Professorship of Ecological Services
Research interests
- Regional Models of Ecosystem Services in Human-Environment Systems
- Analysis of actors’ decision-making on supply side and demand side with respect to ecosystem services
- Modeling of ecosystem services in regional human-environment systems given global change
- Mapping ecosystem services
- Global Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecological Services
- Ecological-economic models of the insurance value of biodiversity
- Global Markets, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Trade of commodities, global land-use flows and ecosystem impacts
- Improvement of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with respect to land-use impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Ecological evaluation of green innovations in financial markets (e.g. sustainable investment funds)
- Design of financial instruments “International Payments for Ecosystem Services” IPES and “International Offsetting of Biodiversity”
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