Dr. Heidi Wittmer

Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Working Group Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
Working Group Governance & Institutions
UFZ Science-Policy Expert Group

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

phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1629
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 45 1629

heidi.wittmer@ufz.de

Curriculum Vitae

since 2010

deputy head of the Department of Environmental Politics

since 2004

senior researcher at UFZ

2001 - 2003

post-doc researcher at UFZ

2000

consultancy for the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn

1999 - 2001

senior researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Göttingen

1995 - 1998

Ph D. in Socio-economics of rural development, University of Göttingen

1994

economist, Food and Agricultural Organisation, FAO, Rome

1990 - 1993

DAAD-long term lecturer Univ. of Tunja in Colombia

1983 - 1989

Agricultural Sciences: B.Sc. (1985 Univ. Gießen) M.Sc. (1989 TU-Berlin)

Current Projects

Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GoST)

Integrating multiple values of nature in environmental decisions and policy

EKLIPSE Mechanism – Developing a mechanims for supporting better decisions on our environment based on best available knowledge. WP 3 leader & Co-coordination, since 2016

Unlocking Forest Finance in Brazil/Peru, since 2013

Completed Projects

Enabling Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in Melanesia and Micronesia (Small Island States), since 2015

Ecosystem Services in Germany

ValuES − Methods for integrating ecosystem services into development practice

Scientific support for G7 Elmau Progress Report 2015 – Biodiversity, a vital foundation for sustainable development

Towards an EU Mechanism on Biodiversity Expertise – Tender contract for European Commission

Scoping Study on the Concept and Implementation of a National Ecosystem Assessment for Germany (NEA-DE)

BiodiversityKnowledge – Developing a network of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe (KNEU-project)

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

SPIRAL − Science Policy Interfaces: Research, Action, Learning

TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Nested Networks: Neue Formen der Governance der globalen Umweltforschung (NESNET)

GoverNat: Multi-level Governance of Natural Ressources: Tools and Processes for Water and Biodiversity Governance in Europe

PATH − Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology

Partizipative Entscheidungsprozesse

IBEFish: Interaction between Environment and Fisheries − a Challenge to Management

Das Millennium Ecosystem Assessment und seine Relevanz für Deutschland

FRAP − Development of a Procedural Framework for Action Plans to Reconcile Conflicts between Large Vertebrate Conservation and the Use of Biological Resources: Fisheries and Fish-eating Vertebrates as a Model Case

Strategies for the Resolution of Conflicts in Nature Conservation: Participation, Co-operation, and Negotiation

Umsetzung der Biodiversitätskonvention: Chancen und Probleme der Integration von Naturschutz und landwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in Guatemala: Eine politik- und institutionenökonomische Analyse

Memberships

since 2000

International Society for New Institutional Economics

since 1999

International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC)

since 1997

Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research

Workshops Organised

Governance of Natural Resources in a Multi-Level Context, final conference of the GoverNat project, 20.-22.1.2010, Leipzig, Germany
International Science-Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity Governance, international workshop, 2.-4.10.2006, UFZ Leipzig
New Strategies for Solving Environmental Conflicts: Potentials for Combining Participation and Multicriteria Analysis, Summersymposium, 26.-28.6.2002, UFZ Leipzig
EU INCO-DEV International Workshop: Policy Options for the Sustainable Use of Coral Reefs and Associated Ecosystems, 19.-22.6.2000, Mombasa, Kenya

Teaching Experiences

1990-98 a total of 25 lectures, seminars and workshops at universities, public administrations and non-governmental organisations covering: participatory methods in rural development, empirical social research, 'Farming Systems Development', agricultural economics and marketing, natural resource management
2000 'learning cabinet' for interdisciplinary communication between natural social and legal sciences

