Former Team Members
Dr. Melanie Mewes
Division of Social Sciences
Department of Economics
Working Group Social-science Water Research
Working Group Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Areas of Expertise & Research
Biodiversity conservation, land use, cost-efficient payment schemes, cost-effectiveness analysis, integrated river basin management, decision support
Curriculum Vitae
2005 - 2015
Scientific Employee, Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ
2001 - 2005
PhD student, Chair of Landscape Economics, University of Greifswald
Topic: Social costs of a land use minimising nutrient emissions from diffuse sources to the Baltic Sea
2005
Graduate Assistent, Chair of Landscape Economics, University of Greifswald
2001 - 2004
Scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU-Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt)
1994 - 2001
University of Münster, Germany
1995 - 2001
Landscape ecology (minor subjects: botany, public law)
Degree: Diplom (German equivalent to Master's Degree)
Thesis: Vegetation structures in the floodplain of the river 'Lippe' − comparison of agricultural used areas, areas of succession, and areas with permanent grazing by Heck cattle
1994 - 1995
Law
Completed Projects
STEP − Status and Trends of European Pollinators (EU FP 7, Collaborative Project, 2010 − 2015)
→ CASPER II: Cost-effectiveness of Agri-environmental Schemes for meadow bird protection (ECOPAY-local)
Memberships
since 2007
European Sustainable Use Specialist Group (ESUSG) of IUCN – The World Conservation Union, restructured in 2012, now:
Sustainable Use and Livelihoods (SULi) Specialist Group. Member both of SSC (Species Survival Commission) and CEESP (Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy)