Results

Scientific Publications:

• Schomers, S., Sattler, C., Matzdorf, B., (2015). An analytical framework for assessing the potential of intermediaries to improve the performance of payments for ecosystem services. Land Use Policy 42, 58-70.
• Matzdorf, B., Meyer, C. (2014) The relevance of the ecosystem services framework for developed countries' environmental policies: A comparative case study of the US and EU. Land Use Policy 38, 509-521.
• Matzdorf, B., Reutter, M. (2014) Leistungen des Grünlandes - eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kon-zept der Ökosystemleistungen im Bereich der Landwirtschaft. In: Schröter-Schlaack, C., Wittmer, H., Mewes, M., Schniewind, I. (Hrsg.) Der Nutzen von Ökonomie und Ökosystemleistungen für die Natur-schutzpraxis: Workshop IV Landwirtschaft. Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn, 45-60.
• Meyer C., Matzdorf B., Müller K. & Schleyer C. (2014): Cross Compliance as payment for public goods? Understanding EU and US agricultural policies. Ecological Economics 107, 185-194.
• Nicolaus, K., Jetzkowitz, J. (2014). How Does Paying for Ecosystem Services Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence from Case Study Research in Germany and the UK. Sustainability 6, 5, 3019-3042.
• Rewitzer, S., Matzdorf, B., Trampnau, S. (2014) Das Konzept der Ökosystemleistungen aus Sicht der deutschen Umweltverbände. Natur und Landschaft 89, 2, 61-65.
• Jax, K., Barton, D. N., Chan, K. M. A., de Groot, R., Doyle, U., Eser, U., Görg, C., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Griewald, Y., Haber, W., Haines-Young, R., Heink, U., Jahn, T., Joosten, H., Kerschbaumer, L., Korn, H., Luck, G. W., Matzdorf, B., Muraca, B., Neßhöver, C., Norton, B., Ott, K., Potschin, M., Rauschmayer, F., Haaren, C. v., Wichmann, S. (2013) Ecosystem services and ethics. Ecological Economics 93, 260-268.
• Matzdorf, B., Sattler, C., Engel, S. (2013) Institutional frameworks and governance structures of PES schemes. Forest Policy and Economics 37, Complete, 57-64.
• Osano, P. M., Said, M. Y., de Leeuw, J., Moiko, S. M., ole Kaelo, D., Schomers, S., Birner, R., Ogutu, J. O. (2013) Pastoralism and ecosystem-based adaptation in Kenyan Masailand. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 5, 2, 198-214.
• Osano, P. M., Said, M. Y., de Leeuw, J., Ndiwa, N., Dickson, K., Schomers, S., Birner, R., Ogutu, J. O. (2013) Why keep lions instead of livestock? Assessing wildlife tourism-based payment for ecosystem services involving herders in the Maasai Mara, Kenya. Natural Resources Forum 37, 4, 242-256.
• Reutter, M., Matzdorf, B. (2013) Leistungen artenreichen Grünlandes. In: Grunewald, K, Bastian, O (Hrsg.) Ökosystemdienstleistungen: Konzept, Methoden und Fallbeispiele. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, 216-224.
• Sattler, C., Aguilar-González, B., Schmitt F., A. L. (2013) Latin American link-up: Towards successful and sustainable environmental management. International Innovation: Environment, 118, 11-13.
• Sattler, C., Matzdorf, B. (2013) PES in a nutshell: From definitions and origins to PES in practice - Approaches, design process and innovative aspects. Ecosystem Services 6, 2-11.
• Sattler C., Trampnau S., Schomers S., Meyer C., Matzdorf B. (2013) Multi-classification of payments for ecosystem services: How do classification characteristics relate to overall PES success? Ecosystem Services 6, 31-45
• Schomers, S., Matzdorf, B. (2013) Payments for ecosystem services: A review and comparison of developing and industrialized countries. Ecosystem Services 6, 16-30.
• Schuler, J., Sattler, C., Helmecke, A., Zander, P., Uthes, S., Bachinger, J., Stein-Bachinger, K. (2013) The economic efficiency of conservation measures for amphibians in organic farming: results from bio-economic modelling. Journal of Environmental Management 114, 404-413. 59
• Uthes, S., Matzdorf, B. (2013) Studies on agri-environmental measures: a survey of the literature. Environmental Management 51, 251-266.
• Feola, G., Sattler, C., Saysel, A. K. (2012) Simulation models in farming systems research: potential and challenges. In: Farming Systems Research into the 21st century: The new dynamic. Springer Netherlands, 281-306.
• Luck, G.W., Kai, M.A.C., Eser, U., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Matzdorf, B., Norton, B., Potschin, M.B. (2012) Ethical Considerations in On-Ground Applications of the Ecosystem Services Concept. BioSci-ence 62, 12, 1020-1029.
• Meyer C. & Thiel A. (2012): Institutional change in water management collaboration: implementing the European Water Framework Directive in the German Odra river basin. Water Policy 14 (4), 625-646.
• Jetzkowitz, J. (2011): Ökosystemdienstleistungen in soziologischer Perspektive. In: Groß, M. (Hrsg.) Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden, 303-324.
• Nicolaus, K. (2011) Die Gestaltung von Payments for Ecosystem Services aus dem Blickwinkel der Theorie deliberativer Demokratie. In Faber, F., Jay, M, Reinecke, S., Westermayer, T. (Hrsg.): Ent-scheidungen mit Umweltfolgen zwischen Freiheit und Zwang. Tagungsband der 7. Tagung der Nach-wuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie (NGU). Universität Freiburg, 45-54.
• Sattler, C., Stachow, U., Berger, G. (2012) Expert knowledge-based assessment of farming practices for different biotic indicators using fuzzy logic. Journal of Environmental Management 95, 1, 132-143.
• Uthes, S., Piorr, A., Zander, P., Bienkowski, J., Ungaro, F., Dalgaard, T., Stolze, M., Moschitz, H., Scha-der, C., Happe, K., Sahrbacher, A., Damgaard, M., Toussaint, V., Sattler, C., Reinhardt, F.-J., Kjeldsen, C., Casini, L., Müller, K. (2011) Regional impacts of abolishing direct payments: an integrated analysis in four European regions. Agricultural Systems 104, 2, 110-121.
• Matzdorf, B., Lorenz, J. (2010) How cost-effective are result-oriented agri-environmental measures? An empirical analysis in Germany. Land Use Policy 27, 2, 535-544.
• Sattler, C., Nagel, U. J. (2010) Factors affecting farmers' acceptance of conservation measures: a case study from north-eastern Germany. Land Use Policy 27, 1, 70-77.
• Sattler, C., Nagel, U. J., Werner, A., Zander, P. (2010) Integrated assessment of agricultural produc-tion practices to enhance sustainable development in agricultural landscapes. Ecological Indicators 10, 1, 49-61.
• Schuler, J., Sattler, C. (2010) The estimation of agricultural policy effects on soil erosion: an applica-tion for the bio-economic model MODAM. Land Use Policy 27, 1, 61-69.
• Uthes, S., Sattler, C., Zander, P., Piorr, A., Matzdorf, B., Damgaard, M., Sahrbacher, A., Schuler, J., Kjeldsen, C., Heinrich, U., Fischer, H. (2010) Modeling a farm population to estimate on-farm compliance costs and environmental effects of a grassland extensification scheme at the regional scale. Agricultural Systems 103, 5, 282-293.
• Uthes, S., Matzdorf, B., Müller, K., Kächele, H. (2010) Spatial targeting of agri-environmental measures: cost-effectiveness and distributional consequences. Environmental Management 46, 3, 494-509.
• Matzdorf, B., Müller, K., Kersebaum, K.-C., Kiesel, J., Kaiser, T. (2009) Improving agri-environmental benefits within the CAP. In: New perspectives on agri-environmental policies: a multidisciplinary and transatlantic approach, Routledge, 219-240.

