Dr. Yves Zinngrebe

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Scientific interest

Dr. Yves Zinngrebe investigates steering options for a sustainable human interaction with biodiversity and nature. He has a special interest for transformative governance and integrative policy making.

In his work he has analysed biodiversity governance in Peru, and has worked on governance options for "Trees on Farms" in Peru, Honduras, Uganda, Rwanda and Indonesia. The DEFORESG project traces changes in land-use dynamics in the Amazon biome to changes in related governance systems. Another focus is the analysis of impacts of the EU Common agricultural policy. His special interest is the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its national implementation. In this regard, Yves Zinngrebe has been leading the scientific projects supporting the updating process of the German National Biodiversity Strategy for three years. Currently he is coordinating the EU Horizon project "REinforcing Science-Policy INterfaces for integrated biodiversity and climate knowledge and policies" (RESPIN) related to the work of the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiersity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).He is further co-leading the Earth System Governance Task Force on Governance of Nature and Biodiversity and has been a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the global IPBES report on transformative change.

Projects and Cooperations

RESPIN: REinforcing Science-Policy INterfaces for integrated biodiversity and climate knowledge and policies

Partner: belspo, FRB, CER Hungary, SYKE, CREAF, CoKnow, Humboldt Institute, PENSOFT, University of Lubumbashi, UNEP-WCMC, Institut für Biodiversität -Netzwerk e.V.
Period: 2024-2027

NBS Post-2020: Konsultationsprozess zur Weiterentwicklung der Nationalen Biodiversitätsstrategie (NBS)
Partner: Institut für Biodiversität -Netzwerk e.V.
Period: 2020-2023

NEFO- Netzwerk-Forum zur Biodiversitätsforschung in Deutschland: Wie weiter mit den Zielen zum Schutz der Biologischen Vielfalt?
Partner: Hochschule Geisenheim, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Laufzeit: 2021-2022

DeForESG - Deforestation explained by social-ecological dynamics and governance shifts
Partner: iDiv
Laufzeit: 2021-2024

Trees on Farms for Biodiversity
Partner: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), IUCN, CIFOR, Leibnitz Universität Hannover, CATIE
Period: 2018 - 2021

Innovaland - Integrated processes to support innovative, sustainable land-use concepts in social-ecological systems
Partner: UFZ, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Co-Know, Hochschule Trier, Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (IZT), Universität Leipzig

Period: 2017 - 2018

Selected publications

IPBES (2024). Summary for Policymakers of the Thematic Assessment Report on the Underlying Causes of Biodiversity Loss and the Determinants of Transformative Change and Options for Achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. O’Brien, K., Garibaldi, L., Agrawal, A., Bennett, E., Biggs, O., Calderón Contreras, R., Carr, E., Frantzeskaki, N., Gosnell, H., Gurung, J., Lambertucci, S., Leventon, J., Liao, C., Reyes García, V., Shannon, L., Villasante, S., Wickson, F., Zinngrebe, Y., and Perianin, L. (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11382230

Zinngrebe, Y., Berger, J., Bunn, C., Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Graßnick, N., Kastner, T., Pe’er, G., Schleyer, C. and Lakner, S., 2024. Prioritizing partners and products for the sustainability of the EU’s agri-food trade. One Earth, 7(4), pp.674-686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.002

Runhaar, H., Pröbstl, F., Heim, F., Santos, E.C., Claudet, J., Dik, L., de Queiroz-Stein, G., Zolyomi, A. and Zinngrebe, Y., 2024. Mainstreaming biodiversity targets into sectoral policies and plans: A review from a Biodiversity Policy Integration perspective. Earth System Governance, 20, p.100209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100209

Zinngrebe, Y., Borasino, E., Chiputwa, B., Dobie, P., Garcia, E., Gassner, A., Kihumuro, P., Komarudin, H., Liswanti, N., Makui, P. and Plieninger, T., 2020. Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors. Sustainability Science, 15(5), pp.1417-1434.

Pe'Er, G., Zinngrebe, Y., Moreira, F., Sirami, C., Schindler, S., Müller, R., Bontzorlos, V., Clough, D., Bezák, P., Bonn, A., Hansjürgens, B., Lomba, A., Möckel, S. Passoni, G., Schleyer, C., Schmidt, J., & Lakner, S. (2019). A greener path for the EU Common Agricultural Policy. Science, 365(6452), 449-451.

Rodríguez, L. O., Cisneros, E., Pequeño, T., Fuentes, M. T., & Zinngrebe, Y. (2018). Building Adaptive Capacity in Changing Social-Ecological Systems: Integrating Knowledge in Communal Land-Use Planning in the Peruvian Amazon. Sustainability, 10(2), 511.

Zinngrebe, Y. M. (2016). Conservation narratives in Peru: envisioning biodiversity in sustainable development. Ecology and Society, 21(2).