Research Focus

• Governance research on sustainable land use and climate change adaptation and mitigation, particularly concerning sustainable agriculture and forestry systems
• European und national environmental, agricultural, waste and circular economy law, i.e. nature conservation, soil, forest, water and fertiliser law, Common Agricultural Policy
• International environmental policy and human rights

Curriculum Vitae

Current Research Projects

SOILPROM (Modelling pollutant transport across the soil-water-atmosphere continuum, and impacts on ecosystem services)

Lectures

Sustainable Landscape Development, Institute of Geography, University of Halle

Publications

Stubenrauch, J., Markus, T. (2026): Pursuing Global Conservation Objectives Unilaterally: Lessons from the EU Deforestation Regulation on Designing Measures that Respect the Interests of Third Countries. Transnational Environmental Law, 1–27, Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102526100363.

SERE Legal Working Group (2026): What does the EU Nature Restoration Regulation mean for forestry? Policy brief series 2, Stubenrauch, J. et al, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19498720

Stubenrauch, J., Heyl, K. (2026): Plastic pollution of soils – assessing EU policies to address a poorly regulated field, Environmental Science Europe 38, 40, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-025-01317-0

Kreuer, D., Stubenrauch, J., Bortic, F., Schwarzer, D., Berghöfer, A., & Wittmer, H. (2025). From crisis to transformation: Exploring pathways for German forest policy. People and Nature, 7, 3344–3356. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70200

Heyl, K., Garske, B., Stubenrauch, J., Ehlers, K. (2025): Turning the EU’s agricultural vision into environmental action: A performance-oriented CAP after 2027, AMBIO, doi: 10.1007/s13280-025-02281-y

Selected Further Engagement

• Panel member at the conference ‘Weltrettung per Gerichtsbeschluss?’ (Saving the world by court decisions) on the topic: What can the environmental legislation contribution to saving the planet?), with Prof. Dr. Thomas Groß, Prof. Dr. Remo Klinger, 15 November 2024 (online).
• Interview on Deutschlandfunk on the occasion of Forest Day, 21 March 2024.
• Co-moderation of the PFAS Innovation Forum at the UFZ and chairing of the session ‘PFAS - inform, communicate and regulate’, Leipzig, 4 March 2024.
• Panel member of the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform webinar “Nutrients in EU Green Deal policies: from Objectives to Actions”; Brussels, Belgium, 27.11.2020.
• Organisation and panel member of the online conference “Never let a good crisis go to waste. How can the international economy be transformed in a social-ecological way now?”; Evangelische Akademie Bad-Boll, Germany, 20.-22.11.2020.
• Conducting the workshop “Agriculture, Pesticides and Food Safety”, online conference: A more equitable approach to international economic relations. The EU-Mercosur trade agreement in the spotlight (in German), Evangelische Akademie Bad-Boll, Germany, 07.11.2020.
• Moderation of the workshop “Potentials and perspectives of agricultural self-sufficiency”; Congress Future for all. just. ecological. Feasible, Leipzig, Germany ,28.08.2020.
• Moderation of the panel discussion “Climate, Social Justice and Limits to Growth”; Public Private School von Fridays for Future, University of Halle, Germany, 26.11.2019.
• Lecture “Sustainable agriculture - measures for an effective agricultural transition”; Forum of the Leipzig Food Policy Council: After the election - agricultural transition in Saxony, Leipzig, Germany, 12.10.2019.
• Moderation of the workshop “Better understanding and communicating economic instruments for climate protection”, In dialogue: Climate protection and market economy" “; Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS), Berlin, Germany, 25.10.2018.