Dr Klaus Hubacek

 

Research overview

 

Forthcoming or recent publications

My main interests involve the modelling and analysis of socio-ecological systems. Keywords are futures research, scenario analysis and integrated modeling as well as participatory resource management and governance and sustainable consumption and production.

I have conducted studies for a number of national agencies in Austria, China, Japan, and the UK, and international institutions such as the European Statistical Office (EUROSTAT), the OECD, the IUCN, the World Bank, and UNESCO.

Our ongoing research on emboddied carbon emissions in trade has appeared in media reports ranging from local news such as Yorkshire Post and the Birmingham Post to national and international news outlets including ScienceNews, New Scientist, the German TV (WDR) and BBC's Material World.

We recently organized a special issue on Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Governance published in the Journal Ecology & Society.

Another special issue on Sustainable Consumption and Production has been published in Industrial Ecology.

Currently, I am co-editing 3 special journal issues on different aspects of ecosystem services: Ecosystem Services, Governance and Stakeholder Participation in Ecology & Society; Urban Ecosystem Services in Landscape and Urban Planning; and Modelling Land Management for Ecosystem Services in the journal Regional and Environmental Change.

 

Contact details
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Room 1127, 2181 LeFrak Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742 USA

Email:

hubacek(at)umd.edu

Tel:+1 (301)405 4567

Fax:+101-301-314-9299

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some examples of ongoing research projects:

Combat land degradation
and desertification
(EU-6 FP)

EnergyScapes and Ecosystem Services (UK-NERC)

Modelling Human Dimensions of Global change (BSOS-UMD)

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I am supervising PhD students in a wide variety of topics such as 'Peak Oil', Modelling land use change, virtual water flows, modelling carbon scenarios for 2050, and many others...

List of PhD students

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fraser, Dougill, Hubacek, Quinn, Sendzimir, Termansen (2011). “Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dry-Land Livelihood Systems – Conceptual Challenges & Interdisciplinary Solutions.“ Ecology & Society.

Minx, Baiocchi, Peters, Weber, Guan and Hubacek (In Press). Carbonizing Dragon: China’s fast growing CO2 emissions revisited. Environmental Science & Technology.

Kagawa, Nansai, Kondo, Hubacek, Suh, Minx, Kudoh, Tasaki, Nakamura (2011). “The Role of Motor Vehicle Lifetime Extension in Climate Change Policy.”Environmental Science & Technology. 45/4; pp. 1184-1191.

Qasim, Muhammad, Klaus Hubacek, Mette Termansen and Ahmad Khan (2011). “Spatial and temporal dynamics of land use pattern in district Swat, Hindu Kush Himalayan region of Pakistan.” Applied Geography.

Thapa, Shova and Klaus Hubacek (2011). “Drivers of illegal resource extraction: An analysis of Bardia National park, Nepal.”Journal of Environmental Management. Vol. 92. pp 156-164.

Drake, Smart, Termansen, Hubacek (In Press).“Public Preferences for Production of Local and Global Ecosystem Services. Regional Environmental Change.

Hubacek, K and D. Guan. (2011). “The net effect of green lifestyles”. Viewpoint and News. Nature Climate Change. Volume: 1, Pages: 250–251.

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