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Dr. Thomas Kastner
Senior Scientist, Head of Young Scientist Group 'Impacts of the consumption of agricultural and forestry products'
Research Interests
My main research interests are the systemic relations between biomass use, international trade, land use change and species decline; long-term changes in land use systems and in the use of land-based resources; impacts on dietary patterns on land demand and on biodiversity and the role of land use in climate-change mitigation.
External Links
List of publications on Google scholar
Selected Publications
Dalin, Carole, Yoshide Wada, *Thomas Kastner*, Michael J. Puma. „Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade. “ /Nature/ (2017): forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21403
Chaudhary, Abhishek, L. Roman Carrasco, and *Thomas Kastner*. „Linking national wood consumption with global biodiversity and ecosystem service losses.“ /Science of The Total Environment/ 586 (2017): 985-994.
Erb, Karl-Heinz, Christian Lauk, *Thomas Kastner*, Andreas Mayer, Michaela Clarissa Theurl, and Helmut Haberl. “Exploring the Biophysical Option Space for Feeding the World without Deforestation.” /Nature Communications/ 7. (2016): 11382.
Henders, Sabine, U. Martin Persson, and *Thomas Kastner*. „Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of forest-risk commodities.“ /Environmental Research Letters/ 10, no. 12 (2015): 125012.
*Kastner, Thomas*, Karl-Heinz Erb, and Helmut Haberl. “Rapid Growth in Agricultural Trade: Effects on Global Area Efficiency and the Role of Management.” /Environmental Research Letters/ 9, no. 3 (2014): 034015.
*Kastner, Thomas*, Maria Jose Ibarrola Rivas, Wolfgang Koch, and Sanderine Nonhebel. “Global Changes in Diets and the Consequences for Land Requirements for Food.” /Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/ 109, no. 18 (2012): 6868–6872.
*Kastner, Thomas*, Michael Kastner, and Sanderine Nonhebel. “Tracing Distant Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Products from a Consumer Perspective.” /Ecological Economics/ 70, no. 6 (2011): 1032–1040.
Prof. Dr. Flurina Schneider
Professor for social ecology and transdisciplinarity; scientific director of ISOE- Institute for Social-Ecological Research