Biography

Marc Hanewinkel is currently head of the Chair of Forestry Economics and Forest Planning at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Germany. From 2011 to 2014 he was the head of the Research Unit: Forest Resources and Management at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, CH. His research interests cover risk analysis (risk assessment, -modelling and –evaluation), impacts of Climate Change on European Forests, development of adaptive management strategies, application of advanced heuristics to problems of multifunctional forest management, multi-criteria decision making, , economics of uneven-aged and close-to-nature forestry as well as decision making under risk and uncertainty. Marc Hanewinkel has coordinated international research projects concerning adaptation strategies for forests in Europe to the impacts of Climate Change among them the EU project MOTIVE (2009-2013) with 20 partners from 15 EU countries and a total of 7 Mio Euro funding from the 7th framework program of the EU.