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.
- 2015
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The future of people and nature in Southern Transylvania
Fischer, J., Horcea-Milcu, A. I., Hartel, T., Hanspach, J. & Mikulcak, F., 2015, Sofia: Pensoft Publishers Ltd. 60 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Transfer
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- 2014
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The Human Release Hypothesis for biological invasions: human activity as a determinant of the abundance of invasive plant species
Zimmermann, H., Brandt, P., Fischer, J., Welk, E. & von Wehrden, H., 12.12.2014, In: Faculty of 1000 Research. 3, 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to Southern Transylvania
Hanspach, J., Hartel, T., Milcu, A. I., Mikulcak, F., Dorresteijn, I., Loos, J., von Wehrden, H., Kuemmerle, T., Abson, D., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Báldi, A. & Fischer, J., 18.11.2014, In: Ecology and Society. 19, 4, 27 p., 32.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Bird communities in traditional wood-pastures with changing management in Eastern Europe
Hartel, T., Hanspach, J., Abson, D. J., Máthé, O., Moga, C. I. & Fischer, J., 08.2014, In: Basic and Applied Ecology. 15, 5, p. 385–395 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Human-carnivore coexistence in a traditional rural landscape
Dorresteijn, I., Hanspach, J., Kecskés, A., Latková, H., Mezey, Z., Sugár, S., von Wehrden, H. & Fischer, J., 08.2014, In: Landscape Ecology. 29, 7, p. 1145-1155 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Low-intensity agricultural landscapes in Transylvania support high butterfly diversity: Implications for conservation
Loos, J., Dorresteijn, I., Hanspach, J., Fust, P., Rakosy, L. & Fischer, J., 24.07.2014, In: PLoS ONE. 9, 7, 11 p., e103256.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Ecosystem services as a boundary object for sustainability
Abson, D., von Wehrden, H., Baumgärtner, S., Fischer, J., Hanspach, J., Härdtle, W., Heinrichs, H., Klein, A.-M., Lang, D. J., Martens, P. & Walmsley, D., 07.2014, In: Ecological Economics. 103, 7, p. 29-37 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review