Peter Messerli
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Prof. Peter Messerli Director Landsysteme und Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung (LNR) Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern Universität Bern Kochergasse 4 CH-3011 Bern Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 31 631 63 14 E-mail: peter.messerli(at)wyssacademy.org Phone: +41 (0) 31 631 63 14 E-mail: peter.messerli(at)wyssacademy.org |
Programs in which Peter Messerli holds an official function:
| GLP | co-chair | 2016 - |
| ProClim- | Advisory Committee | 2015 - |
Key Publications of Peter Messerli (up to ten) :
Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the Secretary-General. 2019. Global Sustainable Development Report 2019: The Future Is Now - Science for Achieving Sustainable Development. New York, USA: United Nations.
Messerli, P., Kim, E. M., Lutz, W., Moatti, J.-P., Richardson, K., Saidam, M., Smith, D., u. a. (2019). Expansion of sustainability science needed for the SDGs. Nature Sustainability, 1–3.
Nilsson, M., Chisholm, E., Griggs, D., Howden-Chapman, P., McCollum, D., Messerli, P., Neumann, B., u. a. (2018). Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: Lessons learned and ways forward. Sustainability Science.
Meyfroidt, P., Roy Chowdhury, R., de Bremond, A., Ellis, E. C., Erb, K.-H., Filatova, T., Garrett, R. D., u. a. (2018). Middle-range theories of land system change. Global Environmental Change, 53, 52–67.
Oberlack, C., Sietz, D., Bürgi Bonanomi, E., de Bremond, A., Dell’Angelo, J., Eisenack, K., Ellis, E. C., u. a. (2019). Archetype analysis in sustainability research: Meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making. Ecology and Society, 24(2).
Magliocca, N. R., Ellis, E. C., Allington, G. R. H., Dell Angelo, J., Mertz, O., de Bremond, A., Messerli, P., u. a. (2018). Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems. Global Environmental Change, 14.
Messerli P, Bader C, Hett C, Epprecht M, Heinimann A. 2015. Towards a Spatial Understanding of Trade-Offs in Sustainable Development: A Meso-Scale Analysis of the Nexus between Land Use, Poverty, and Environment in the Lao PDR. Webb E, editor. PLOS ONE 10:e0133418.
Van Vliet N, Mertz O, Heinimann A, Langanke T, Pascual U, Schmook B, Adams C, Schmidt-Vogt D, Messerli P, Leisz S, et al. 2012. Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment. Global Environmental Change.
Messerli P, Heinimann A, Epprecht M. 2009. Finding Homogeneity in Heterogeneity – a New Approach to Quantifying Landscape Mosaics Developed for the Lao PDR. Human Ecology, 37(3).
Messerli P. 2004: Alternatives à la culture sur brûlis sur la Falaise Est de Madagascar: Stratégies en vue d'une gestion plus durable des terres. African Studies Series A17, Geographica Bernensia, Berne, pp. 348
Expertise of Peter Messerli:
| Expertise Category | Specific Expertise |
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| Expert Type | Scientific / Fundamental Research |
| Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering | |
| Research Interface / Management | |
| Scope | Impact of Change |
| Vulnerability to Change | |
| Mitigation of Change | |
| Topic Pedosphere | Soil Degradation / Erosion / Desertification |
| Topic Biosphere | Biodiversity |
| Topic Ecosystems | Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Topic Economy/ResourceUse | Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery |
| Food Security | |
| Trade / Globalisation | |
| Land Cover / Land Use / Landscape | |
| Topic Politics/Law | Regionalization / Globalization |
| Topic Society | Employment / Social Security / Poverty |
| Perception / Behaviour / Attitudes | |
| Topic Sustainability | Sustainability |
| Ecological Sustainability | |
| Social Sustainability | |
| Economic Sustainability | |
| Spatial Scale | Global / Hemispheric |
| Regional | |
| National / Cultural | |
| Local / Community | |
| Time Frame | Past |
| Recent / Today | |
| Future | |
| Methods | Data Collection - Interviews, Questionnaires |
| Data Analysis | |
| Policy Analysis and Formation | |
| Applied Research / Technology | |
| Integrated Assessment | |
| Collaboration with developing and transition countries ; Capacity Building | |
| Program Coordination / Management |
Specialties of Peter Messerli:
Sustainability of socio-ecological systems; Contextuality of sustainable development; Ecosystem Goods and Services; Land Use and Land Cover Changes; Multi-level Multi-Stakeholder Analysis; Shifting cultivation and transformations under global change; Agroforestry; Upland Rice cultivation; Rural livelihood strategies;
Last update: 1/23/24
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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