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Benjamin Leon Bodirsky is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on sustainability and the environmental impacts of agriculture and food systems.

Their recent publications include several papers that address global land use, food system sustainability, and environmental impacts:

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6, 2020, published in Geoscientific Model Development
  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries, 2020, published in Nature Sustainability
  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system, 2020, published in Nature Food
  • Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands, 2023, published in Nature
  • The world's growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts, 2020, published in Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bodirsky include:

  • Alexander Popp
  • Hermann Lotze-Campen
  • Isabelle Weindl
  • Jan Philipp Dietrich
  • Florian Humpenöder

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Food
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Nature Sustainability

Bodirsky's main area of study is Environmental Science. This includes subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Food Science, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research topics can be outlined as follows:

  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Best Publications

  • Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

    Marco Springmann;Michael Clark;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Keith Wiebe

  • Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

    Alexander Popp;Katherine Calvin;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlik

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

    George C. Hurtt;Louise Chini;Ritvik Sahajpal;Steve Frolking

  • Fossil-fueled development (SSP5): An energy and resource intensive scenario for the 21st century

    Elmar Kriegler;Nico Bauer;Alexander Popp;Florian Humpenöder

  • The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models

    Hugo Valin;Ronald D. Sands;Dominique van der Mensbrugghe;Gerald C. Nelson;Gerald C. Nelson

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

    Dieter Gerten;Dieter Gerten;Vera Heck;Vera Heck;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky

  • Reactive nitrogen requirements to feed the world in 2050 and potential to mitigate nitrogen pollution

    Benjamin Leon Bodirsky;Alexander Popp;Hermann Lotze-Campen;Jan Philipp Dietrich

  • Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy

    Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin

  • Food consumption, diet shifts and associated non-CO2 greenhouse gases from agricultural production

    Alexander Popp;Hermann Lotze-Campen;Benjamin Bodirsky

  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • Future air pollution in the Shared Socio-economic Pathways

    Shilpa Rao;Shilpa Rao;Zbigniew Klimont;Steven J. Smith;Steven J. Smith;Rita Van Dingenen

  • A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda

    Bjoern Soergel;Elmar Kriegler;Elmar Kriegler;Isabelle Weindl;Sebastian Rauner

  • The world's growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts

    David Meng-Chuen Chen;David Meng-Chuen Chen;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky;Tobias Krueger;Abhijeet Mishra;Abhijeet Mishra

  • Harmonization of Global Land-Use Change and Management for the Period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

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  • Climate change impacts on agriculture in 2050 under a range of plausible socioeconomic and emissions scenarios

    Keith Wiebe;H. Lotze-Campen;H. Lotze-Campen;R. Sands;A.A. Tabeau

  • Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies

    Gunnar Luderer;Michaja Pehl;Anders Arvesen;Thomas Gibon

  • Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities

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  • Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D'Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • Land-use protection for climate change mitigation

    Alexander Popp;Florian Humpenöder;Isabelle Weindl;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky

  • A multi-model assessment of food security implications of climate change mitigation

    Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Volker Krey;Keywan Riahi;Keywan Riahi

  • Trading more food: Implications for land use, greenhouse gas emissions, and the food system

    Christoph Schmitz;Anne Biewald;Hermann Lotze-Campen;Alexander Popp

  • Investigating afforestation and bioenergy CCS as climate change mitigation strategies

    Florian Humpenöder;Florian Humpenöder;Alexander Popp;Jan Philip Dietrich;David Klein;David Klein

  • The impact of high-end climate change on agricultural welfare

    Miodrag Stevanović;Alexander Popp;Hermann Lotze-Campen;Jan Philipp Dietrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Lotze-Campen
Hermann Lotze-Campen Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Alexander Popp
Alexander Popp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Florian Humpenöder
Florian Humpenöder Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University
Tomoko Hasegawa
Tomoko Hasegawa Ritsumeikan University
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Elke Stehfest
Elke Stehfest Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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