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

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    The impacts of social-ecological system change on human-nature connectedness: A case study from Transylvania, Romania

    Balázsi, Á., Riechers, M., Hartel, T., Leventon, J. & Fischer, J., 01.12.2019, In: Land Use Policy. 89, 104232.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Capital asset substitution as a coping strategy: Practices and implications for food security and resilience in southwestern Ethiopia

    Manlosa, A. O., Schultner, J., Dorresteijn, I. & Fischer, J., 01.11.2019, In: Geoforum. 106, p. 13-23 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Human-carnivore relations: A systematic review

    Lozano, J., Olszańska, A., Morales-Reyes, Z., Castro, A. A., Malo, A. F., Moleón, M., Sánchez-Zapata, J. A., Cortés-Avizanda, A., von Wehrden, H., Dorresteijn, I., Kansky, R., Fischer, J. & Martín-López, B., 09.2019, In: Biological Conservation. 237, p. 480-492 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  5. Published

    Privatizing the commons: New approaches need broader evaluative criteria for sustainability

    Partelow, S., Abson, D. J., Schlueter, A., Fernandez-Gimenez, M., von Wehrden, H. & Collier, N., 03.05.2019, In: International Journal of the Commons. 13, 1, p. 747-776 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Inside-out sustainability: The neglect of inner worlds

    Ives, C. D., Freeth, R. & Fischer, J., 01.01.2020, In: Ambio. 49, 1, p. 208-217 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Agriculturally productive yet biodiverse: human benefits and conservation values along a forest-agriculture gradient in Southern Ethiopia

    Baudron, F., Schultner, J., Duriaux, J. Y., Gergel, S. E. & Sunderland, T., 01.02.2019, In: Landscape Ecology. 34, 2, p. 341-356 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Land-sharing/-sparing connectivity landscapes for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation

    Grass, I., Loos, J., Baensch, S., Batáry, P., Librán-Embid, F., Ficiciyan, A., Klaus, F., Riechers, M., Rosa, J., Tiede, J., Udy, K., Westphal, C., Wurz, A. & Tscharntke, T., 01.06.2019, In: People and Nature. 1, 2, p. 262-272 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Conservation value of moist evergreen Afromontane forest sites with different management and history in southwestern Ethiopia

    Shumi, G., Rodrigues, P., Schultner, J., Dorresteijn, I., Hanspach, J., Hylander, K., Senbeta, F. & Fischer, J., 01.04.2019, In: Biological Conservation. 232, p. 117-126 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review