Joachim Schmerbeck

• Forest dynamics of the Central Himalaya and related changes in the supply of ecosystem services  (completed 2015)
• Impact of fire and grazing on leopard’s prey in Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan (closed 2015)
• NRM Project in West Bengal: Development and implementation of a NRM – programme for disaster mitigation in eight dioceses of West Bengal in close cooperation with local institutions. (completed 2009)
• Community Based Disaster Risk Management Projects in the States of West Bengal and Orissa, India; Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) in seven communities in the Sunderbans and in Orissa. (completed 2009)
• Facilitating Agriculture Regeneration Measures (FARM): NRM project aiming at the improvement of income from agriculture and minimizing the indebtedness of farmers in two diocese in Maharashtra. (completed 2009)
• „Reforestation and Coastal Protection” (ReCAP): Ecological rehabilitation in the frame of Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) in the coastal region of Tamil Nadu in close cooperation with local institutions. (completed 2009)
• Networking Forest Plantations in a crowded world: optimising ecosystem services through improved planning and management strategie  (completed 2007)
• Forest fire management in India: integrating ecological and cultural contexts and consequences  (completed 2009)
• Studies on long term forest management strategies of Mixed mountain forests (completed 2005)
• Determinants of Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: The Case of Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India (completed 2004)

Teaching

• Ecosystem Services
  BSc Forestry (Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft Rottenburg, 2022)

• People, Landscape, Management: Planning for Ecosystem Services
  BSc LAS, Humans and environment (UCF, University of Freiburg)

• 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)

CV

• since 2023: Akademischer Mitarbeiter (Kurskoordination Carbon Forestry, Integrated Land Use Systems, Lehre,
                        Betreuung von studentischen Abschlussarbeiten
• since 2021: Freelancer (Natural resource management, forest management, ecosystem
                         services, project management, trainings, disaster preparedness)
• 2020-2021: Head of Department Forest and Nature Conservation, Black Forest National Park
• 2015-2020: Team leader, GIZ, Himachal Pradesh Forest Ecosystem Services Project
• 2009-2015: Associate Professor an der TERI University New Delhi, DAAD Fachlektor
• 2008-2009: Projekt Manager für die Welthungerhilfe in Katastrophe vorbereitungs Projekt
• 2006-2009: Consultancy im Managmeent natürlicher Resourcen für Caritas International
• 1998-2002: Promotion 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: Referendariat Forstverwaltung Baden Württemberg, Forstamt Karlsbad
• 1989-1995: Studium der Forstwissenschaften TU München
• 1987-1989: Lehre als Baumschulgärnter

radio interview

 Publications

• Schmerbeck J., Saha, S.Srimathi, A., Einhellinger, B. and Hangsing, M. (2023): Tropical montane forest (Shola) tree speices can regenerate under abandoned exotic tree plantations in the Western Ghats of India. Forestry, 21. October 2023, htttps://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpad050
• Schmerbeck J. and Gupta S. (2022): Lantana camara does not exclude all tree regeneration: An opportunity to help establish mixed forests in the Western Himalayas? Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 520, 15 September 2022, 120366, jttps;//doi.og/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120366
• Naudiyal N. and Schmerbeck J. (2021): Potential distribution of oak forests in the central Himalayas and imlications for future ecosystem services supply to rural communities. In Ecosystem Services 50 (Article 101310) DOI:10.1016/jecoser.2021.101310

• 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.