Christoph Schulze

Karten Das Umweltbundesamt (UBA) ist Deutschlands zentrale Umweltbehörde und forscht, berät und informiert zu zahlreichen Fragen des Umweltschutzes und zu Umwelt & Gesundheit.

Feinstaubbelastung in Deutschland

www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luft/l...

Fun outing with colleagues 🧗‍♂️

Last September, a team from @zalf.bsky.social won 2nd place at the ProWissen 10K team race in Potsdam. Last Sunday, we redeemed our prize and went bouldering. Super fun!
(with Juan Camilo Rivera-Palacio, @qrisschulze.bsky.social, Clara Rohde, and Johannes Schuler)

Spatial Coordination Incentives for landscape-scale environmental management: A systematic review Conventional agri-environmental schemes (AES) have been criticized for failing to exploit conservation synergies that could be obtained from spatial c…

Also, not sure whether this goes in this direction, but maybe this literature review helps:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Transaction costs, communication and spatial coordination in Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes Agricultural producer participation and spatial coordination of land use decisions are key components for enhancing the effective delivery of ecosyste…

The only one I found was that one, but you are probably aware of that already:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unfortunately, no. I had the very same discussion with a colleague just yesterday. TC, in general, appears to be some sort of black box, as there is very little empirical evidence on that. If you find something, please let me know.

This paper reflects on the replication study conducted two years ago: Farmers' risk preferences in 11 European farming systems: A multi-country replication of Bocquého et al. (2014)

Abstract of the paper: Multi-country perspectives on best practices and barriers to preference elicitation lab-in-the-field experiments with farmers. In this study, we define, categorize, and systematically describe best practices and barriers to implementing preference elicitation lab-in-the-field experiments with farmers based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with researchers from the Research Network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy (REECAP). Following an assessment of the challenges the researchers faced and the solutions they adopted, we provide a step-by-step guide to conducting such experiments. We elaborate on limitations and provide recommendations and suggestions for future research.

New paper on the lessons learned from conducting lab-in-the-field experiments with European farmers.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Reposting a paper found on X (thanks Christoph - @crokochris.bsky.social) about organic adoption worldwide

academic.oup.com/erae/advance...

#agriecon

www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles...

Wanna advance research frontiers on the economic valuation of complex, unfamiliar environmental public goods? Here's an opportunity😉⬇️

Our working group Governance of Ecosystem Services is looking for a PhD researcher (f/m/d) specializing in policy instrument design for Climate Change mitigation in agriculture.

The thematic focus is on peatlands and paludiculture.

More details in the link 🔽

jobs.zalf.de/jobposting/0...

Conference Landscape 2024 Agroecosystems in Transformation: Visions, Technologies and Actors 17 - 19 September 2024 Berlin, Germany landscape2024.org

Keynotes // Scientific sessions // Poster sessions // and more! Rationale and Aims The LANDSCAPE 2024 conference will bring together international experts to discuss the transformation of agroecosystems. The conference will address the importance of visions for the future of agricultural landscapes as well as the roles of innovative technologies and actors in driving sustainable changes in these landscapes. Focusing on the landscape level, the conference provides a unique opportunity for researchers from various domains to share their knowledge and experiences and contribute to the transformation of agroecosystems. LANDSCAPE 2024 invites scientific contributions from multiple disciplines relevant to agricultural landscapes and agroecosystems, including crop and soil sciences, ecology, land systems sciences and bio- and digital technology-associated sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Join #Landscape2024! International scientific #conference on the #transformation of #agriculture and agricultural landscapes. 🦋🌱🚜
Early-bird tickets are available until 16 June! 🐦
👉https://landscape2024.org

Sonnenbaden

War echt witzig. Bin nach Hause gefahren und hab bis zum Absteigen nix von der Glätte mitbekommen.

Spikes on bike tires

Vorgesorgt 😉

📣 Out now 📣 in the January 2024 issue of @jaereaere.bsky.social:

"Input Efficiency as a Solution to Externalities and Resource Scarcity: A Randomized Controlled Trial" by Francisco Alpizar, María Bernedo Del Carpio, and Paul J Ferraro

Read it *for free*:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

View on mountainbike

Bog forest

Mossy stairway in the forest

Tree with hiking sign

Bayern - gar nicht mal so übel 😉

This article highlights some ways in which scholarly work in environmental and natural resource economics may be affected by, and may unintentionally further, racial inequity. 📉📈 #EnvEcon
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Open access book from PLAAS (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian studies):

Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

plaas.org.za/agrarian-sch...

Lots of pretty cool PhD positions at the University of Leipzig within the DFG-funded Research Training Group ECO-N, including two (co-)supervised by me.

Job ad: www.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/ul...

ECO-N website: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/economics...

Has your research influenced policy? Use this free tool to check Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited. Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers ...

This is an excellent tool. I generally keep track of where my research is cited in policy, but I found a lot more citations through this tool that I wasn't aware of! #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The database is available in the supplementary material and likely helpful for future studies, such as meta-analyses etc.

Lastly, we highlight which fields might be saturated, while also highlighting gaps in the literature. We conclude that DCE are very helpful, but should be triangulated with other experimental and non-experimental methods for agri-environmental policy design.

Type 3 combinations of contract design features and land use prescriptions

Analysed combinations of contract design features

Moreover, we identify 3 ideal types of DCE studies with farmers: 1) primary focus: land use prescription 2) building on land use prescription, but focusing on contract design 3) combining preference analysis of land use prescriptions and contract design features.

Classification of DCE studies with farmers.

Analysis of land use prescriptions

Analysis of contract design features

Going through the literature, we structured the empirical studies into two groups: 1) studies analysing land use prescriptions, and 2) studies analysing precise contract design features.

Based on this classification, we analyse and compare the findings of respective subcategories.

Flow chart depicting the literature search process.

Map of case study of our systematic review

In this paper, we systematically review the empirical peer-reviewed literature focusing on agri-environmental contract design by using Discrete Choice Experiments. Following a systematic protocol, we reviewed 127 studies.

Screenshot of the article "Using farmers' ex ante preferences to design agri-environmental contracts: A systematic review"

First chapter of my #PhD published 🥳

Thanks to the co-author team from ZALF and Uni Warsaw. Also very grateful to two amazing anonymous reviewers and the editors of the Journal who put a lot of work into this as well.

doi.org/10.1111/1477...

#OpenAccess
#agecon
#envecon

Klimaretter Moor - Landwirte brauchen neue Erntemaschinen (Länderreport)

Hörenswerter Beitrag über Chancen und Herausforderungen bei der Wiedervernässung von Mooren - erklärt am Beispiel meiner Heimatstadt Greifswald. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/klimaretter-...

Moreover, combining the quantitative and qualitative information, we developed 3 ideal types of food labels that might inform future policies, such as the sustainable food labelling framework, the green claims directive or other legislative initiatives that run under the farm-to-fork strategy.

Picture of the Q-grid applied in this study

By applying Q-methodology, we were able to identify 5 common viewpoints among the spectrum of 43 individual interviews.