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.
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Valuing Climate Change Effects Upon UK Agricultural GHG Emissions: Spatial Analysis of a Regulating Ecosystem Service
Abson, D., Termansen, M., Pascual, U., Aslam, U., Fezzi, C. & Bateman, I. J., 02.2014, In: Environmental and Resource Economics. 57, 2, p. 215-231 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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“We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia
Riechers, M., Baumann, L., Braun, M., Ganachaud, A., Heeg, P. & Sabinot, C., 12.2024, In: Regional Environmental Change. 24, 4, 15 p., 146.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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“What is a ‘very severe cyclone’ please”? Uncovering knowledge and communication gaps in climate resilience realities
Ghosh, A., Sen, A. & Frietsch, M., 15.02.2023, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 86, 17 p., 103499.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Wood-pastures in a traditional rural region of Eastern Europe: Characteristics, management and status
Hartel, T., Dorresteijn, I., Klein, C., Máthé, O., Moga, C. I., Öllerer, K., Roellig, M., von Wehrden, H. & Fischer, J., 01.10.2013, In: Biological Conservation. 166, p. 267-275 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Woody plant diversity, composition and structure in relation to environmental variables and land-cover types in Lake Wanchi watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia
Angessa, A. T., Lemma, B., Yeshitela, K., Fischer, J., May, F. & Shumi, G., 01.12.2020, In: African Journal of Ecology. 58, 4, p. 627-638 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Woody plant species diversity and composition in and around Debre Libanos church forests of North Shoa Zone of Oromiya, Ethiopia
Koricho, H. H., Shumi, G., Gebreyesus, T., Song, S. & Fufa, F., 10.2021, In: Journal of Forestry Research. 32, 5, p. 1929-1939 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Woody plant species diversity as a predictor of ecosystem services in a social–ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia
Shumi, G., Rodrigues, P., Hanspach, J., Härdtle, W., Hylander, K., Senbeta, F., Fischer, J. & Schultner, J., 01.02.2021, In: Landscape Ecology. 36, 2, p. 373-391 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Woody plant use and management in relation to property rights: a social-ecological case study from southwestern Ethiopia
Shumi, G., Dorresteijn, I., Schultner, J., Hylander, K., Senbeta, F., Hanspach, J., Ango, T. G. & Fischer, J., 14.10.2019, In: Ecosystems and People. 15, 1, p. 303-316 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Stories of favourite Places in public spaces: Emotional responses to landscape change
Riechers, M., Henkel, W., Engbers, M. & Fischer, J., 15.07.2019, In: Sustainability. 11, 14, 11 p., 3851.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
- Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Conservation: Limits of land sparing
Fischer, J., Batáry, P., Bawa, K. S., Brussaard, L., Chappell, M. J., Clough, Y., Daily, G. C., Dorrough, J., Hartel, T., Jackson, L. E., Klein, A. M., Kremen, C., Kuemmerle, T., Lindenmayer, D. B., Mooney, H. A., Perfecto, I., Philpott, S. M., Tscharntke, T., Vandermeer, J., Wanger, T. C. & von Wehrden, H., 04.11.2011, In: Science. 334, 6056, p. 593-594 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Correction: Bats in a farming landscape benefit from linear remnants and unimproved pastures
Lentini, P. E., Gibbons, P., Fischer, J., Law, B., Hanspach, J. & Martin, T. G., 23.05.2013, In: PLoS ONE. 8, 5Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Correction to: A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science (Sustainability Science, (2022), 17, 1, (45-63), 10.1007/s11625-021-01064-0)
Staffa, R. K., Riechers, M. & Martín-López, B., 06.01.2022, In: Sustainability Science. 17, 1, p. 323-323 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Human-nature connectedness as leverage point
Riechers, M., Balázsi, Á., García-Llorente, M. & Loos, J., 13.05.2021, In: Ecosystems and People. 17, 1, p. 215-221 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Managing Research Environments: Heterarchies in Academia. A Response to Cumming
Fischer, J., 01.12.2016, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 31, 12, p. 900-902 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Schröter, M., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Albert, C., Hill, R., Krause, T., Loos, J., Mannetti, L. M., Martín-López, B., Neelakantan, A., Parrotta, J. A., Quintas-Soriano, C., Abson, D. J., Alkemade, R., Amelung, B., Baptiste, B., Barrios, E., Djoudi, H., Drakou, E. G., Durance, I., García Llorente, M., Geneletti, D., Harmáčková, Z. V., Jacobs, S., Kaiser, N. N., Kingsley, J., Klain, S., Martínez-Harms, M. J., Murali, R., O’Farrell, P., Pandit, R., Pereira, L., Rana, S., Riechers, M., Rusch, G. M., Sala, J. E., Schulp, C. J. E., Sitas, N., Subramanian, S. M., Villasante, S. & van Oudenhoven, A., 2023, In: Ecosystems and People. 19, 1, 10 p., 2220913.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Toward a pluralistic conservation science
Cumming, G. S., Davies, Z. G., Fischer, J. & Hajjar, R., 01.05.2023, In: Conservation Letters. 16, 3, 8 p., e12952.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
de Vos, A., Quinlan, A., Biggs, R., Bennett, E. M., Martín-López, B., Norström, A. V., Peterson, G. D., Schoon, M., Allen, C. R., Andersson, E., Baird, J., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Berkes, F., Calderon-Contreras, R., Carpenter, S. R., Castro, A. J., Cumming, G. S., Falardeau, M., Liebrecht Fick, W., Folke, C., Galang, E. I. N. E., Gelcich, S., Gordon, L. J., Grimm, N. B., Hamilton, J., Hodbod, J., Speranza, C. I., Koch, L., Kosanic, A., Lembi, R., Locatelli, B., Malmborg, K., Manyani, A., Mathisonslee, M., Ocampo-Melgar, A., Psiuk, K., Queiroz, C., Riechers, M., Schultz, L., Selomane, O., Sherren, K., Spierenburg, M., Trimble, M., Turkelboom, F. & Wallington, C., 06.2025, In: Ecology and Society. 30, 2, 32.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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A plea for multifunctional landscapes
Fischer, J., Meacham, M. & Queiroz, C., 01.03.2017, In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 15, 2, p. 59-59 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Transfer
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A framework for drivers fostering social-ecological restoration within forest landscape based on people’s participation. A systematic literature review
Maniraho, L., Frietsch, M., Sieber, S. & Löhr, K., 01.12.2023, In: Discover Sustainability. 4, 13 p., 26.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research