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Dr. Gunnar Dreßler
Contact
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Ecological Modelling
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany
Tel.: +49 341 235-1707
Fax: +49 341 235-451707
gunnar.dressler@ufz.de

Research Interests
- 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.
- Human decision making in agent-based models.
Journal Club "Human decisions in agent-based models of land use change" - Remote sensing and GIS.
Current Projects



Past Projects

Defended at University of Osnabrück, Institute of Environmental Systems Research on April 04, 2017.

Curriculum Vitae
04/2018 - 08/2018 | Research stay at Stockholm Resilience Center. |
since 04/2017 | POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change. |
02/2012 - 04/2017 | PhD student at the Department of Ecological Modeling, Junior Research Group POLISES & EU research project emBRACE |
10/2006 - 11/2011 | Diploma in Biomathematics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald Thesis: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Global Vegetation Patterns from Remotely Sensed Images in cooperation with Dr. Thomas Mueller, University of Maryland. |
02/2011 - 04/2011 | MSc researcher, University of Maryland, Bill Fagan Lab, Development and application of methods to quantify spatial and temporal vegetation dynamics from remote sensing images. |
2011 | Scholarship recipient of the UMD-SI Seed Grant: "How vegetation dynamics drive ungulate movements: Transforming single species studies to global comparisons". |
08/2010 - 09/2010 | Student assistant at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Development of an agent-based model to analyze the influence of mobility on the sustainability of a pastoral-nomadic system. |
08/2009 - 10/2009 | Internship student, University of Maryland, Bill Fagan Lab, Development of methods to compare resource dynamics in different ecosystems. |
Publications
2020 (2)
- Schwarz, N., Dressler, G., Frank, K., Jager, W., Janssen, M., Müller, B., Schlüter, M., Wijermans, N., Groeneveld, J., (2020):
Formalising theories of human decision-making for agent-based modelling of social-ecological systems: practical lessons learned and ways forward
Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling 2 , art. 16340
Volltext (DOI) - Ziv, G., Beckmann, M., Bullock, J., Cord, A., Delzeit, R., Domingo, C., Dreßler, G., Hagemann, N., Masó, J., Müller, B., Neteler, M., Sapundzhieva, A., Stoev, P., Stenning, J., Trajković, M., Václavík, T., (2020):
BESTMAP: behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy
Research Ideas and Outcomes 6 , e52052
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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. 40, Part B , art. 100710
Volltext (DOI) - 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
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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. - 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 (DOI) - 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
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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
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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 (DOI) - 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
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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
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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
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