Navigating the transition to rewetted peatlands

This cumulative dissertation analyses the rewetting of agriculturally used peatlands in Germany as a socially acceptable and climate-target-compliant transition. The dissertation highlights that rewetting is a task for society as a whole, involving a profound, multidimensional transition. The end of drainage should be actively shaped politically and requires binding phase-out targets, sufficient funding and targeted communication. Peatland rewetting is analysed as an exnovation governance problem and compared with the Germany coal phase-out.