As a Springer Reference, the completely revised third edition provides both a competent introduction for students and a learning and reference work for practitioners in landscape planning and related disciplines. It describes all the important planning instruments of nature conservation that arise from landscape planning in a broader sense at the federal, state, regional, and municipal levels, as well as the legal regulations of the EU, the federal government, and the states. It addresses legal foundations, ecological facts, and planning workflows, supplemented by practical application examples, such as the management of selected conservation assets and sustainable usage management. Unlike other books in the field of nature conservation and landscape planning, this book details the instruments in nature conservation.