Professorship for Sustainable Landscapes
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
The working group "Sustainable Landscapes" was established in November 2010 by Prof. Joern Fischer and is affiliated to the School of Sustainabilty at Leuphana University.
We are an interdisciplinary team working on human-environment relationships. Much of our work focuses on the landscape scale. We are particularly interested in how people use landscapes, and how land use, in turn, affects biodiversity and ecosystem services. We see people and nature as interdependent.
Main research areas
In addition to our work at the landscape scale, we are interested in the conceptual development of sustainability science at a global scale. Here, too, we are influenced by an ecosystems approach, but we also draw on the insights from the social sciences as appropriate.
Our goal is to contribute to sustainable development through solution-oriented research.
FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.23 → 30.04.27
Project: Research
FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa. Subproject SP1: Biodiversity impacts-local-scale restoration effects in western Rwanda
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.23 → 30.04.27
Project: Research
FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa . Subproject SP2: Landscape context - landscape-scale restoration dynamics in western Rwanda
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Kümmerle, T. (Project manager, academic) & Sun, P. (Project staff)
01.05.23 → 30.04.27
Project: Research
FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa. Sub Project SP8: Synthesis: Social-ecological restoration in western Rwanda
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.23 → 30.04.27
Project: Research
Fostering sustainable development in Eastern Europe: A case study of ancient agricultural landscapes in Central Romania
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
01.11.10 → 11.03.16
Project: Research
SESyP: Identifying social-ecological System Properties benefiting Biodiversity and Food Security
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Hanspach, J. (Coordination), Schultner, J. (Coordination), Dorresteijn, I. (Coordination), Collier, N. (Coordination), Dugo, G. S. (Project staff), Rodrigues, P. (Project staff), Jiren, T. S. (Project staff) & Manlosa, A. O. (Project staff)
01.06.14 → 31.05.19
Project: Research
Internationale wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung: „Zwölfte internationale Konferenz über das Monitoring und das Management von Besuchern in Erholungs- und Schutzgebieten“
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic)
21.06.24 → 31.01.25
Project: Scientific event
Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge
Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic), Sieveking, A. (Project staff), Klaniecki, K. T. (Project staff), Dorninger, C. (Project staff), Clarke, E. A. (Project staff), Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Project staff), Lam, D. (Project staff), Patru-Duse, I. A. (Project staff), Jager, N. W. (Project staff), Derwort, P. (Project staff), Patru-Duse, I. A. (Project staff), Apetrei, C.-I. (Project staff), Freeth, R. C. (Project staff), Engbers, M. (Project staff), Peukert, D. (Project staff), Berkau, A. J. (Project staff), Lutz, L. M. (Coordination), Leventon, J. (Project manager, academic) & Abson, D. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.15 → 31.03.21
Project: Research
Management von Gehölzen zur Verbesserung der Multifunktionalität in einer Kulturlandschaft Äthiopiens
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
15.04.20 → 14.04.23
Project: Research