Vita
Prof. Dr. Tobias Plieninger leitet das Fachgebiet „Sozial-ökologische Interaktionen in Agrarsystemen“ an den Universitäten Kassel und Göttingen.
Von 2013 bis 2017 war er Associate Professor am Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management der Universität Kopenhagen. Zuvor leitete er eine über den BMBF-Schwerpunkt sozial-ökologische Forschung geförderte Nachwuchsgruppe zu „Ökosystemleistungen in Kulturlandschaften“ an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Er studierte Forstwissenschaften an den Universitäten Freiburg und Göttingen, wurde im Fach “Forest and Environmental Sciences” an der Universität Freiburg promoviert und habilitierte sich in Landschaftsökologie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Forschungsinteresse
Tobias Plieninger 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. Tobias Plieninger is co-editor of three academic books: „The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship“ (Cambridge University Press), „European Wood-Pastures in Transitions“ (Routledge), and „Resilience and the Cultural Landscape“ (Cambridge University Press).Akademische Auszeichnungen
- Since 2023 Member of Academia Europaea
- Since 2022 Henriette Herz Scout, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
- 2019-2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
Mitgliedschaften in Gremien und Reviewverfahren (ausgewählte)
- Lead Editor, People and Nature (since 2024)
- Editor for Ecological Economics, Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Ecology, and Sustainability Science
- Lead Author, Transformative Change Assessment, Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES; 2022-2025)
- Work group on “Changing Wildfires: Policy Options for a Fire-literate and Fire-adapted Europe”, European Academies Science Advisories Council (EASAC) (2023-2025)
- Scientific Advisory Board Member, Earth Systems Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2022)
- Work group on “Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes”, German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina (2018-2020)
- Ad-hoc referee for DFG, BMBF, EU-Research Framework Programmes, Swiss National Fund (SNF), Research Council for Norway and others
Publikationen (ausgewählte)
- Jay, M. & Plieninger, T. (2025). Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration. Nature Reviews Biodiversity.
- Plieninger, T., Bogadóttir, R., Fagerholm, N., Magnussen, E., Olafsson, A.S., Raymond, C.M. & Verbrugge, L.N.H. (2025). Exploring values, rules, and knowledge around traditional hunting in a rapidly developing society. People and Nature 7, 777-789.
- Heindorf, C., Schüler, S. & Plieninger, T. (2024). Poetic inquiry to explore the relational values of a transforming peat landscape. People and Nature 6, 1189-1205.
- Plieninger, T., Abunnasr, Y., D’Ambrosio, U., Guo, T., Kizos, T., Kmoch, L., Topp, E. & Varela, E. (2023). Biocultural conservation systems in the Mediterranean region: the role of values, rules, and knowledge. Sustainability Science 18: 823-838.
- Plieninger, T., Shamohamadi, S., García-Martín, M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Shakeri, Z. & Valipour, A. (2023). Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people. Landscape and Urban Planning 233: 104706.
- Torralba, M., Nishi, M., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Quintas-Soriano, C., García-Martín, M., & Plieninger, T. (2023). Disentangling the practice of landscape approaches: A Q-method analysis on experiences in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes. Sustainability Science 18, 18931906.
- García-Martín, M., Huntsinger, L., Ibarrola-Rivas, M.J., Penker, M., D’Ambrosio, U., Dimopoulos, T., Fernández-Giménez, M.E., Kizos, T., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Saito, O., Zimmerer, K.S., Abson, D.J., Liu, J., Quintas-Soriano, C., Sørensen, I.H., Verburg, P.H. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Landscape products for sustainable agricultural landscapes. Nature Food 3: 814-821.
- García-Martín, M., Torralba, M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Kahl, J. & Plieninger, T. (2021): Linking food systems and landscape sustainability in the Mediterranean region. Landscape Ecology 36, 2259-2275.
- Fagerholm, N., Martín-López, B., Torralba, M., Oteros-Rozas, E., Lechner, A., Bieling, C., Stahl Olafsson, A., Albert, C., Raymond, C., García Martín, M., Gulsrud, N. & Plieninger, T. (2020): Perceived contributions of multifunctional landscapes to human wellbeing: Evidence from 13 European sites. People and Nature 2: 217-234.
- Flinzberger, L., Zinngrebe, Y. & Plieninger, T. (2020): Labelling in Mediterranean agroforestry landscapes: a Delphi study on relevant sustainability indicators. Sustainability Science 15: 1369-1382.