Prof. Dr. Kurt Jax

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Kurt Jax

Aktuelle Publikationen

Jax, K. (im Druck, Veröffentlichung Ende Okotber 2023). Conservation concepts. Rethinking human-nature relationships: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Conservation-Concepts-Rethinking-Human-Nature-Relationships/Jax/p/book/9781032169200

Pedersen, A. B., Hickmann, T., Renn, O., Eckert, N., Jax, K., Lepenies, R., Liu, H.-Y., Lyytimäki, J., Reis, S. und Rusch, G. (2023). SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems. Ambio, 52.

Lepenies, R., Büttner, L., Bärlund, I., Jax, K., Lyytimäki, J., Pedersen, A. B., Nielsen, H. Ø., Mosoni, C., Mille, R., Payen, G.und Richard, D. (2023). The politics of national SDG indicator systems: A comparison of four European countries. Ambio, 52, 743–756.

Eckert, N., Rusch, G., Lyytimäki, J., Lepenies, R., Giacona, F., Panzacchi, M., Mosoni, C., Pedersen, A. B., Mustajoki, J., Mille, R., Richard, D. und Jax, K. (2023). Sustainable Development Goals and risks: The Yin and the Yang of the paths towards sustainability. Ambio, 52, 683-701.

Büttner, L., Darbi, M., Haase, A., Jax, K., Lepenies, R., Priess, J. und Zeug, W. (2023). Science under pressure. How research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda. Sustainability Science, online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01293-5

Eckert, N., Rusch, G., Lyytimäki, J., Lepenies, R., Giacona, F., Panzacchi, M., Mosoni, C., Pedersen, A. B., Mustajoki, J., Mille, R., Richard, D. und Jax, K. (2022). Sustainable Development Goals and risks: The Yin and the Yang of the paths towards sustainability. Ambio, online first.

Berghöfer, U., Rode, J., Jax, K., Förster, J., Berghöfer, A. und Wittmer, H. (2022). ‘Societal Relationships with Nature’: A framework for understanding nature-related conflicts and multiple values. People and Nature, 4, 534-548.

Heger, T., Aguilar, C., Bartram, I., Rennó Braga, R., Dietl, G. P., Enders, M., Gibson, D. J., Gómez-Aparicio, L., Gras, P., Jax, K., Lokatis, S., Lortie, C. J., Mupepele, A.-C., Schindler, S., Starrfelt, J., Synodinos, A. and Jeschke, J. M. (2021). The hierarchy-of-hypotheses approach: A syntesis method for enhancing theory development in ecology and evolution. BioScience, 71, 337–349.

Jax, K. (2020). “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 42.

Weise, H., Auge, H., Baessler, C., Bärlund, I., Bennett, E. M., Berger, U., Bohn, F., Bonn, A., Borchardt, D., Brand, F., Chatzinotas, A., Corstanje, R., De Laender, F., Dietrich, P., Dunker, S., Durka, W., Fazey, I., Groeneveld, J., Guilbaud, C. S. E., Harms, H., Harpole, S., Harris, J., Jax, K., Jeltsch, F., Johst, K., Joshi, J., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Kuhlicke, C., Müller, B., Radchuk, V., Reuter, H., Rinke, K., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Seppelt, R., Singer, A., Standish, R. J., Thulke, H. H., Tietjen, B., Weitere, M., Wirth, C., Wolf, C. and Grimm, V. (2020). Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem services across three different time horizons and decision contexts? Oikos, 129, 445-456.

Jax, K. (2019). Taking social responsibility in using ecosystem services concepts: Ethical issues of linking ecosystems and human well-being. In Atlas of ecosystem services. Drivers, risk, and societal responses, ed. Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R. and Baessler, C. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 25-31.

Heink, U. and Jax, K. (2019). Going upstream — How the purpose of a conceptual framework for ecosystem services determines its structure. Ecological Economics, 156, 264-271.

Jax, K., Calestani, M., Chan, K. M. A., Eser, U., Keune, H., Muraca, B., O’’Brien, L., Potthast, T., Voget-Kleschin, L. and Wittmer, H. (2018). Caring for nature matters: a relational approach for understanding nature’s contributions to human well-being. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 35, (in press, available online). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.009

Ulloa, A.M, Karlsson-Vinkhuizen, S. & Jax, K. (2018): Enhancing implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity: a novel peer-review mechanism aims to promote accountability and mutual learning. - Biological Conservation 217, 371-376.

Van Dijk, J., Dick, J., Harrison, P., Jax, K., Saarikoski, H. & Furman, E. (2017). EDITORIAL: Operationalisation of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services – Special Issue. Ecosystem Services, 29C. online first: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.11.013

Jax, K., Furman, E., Saarikoski, H., Barton, D. N., Dick, J., Delbaere, B., Duke, G., Görg, C., Gomez-Baggethun, E., Harrison, P., Maes, J., Perez-Soba, M., Turkelboom, F., Saarela, S.-R., Van Dijk, J. & Watt, A. D. (2017). Handling a messy world: Lessons learned when trying to make the ecosystem services concept operational. Ecosystem Services, 29 C. online first: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.08.001

Potschin-Young, M., Haines-Young, R., Görg, C., Heink, U., Jax, K. & Schleyer, C. (2017). Understanding the role of conceptual frameworks: Reading the ecosystem service cascade. Ecosystem Services, online first. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.05.015

Jax K. (2017): Zwischen Eigenwert und ökonomischem Nutzen: Spannungsfelder, Missverständnisse und Chancen beim Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt. - Bioökonomie und Ethik http://forum-wirtschaftsethik.de/zwischen-eigenwert-und-oekonomischem-nutzen-spannungsfelder-missverstaendnisse-und-chancen-beim-schutz-der-biologischen-vielfalt/.

Jax, K. (2016). Biozönose, Biotop und Ökosystem – Schlüsselbegriffe der Ökologie und des Naturschutzes. Natur und Landschaft, 91 (9-10), 417-422.

Heink, U., Van Herzele, A., Kalóczkai, A. G. & Jax, K. (2016). Different arguments, same conclusions - how is action against IAS justified in the context of European policy? Biodiversity and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1170-2 (in press).

Chan, K. M. A., Balvanera, P., Benessaiah, K., Chapman, M., Díaz, S., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Gould, R. K., Hannahs, N., Jax, K., Klain, S. C., Luck, G., Martín-López, B., Muraca, B., Norton, B., Ott, K., Pascual, U., Satterfield, T., Tadaki, M., Taggart, J. And Turner, N. J. (2016). Why Protect Nature? Rethinking Values and the Environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, 1462-1465.

Jax, K. (2016). Ecosystem services and ethics. In Routledge Encyclopedia of Ecosystem Services, ed. Potschin, M., Haines-Young, R., Fish, R. And Turner, R. K. London: Routledge, pp. 300-302.

Jax, K. (2016). Ecosystem functions: a critical perspective. In Routledge Encyclopedia of Ecosystem Services, ed. Potschin, M., Haines-Young, R., Fish, R. And Turner, R. K. London: Routledge, pp. 28-30.

Heink, U., Hauck, J., Jax, K. & Sukopp, U. (2015). Requirements for the selection of ecosystem service indicators – The case of MAES indicators. Ecological Indicators, 61, 18-26.

Jax K. & Heink, U. (2015). Searching for the place of biodiversity in the ecosystem services discourse. Biological Conservation, 191, 198-205.