk society without an answer to environmental challenges- neither in form of an acting global community nor a promising world environment organization. On the other side we are facing more and more environmental challenges. These environmental problems can be distinguished in three kinds (cf. Rechkemmer, 2004, p. 7; Biermann & Simonis, 1998, p. 561): in regional, local and global environmental problems. Regional phenomena are caused and occur just in a small, limited space for example the imissions in a lake through the local industry. Local problems, e. g. the contamination of a river flowing through different countries, affect more than one country, but do not have an impact on the whole world. The last kind of phenomena are global problems, for example the famous climate change<ref> More scientific information and prognosis can be found under [http://www.ipcc.ch/ ''IPCC'']</ref>, the global loss of biodiversity<ref> Further reading to this loss under [http://www.cbd.int/ ''Convention on Biological Diversity'']</ref>, erosion of the earth’s surface, pollution of the sea etc.. These global problems are characterized by different aspects:
+At the latest since the disappointing United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen<ref> More information about the conference can be found under [http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_15/items/5257.php ''United Nations Climate Change Conference'']</ref> in December 2009 it became obvious that we are living meanwhile in a world risk society without an answer to environmental challenges- neither in form of an acting global community nor a promising world environment organization. On the other side we are facing more and more environmental challenges. These environmental problems can be distinguished in three kinds (cf. Rechkemmer, 2004, p. 7; Biermann & Simonis, 1998, p. 3): in regional, local and global environmental problems. Regional phenomena are caused and occur just in a small, limited space for example the imissions in a lake through the local industry. Local problems, e. g. the contamination of a river flowing through different countries, affect more than one country, but do not have an impact on the whole world. The last kind of phenomena are global problems, for example the famous climate change<ref> More scientific information and prognosis can be found under [http://www.ipcc.ch/ ''IPCC'']</ref>, the global loss of biodiversity<ref> Further reading to this loss under [http://www.cbd.int/ ''Convention on Biological Diversity'']</ref>, erosion of the earth’s surface, pollution of the sea etc.. These global problems are characterized by different aspects:
 *There is no longer a direct link between the area where they are caused and the places where the effects occur.
 *No direct link between small effects and the dimension of the “reaction”- especially tipping-points<ref> More information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_point_%28climatology%29 ''Tipping points''] </ref>.