SUBPROJECT OVERVIEW SP 01: Analysis and regionalization of soil degradation and catchment hydrology SP 02: Modelling and measurements of land use specific greenhouse gas emissions SP 03: Modelling soil erosion and related organic carbon transport SP 04: Carbon stocks, turnover and nutrient budgets in soil along land-use and climatic gradients SP 06: Experimental Farming, riparian wetland carbon storage & bioindicators SP 08: Socio-Economic Drivers: A socio-economic analysis of actors and conflicts over land use decisions - Regional impacts and feasible implementations of adapted land management SP 09: Landscape scale land cover analysis and geodata management SP 10: Development and implementation of a hierarchical model chain for modelling regional climate variability and climate change over southern Amazonia SP 11: Model-based analysis of regional land-use changes and development of sustainable land-use strategies SP 12: Agent-based assessment of land management strategies SP 13: Model-based crop growth and yield assessment for agricultural crop rotations and grassland systems emanating from tropical rain forest conversion SP 14: Analysis of challenges and chances of social transformation for GHG-optimized land- and natural resource management strategies SP Z: Project Management