Work Package 4 - Informing and designing policies for sustainable landscapes

The WP agenda is rooted in qualitative and quantitative social research with a strong interdisciplinary character - between different social science disciplines and natural sciences (UPOL, OEKON, UPR,SUSOZ, NSF).

The Work Package 4 deals with the following interconnected lines of research:

Research on societal perceptions, values, behavior, and policy options

  • What are the societal implications and people’s values and perceptions of land use options?
  • How to include knowledge on human behavior (e.g. farmers) into modelling and policy design?
  • How to design effective and legitimate policy, financing, and governance instruments for sustainable land use and biodiversity conservation?
  • Which governance instruments are needed?
  • Governance, policy, and societal context for modeling / socio-economic indicators

Science-society-policy interfaces (SPIs)

  • What are the knowledge and research needs from policy and practice?
  •  Which knowledge, tools and guidance can scientists provide to support natural resource policy and management?
  • How can science-policy-processes be improved?
  • How to enhance networks, interfaces, and civil society participation?


Ongoing core projects

  • Horizon-scanning for ecosystem services research (M. Darbi)
  • Land-use scenarios for Germany for agriculture, forestry (including scenario development and analysis with stakeholders) (J. Priess)
  • ‘Ecosystem Services’ in international environmental cooperation – evaluating past experiences and future potential to define a practice-driven research agenda (J. Rode, A. Berghöfer)
  •  Horizon-scanning on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their application at the UFZ (K.Jax, M. Darbi)


 Lead Scientists


     Dr. Julian Rode
    Department of Environmental Politics

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     Marianne Darbi
    Department of Conservation Biology

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     Dr. Bartosz Bartkowski
    Department of Economics

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  • Berghöfer, Augustin (UPOL)
  • Dreßler, Gunnar (OESA)
  • Egli, Lukas (OESA)
  • Felipe-Lucia, Maria (ESS)
  • Förster, Johannes (UPOL)
  • Groth, Juliane (CLE)
  • Hagemann, Nina ( OEKON)
  • Heinz, Nicolai (UPOL)
  • Hermans, Kathleen (CLE)
  • Jax, Kurt (NSF)
  • Kaim, Andrea (CLE)
  • Marquard, Elisabeth (NSF)
  • Massenberg, Julian (OEKON)
  • Möckel, Stefan (UPR)
  • Müller, Birgit (OESA)
  • Priess, Jörg (CLE)
  • Raab, Kristina (NSF)
  • Schröter, Matthias (CLE)
  • Schröter-Schlaack, Christoph (OEKON)
  • Slabbert, Eleonore (BZF)
  • Strauch, Michael (CLE)
  • Vandewalle, Marie (NSF)
  • Will, Meike (OESA)
  • Wittmer, Heidi (UPOL)
  • Wolf, Christine (UPOL)