Prof. Julie Zähringer

Areas of professional focus at CDE

• Ecosystem services and human wellbeing
• Land use change assessment with remote sensing and social science data
• Conservation and development trade-offs in tropical forest landscapes
• Environmental and livelihood impacts of large-scale land acquisitions

​Projects

• Managing telecoupled landscapes for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
• African Food, Agriculture, Land and Natural Resource Dynamics in the context of global changes (Afgroland) 
• Governance processes and impacts of extractive industries in Madagascar
• Landscape stewardship for nature and people

Further professional interests

• Land governance
• Agricultural transitions
• Monitoring and assessment of land management

Field experience

Madagascar, Senegal, Haiti, Tajikistan, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Honduras, Ghana, Mozambique, Laos

Languages

German, English, French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, some Wolof and Malagasy