Prof. Dr. Claudia Bieling
Head of Department
Claudia Bieling holds the Chair of Societal Transition and Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Her work is rooted in transdisciplinary sustainability research and focuses on the interface of ecological and social dimensions in land-use and food systems. She works with the concepts of cultural landscapes and social-ecological resilience and draws on empirical research experience in a variety of collaborative projects, with a focus on Central Europe.
Claudia Bieling publishes extensively on land management and sustainability and edited two books with Cambridge University Press ("Resilience and the Cultural Landscape" in 2012, "The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship" in 2017). She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal "GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society" and Associate Editor for "Conservation Letters". Moreover, she serves in several committees and boards, among others in the Scientific Board of the Special Programme on Advancing Biological Diversity of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and the Earth System Sciences Advisory Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Claudia Bieling holds a postdoctoral degree ("Habilitation") in Landscape Management and a PhD in Forest and Environmental Policy (both from University of Freiburg, Germany). She received her Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Forest Sciences from University of Göttingen, Germany.
- Sustainability transformations in the agri-food system
- Social-ecological systems
- Landscape approach
- Resilience
- Participation
- Qualitative social sciences
- Transdisciplinary research
Since April 2015 | Professor for Societal Transition and Agriculture at University of Hohenheim |
Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2015 | Research Associate at the Chair for Landscape Management, University of Freiburg: diverse research projects on sustainable land use management |
Jan. 2003 - Mar. 2005 | Freelance researcher for various institutes of the University of Freiburg |
May 1999 - Dec. 2002 | Research Associate at the Institute for Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg |
Educational background
Dec. 2014 | Habilitation in "Landscape Management" at University of Freiburg; Habilitation thesis: "Exploring the human-nature nexus: nonmaterial landscape values in a transition towards sustainability" |
May 1999 - Dec. 2002 | PhD studies at the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg; Dissertation thesis: "Assessment and implementation of close-to-nature forest management concepts by small-scale private owners in the Southern Black Forest, Germany" (in German) |
Oct. 1995 - Mar. 1999 | Graduate studies of Forest Sciences with a focus on nature conservation at University of Göttingen (Germany); Diploma thesis: "Socio-economy of livestock farming in pastured woodlands (dehesas) in Extremadura, Spain" (in German) |
April 1993 - Sep. 1995 | Undergraduate studies of Forest Sciences at the University of Freiburg, Germany |
Born 1973, married, two children