Dr. Julian Rode

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

Julian Rode

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

since 2018

Deputy head of the Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Enviromental Research – UFZ

since 2011

Researcher, Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Enviromental Research – UFZ

2010 - 2012

Visiting Scholar, Social Innovation Center, INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France)

2010 - 2011

Research Associate, Department of Business Economics, Serra-Ramoneda Research Chair, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

07.2010

Research Fellow, Social Innovation Center, INSEAD (Fontainebleau)

2008 - 2009

Research Associate & Consultant, MEDIAN S.C.P (Barcelona)

2007 - 2008

Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Rationality, Decision making, and Economic Modeling (SFB 504), Universität Mannheim

2007

Ph.D. in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

2002

Diplom-Volkswirt (Master in Economics), Universität Bonn




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.