Dr. Melanie Feurer

   Room 4070
   Phone 0761/203-3678
   Fax 0761/203-3781

   E-Mail

Teaching

Integrated Minor "Sustainable land use in the global context"

Forest use systems (BSc Forestry and Environment)

   from 2021: Land users and land uses in the context of rural development (BSc Forest Sciences)

Forest use in the context of rural development (BSc Forestry and Environment)

   from 2021: Forest and trees in the context of rural development (BSc Forest Sciences)

Forestry and Rural Development (MSc Environmental Governance)

Research projects

·         FRIAS Project Group "Socioecological Diversity"

·         MixForChange

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Feurer M, Rueff H, Celio E, Heinimann A, Blaser J, Htun AM, Zaehringer JG, 2021. Regional scale mapping of ecosystem services supply, demand, flow and mismatches in Southern Myanmar. Ecosystem Services, 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101363 

Feurer M, Zaehringer JG, Heinimann A, Naing SM, Blaser J, Celio E, 2021. Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar's forest frontier landscape. Journal of Land Use Science, 19 (2), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2020.1841844

Fromm I, Feurer M, Mengel S, 2020. Sustainable palm oil production in Honduras: Myth or reality? International Review of Modern Sociology, 46 (1-2), 79-101.

Schneider F, Feurer M, [...], Messerli P, 2020. Sustainable development under competing claims on land: Three pathways between land-use changes, ecosystem services and human well-being. The European Journal of Development Research, 32 (2), 316-337. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00268

Feurer M, Heinimann A, Schneider F, Jurt C, Myint W, Zaehringer JG, 2019. Local perspectives on ecosystem service trade-offs in a forest frontier landscape in Myanmar. Land, 8 (3), 45ff. https://doi.org/10.3390/land8030045

Feurer M, Gritten D, Than MM, 2018. Community forestry for livelihoods: Benefiting from Myanmar's mangroves. Forests, 9 (3), 150ff. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9030150

Other contributions

Feurer M, 2021. Ecosystem services from community forests in Myanmar's frontier landscape. Oral presentation, Hugo P. Cechini Institute Annual Event, 15th June 2021, Zollikofen, Switzerland.

Feurer M, 2021. Ecosystem services for communities in forest frontiers: An assessment of nature's benefits to local stakeholders under different land use and tenure systems in a tropical frontier landscape in Myanmar. Doctoral thesis. Bern University, Bern, Switzerland.

Thompson I, Blaser J, Feurer M, 2021. Two organizations and a common goal: The aim of the ITTO-CBD Collaborative Initiative for Tropical Forest Biodiversity [...]. International Tropical Timber Orgnaization. Tropical Forest Update, 30 (1), 5-8. https://www.itto.int/direct/topics/topics_pdf_download/topics_id=6678&no=1&disp=inline#page=5

ITTO, 2020. Contribution to the "Guidelines for forest landscape restoration in the tropics". ITTO Policy Development Series No. 24. International Tropical Timber Organization, Yokohama, Japan. https://www.itto.int/direct/topics/topics_pdf_download/topics_id=6511&no=1&disp=inline

Feurer M, Blaser J, Heinimann A, Zaehringer JG, 2019. Trade-offs from tree crop expansion in Myanmar's forest frontier landscapes. Oral presentation, World Agroforestry Congress, 20th - 25th May 2019, Montpellier, France.

Feurer M, 2019. Land im Wandel - Wie reagiert Myanmar's ländliche Bevölkerung auf veränderte Ökosystemleistungen? Blog, ESP-DE, https://www.esp-de.de/?cat=14&s=feurer

Feurer M, Blaser J, Gritten D, Than MM, 2016. People and mangroves: The role of community forests for climate change adaptation in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar. Poster presentation, Tropentag, 18th - 21st September 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Feurer M, 2016. People and mangroves - towards a changing future in the Ayeyarwady Delta. Blog, RECOFTC, https://recoftc.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/people-and-mangroves-towards-a-changing-future-in-the-ayeyarwady-delta/

Agyei K, Agyememan VK, Asare RA, Asante WA, Benefoh DT, Blaser J, Damnyag L, Deppeler A, Feurer M, Foli EG, Heeb L, Kofie W, Klossner M, Kyereh B, Kwakye Y, Oduro KA, 2014. REDD+ in agricultural landscapes: evidence from Ghana's REDD+ process. ITTO, Yokohama, Japan. https://cupdf.com/document/redd-in-agricultural-landscapes-evidence-from-ghanas-redd-.html