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Marion Mueller
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DOI:10.17265/2162-5263/2017.09.007
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Independent Researcher, Erfurt 99085, Germany
ABSTRACT
The European Green Belt developed from the wasteland of the former death
strip along the iron curtain over decades to a green life line of biodiversity. It is an ecological
network with a unique natural and cultural heritage, an emotional human and
political history, meaning and transformative power. Due to the former border situation, it is a transnational green infrastructure with biodiversity
hotspots in a more and more fragmented, intensively used and degraded European
landscape and connects people from 24 European countries and valuable
landscapes. But now, nearly 30
years after the peaceful transition in 1989, the gaps in the European Green Belt cover already 50%. These gaps are
not protected and are subject to adverse effects, like ongoing landscape
fragmentation and ongoing chemo-industrial agriculture. Alarming signals of a new death zone are not only the gaps within the
European Green Belt, but generally and closely related the mass extinction of
species, climate change, resource depletion, financial and economic crisis,
demographic change, emigration, unemployment and/or precarious
work worldwide. To save the European Green Belt and life on earth
there is a great need of a 2nd transformation to a life-sustaining
world.
KEYWORDS
European Green Belt, transformation, narratives, active hope.
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