A5057724047- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Rural development and sustainability
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Regional Development and Policy
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Forest Management and Policy
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies
Universität Greifswald
2008-2023
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
2019
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
2005-2008
Harvard University
2005
Wageningen University & Research
2005
University of Bristol
2005
University of Oxford
2005
Coventry University
2000
Middlesex University
2000
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate service during 21st century, we used a range models and scenarios climate land-use to conduct Europe-wide assessment. Large changes in land use typically resulted large supply. Some these trends may be positive (for example, increases forest area productivity) or offer opportunities "surplus land" agricultural extensification bioenergy production). However, many increase...
SUMMARY Biodiversity management has traditionally followed two contradictory approaches. One champions ecosystem protection through rigorous law enforcement and exclusion of humans. The other promotes community-based sustainable use natural resources. Participatory conservation, a major paradigm shift, nowadays strongly guides the concept UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs). In this paper, rationale for community participation, perception its effectiveness among BR managers are analysed. Within...
de la Vega-Leinert, A.C.; Stoll-Kleemann, S., and Wegener, E., 2018. Managed realignment (MR) along the Eastern German Baltic Sea: A catalyst for conflict or a coastal zone management consensus.Managed Realignment (MR), which involves removal of defences their relocation further inland, is desirable option demographically economically marginal rural areas, from scientific, political managerial perspectives. In Europe, MR reshaping landscapes, and, though not directly endangering lives,...
Large parts of the coasts Great Britain (including England, Wales, and Scotland) already experience a number problems, including sediment starvation erosion, loss/degradation coastal ecosystems, significant exposure to flooding. Sea-level rise other potential climate change will exacerbate all these issues. Coastal management is embracing sea-level as one long-term issues that must be addressed, while recent nonstatutory guidelines are encouraging decision makers actors alike promote...
This paper introduces the collection of papers on impacts sea-level rise a number European countries, and presents some overarching conclusions.
A detailed multidisciplinary investigation of intertidal freshwater sediments exposed in the north Bay Skaill, Mainland Orkney, Scotland, have revealed a complex sedimentary sequence. This provided evidence for dynamic coastal environmental changes area since mid-Holocene. Freshwater ponds developed on glacial ca. 6550 ± 80 yr BP (cal. bc 5590–5305). From 6120 70 5040–4855), these were infilled by blown sand from distal edge dune ridge located to west. Thereafter, series sand-blow events...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. K. Brandon, H. Redford, and S. E. Sanderson (eds.), Parks in Peril: People, Politics Protected Areas (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998). 2. UNESCO, Madrid Action Plan (Paris, France: 2008). 3. UN-HABITAT, State of the World's Cities Report 2006/7 (London, UK: Earthscan, 2007). 4. 2010/2011-Cities for All: Bridging Urban Divide 2010). 5. P. Raven, Atlas Population Environment-American Association Advancement Science (Los Angeles, CA:...
ABSTRACT In view of the Aichi international policy targets to expand areas under conservation, we analyze what extent conservation has become an inherent element extraction. We scrutinize Land Sparing versus Sharing debate by explicitly incorporating environmental justice issues access land and natural resources. contend that dominant regimes, embedded within Sparing, legitimize displacement local people their use compensate for distant, unsustainable resource use. contrast,...
Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting impacting local communities worldwide. However, research policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies communications with regard climate or between project teams communities. develop indicators good stakeholder communication, reflecting scope Verran's (2002) concept postcolonial moments as...
Abstract The first detailed investigation of a deep, coastal, sedimentary basin in Orkney reveals complex Holocene history back‐barrier morphodynamics. At Scapa Bay, the sea flooded freshwater marsh after ca. 9400 yr BP at −5.4 m OD. Before 7800 BP, abundant sediment from nearby cliffs was mobilised inland into series gravel barriers across valley mouth. By 7500 direct marine influence restricted area, although saltmarsh persisted until 5900 BP. then, least four ridges had enclosed backing...
iStock/aadangeloSince the 1990s, growing comprehension of critical regulating function tropical rain forests and awareness their destruction have placed Amazon at center intern...
Abstract This paper makes the case for advancing sustainability science partnerships (SSPs) both within universities and through innovative means of integrating with external public‐private civil sectors. It links basic principles sustainable development an emerging cooperative learning that connects researchers to a wide range partners. SSPs are specifically designed be transformational becoming active agents societal change. Universities play special role here because they can act as...
Si vivimos en una ciudad, tenemos a diario nuestro plato alimentos que provienen del mundo entero. Se han dado transformaciones recientes el consumo alimentario urbano, su contexto sociocultural y político, así como sus consecuencias la salud pública, ambiente las relaciones de campo (espacio proveedor recursos naturales para urbe)- ciudad consumo). En 2014 más 54% población mundial vivía zonas urbanas (UNDESA, 2014). Las ciudades crecido población, superficie número, habiéndose localizado...
The Santa Cruz lowlands, east Bolivia, are one of South America's most dynamic agricultural frontiers. In the Chiquitania, bordering Brazil, San Ignacio de Velasco was in 2017 ranked first nationally terms deforestation. There, two deforestation fronts meet with mechanized agriculture expanding from West and cattle ranching East. Chiquitano communities demographically dominant locally but often face land scarcity. Because their comparatively low impact on forest vegetation, they not well...
Production of low-input, shaded coffee in the Los Tuxtlas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (LTBR),Veracruz, Mexico, an economically marginalized but ecologically rich region, was strongly affected by collapse international prices and reconfiguration Mexican sector 1990s. This place-based study used qualitative methods to investigate local strategies reactivate cultivation improve market integration. Ninety-five producers, processors cooperative representatives were interviewed to: 1) characterize...
Abstract A coarse clastic barrier and backing lagoon at Bay of Carness, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom, are examined. Mapping survey the landforms sediments associated with lagoon, followed by stratigraphical investigation laboratory analyses including pollen analysis, plant macrofossil diatom analysis radiocarbon dating described. The earliest dated event recorded is development a saltmarsh across fluvial sands as relative sea level was rising 6560±50 years before present (BP). At this...