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Joachim H. Spangenberg is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. The primary field of study for this researcher is Environmental Science, with significant contributions focusing on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics covered in Joachim H. Spangenberg's work encompass Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Sustainability and Climate Change Governance; Zoonotic diseases and public health; Climate Change and Health Impacts; Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development; Environmental Conservation and Management; and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include Preprints.org, Ecological Economics, Global Sustainability, Frontiers in Sustainability, and Land.

Joachim H. Spangenberg has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably Pamela McElwee, Eszter Kelemen, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Jennifer Clapp, and Cindy Isenhour.

The following recent papers illustrate key areas of their research:

  • Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development (2021), published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss (2020), published in One Earth
  • The Objectives of Stakeholder Involvement in Transdisciplinary Research. A Conceptual Framework for a Reflective and Reflexive Practise (2020), published in Ecological Economics
  • Knowledge architecture for the wise governance of sustainability transitions (2021), published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • Enabling transformative economic change in the post-2020 biodiversity agenda (2021), published in Conservation Letters

Best Publications

  • Sustainable consumption within a sustainable economy – beyond green growth and green economies

    Sylvia Lorek;Joachim H. Spangenberg

  • A guide to community sustainability indicators

    Anke Valentin;Joachim H Spangenberg

  • Precisely incorrect? Monetising the value of ecosystem services §

    Joachim H. Spangenberg;Josef Settele

  • Environmental space and the prism of sustainability: frameworks for indicators measuring sustainable development

    Joachim H Spangenberg

  • Sustainability science: a review, an analysis and some empirical lessons

    Joachim H. Spangenberg

  • Towards indicators for institutional sustainability: lessons from an analysis of Agenda 21

    Joachim H Spangenberg;Stefanie Pfahl;Kerstin Deller

  • An analysis of risks for biodiversity under the DPSIR framework

    Laura Maxim;Joachim H. Spangenberg;Martin O'Connor

  • Economic sustainability of the economy: concepts and indicators

    Joachim H. Spangenberg

  • Between activism and science: Grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations

    Joan Martinez-Alier;Isabelle Anguelovski;Patrick Bond;Daniela Del Bene

  • Sustainability indicators : a compass on the road towards sustainability

    Joachim H. Spangenberg;Odile Bonniot

  • Design for Sustainability (DfS): the interface of sustainable production and consumption

    Joachim H. Spangenberg;Alastair Fuad-Luke;Karen Blincoe

  • Reconciling sustainability and growth: criteria, indicators, policies

    Joachim H. Spangenberg

  • Institutional sustainability indicators: an analysis of the institutions in Agenda 21 and a draft set of indicators for monitoring their effectivity

    Joachim H. Spangenberg

  • Environmentally sustainable household consumption: from aggregate environmental pressures to priority fields of action

    Joachim H Spangenberg;Sylvia Lorek

  • The ecosystem service cascade: Further developing the metaphor. Integrating societal processes to accommodate social processes and planning, and the case of bioenergy

    Joachim H. Spangenberg;Christina von Haaren;Josef Settele

  • ALARM: Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods

    Josef Settele;Volker Hammen;Philip E. Hulme;Ulrich Karlson

  • Form follows function? Proposing a blueprint for ecosystem service assessments based on reviews and case studies

    R. Seppelt;R. Seppelt;B. Fath;B. Fath;B. Burkhard;Judith Fisher

  • Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary

    Richard Harrington;Christian Anton;Terence P. Dawson;Francesco de Bello

  • Provision of ecosystem services is determined by human agency, not ecosystem functions. Four case studies

    Joachim H. Spangenberg;Christoph Görg;Dao Thanh Truong;Vera Tekken

  • Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development

    Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers;Jona Razzaque;Pamela McElwee;Esther Turnhout

  • A methodology for CSR reporting: assuring a representative diversity of indicators across stakeholders, scales, sites and performance issues

    Martin O'Connor;Joachim H. Spangenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Benjamin Burkhard
Benjamin Burkhard University of Hannover
Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Doris Vetterlein
Doris Vetterlein Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jennifer Clapp
Jennifer Clapp University of Waterloo
Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson University of Surrey
Oliver Schweiger
Oliver Schweiger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Reinhold Jahn
Reinhold Jahn Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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