Tobias Plieninger - Biography#

Tobias Plieninger is Professor in Social-Ecological Interactions at the University of Göttingen and the University of Kassel (Germany) and currently Dean of Research at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel. He is a sustainability scientist with a commitment to inter- and transdisciplinary research at the social-ecological interface. In particular, he studies rural landscape change, ecosystem services, and sustainability transformations. His research focuses on the complex relationships between agriculture, forestry, nature conservation, and other sectors of natural resource management. He received a PhD in Forest and Environmental Sciences in 2004 (University of Freiburg). Before he held positions at the University of Copenhagen and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is Lead Author in the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and Associate Editor of “Landscape and Urban Planning”, “People and Nature”, and “Sustainability Science”. Plieninger is co-editor of three academic books: “The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship“ (Cambridge University Press), “European Wood-Pastures in Transition“ (Routledge), and “Resilience and the Cultural Landscape“ (Cambridge University Press). In 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 he was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate/Web of Science.

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