10.18453/rosdok_id00005156 Sommer, Pia Pia Sommer http://d-nb.info/gnd/1392460557 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2957-1961 Universität Rostock 2026 333.7 Natural resources, energy and environment 630 Agriculture 2026 en https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00005156 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00005156-9 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.