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Aufsatz
Multi-Scale Governance of Sustainable Natural Resource Use—Challenges and Opportunities for Monitoring and Institutional Development at the National and Global Level
(2016-08-09)
In a globalized economy, the use of natural resources is determined by the demand of modern production and consumption systems, and by infrastructure development. Sustainable natural resource use will require good governance and management based on sound scientific information, data and indicators. There is a rich literature on natural resource management, yet the national and global scale and macro-economic policy making has been underrepresented. We provide an overview of the scholarly literature on multi-scale ...
Aufsatz
Assessing the Sustainability of EU Timber Consumption Trends: Comparing Consumption Scenarios with a Safe Operating Space Scenario for Global and EU Timber Supply
(2017-12-02)
The growing demand for wood to meet EU renewable energy targets has increasingly come under scrutiny for potentially increasing EU import dependence and inducing land use change abroad, with associated impacts on the climate and biodiversity. This article builds on research accounting for levels of primary timber consumption—e.g., toward forest footprints—and developing reference values for benchmarking sustainability—e.g., toward land use targets—in order to improve systemic monitoring of timber and forest use. ...
Dissertation
Von der Minderheit zur Mehrheit? Psycho-soziale Einflüsse bei der Verbreitung klima-schonender Innovationen
(2016-12-21)
Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels und weiterer Zukunftsherausforderungen stellt sich in drängenderem Maße die Frage, wie der Wandel zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft gelingen kann. Im Zuge dessen rücken zunehmend solche Lösungsansätze in den Fokus, die an der Schnittstelle von technischen und sozialen Systemen nachhaltige und klimaschonende Innovationen entwickeln. Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigte sich in diesem Kontext mit der Frage, welche psychologischen und sozialen Faktoren und Mechanismen bei der ...
Dissertation
Decision‐Making in Public Good Dilemmas: Theory and Agent‐Based Simulation
(2013-05-14)
In many real world contexts individuals find themselves in situations where they have to decide between options of behaviour that serve a collective purpose or behaviours which satisfy one’s private interests, ignoring the collective. In some cases the underlying social dilemma (Dawes, 1980) is solved and we observe collective action (Olson, 1965). In others social mobilisation is unsuccessful. The central topic of social dilemma research is the identification and understanding of mechanisms which yield to the observed ...
Dissertation
Modeling the interplay between land use, bioenergy production and climate change
(2010-08-09)
Land use has become a force of global importance, considering that 34% of the Earth’s ice-free surface was covered by croplands or pastures in 2000. The expected increase in global human population together with eminent climate change and associated search for energy sources other than fossil fuels can, through land-use and land-cover changes (LUCC), increase the pressure on nature’s resources, further degrade ecosystem services, and disrupt other planetary systems of key importance to humanity. This thesis presents ...
Working paper
Bestimmung des Materialfußabdrucks mit ökobilanziellen Methoden und Softwarelösungen
(2019-05)
Die Bestimmung des Materialfußabdrucks ist wichtig, um die Ressourcenproduktivität jedes Unternehmens und letztlich der Gesamtwirtschaft wirksam steigern zu können. Deshalb wurde eine methodische Handreichung zur Bestimmung des Materialfußabdrucks von Produkten und Infrastrukturen entwickelt und die Vorgehensweise am Beispiel der CO2-Nutzung erläutert. Der Konzepthintergrund, die Hauptindikatoren und die Verwendung von opensource Software mit einschlägigen LCA-Datenbanken werden vorgestellt.
Dissertation
A Modeling Analysis of Changing Global Land Use as affected by Changing Demands for Wood Products
(2010-01-08)
The 21st century has brought new challenges for forest management at a time when globalization in world trade is increasing and global climate change is becoming increasingly apparent. In addition to various goods and services like food, feed, timber or biofuels being provided to humans, forest ecosystems are a large store of terrestrial carbon and account for a major part of the carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Depending on the stage of the ecosystems and/or management regimes, forests ...