Dr. Stephan Pauleit - Germany
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I - PERSONAL
- education: Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture -Munich Technical University, 1981 - 1987
MSc dissseration (Dipl.-Ing.):
"Vitality Survey of Urban Trees in the City of Munich"
Investigated the health status of urban trees and its correlation
with urban environmental and site factors.
PhD (Dr.-Ing.) 1998 with a thesis on "Assessing the Environmental Performance of Urban Land Cover Types for Urban Planning" (in German: "Das Umweltwirkgefüge städtischer Siedlungsstrukturen").
- professional back ground:
1987 - 1999 I was employed as a Research and Teaching Associate, Chair of Landscape Ecology at Munich Technical University, Germany. The focus in teaching was placed on planning projects on a regional, local and site level in both urban and rural settings. In addition, I jointly organised a course in planting design and dendrology.
1999 I was a temporary lecturer in Landscape Planning at Wye College, Kent, UK. Since August 2000, I am a lecturer in Landscape Planning and Management at the School of Planning and Landscape, Manchester University.
- fields of specialisation:
I am particularly interested in developing and applying concepts, methods and tools for landscape planning, nature and natural resources conservation for regional and local planing. I have extensive experience in the application of geographic information systems (GIS).
- present work
Urban landscapes are at the centre of my interests. The main goals are to develop:
• An ecosystem approach based on the mapping of urban land cover types to assess the city's environmental performance for urban planning
• Environmental goals and targets for sustainable urban development
• Concepts, methods and tools for the preservation of urban biodiversity
• A model concept for an urban biosphere reserve
• Concepts, methods and tools for urban forestry, dendrology and planting design.
- possible contribution to the network
Specific know how and personal knowledge which could make a contribution to COST C11:
• Experience in planning for landscape and nature conservation in urban areas, habitat surveys, habitat linkage, urban climates and hydrology
• Development of a GIS based on the mapping of urban land cover types to assess the performance of urban greenstructure and land cover types
• Case studies in urban landscape planning in Germany. The legal and institutional background, instruments: state-the-art and trends.
• Link with COST E12 "Urban forests and trees" where I am a German representative
II - INSTITUTION
Chair of Landscape Ecology, Munich Technical University (head: Prof. Dr. L. Trepl: website: http://www.loek.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/loek/): Research had its roots in conservation oriented rural development typical for the 70´s. Since then research has progressively moved to cross sectoral environmental problems like urban development and environmental quality indices.
Main research areas:
- Ecosystems theory and modelling
- Landscape planning and nature conservation
- Landscape ecological planning in tropical and subtropical regions
- Ecology of biological invasions
- Theory and history of ecology and landscape planning
Urban projects were lead by Dr. Friedrich Duhme, and include habitat surveys for the city of Munich and other cities, a nature conservation programme for Munich, and the development of the land cover type approach as a tool for urban environmental planning.
While I recently changed position, I will continue to keep close links with the Chair of Landscape Ecology
• CURE (director: Prof. Dr. J. Handley; website: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/planning/cure/): The Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology has been established to address new research agendas on regionalism, sustainability, and the rebuilding of environmental capital. The focus of CURE is placed on the city region. Based on the School of Planning & landscape at the University of Manchester, CURE carries out multi-disciplinary research in three programme areas:
- Landscape impacts & futures
- Sustainable city-region
- Land restoration and management
- present work in connection with the action subject
Relevant CURE research projects (contact: Prof. J. Handley, J. Ravetz)
• ATLAS NW: This project, focused on the North West region, is developing a fully interactive computer model for exploring regional futures.
• City-Region 2020: City-Region 2020 is one of the most wide-ranging case-studies in urban and regional sustainable development ever undertaken, as a demonstration and toolkit for strategic thinking.
• ISCAM: The 'Integrated Sustainable Cities Assessment Method' is a flexible toolkit for sustainability appraisal, systems mapping and scenario accounting in any city or region.
• Toolkits for Community Led Regeneration of Derelict Land: This EU life funded project will review the extent and effectiveness of community-led and ecologically-informed land restoration in the EU in order to develop an Internet resource for organisations carrying out such projects in the future.
• Regional Climate Change Impacts and Responses: A pioneering regional study (covering North West and East Anglia) into the cross-sectoral impacts and responses using modelling and stakeholder assessment.
- support, facilities offered to the action
• Ensure-UK (contact: J. Ravetz) The UK Forum of the ENSURE (European Network for Sustainable Urban & Regional Development) is coordinated from CURE, as a network of multi-disciplinary research producers and users.
• COST E12 "Urban Forests and Trees" (contact: Dr. S. Pauleit): COST Action E12 'Urban Forests and Trees' was set up in June 1997, and will end in June 2002. It aims to coordinate and promote research on urban forests and urban trees in Europe. At the time, the Action has 21 signatory countries and involves over 65 institutions from across Europe. The Action is coordinated by the Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute. Website: http://www.fsl.dk/cost_e12/