Former Team Members
Dipl.-Lök. Jenny Schmidt
PhD candidate
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Working group Nature Conservation & Biodiversity
Working group Landscape Ecology / Ecological Planning, University of Muenster
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Research Interests
- Green infrastructure, biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, environmental planning
- Land-use conflicts and participatory methods
- European and German environmental and agricultural politics
- Science communication, transfer and ethics
Curriculum Vitae
since 2013
PhD candidate, Department of Environmental Politics, UFZ
2008 - 2012
Arvato direct services GmbH, Muenster, customer service, coaching and quality management
2003 - 2004,
2005 - 2006
Research in South Africa
2000 - 2012
Studies of landscape ecology, political science and social geography at the University of Muenster
Project
European Conservation for the 21st century (BiodivERsA): WP 6: Socio-political scenarios for the local implementation of landscape conservation
In our sub-project „Green Infrastructure – creating habitats with agriculture“ we studied implementation options of the EU-strategy for Green Infrastructure. We cooperated with local land-users and regional stakeholders and conducted a policy analysis.
Brochure in German: Mit Landwirtschaft Lebensräume schaffen. Ergebnisse aus der UFZ-Umweltforschung in Sachsen-Anhalt (4 MB)
Publications
Pe’er, G.; Zinngrebe, Y.; Hauck, J.; Schindler, S.; Dittrich, A.; Zingg, S.; Tscharntke, T.; Oppermann, R.; Sutcliffe, S.; Sirami, C.; Schmidt, J.; Hoyer, C.; Schleyer, C & Lakner, S. (2016): Adding some green to the greening: improving the EU’s Ecological Focus Areas for biodiversity and farmers. Conservation Letters, doi: 10.1111/conl.12333.
Pe’er, G.; Dicks, L.V.; Visconti, P.; Arlettaz, R.; Baldi, A.; Benton, T.G.; Dieterich, M.; Gregory, R.D.; Hartig, F.; Henle, K.; Hobson, P.R.; Ibisch, P.L.; Kleijn, D.; Neumann, R.K.; Robeijns, T.; Schmidt, J.; Shwartz, A.; Sutherland, W.J.; Turbe, A.; Wulf F. & Scott, A.V. (2014): EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity. Science 344 (6188), 1090-1092.
Hauck, J.; Schweppe-Kraft, B.; Albert, C.; Görg, C.; Jax, K.; Jensen, R.; Fürst, C.; Maes, J.; Ring, I.; Hönigová, I.; Burkhard, B.; Mehring, M.; Tiefenbach, M.; Grunewald, K.; Schwarzer, M.; Meurer, J.; Sommerhäuser, M.; Priess, J.A.; Schmidt, J. & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2013): The Promise of the Ecosystem Services Concept for Planning and Decision-Making. GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 22 (4), 232-236.
Schmidt, J.A. & Buttschardt, T.K. (2011): Addressing the information needs of small-scale rooibos farmers in rural South Africa can help to combat desertification and improve livelihoods. In: Runge, J. & Becker, E. (Ed.): Afrika 2010 – Natürliche Ressourcen und nachhaltige (?) Entwicklung. Jahrestagung der Afrikagruppe deutscher Geowissenschaftler (AdG) 2010 in Frankfurt. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, 1, 2009 (1/2), 39-52.