Hermann Lotze-Camping

Hermann Lotze-Campen (born February 23, 1966 in Norden ) is a German agricultural scientist and sustainability researcher . He is Professor of Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change at the Humboldt University in Berlin and heads Research Area II (“Climate Impact and Vulnerability”) at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , funded by the Bayer Foundation . Clarivate Analytics counts him among the most cited researchers in the world.

Life

Lotze-Campen completed an apprenticeship as a farmer. He studied agricultural science and economics at the Universities of Kiel, Reading and Minnesota. In 1998 he received his doctorate in agricultural economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin.

He is married and has two children.

Act

Lotze-Camping's research deals with the contradiction between increasing food consumption and sustainability .

In the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis , Lotze-Campen advocates a significant reduction in meat consumption and an increase in funding for research into plant-based alternatives to meat .

Publications (selection)

• Alberte Bondeau , Pascalle C. Smith , Sönke Zaehle , Sibyll Schaphoff , Wolfgang Lucht , Wolfgang Cramer , Dieter Gerten , Hermann Lotze-Campen, Christoph Müller , Markus Reichstein and Benjamin Smith : Modeling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance . In: Global Change Biology . Volume 13, No. 3, 2007, pp. 679-706, doi: 10.1111 / j.1365-2486.2006.01305.x
• Hermann Lotze ‐ Campen, Christoph Müller , Alberte Bondeau , Stefanie Rost , Alexander Popp and Wolfgang Lucht : Global food demand, productivity growth, and the scarcity of land and water resources: a spatially explicit mathematical programming approach. In: Agricultural Economics . Volume 39, No. 3, 2008, pp. 325-338, doi: 10.1111 / j.1574-0862.2008.00336.x
• Alexander Popp , Hermann Lotze-Campen and Benjamin Bodirsky : Food consumption, diet shifts and associated non-CO2 greenhouse gases from agricultural production. In: Global Environmental Change . Volume 20, No. 3, 2010, pp. 451-462, doi: 10.1016 / j.gloenvcha.2010.02.001

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curriculum vitae. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , accessed on August 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Prof. Dr. Hermann Lotze-Camping. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, accessed on August 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Sustainable land use and climate change. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Ten PIK researchers among the most influential scientists worldwide . PIK press release. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
5. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers 2018 . Clarivate Analytics . Retrieved December 12, 2018.
6. ↑ Maria Mast: If climate researchers would rule the world. In: Zeit Online . December 11, 2018, accessed August 1, 2019 .