Dr. Bartosz Bartkowski
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Economics
Working Group Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
Working Group Behaviour
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 482402
bartosz.bartkowski@ufz.de
https://www.bartoszbartk.com

Research interests
- Economic analysis of agri-environmental policy (esp. soil management)
- Farmers' behaviour
- Biodiversity & ecosystem services
- Agent-based modelling
- Economic nonmarket valuation, esp. deliberative monetary valuation
- Agriculture & technology
Curriculum Vitae
since 2022
Head (jointly with Andrea Kaim) of the junior research group AgriScape at the Department of Economics, UFZ
2017-2022
Teaching assignment in Conservation Economics at the Hochschule Anhalt
since 2016
Postdoctoral scientist at Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2013–2016
PhD student, Helmholtz Research School ESCALATE, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, “Economic valuation of biodiversity: Developing a conceptual framework” (Doctorate at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
2011–2013
Master student, Economics, focus: Sustainability Economics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Master thesis: „Problems of Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services: The Case of the Yasuní Rainforest”)
2007–2010
Student, Bachelor's degree, Intercultural Studies (Europe and America) and Economics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Current Projects
- AgriScape – Zielkonflikte auf dem Weg zu multifunktionalen Agrarlandschaften (Trade-offs in pathways towards multifunctional agricultural landscapes) (co-lead)
- BIOcean5D – Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Prediction Across Spatial, Temporal and Human Scales
- Faktencheck Artenvielfalt (German Biodiversity Assessment) (chapter on soil biodiversity)
- BonaRes Centre for Soil Research
- AGRI-TRANSFORM – Leverage Points for the Transformation to an Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture (coordinator)
- The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) for biodiversity conservation behaviour and policy
- CAP4GI – Leverages and potentials in the Common Agricultural Policy for improved support of Green Infrastructure, biodiversity and ecosystem services
Recent publications
2023 (3)
- Bartkowski, B., Schepanski, K., Bredenbeck, S., Müller, B. (2023):
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics
People Nat. 5 (1), 34 - 44
full text (doi) - Paul, C., Bartkowski, B., Dönmez, C., Don, A., Mayer, S., Steffens, M., Weigl, S., Wiesmeier, M., Wolf, A., Helming, K. (2023):
Carbon farming: Are soil carbon certificates a suitable tool for climate change mitigation?
J. Environ. Manage. 330 , art. 117142
full text (doi) - Wanek, E., Bartkowski, B., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Schaafsma, M. (2023):
Deliberately vague or vaguely deliberative: A review of motivation and design choices in deliberative monetary valuation studies
Ecol. Econ. 208 , art. 107820
full text (doi)
2022 (8)
- Bartkowski, B., Massenberg, J.R. (2022):
The economics of soils’ contribution to human well-being
Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, Second Edition
Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
Elsevier, Amsterdam,
full text (doi) - Bartkowski, B., Massenberg, J.R., Lienhoop, N. (2022):
Between complexity and unfamiliarity: preferences for soil-based ecosystem services
UFZ discussion papers 3/2022
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 27 pp. - Bartkowski, B., Massenberg, J.R., Lienhoop, N. (2022):
Investigating preferences for soil-based ecosystem services
Q Open 2 (2), qoac035
full text (doi) - Bartkowski, B., Massenberg, J.R., Lienhoop, N. (2022):
Data on public preferences for soil-based ecosystem services in Germany
Data Brief 43 , art. 108371
full text (doi) - Bartkowski, B., Schüßler, C., Müller, B. (2022):
Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps
Reg. Envir. Chang. 22 (2), art. 43
full text (doi) - Finger, R., Droste, N., Bartkowski, B., Ang, F. (2022):
A note on performance indicators for agricultural economic journals
J. Agric. Econ. 73 (2), 614 - 620
full text (doi) - Möckel, S., Baaken, M., Bartkowski, B., Henn, E.V., Strauch, M., Stubenrauch, J. (2022):
Zukunftsfähige Agrarlandschaften in Deutschland – Ziele und Anforderungen aus ökologischer, ökonomischer und rechtlicher Sicht
Nat. Recht 44 (9), 611 - 621
full text (doi) - Thonicke, K., Rahner, E., Arneth, A., Bartkowski, B., Bonn, A., Döhler, C., Finger, R., Freitag, J., Grosch, R., Grossart, H.-P., Grützmacher, K., Hartman Scholz, A., Häuser, C., Hickler, T., Hölker, F., Jähnig, S.C., Jeschke, J., Kassen, R., Kastner, T., Kramer-Schadt, S., Krug, C., Lakner, S., Loft, L., Matzdorf, B., Meakins, F., De Meester, L., Monaghan, M.T., Müller, D., Overmann, J., Quaas, M., Radchuk, V., Reyer, C., Roos, C., Scholz, I., Schroer, S., Sioen, G.B., Sommer, S., Sommerwerk, N., Tockner, K., Turk, Z., Warner, B., Wätzold, F., Wende, W., Veenstra, T., van der Voort, H. (2022):
10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2022. Zenodo. Version 1
CERN, Genève, 60 pp.
full text (doi)
2021 (5)
- Bartkowski, B. (2021):
Don’t throw efficiency out with the bathwater: A reply to Jeffery and Verheijen (2020)
Environ. Sci. Policy 122 , 72 - 74
full text (doi) - Bartkowski, B., Bartke, S., Hagemann, N., Hansjürgens, B., Schröter-Schlaack, C. (2021):
Application of the governance disruptions framework to German agricultural soil policy
Soil 7 (2), 495 - 509
full text (doi) - Bartkowski, B., Droste, N., Ließ, M., Sidemo-Holm, W., Weller, U., Brady, M.V. (2021):
Payments by modelled results: A novel design for agri-environmental schemes
Land Use Pol. 102 , art. 105230
full text (doi) - Gütschow, M., Bartkowski, B., Felipe-Lucia, M.R. (2021):
Farmers’ action space to adopt sustainable practices: a study of arable farming in Saxony
Reg. Envir. Chang. 21 (4), art. 103
full text (doi) - Kaim, A., Bartkowski, B., Lienhoop, N., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Volk, M., Strauch, M. (2021):
Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation
Ecol. Soc. 26 (1), art. 9
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Full publication list: see CV link above
Awards
2020
Invitation to participate at 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences
2017
Kurt Rothschild Prize for Economic Journalism as co-author of Exploring Economics