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Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
5656
World Ranking
5981
National Ranking
38

Overview

Bo Jellesmark Thorsen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, specializing in Environmental Science with a focus on forest management, policy, and environmental valuation. Their research spans a range of interconnected fields and subfields, providing insights into forest ecosystems, biodiversity, economic valuation, and policy development.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this area, the primary subfields of study are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Insect Science
  • Marketing

Thorsen's research topics emphasize:

  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Environmental Conservation and Management
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Thorsen has contributed to multiple publications, including journal articles and policy briefs. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Policy briefs
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Silva Fennica

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Thorsen are:

  • "Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options" (2022), published in Forest Policy and Economics
  • "Two decades of forest-related legislation changes in European countries analysed from a property rights perspective" (2020), published in Forest Policy and Economics
  • "Forest Biodiversity in Europe" (2022), published in From science to policy
  • "Consumer housing values and prejudices against living in wooden homes in the Nordic region" (2021), published in Silva Fennica
  • "Who demands peri-urban nature? A second stage hedonic house price estimation of household's preference for peri-urban nature" (2020), published in Landscape and Urban Planning

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Thorsen include:

  • Bart Muys
  • Thomas Lundhede
  • Eeva Primmer
  • Laura Bouriaud
  • Jürgen Bauhus

Best Publications

  • Agricultural residue production and potentials for energy and materials services

    Niclas Scott Bentsen;Claus Felby;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

  • A review of decision-making approaches to handle uncertainty and risk in adaptive forest management under climate change

    Rasoul Yousefpour;Jette Bredahl Jacobsen;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Henrik Meilby

  • Are we ready for back-to-nature crop breeding?

    Michael G. Palmgren;Anna Kristina Edenbrandt;Suzanne Elizabeth Vedel;Martin Marchman Andersen

  • Shades of green: a social scientific view on bioeconomy in the forest sector

    Daniela Kleinschmit;Berit Hauger Lindstad;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Anne Toppinen

  • An empirically based typology of private forest owners in Denmark: improving communication between authorities and owners.

    Tove Enggrob Boon;Henrik Meilby;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

  • Demonstrating the importance of intangible ecosystem services from peri-urban landscapes

    Henrik Vejre;Frank Søndergaard Jensen;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

  • Accelerating the Domestication of New Crops: Feasibility and Approaches

    Jeppe Thulin Østerberg;Wen Xiang;Lene Irene Olsen;Anna Kristina Edenbrandt

  • What’s in a name? The use of quantitative measures versus ‘Iconised’ species when valuing biodiversity

    Jette Bredahl Jacobsen;John Halfdan Boiesen;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Niels Strange

  • How private are Europe's private forests? A comparative property rights analysis

    Liviu Nichiforel;Kevin Keary;Philippe Deuffic;Gerhard Weiss;Gerhard Weiss

  • Feasibility of new breeding techniques for organic farming

    Martin Marchman Andersen;Xavier Landes;Wen Xiang;Artem Anyshchenko

  • State of Europe's forests, 2011: status & trends in sustainable forest management in Europe

    Anna Barbati;Annemarie Bastrup-Birk;Tanya Baycheva;Camille Bonhomme

  • Forest owners' willingness to accept contracts for ecosystem service provision is sensitive to additionality

    Suzanne Elizabeth Vedel;Jette Bredahl Jacobsen;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

  • State of Europe's forests 2015

    Iciar Alberdi Asensio;Tanya Baycheva-Merger;Alain Bouvet;Michele Bozzano

  • Adaption to Extreme Rainfall with Open Urban Drainage System: An Integrated Hydrological Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Qianqian Zhou;Toke Emil Panduro;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen

  • Optimal reserve selection in a dynamic world

    Niels Strange;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Jesper Bladt

  • Discount rate and harvest policy: implications for Baltic forestry

    Vilis Brukas;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Finn Helles;Peter Tarp

  • A framework for modeling adaptive forest management and decision making under climate change

    Rasoul Yousefpour;Christian Temperli;Jette Bredahl Jacobsen;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

  • Handling respondent uncertainty in Choice Experiments: Evaluating recoding approaches against explicit modelling of uncertainty

    Thomas Hedemark Lundhede;Søren Bøye Olsen;Jette Bredahl Jacobsen;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

  • Efficiency and Merger Gains in the Danish Forestry Extension Service

    Peter Bogetoft;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Niels Strange

  • Optimal stand management with endogenous risk of sudden destruction

    Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Finn Helles

  • Optimal spatial harvest planning under risk of windthrow

    Henrik Meilby;Niels Strange;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Göran Ståhl
Göran Ståhl Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Margarida Tomé
Margarida Tomé University of Lisbon
Peter Sandøe
Peter Sandøe University of Copenhagen
Michael G. Palmgren
Michael G. Palmgren University of Copenhagen
Marc Hanewinkel
Marc Hanewinkel University of Freiburg
Mette Termansen
Mette Termansen University of Copenhagen
Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen
Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen Danish Meteorological Institute
Sven Wunder
Sven Wunder European Forest Institute
Anne Toppinen
Anne Toppinen University of Helsinki
Carlo Giupponi
Carlo Giupponi Ca Foscari University of Venice

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