Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics (Deputy head of department, leader of department working group on "Behaviour and Policy Instruments")
Working Group Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1479

julian.rode@ufz.de

Personal webpage

Research interest

• Environmental values, motivations, and behaviour
• Finance and policy instruments for biodiversity and sustainable land use
• Sustainability transformations
• Sustainability and ethics in business decisions
• Ecological economics
  

Curriculum Vitae

Current projects

Implementation and Financing of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) by the Food and Agriculture Sector to reduce climate risk and environmental impacts in Latin America

Deutschland wieder Otterland

The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) for biodiversity conservation behaviour and policy

The role of motivation crowding for biodiversity conservation policy

Completed projects

Protection of global commons such as biodiversity, forests and oceans for sustainable development − Knowledge synthesis from international assessments and recommendations for international collaboration and development cooperation

Trees on Farms

TONINA − Ecosystem services in regional planning in the Orinoquia, Colombia

INTERACT-Bio: Integrated Action on Biodiversity

Integrating multiple values of nature in environmental decisions and policy

Unlocking Forest Finance in Brazil/Peru

ValuES − Methods for integrating ecosystem services into development practice

Enhancing the Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Thailand/South-East Asia (ECO-BEST)

Supporting CBD National Implementation from a TEEB perspective

Publications

Selected Publications (last 5 years):

Martin, A., P. Balvanera, C. M. Raymond, E. Gómez-Baggethun, U. Eser, R. K. Gould, L. Guibrunet, Z. V. Harmáčková, A. I. Horcea-Milcu, A.-K. Koessler, R. Kumar, D. Lenzi, J. Merçon, A. Nthenge, P. J. O'Farrell, U. Pascual, J. Rode, Y. Yoshida, and N. Zafra-Calvo. 2024. Sustainability-aligned values: exploring the concept, evidence, and practice. Ecology and Society 29(4):18. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss4/art18

Rode, J., Moreno Soares, T., Colléony, A., Turbe, A., Chadwick, P., Marselle, M., (2024), National biodiversity strategies under-utilize the potential for individual behaviour change, Environmental Science & Policy 16, 103916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103916

Nilgen, M., Rode, J., Vorläufer, T., Vollan, B. (2024), Measuring non-use values to proxy conservation preferences and policy impacts, Ecosystem Services 67, 101621.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101621

Gammage, S., Rode, J., Lesmes, F. (2023), Expanding Pathways for Green Finance to Support Regenerative Agriculture in Latin America, in Falcone P., Sica, E. (Eds.) "Sustainable Finance and the Global Health Crisis”, Routledge, eBook ISBN 9781003284703, DOI: 10.4324/9781003284703-13.

Baaken, M., Bartkowski, B., Rode, J. (2023), Exploring farmers' support needs for the adoption of agri-environmental practices: an application of the Theoretical Domains Framework, Environmental Research Communications 5 (11), 111004. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad03b0

Gould, R., Moreno Soares, T., Arias-Arévalo, P., Cantú-Fernandez, M., Baker, D., Eyster, H., Kwon, R., Prox, L., Rode, J., Suarez, A., Vatn, A., Zúñiga-Barragán, J. (2023), The role of value(s) in theories of human behaviour, Current Opinions in Sustainability 64, 101355, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101355

Horcea-Milcu, A., Kössler, A., Martin, A., Moreno Soares, T., Rode, J., (2023), Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformations, Current Opinions in Sustainability 64, 101357, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101357

Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Christie, M., Baptiste, B., ... Rode, J., et al. (2023), Diverse values of nature for sustainability, Nature 620, 813-823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9

Rode, J., Muñoz Escobar, M., Khan, S., Borasino, E., Kihumuro, P., Okia, C., Robiglio, V., Zinngrebe, Y., (2023), Providing targeted incentives for trees on farms: A transdisciplinary research methodology applied in Uganda and Peru, Earth System Governance 16, 100172, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100172

Berghöfer, U., Rode, J., Jax, K., Förster, J., Berghöfer, A., Wittmer, H. (2022), ‘Societal Relationships with Nature’: A framework for understanding nature-related conflicts and multiple values, People and Nature, DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10305

Rode, J. (2022), When payments for ecosystem conservation stop, Nature Sustainability 5, 15-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00812-5

Rode, J., Flinzberger, L., Karutz, R., Berghöfer, A., Schröter-Schlaack, C. (2021), Why so negative? Exploring the socio-economic impacts of large carnivores from a European perspective, Biological Conservation 255, 108918.

Rode, J., Heinz, N., Cornelissen, G., Le Menestrel, M. (2021), How to encourage business professionals to adopt sustainable practices? Experimental evidence that the 'business case' discourse can backfire, Journal of Cleaner Production 283, 124618.

Schröter, M., Crouzat, E., Hölting, L., Massenberg, J., Rode, J., Hanisch, M., Kabisch, N., Palliwoda, J., Priess, J., Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M. (2020), Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: increasing transparency for conservation, Ambio 50, 289–300.

Rode, J., Pinzon, A., Stabile, M., Pirker, J., Bauch, S., Iribarrem, A., Sammon, P., Llerena, C., Muniz Alves, L., Orihuela, C., Wittmer, H. (2019), Why ‘blended finance’ could help transitions to sustainable landscapes: Lessons from the Unlocking Forest Finance project, Ecosystem Services 37, 100917.