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

    Turning hurt into impact (?)

    Fischer, J., 02.02.2016, 1 p.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  2. Published

    Understanding drivers of human tolerance towards mammals in a mixed-use transfrontier conservation area in southern Africa

    Kansky, R., Kidd, M. & Fischer, J., 01.02.2021, In: Biological Conservation. 254, 10 p., 108947.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Understanding relational values in cultural landscapes in Romania and Germany

    Riechers, M., Balázsi, Á., Engler, J. O., Shumi, G. & Fischer, J., 10.2021, In: People and Nature. 3, 5, p. 1036-1046 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    UN Global Action Programme and Education for Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence Base

    Fischer, D., Aubrecht, E. L., Brück, M., Ditges, L., Gathen, L., Jahns, M., Petersmann, M., Rau, J. & Wellmann, C., 24.11.2015, In: Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education. 6, 1, p. 5-20 16 p., 1.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change

    Adger, W. N., Crépin, A. S., Folke, C., Ospina, D., Chapin, F. S., Segerson, K., Seto, K. C., Anderies, J. M., Barrett, S., Bennett, E. M., Daily, G., Elmqvist, T., Fischer, J., Kautsky, N., Levin, S. A., Shogren, J. F., van den Bergh, J., Walker, B. & Wilen, J., 23.10.2020, In: One Earth. 3, 4, p. 396-399 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using a leverage points perspective to compare social-ecological systems: a case study on rural landscapes

    Fischer, J., Abson, D., Dorresteijn, I., Hanspach, J., Hartel, T., Schultner, J. & Sherrene, K., 03.2022, In: Ecosystems and People. 18, 1, p. 119-130 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using ecological and life-history characteristics for projecting species' responses to climate change

    Pompe, S., Hanspach, J., Badeck, F.-W., Klotz, S., Bruelheide, H. & Kühn, I., 30.09.2014, In: Frontiers of Biogeography . 6, 3, p. 119-131 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems

    Knaps, F., Gottwald, S., Albert, C. & Herrmann, S., 01.11.2022, In: Ecology and Society. 27, 4, 12 p., 9.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Using trait-based filtering as a predictive framework for conservation: A case study of bats on farms in southeastern Australia

    Hanspach, J., Fischer, J., Ikin, K., Stott, J. & Law, B. S., 01.08.2012, In: The Journal of Applied Ecology. 49, 4, p. 842-850 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Valuation approaches for soil carbon

    Abson, D., Pascual, U. & Termansen, M., 2015, Soil Carbon: Science, Management and Policy for Multiple Benefits. Banwart, S. A., Noellemeyer, E. & Milne, E. (eds.). Wallingford: CABI, p. 214-223 10 p. 18. (SCOPE series; vol. 71).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review