Publications

Hansjürgens, B., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Berghöfer, A., Wittmer, H., Moesenfechtel, U., (2018):
The value of nature for economy and society : a synthesis of Natural Capital Germany - TEEB DE
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, 130 pp.
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Hansjürgens, B., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Berghöfer, A., Wittmer, H., Moesenfechtel, U., (2018):
Werte der Natur aufzeigen und in Entscheidungen integrieren : eine Synthese. Naturkapital Deutschland – TEEB DE
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 134 S.
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Jax, K., Calestani, M., Chan, K.M.A., Eser, U., Keune, H., Muraca, B., O'Brien, L., Potthast, T., Voget-Kleschin, L., Wittmer, H., (2018):
Caring for nature matters: a relational approach for understanding nature’s contributions to human well-being
Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 35 , 22 - 29
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Tinch, R., Balian, E., Carss, D., de Blas, D.E., Geamana, N.A., Heink, U., Keune, H., Nesshöver, C., Niemelä, J., Sarkki, S., Thibon, M., Timaeus, J., Vadineanu, A., van den Hove, S., Watt, A., Waylen, K.A., Wittmer, H., Young, J.C., (2018):
Science-policy interfaces for biodiversity: dynamic learning environments for successful impact
Biodivers. Conserv. 27 (7), 1679 - 1702
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Albert, C., Neßhöver, C., Schröter, M., Wittmer, H., Bonn, A., Burkhard, B., Dauber, J., Döring, R., Füst, C., Grunewald, K., Haase, D., Hansjürgens, B., Hauck, J., Hinzmann, M., Koellner, T., Plieninger, T., Rabe, S.-E., Ring, I., Spangenberg, J.H., Stachow, U., Wüstemann, H., Görg, C., (2017):
Towards a National Ecosystem Assessment in Germany: a plea for a comprehensive approach
GAIA 26 (1), 27 - 33
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Berghöfer, A., Emerton, L., Moreno Diaz, A., Rode, J., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Wittmer, H., van Zyl, H., (2017):
Sustainable financing for biodiversity conservation – a review of experiences in German development cooperation
UFZ-Diskussionspapiere 1/2017
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 143 pp.
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Keune, H., Subramanian, S.M., Payyappallimana, U., Ahmad, S., Rahman, M.M., Azam, M.N., Sebesvari, Z., Spangenberg, J.H., Morand, S., Kretsch, C., Martens, P., Wittmer, H., (2017):
Biodiversity, ecosystems and human health: a complicated but important science policy challenge
In: Morand, S., Lajaunie, C., Satrawaha, R., (eds.)
Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia: Challenges in a changing environment
Earthscan Conservation and Development
CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, p. 250 - 280
Nesshöver, C., Assmuth, T., Irvine, K.N., Rusch, G.M., Waylen, K.A., Delbaere, B., Haase, D., Jones-Walters, L., Keune, H., Kovacs, E., Krauze, K., Külvik, M., Rey, F., van Dijk, J., Vistad, O.I., Wilkinson, M.E., Wittmer, H., (2017):
The science, policy and practice of nature-based solutions: An interdisciplinary perspective
Sci. Total Environ. 579 , 1215 - 1227
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Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Díaz, S., Pataki, G., Roth, E., Stenseke, M., Watson, R.T., Dessane, E.B., Islar, M., Kelemen, E., Maris, V., Quaas, M., Subramanian, S.M., Wittmer, H., Adlan, A., Ahn, S.E., Al-Hafedh, Y.S., Amankwah, E., Asah, S.T., Berry, P., Bilgin, A., Breslow, S.J., Bullock, C., Cáceres, D., Daly-Hassen, H., Figueroa, E., Golden, C.D., Gómez-Baggethun, E., González-Jiménez, D., Houdet, J., Keune, H., Kumar, R., Ma, K., May, P.H., Mead, A., O’Farrell, P., Pandit, R., Pengue, W., Pichis-Madruga, R., Popa, F., Preston, S., Pacheco-Balanza, D., Saarikoski, H., Strassburg, B.B., van den Belt, M., Verma, M., Wickson, F., Yagi, N., (2017):
Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach
Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 26–27 , 7 - 16
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Publications Dr. Heidi Wittmer: 2000 − 2016 (127.4 KB)