Dr Klaus Hubacek
 

Research overview

                            

       Forthcoming or   recent publications

My main interests involve the modeling and analysis of socio-ecological systems. The Word Cloud gives you a quick visual overview by displaying the frequency of words used in my publications in different sizes.

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

Our ongoing research on embodied 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 recent 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.

 Recent interviews:
    with BBCs Material World on the water footprint
    with Deutschlandradio Kultur zu CO2 Emissionen in China
    with Bridges about my research


Contact details
              Recent & current projects
 Students 

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 or recent  research projects:

Combat land degradation
and desertification (EU-6 FP)

EnergyScapes and Ecosystem Services (UK-NERC)

Social Observatories Research Network
(NSF)

A spatial mapping system for human water security
(World Bank)

Sustainable Uplands (UK ESRC, NERC, BBSRC)

Modelling Human Dimensions of Global change (BSOS-UMD)


Complete list of grants

 

I am supervising PhD students in a wide variety of topics such as 'Peak Oil', Adaptation to climate change, Virtual water flows, Sustainable Consumption, Land use governance, and ecosystem  services and  other related topics...

List of PhD students

 





 

 

 

Yu, Y., Hubacek, K., Feng, K., (In Press). Tele-connecting local consumption to global land use. Global Environmental Change.

Feng, Davis, Li, Guan,  Sun, Liu, Zhu, Hubacek (Forthcoming). “Outsourcing CO2 within China.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Qasim, Hubacek,  Termansen (In Press). "Socio-economic Driving Forces of Land Use Change in Swat, Pakistan." Land Use Policy.

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

Reed, Hubacek et al. (2013). Anticipating and Managing Future Trade-offs and Complementarities between Ecosystem Services. Ecology & Society 18 (1): 5.

Hubacek & Kronenberg (2013). Synthesizing different perspectives on the value of urban ecosystem services. Landscape Urban Planning. Vol. 109, pages 1-6.

Guan, D., Z. Liu, Y. Geng, S. Lindner, K. Hubacek (2012). “The Gigatonne Gap in China’s CO2 Inventories.” Nature Climate Change. Volume 2, issue 9, year 2012, pp. 672 – 675.

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

Kronenberg, J. and K. Hubacek. (2013). Could Payments for Ecosystem Services Create an "Ecosystem Service Curse"? Ecology and Society 18 (1): 10.

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