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Dr. Gunnar Dreßler

Contact

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Ecological Modelling

Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building 1.0, Room 203

Tel.: +49 341 235-1707
Fax: +49 341 235-451707
gunnar.dressler@ufz.de    

Research Interests

1. Dynamics of socio-ecological resource use systems
• Impact of policy instruments and new technologies on local land-use strategies (e.g. pasture use in drylands).
• Emergence of polarization and poverty traps in social-ecological systems.
• Thresholds of disaster management performance under change, loss of manpower, the role of information as critical resource.
2. Human decision making in agent-based models.
   Journal Club "Human decisions in agent-based models of land use change"
3. Remote sensing and GIS.

Current Projects

PostDoc in the Junior Research Group POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change (08/2014-10/2019).

NamTip - Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points in Dryland Social-Ecological Systems – A Namibian Perspective (03/2019-02/2022).

BESTMAP - Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy (09/2019-08/2023).

Past Projects

PhD Thesis "Analyzing resource use decisions under global change by agent-based modeling." as part of the projects "emBRACE" and "POLISES".
Defended at University of Osnabrück, Institute of Environmental Systems Research on April 04, 2017.

Collaborative SESYNC-UFZ-IDiv project: Synthesis of micro-scale human decision making to mitigate risks to ecosystem services

EU project emBRACE - Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe. (until Sep. 2015)

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

2019 (2)

• Dressler, G., Groeneveld, J., Buchmann, C.M., Guo, C., Hase, N., Thober, J., Frank, K., Müller, B., (2019):
  Implications of behavioral change for the resilience of pastoral systems—Lessons from an agent-based model
  Ecol. Complex.
  Volltext (URL)
• Dressler, G., Hoffmann, F., Breuer, I., Kreuer, D., Mahdi, M., Frank, K., Müller, B., (2019):
  Polarization in (post)nomadic resource use in Eastern Morocco: insights using a multi-agent simulation model
  Reg. Envir. Chang. 19 (2), 489 - 500
  Volltext (URL)

2017 (3)

• Dreßler, G., (2017):
  Analyzing resource use decisions under global change by agent-based modeling
  Dissertation, Universität Osnabrück
  PhD Dissertation 2/2017
  Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 126 pp.
  Volltext (PDF)
• Groeneveld, J., Müller, B., Buchmann, C.M., Dressler, G., Guo, C., Hase, N., Hoffmann, F., John, F., Klassert, C., Lauf, T., Liebelt, V., Nolzen, H., Pannicke, N., Schulze, J., Weise, H., Schwarz, N., (2017):
  Theoretical foundations of human decision-making in agent-based land use models – A review
  Environ. Modell. Softw. 87 , 39 - 48
  Volltext (URL)
• Schlüter, M., Baeza, A., Dressler, G., Frank, K., Groeneveld, J., Jager, W., Janssen, M.A., McAllister, R.R.J., Müller, B., Orach, K., Schwarz, N., Wijermans, N., (2017):
  A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems
  Ecol. Econ. 131 , 21 - 35
  Volltext (URL)

2016 (1)

• Dressler, G., Müller, B., Frank, K., Kuhlicke, C., (2016):
  Towards thresholds of disaster management performance under demographic change: exploring functional relationships using agent-based modeling
  Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 16 (10), 2287 - 2301
  Volltext (URL)

2014 (2)

• Mueller, T., Dressler, G., Tucker, C.J., Pinzon, J.E., Leimgruber, P., Dubayah, R.O., Hurtt, G.C., Böhning-Gaese, K., Fagan, W.F., (2014):
  Human land-use practices lead to global long-term increases in photosynthetic capacity
  Remote Sens. 6 (6), 5717 - 5731
  Volltext (URL)
• Müller, B., Balbi, S., Buchmann, C.M., de Sousa, L., Dressler, G., Groeneveld, J., Klassert, C.J., Le, Q.B., Millington, J.D.A., Nolzen, H., Parker, D.C., Polhill, J.G., Schlüter, M., Schulze, J., Schwarz, N., Sun, Z., Taillandier, P., Weise, H., (2014):
  Standardised and transparent model descriptions for agent-based models: current status and prospects
  Environ. Modell. Softw. 55 , 156 - 163
  Volltext (URL)

2013 (1)

• Müller, B., Bohn, F., Dreßler, G., Groeneveld, J., Klassert, C., Martin, R., Schlüter, M., Schulze, J., Weise, H., Schwarz, N., (2013):
  Describing human decisions in agent-based models - ODD+D, an extension of the ODD protocol
  Environ. Modell. Softw. 48 , 37 - 48
  Volltext (URL)

2012 (2)

• Dressler, G., Müller, B., Frank, K., (2012):
  Mobility – a panacea for pastoralism? An ecological-economic modelling approach
  In: Seppelt, R., Voinov, A.A., Lange, S., Bankamp, D., (eds.)
  Managing resources of a limited planet: pathways and visions under uncertainty. Proceedings of the sixth biannial meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Leipzig, Germany, July 1-5, 2012
  p. 2083 - 2090
  Volltext (URL)
• Groeneveld, J., Müller, B., Angermüller, F., Drees, R., Dreßler, G., Klassert, C., Schulze, J., Weise, H., Schwarz, N., (2012):
  Good modelling practice: expanding the ODD model description protocol for socioenvironmental agent based models
  In: Seppelt, R., Voinov, A.A., Lange, S., Bankamp, D., (eds.)
  Managing resources of a limited planet: pathways and visions under uncertainty. Proceedings of the sixth biannial meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Leipzig, Germany, July 1-5, 2012
  p. 2480 - 2484
  Volltext (URL)