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. 2014
  2. Published

    Place, case and process: Applying ecology to sustainable development

    Fischer, J., Sherren, K. & Hanspach, J., 05.2014, In: Basic and Applied Ecology. 15, 3, p. 187-193 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Response to Turnhout et al.’s rethinking biodiversity: From goods and services to “living with”

    Abson, D. & Hanspach, J., 05.2014, In: Conservation Letters. 7, 3, p. 334-335 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  4. Published

    Identifying core habitat before it's too late: The case of Bombina variegata, an internationally endangered amphibian

    Scheele, B. C., Boyd, C. E., Fischer, J., Fletcher, A. W., Hanspach, J. & Hartel, T., 01.03.2014, In: Biodiversity and Conservation. 23, 3, p. 775-780 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Host plant availability potentially limits butterfly distributions under cold environmental conditions

    Hanspach, J., Schweiger, O., Kühn, I., Plattner, M., Pearman, P. B., Zimmermann, N. E. & Settele, J., 03.2014, In: Ecography. 37, 3, p. 301-308 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Bird community responses to the edge between suburbs and reserves

    Ikin, K., Barton, P. S., Knight, E., Lindenmayer, D. B., Fischer, J. & Manning, A. D., 02.2014, In: Oecologia. 174, 2, p. 545-557 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis and Scenario Valuation of Changes in Ecosystem Services

    Bateman, I. J., Harwood, A. R., Abson, D., Andrews, B., Crowe, A., Dugdale, S., Fezzi, C., Foden, J., Hadley, D., Haines-Young, R., Hulme, M. F., Kontoleon, A., Munday, P., Pascual, U., Paterson, J. S., Perino, G., Sen, A., Siriwardena, G. M. & Termansen, M., 02.2014, In: Environmental and Resource Economics. 57, 2, p. 273-297 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Corticosterone mediates carry-over effects between breeding and migration in the kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

    Schultner, J., Moe, B., Chastel, O., Tartu, S., Bech, C. & Kitaysky, A. S., 27.01.2014, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 496, p. 125-133 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Forest Islands in an Agricultural Sea

    Klein, A.-M., Boreux, V. E., Bauhus, J., Chappell, M. J., Fischer, J. & Philpott, S. M., 01.01.2014, Global Forest Fragmentation. Kettle, C. J. & Koh, L. P. (eds.). Wallingford: CAB International, p. 79-95 17 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  11. 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

  12. Published

    The importance of ecosystem services for rural inhabitants in a changing cultural landscape in Romania

    Hartel, T., Fischer, J., Câmpeanu, C., Milcu, A. I., Hanspach, J. & Fazey, I., 01.01.2014, In: Ecology and Society. 19, 2, 9 p., 42.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Wood-pasture management in southern Transylvania (Romania): From communal to where?

    Sutcliffe, L., Öllerer, K., Roellig, M. & Hartel, T., 01.01.2014, European Wood-pastures in Transition: A Social-ecological Approach. Hartel, T. & Plieninger, T. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 219-234 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  14. Published

    Challenges for postdocs in Germany and beyond: a personal perspective

    Fischer, J., 2014, Postdoctoral Career Paths 2.0: The Golden Triangle of Competitive Junior Investigators, Adequate Academic Systems, and Successful Careers. A.-V.-H.-S. (ed.). Verlag Dr. Josef Raabe, p. 25-26 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsTransferpeer-review

  15. Published

    Viitorul oamenilor şi al naturii în sudul Transilvaniei - Az emberek és a természet jövője Dél-Erdélyben

    Fischer, J., Milcu, A. I., Hartel, T., Hanspach, J. & Mikulcak, F., 2014, Sofia: Pensoft Publishers Ltd., 62 p.

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsTransfer

  16. 2013
  17. Published

    First record of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on amphibians in Romania

    Vörös, J., Bosch, J., Dán, Á. & Hartel, T., 01.12.2013, In: North-Western Journal of Zoology. 9, 2, p. 446-449 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Differential reproductive responses to stress reveal the role of life-history strategies within a species

    Schultner, J., Kitaysky, A. S., Gabrielsen, G. W., Hatch, S. A. & Bech, C., 22.11.2013, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 280, 1771, 10 p., 20132090.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Ecosystem services: Response

    Bateman, I. J., Harwood, A. R., Mace, G. M., Watson, R. T., Abson, D. J., Andrews, B., Binner, A., Crowe, A. M., Day, B., Dugdale, S., Fezzi, C., Foden, J., Hadley, D. J., Haines-Young, R. H., Hulme, M. F., Kontoleon, A. A., Lovett, A. A., Munday, P., Pascual, U., Paterson, J. S., Perino, G., Sen, A., Siriwardena, G., Van Soest, D. P. & Termansen, M., 25.10.2013, In: Science. 342, 6157, p. 421-422 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  20. Published

    Does location really matter? An inter-colony comparison of seabirds breeding at varying distances from productive oceanographic features in the Bering Sea

    Harding, A., Paredes, R., Suryan, R., Roby, D., Irons, D., Orben, R., Renner, H., Young, R., Barger, C., Dorresteijn, I. & Kitaysky, A., 01.10.2013, In: Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 94, p. 178-191 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Cultural ecosystem services: A literature review and prospects for future research

    Milcu, A. I., Hanspach, J., Abson, D. & Fischer, J., 01.09.2013, In: Ecology and Society. 18, 3, 34 p., 44.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review