Beate Jessel

Beate Jessel, 2007

Beate Jessel (born May 25, 1962 in Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt ) is a German state nurse and has been President of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) since November 2007 .

Life

Jessel studied land maintenance at the Technical University of Munich from 1982 to 1989 . Then she worked in the planning office of Prof. Schaller-Kranzberg near Freising. From 1992 to 1999 Jessel was head of the "Ecologically Oriented Planning" department at the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in Laufen / Salzach. In 1998 she received her doctorate. agr. with the topic "Landscapes as an object of planning. Considerations on the theory of ecologically oriented planning" with Wolfgang Haber at the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan .

In 1999 she was appointed professor for landscape planning at the University of Potsdam at the Institute for Geoecology. In 2006 she moved to the Technical University of Munich to the chair for "Strategy and Management of Landscape Development" financed by the Allianz Foundation.

Committee work

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Alexander König Zoological Research Museum - Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity (ZFMK) in Bonn
Member of the board of the working group of departmental research institutions
Co-editor of the magazine GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Member of the board of the German Association for Water Management, Sewage and Waste eV (DWA)

Political positions

Construction projects

In 2013, Jessel criticized that nature conservation was also used to prevent unpleasant building projects. (2013)

energy transition

With regard to the energy transition , Jessel called for an open discussion about the consequences for nature and the landscape. Until the phasing out of nuclear energy "guidelines" should be defined for nature and landscape. When building new power lines , a precise assessment of the demand and then a careful route selection is necessary. When expanding offshore wind power on the high seas, attention must be paid to the locations in order not to harm whales and sea birds.

With regard to the cultivation of biomass , Jessel required sustainability criteria in 2011 . As a rule, maize is grown in monoculture and Jessel called for the cultivation of maize to be restricted in the crop rotation and the climate-relevant conversion of grassland to cultivation area for biomass to be prevented.

Large protected areas in Germany

In 2011, Jessel welcomed the discussion about a national park in Baden-Württemberg . In their opinion, further national parks need to be re-designated in Germany in order to achieve the five percent target of natural forest development in the National Biodiversity Strategy and to ensure that all large landscapes are exemplarily covered by national parks.

Insect death

In 2018, Jessel saw a connection between the predominant type of land management and insect death . (2018)

Publications (selection)

Beate Jessel, Olaf Tschimpke , Manfred Walser: Productive Power of Nature (2009)
The integration of environmental concerns in the decision-making of urban land-use planning and the stratification between different planning levels (2004)
Beate Jessel, Kai Tobias: Ecologically oriented planning: an introduction to theories, data and methods . University paperbacks ISBN 9783825222802 (2002)
The EIA - an instrument for improving environmental protection? (2001)
Implementation strategies and instruments for nature conservation and landscape management requirements (2000)
Landscapes as an object of planning (1998)

Web links

Commons : Beate Jessel - Collection of Images

Literature by and about Beate Jessel in the catalog of the German National Library
The enemy is called agricultural subsidies , Beate Jessel in a taz interview (23 May 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Professor Dr. Beate Jessel. www.bfn.de, accessed on July 19, 2018 .
↑ The compensatory environmentalist: Prof. Dr. Beate Jessel, President of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. www.swr.de, September 12, 2013, accessed on July 21, 2018 .
↑ Beate Jessel in an interview: Beate Jessel: Don't play off climate protection against nature conservation. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, May 14, 2011, accessed on July 21, 2018 .
↑ BfN President welcomes the national park initiative in Baden-Württemberg. www.bfn.de, September 21, 2011, accessed on July 21, 2018 .
↑ Jost Maurin: Nature Conservation Office on EU agricultural subsidies: “No more money for direct payments” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 31, 2018, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 1, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Search: Beate Jessel: Author of publications. portal.dnb.de, accessed on July 20, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Jessel, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German national curator and since November 2007 President of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt

[REF-BFN-DE-1] Professor Dr. Beate Jessel. www.bfn.de, accessed on July 19, 2018 .

[2] The compensatory environmentalist: Prof. Dr. Beate Jessel, President of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. www.swr.de, September 12, 2013, accessed on July 21, 2018 .

[3] Beate Jessel in an interview: Beate Jessel: Don't play off climate protection against nature conservation. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, May 14, 2011, accessed on July 21, 2018 .

[4] BfN President welcomes the national park initiative in Baden-Württemberg. www.bfn.de, September 21, 2011, accessed on July 21, 2018 .

[5] Jost Maurin: Nature Conservation Office on EU agricultural subsidies: “No more money for direct payments” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 31, 2018, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 1, 2018]).

[REF-DNB-DE-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Search: Beate Jessel: Author of publications. portal.dnb.de, accessed on July 20, 2018 .