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.
- 2026
- Published
Flower resource availability and Tetragonisca fiebrigi flower visits in two farming communities of Bolivian Chiquitanía
Benavides-Frias, C., Saravia-Nava, A., Rodriguez, P., Sun, P., Benra, F., Morón Aguilar, D. & Hanspach, J., 01.2026, In: Global Ecology and Conservation. 65, 15 p., e03990.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Leveraging change in ecosystem restoration: from planting trees to regenerating people-nature systems
Frietsch, M., Kaplin, B. A., Mukuralinda, A., Nkurikiyimana, D., William, A., Bariyanga, J. D., Duguma, D. W., Kayitanirwa, C., Mujawamariya, M., Nsengimana, V., Nshimyumuremyi, P., Nyiramvuyekure, V., Nduwamungu, J., Serge, S., Turikunkiko, E., Tuyizere, D. & Fischer, J., 01.2026, In: Trees, Forests and People. 23, 5 p., 101134.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Participatory mapping of local people's values in restoration landscapes in Western Rwanda
Ndayizeye, G., Kmoch, L., Baumann, M., Nsengimana, V., Fischer, J. & Plieninger, T., 01.2026, In: Restoration Ecology. 34, 1, 13 p., e70217.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Resilience and regeneration for a world in crisis
Fischer, J., Farny, S., Pacheco-Romero, M. & Folke, C., 01.2026, In: Ambio. 55, 1, p. 24-34 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2025
- Published
New rationalities, inner logic, and hope for sustainable future coasts
Celliers, L., Ferse, S., Bruns, A., Eisenack, K., Hornidge, A. K., Klepp, S., Lahl, R., Neumann, B., Riechers, M., Bogusz, T., Fuchs, N., Gee, K., Hampton, S., Hinkel, J., Kny, J., Kriegl, M., Krönert, T., Costa, M. M., Otto, L., Pfaff, M. & Rölfer, L., 11.12.2025, In: Global Sustainability. 9, e2.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Five Frontiers for Science and Practice of Ecosystem Restoration in East African Forest Landscapes
Duguma, D. W., Löhr, K., Temperton, V. M., Apollinaire, W., Baumann, M., Kaplin, B. A., Nyiramvuyekure, V., Vögele, S., Kmoch, L., Plieninger, T., Loos, J., Aime, T., Beatrice, N., Bohn, S., Ernest, U., Frietsch, M., Gatali, C., Innocent, N., Kangondo, A., Franklin, B., Maniraho, L., Martín-López, B., Mukaneza, D., Ndagijimana, V., Ndayizeye, G., Nizeyimana, M., Nyandwi, E., Nzibaza, V., Sieber, S., Sun, P., Ullman, J. L., Umuziranenge, G., Wollni, M. & Fischer, J., 12.2025, In: Integrative Conservation. 4, 4, p. 534-545 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
How methods influence nature's values we find – A comparison of three elicitation methods
Kuhn, L., Cebrián-Piqueras, M. Á., Riechers, M., Loos, J. & Martín-López, B., 12.2025, In: Ecological Economics. 238, 11 p., 108721.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Testing Camera Trapping to Survey the Ground-Dwelling Bird Assemblage of Two Afromontane Rainforest Fragments in Rwanda
Sun, P. & Wronski, T., 12.2025, In: African Journal of Ecology. 63, 8, 13 p., e70137.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
‘Chains of leverage’ as way to identify and foster transformative potential
Riechers, M., Schaal-Lagodzinski, T., Pereira, L., Loos, J. & Fischer, J., 11.2025, In: People and Nature. 7, 11, p. 2731-2742 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Accepted/In press
Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q-method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration
Cebrián-Piqueras, M. A., Gray, K., Kuhn, L., Loos, J., Pătru-Dușe, I. A., Riechers, M., Temperton, V. & Martín-López, B., 02.10.2025, (Accepted/In press) In: People and Nature. 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review