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.

  1. Published

    Mapping and analysing historical indicators of ecosystem services in Germany

    Dittrich, A., von Wehrden, H., Abson, D. J., Bartkowski, B., Cord, A. F., Fust, P., Hoyer, C., Kambach, S., Meyer, M. A., Radzevičiūtė, R., Nieto-Romero, M., Seppelt, R. & Beckmann, M., 01.04.2017, In: Ecological Indicators. 75, p. 101-110 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Migration and stress during reproduction govern telomere dynamics in a seabird

    Schultner, J., Moe, B., Chastel, O., Bech, C. & Kitaysky, A. S., 01.01.2014, In: Biology Letters. 10, 1, 4 p., 20130889.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Mismatches in the ecosystem services-wellbeing nexus: a case study for Chilean Patagonia

    Benra, F., Nahuelhual, L., Felipe-Lucia, M. R., Oh, R., Kachler, J. & Bonn, A., 26.06.2023, In: Ecosystems and People. 19, 1, 19 p., 2224448.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Miteinander forschen zwischen Universität und Naturpark Wildeshauser Geest

    Engbers, M., Riechers, M. & Vilsmaier, U., 2019, (Bio)Diversitätskorridor. Vielfalt als Ausgangspunkt für Mensch und Natur im Landkreis Oldenburg, artecology_network e.V. & Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Lüneburg: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, p. 78-81 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to scientific reportsResearch

  5. Published

    National ecosystem restoration pledges are mismatched with social-ecological enabling conditions

    Benra, F., Brück, M., Sigman, E., Pacheco-Romero, M., Shumi, G., Abson, D. J., Frietsch, M. & Fischer, J., 12.2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 5, 1, 10 p., 731.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Navigating conflicting landscape aspirations: Application of a photo-based Q-method in Transylvania (Central Romania)

    Milcu, A. I., Sherren, K., Hanspach, J., Abson, D. & Fischer, J., 11.2014, In: Land Use Policy. 41, p. 408-422 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina

    Rodríguez, P., Benra, F., Fischer, J., Romano, S. & Soler, R., 10.2024, In: Ambio. 53, 10, p. 1541-1555 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Non-metric multidimensional performance indicator scaling reveals seasonal and team dissimilarity within the National Rugby League

    Woods, C. T., Robertson, S., Sinclair, W. H. & Collier, N. F., 04.2018, In: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 21, 4, p. 410-415 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Nuclear accidents call for transdisciplinary nuclear energy research

    Gralla, F., Abson, D., Møller, A. P., Lang, D. J., Vilsmaier, U., Sovacool, B. K. & von Wehrden, H., 01.2015, In: Sustainability Science. 10, 1, p. 179-183 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  10. Published

    Operationalising the leverage points perspective for empirical research

    Riechers, M., Fischer, J., Manlosa, A. O., Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. & Sala, J. E., 01.08.2022, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 57, 101206.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review