Research Interests

• Science-policy-society interface
• Ecosystem services, biodiversity, and landscape ecology
• Land use conflicts and tradeoffs between ecosystem services
• Environmental and socio-economic aspects and their impacts on land use/cover management decisions at different scales
• Sustainability transformations
• Geographic information systems and remote sensing applied to environmental topics

Curriculum Vitae

Current Projects

EKLIPSE − Establishing a European Knowledge and Learning Mechanism to Improve the Policy-Science-Society Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Horizon 2020, 2016 − 2022)

Protection of global commons such as biodiversity, forests and oceans for sustainable development − Knowledge synthesis from international assessments and recommendations for international collaboration and development cooperation

Initiative "Green Value" − Comprehensive Valuation of the Natural Capital of African Protected Areas

Publications

Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K.E., Moreno Soares, T., Munoz, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021): Es geht um unsere Lebensgrundlage: Wie wir jetzt handeln können, um die globalen Gemeingüter Biodiversität, Wälder und Meere für eine lebenswerte Zukunft zu erhalten UFZ-Bericht 2/2021. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Leipzig.

Berghöfer, A., Bisom, N., Huland, E., Koch, V., Kruse, J., Locher-Krause, K., Philipp, M., Renner, I., Thibault, K., Thiel, M., Tröger, U., van Zyl, H. (2021): Africa’s protected natural assets. The importance of conservation areas for prosperous and resilient societies in Africa Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) GmbH, Leipzig, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, 153 pp.

Jampani, M., Amerasinghe, P., Liedl, R., Locher-Krause, K. and Hülsmann, S., 2020. Multi-functionality and land use dynamics in a peri-urban environment influenced by wastewater irrigation. Sustainable Cities and Society, 62, p.102305.

Caucci, S., Zhang, L., Locher-Krause, K. and Hülsmann, S., 2020. 6 Sustainable development as the ultimate target of adopting a nexus approach to resources management. Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches.

Locher Krause, K.E., 2020. Spatio-temporal landscape transformations in Southern Chile and its implications on ecosystem services supply and beneficiaries.

Meletiou, A., Grace, M., Darbi, M., Pham, M., Locher-Krause, K. and Rueff, H., 2019. EU renewable energy policies, global biodiversity, and the UN SDGs: a report of the EKLIPSE project.

Hülsmann, S., Mannschatz, T. and Locher-Krause, K.E., 2018. Nexus Tools Platform: facilitating the selection of suitable nexus tools.

Cord, A.F., Bartkowski, B., Beckmann, M., Dittrich, A., Hermans-Neumann, K., Kaim, A., Lienhoop, N., Locher-Krause, K., Priess, J., Schröter-Schlaack, C. and Schwarz, N., 2017. Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead. Ecosystem services, 28, pp.264-272.

Locher-Krause, K.E., Lautenbach, S. and Volk, M., 2017. Spatio-temporal change of ecosystem services as a key to understanding natural resource utilization in Southern Chile. Regional Environmental Change, 17(8), pp.2477-2493.

Locher-Krause, K.E., Volk, M., Waske, B., Thonfeld, F. and Lautenbach, S., 2017. Expanding temporal resolution in landscape transformations: Insights from a Landsat-based case study in Southern Chile. Ecological Indicators, 75, pp.132-144.