Dr. habil. Karsten Grunewald

• Geo-/Landscape ecology,
• environmental science,
• protection of natural resources,
• sustainability, indicators
• ecosystem and landscape services,
• landscape and climate change,
• matter balances of landscapes,
• green city development,
• soil geography,
• nature conservation,
• hydro-geography and water framework directive,
• high and low mountain ecosystems, alpine forest line
• Central and Southeast Europe; Russia, China

since 2009

Senior scientist and project leader, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development Dresden

2007-2009

Freelance work as geoecologist

1998-2006

Assistant Professor at the University of Technology Dresden

1992-1997

Scientific Employee in Potsdam and Dresden

1997

Venia legende in Physical Geography/Geoecology

1990-1992

PhD-Student at the University of Potsdam, Institut of Geography

1993

Dissertation: Dr. rer.nat. of Physical Geography / Geoecology with "summa cum laude"

1987-1990

Teacher at a High School in Schwerin

 

Author/Editor of 12 books

1982-1987

University of Potsdam: Study of Mathematics, Geography and Pedagogy

1980-1982

Military Service in Havelberg 

1968-1980

High School in Ludwigslust

 

Stadtklimadashboard - Praxistest von Indikatoren zur Stadtklimaanpassung. Entwicklung eines WebGIS-Dashboards für Bund, Länder und Gemeinden

CICADA4CE - Efficiency of the ClImate Change ADAptation management by integration of ecosystem services and smart social approaches in Central European cities

EA-Armenia - Ecosystem Accounting in Armenia: Setting the Scene

BWI- Biodiversity-friendly economic growth: updating and developing recommendations for sustainable welfare indicators

Faktencheck Artenvielfalt, coordinating lead author of the chapter "Transformations Potential"

Grün-Indikatoren - Monitoring of the indicator "green provision" and update of the national ecosystem service indicator "accessibility of public green spaces" in cities

EU-COST Projekt: CA21125 - A European forum for revitalisation of marginalised mountain areas (MARGISTAR) (Duration: 2022-2026) - MC Member

HeatResilientCity II - Heat adaptation of urban building and settlement structures - Actor-oriented implementation support for increasing climate resilience and health care (Duration: 2021-2023)
HeatResilientCity - Hitzeresiliente Stadt- und Quartiersentwicklung in Großstädten - Bewohnerorientierte Wissensgenerierung und Umsetzung in Dresden und Erfurt (Duration: 2017-2021, BMBF)
The HeatResilientCity project has won the German Sustainability Award for Research 2022. http://heatresilientcity.de/

Accounting II - Ecosystem services and environmental-economic accounting - Digital assessment (Duration: 09/2020-05/2024)

Accounting I - Integration of ecosystems and ecosystem services into environmental economic accounting. Theoretical framework conditions and methodological principles (Duration: 2017-2020,    BfN)

Bio-Mo-D -  Appreciating biodiversity - modernising economic accounting in Germany (Duration: 10/2021-09/2024)

Weiter-ÖSL - Further development of the nationwide indicator set for ecosystem services - subprojects a) and c) (Duration: 09/2018- 02/2021) 

BIDELIN - The value of ecosystem services, biodiversity and blue-green infrastructures in cities, exemplified by Dresden, Liberec and Děčín (Duration: 2017-2020, INTERREG V A)

DiSeMiNation - Digging into Sediments and Microbes for Nature conservation - Identifying the drivers of ecosystem processes for spatial conservation planning (Duration: 2017-2020, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft)

TEEB Russia II - Erfassung und Bewertung von Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen in Russland - die Bedeutung für nationales Management und Perspektiven für internationale Prozesse (Duration: 2017-2020, BfN/BMUB)

Towards Green Cities - The Values of Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in China and Germany  (Duration: 2015-2017, BfN)

Ecosystem services at the national level in Germany - Development and implementation of a methodology for capturing and assessing ecosystem services at the federal level in the context of the implementation of Target 2 and Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 (Duration: 2014-2016, BfN/BMU)

Ecosystem based information system covering sensitive mountain areas in Bulgaria (2014-2015, DAAD)
SENSFOR Cost action (ES1203) - Enhancing the resilience capacity of SENSitive mountain FORest ecosystems under environmental change (Duration: 2013-2016, EU)

TEEBi-Russ - Ecosystem services evaluation in Russia and other NIS countries of Northern Eurasia: first steps (Duration: 2013-2016, BfN/BMU)

ESRuG - Enhancing ecosystem services valuation frameworks through comparable studies in Russia and Germany (Duration: 2012-2013, DFG)

LÖBESTEIN - An acronym for: Land use management systems, ecosystem services and biodiversity – the development of regulatory measures using the example of biomass for energy purposes (Duration: 2010-2013, BMBF)

Landschaftsökologische Charakterisierung der naturräumlichen Potentiale, Empfindlichkeiten und der Landnutzung in Sachsen (Duration: 2009, LfULG Sachsen)

ÖSD - Bewertung von Ökosystemdienstleistungen (Duration: 2009-2012, TU Dresden)

Landschaftspflegestrategie Sachsen 2020 (Duration: 2009-2012, LfULG Sachsen)

• IALE member (International Association for Landscape Ecology)
• Chairman of  LFZ Dresden (Landscape Research Centre)
• Advisory Board of Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Science

• Landscape functions and ecosystem services
• Urbane ecosystem services  and biodiversity

List of publications before 2009