Guest Editors of two Special Issues:

• Forest Policy and Economics 2013, 37: Matzdorf, B., Sattler, C., Engel, S. (Eds) Payments for Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions: Institutional Frameworks and Governance Structures of PES schemes.
• Ecosystem Services 2013, 6: Sattler, C., Matzdorf, B. (Eds): Payments for Ecosystem Services and Their Institutional Dimensions: Analyzing the Diversity of Existing PES Approaches in Developing and Industrialized Countries.

Other Publications

• Matzdorf, B., Biedermann, C., Meyer, C., Nicolaus, K., Sattler, C., Schomers, S. (2014) Was kostet die Welt? Payments for Ecosystem Services in der Praxis. Erfolgreiche Beispiele aus Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA. Oekom-Verlag, 208 Seiten.
• Matzdorf, B., Biedermann, C., Meyer, C., Nicolaus, K., Sattler, C., Schomers, S. (2014) Paying for Green? Payments for Ecosystem Services in Practice. Successful examples of PES from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Müncheberg, 208 pages.
• Matzdorf, B., Nicolaus, K., Biedermann, C. (2013) Honoriert Zivilgesellschaft Kulturlandschaft? Land-InForm, 2, 24-25.
• Oppermann, R., Gelhausen, J., Matzdorf, B., Reutter, M., Luick, R., Stein, S. (2012) Gemeinsame Ag-rarpolitik ab 2014: Perspektiven für mehr Biodiversitäts- und Umweltleistungen der Landwirtschaft? Empfehlungen für die Politik aus dem F&E Vorhaben "Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) 2013 und Erreichung der Biodiversitäts- und Umweltziele". Bundesamt für Naturschutz.
• Osano, P., de Leeuw, J., Said, M., Gitau, J. W., ole Kaelo, D., Birner, R., Schomers, S. (2012) Enabling livestock based economies in Kenya to adapt to climate change: a review of PES from wildlife tourism as a climate change adaption option , a technical report to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Kenya. Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung, Müncheberg.
• Hedden-Dunkhorst, B., Lehmann, M., Pascual, U., Stellmacher, T., Winter, E., Berghöfer, A., Blignaut, J., Kronenberg, J., Masiga, M., Todorova, M., Schomers, S., Domptail, S., Carius, F., Gundimeda, H., (2011) Payments for Ecosystem Services: Towards their Development and Implementation. Policy Brief.

Conferences

• International Conference in Berlin: "Payments for Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions" November 2011 (» click here for conference details)

• Symposium at Cardiff University: "The big environmental society"? Civil society, private sector and the state in landscape governance, nature conservation and ecosystem service management. A transdisciplinary British-German Symposium. (» click here for conference details)