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.
RURAGRI-MULTAGRI: Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land use (MULTAGRI). Work package 5: Governance challenges to encourage landscape-scale uptake of appropriate management actions
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
29.08.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Move'n'Sense: Sense of place and mobility in cross-border contexts – essentialist and progressive perspectives
Gottwald, S. (Project manager, academic) & Kołodyńska, I. (Project manager, academic)
05.11.21 → 02.01.25
Project: Research
SENet: Social and ecological networks supporting biodiversity and food security
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Bergsten, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.16 → 17.03.18
Project: Research
The future of brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Transylvania
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Dorresteijn, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 27.04.15
Project: Research
The future of the European brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Transylvania II: How to maintain coexistence in a rapidly changing system
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Dorresteijn, I. (Project manager, academic)
International Association for Bear Research and Management
01.02.13 → 20.04.15
Project: Research
ETH-Coffee: Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy: A Scenario Analysis for the Jimma Coffee Landscape in Ethiopia
Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Schultner, J. (Project manager, academic), Abson, D. (Project manager, academic), Duguma, D. W. (Project manager, academic), Jiren, T. S. (Project staff) & Brück, M. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.11.19 → 31.08.23
Project: Research
Understanding human-carnivore relationships: from social conflicts to ecosystem services
Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic), Lozano Mendoza, J. (Project staff), von Wehrden, H. (Partner), Dorresteijn, I. (Partner) & Fischer, J. (Partner)
01.11.16 → 31.10.17
Project: Research
Unraveling patterns of ecosystem services supply: a case study in Southern Chile
Benra, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.18 → 31.08.22
Project: Dissertation project
BiodiWert: Was sind erfolgreiche Konzepte zur Wiederherstellung artenreichen Grünlandes in Deutschland? Eine multiregionale Bewertung sozial-ökologischer Systeme und pilothafte Umsetzung (Grassworks)
Temperton, V. (Project manager, academic), Leventon, J. (Project staff), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Martín-López, B. (Project staff), May, F. (Project staff), Tischew, S. (Partner), Kirmer, A. (Partner), Kollmann, J. (Partner), Beckmann, V. (Partner), Dieker, P. (Partner), Thiele, J. (Partner) & Metzner, J. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.20 → 30.09.21
Project: Research