Dr. Joachim Schmerbeck

Teaching

• Ecology
  MSc. Environmental Studies and Resource Management (TERI University, 2010-2015)
• Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation
  MSc. Environmental Studies and Resource Management (TERI University, 2010-2015)
• Forest Management (kein Link weil nicht dieses Semester)
  MSc. Environmental Studies and Resource Management (TERI University, 2011-2015)
• Vegetation Science and Site Classification
  MSc. Environmental Studies and Resource Management (TERI University, 2010-2015)
• Application of Environmental Science
  MA Sustainable Development Practises (TERI University, 2011-2015)
• Ökosystemökologie der Tropen, Einführung in die Bedeutung der Wälder für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung, Nebenfach Internationale Waldwirtschaft (2008-2009, Uni Freiburg)
• Erhebung der Ökosystemgüter und -dienstleistungen von Waldökosystemen im Schwarzwald, Block (2006, Uni Freiburg)

• since 2015: Team leader, GIZ, Himachal Pradesh Forest Ecosystem Services Project
• 2009-2015: Associate Professor at TERI University New Delhi, DAAD Fachlektor
• 2008-2009: Projekt Manager for Welthungerhilfe in Disater preparendes projects
• 2006-2009: Consultancy in the field of Natural Resource Management for Caritas Germany
• 1998-2002: Doctoral course for Dr. rer.silv.  “Patterns of forest use and its influence on degraded dry forests: A case study in Tamil Nadu, South India2005-2006: Scientific staff at the Silviculture Institute of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• 1996–1998: State Forest Candidate Forest Adminstration of Baden Württemberg, Forest Department Karlsbad
• 1989-1995: Masters in Forest Science TU Munic
• 1987-1989: Apprenticeship tree nursery

radio interview

Publications

• Rai R K and Schmerbeck J (2018): Why forest plantations are disputed? An assessment of locally important Ecosystem Services fom the Cryptomeria japonica plantations in the Darjeeling Hills, India, in: Goncalves A C (2018): Conifers, Intech Open, London http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.81057
• Naudiyal N and Schmerbeck J (2018): Linking forest successional dynamcis fo community dependence on provisioning ecosystem services from the Central HImalayan forests of Uttarakhand. Environmental Managemement 62 (5): 915-958
• Naudiyal N and Schmerbeck J (2018): Impact of anthropogenic disturbances on frest succession in the mid-montane forests of Central Himalaya. Plant Ecology 219(2):169-183
• Naudiyal N and Schmerbeck J (2017): Diospyros ebenum, In: Roloff A, Weisberger H, Lang U, Stimm B (Eds.): Enzyklopädie der Holzgewächse, Wiley-VHC, Weinheim.
• Naudiyal N, Schmerbeck J and Gärtner S. (2017): What influences the plant community composition on Delhi ridge? The role played by Prosopis juliflora and anthropogenic disturbances. Tropical Ecology 58(1) 33-43
• Naudiyal N, Schmerbeck J, (2016): Prosopis juliflora, In: Roloff A, Weisberger H, Lang U, Stimm B (Eds.): Enzyklopädie der Holzgewächse, Wiley-VHC, Weinheim.

• Schmerbeck J. and Fiener P. (2015) Wildfires, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity in Tropical Dry Forest in India. Environmental Management, 56, 355-372 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-015-0502-4

• Oberlack C, La Haela Walter P, Schmerbeck J, Tiwari BK. (2015). Institutions for Sustainable Governance of Forests: Equity, Robustness and Cross-level Interactions in Mawlyngbna, Meghalaya, India. International Journal of the Commons 9(2), 670-698

• Schmerbeck J. and Fiener P. (2015) Wildfires, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity in Tropical Dry Forest in India. Environmental Management, 56, 355-372 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-015-0502-4

• Schmerbeck, J., Kohli A. and Seeland K. (2015). "Ecosystem services and forest fires in India — Context and policy implications from a case study in Andhra Pradesh." Forest Policy and Economics 50(0): 337-346.

• Schmerbeck J. and Naudiyal N. (2014): Acacia auriculiformis, In: Roloff, A.; Weisgerber, H.; Lang, U.; Stimm, B. (Eds.): Enzyklopädie der Holzgewächse, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 65. Erg. Lfg. 01/14

• Schmerbeck, J. and Kraus D. (2014): "Wildfires in India: Tools and Hazards", in Paton D., McCaffrey S., Tedim F. and Shroder J.F (eds): Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Elsevier, Amsterdam-Boston, Heidelberg, London, New York, Oxford, Paris, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo

• Schmerbeck J., Pouyet J. and Patnaik S. (2012): Can development interventions reduce human pressure on forest? A case study of a long term observation in India. Conference proceeding, Tropentag 2012, Göttingen, Germany, September 19-21, 2012

• Kohli A., Schmerbeck J. and Seeland K. (2011): Forest Fires for Domestic and Commercial Use of Ecosystem Services: A Case Study in Andhra Pradesh, South India. Conference paper. Sustaining Commons: sustaining our Future, thirteenth biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons. January 10-14 Date: 2011, Hyderabad
• Bauhus J. & Schmerbeck J. (2010): Silvicultural options to enhance and use forest plantation biodiversity, in Bauhus J., v.d. Meer P. and Kanninen M. (Eds.) Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests, Earth Scan, London∙ Washington DC, p. 96-139#
• Schmerbeck J. and Seeland K. (2007): Fire supported forest utilisation of a degraded dry forest as a means of sustainable local forest management in Tamil Nadu/South India, Land Use Policy 24, 62–71.
• Bauhus J and Schmerbeck J. (Hrsg.) (2006): Ecosystem goods and services from planted forests (Abstracts of the scientific forum of the International congress on cultivated forests 3rd – 7th October 2006, Bilbao, Spain). Freiburger Forstliche Forschung Heft 68, 1 –236
• Bauhus J and Schmerbeck J. (2006): Managing forest plantations for ecosystem goods and services. Aborvitao AV, 31 September 2006.
• Schmerbeck J. (2004): Auswirkung der menschlichen Nutzung auf die Vielfalt und Struktur der Südindischen Trockenwälder, Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt 4, editor. Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn. 
• Schmerbeck J. and Knoke T. (2003): Auswirkungen der Waldnutzung in einem Waldökosystem in Tamil Nadu, Süd-Indien, in: Waldbau - weltweit, Beiträge zur internationalen Waldbauforschung, Forstliche Forschungsberichte 192/2003, pp. 195-209, editor: Mosandl R., El Kateb H. and Stimm B. 
• Schmerbeck J. (2003): Patterns of forest use and its influence on degraded dry forests: A case study in Tamil Nadu, South India, Berichte aus Holz- und Forstwirtschaft Shaker Verlag, Aachen.