Thomas Korbun

Thomas Korbun at the screening of Scientists for Future in the Delphi cinema

Thomas Korbun (* 1968 ) is a biologist and Scientific Director of the Institute for Ecological Economic Research (IÖW) in Berlin.

Career

Thomas Korbun studied biology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1989 to 1992 . In 1992 he moved to the Philipps University in Marburg , where he majored in scientific nature conservation and in the minor subjects zoology , public law and psychology . In 1996 Korbun got his diploma in biology there. From 1996 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the University of Marburg in the field of scientific nature conservation and also scientific coordinator of a joint project in the field of agricultural landscape research in Brandenburg funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Federal Environmental Foundation. In 1998 he was also a research assistant at the State Institute for Large Protected Areas of the State of Brandenburg (LAGS) in Eberswalde. Korbun has been the Scientific Director of the IÖW in Berlin since 1999. The focus of his work is on research policy and research management, sustainability strategies and nature conservation. Korbun has also been the spokesman for the Ecological Research Network (Ecornet) since 2011 . Korbun is also a member of the board of the Association for Ecological Economic Research eV (VÖW).

Publications

Thomas Korbun, Alexandra Dehnhardt: Open your eyes and through. The turnaround in agriculture needs staying power . In: Ecological Economy . tape 1/01 , 2001, pp. 4 .
Jan Nil, Ingo Einacker, Thomas Korbun, Ralf Nordbeck, Alexander Peine: Sustainability Strategies . Exploring new approaches of innovative long-term political strategies and results of an empirical deepening in the field of mobility and transport . Series of IÖW 158/01, Berlin 2001 ( ioew.de [PDF]).

Harald Plachter, Eckhard Heidt, Thomas Korbun, Oliver Tackenberg: Methods for defining nature conservation goals in agricultural landscapes . In: Nature conservation in the agricultural landscape . Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2002, p. 101-140 .

Jan Nill, Ingo Einacker, Thomas Korbun, Ralf Nordbeck, Alexander Peine: Political strategies for a sustainable dynamic of social-ecological transformations .

Thomas Korbun, Jan Nill: The year of innovations lacks the goal . In: Ecological Economy . tape 2/04 , 2004, pp. 4 .

Niels Kohlschütter, Thomas Korbun, Michael Steinfeldt: Why organic schnitzel is pork expensive . In: Ecology & Agriculture . tape 3/2004 , 2004, p. 53-54 .

Thomas Korbun, Michael Steinfeld, Niels Kohlschütter: The real price for a schnitzel . In: Ecological Economy . tape 2/04 , 2004, pp. 5 .

Thomas Korbun, Michael Steinfeldt, Niels Kohlschütter, Sandra Naumann, Guido Nischwitz, Jesko Hirschfeld, Sabine Walter: What does a schnitzel really cost? tape 171/04 . IÖW series of publications, 2004 ( ioew.de [PDF]).

Harald Plachter, Thomas Korbun: A methodological primer for the determination of nature conservation targets in agricultural landscapes . In: Martin Flade, Harald Placher, Rolf Schmidt, Werner Arnim (eds.): Nature Conservation in Agricultural Landscape . Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2006.

Jesko Hirschfeld, Julika Weiß, Marcin Preidl, Thomas Korbun: Climate Impacts of Agriculture in Germany . Series of publications by the IÖW 186/08, Berlin 2008 ( ioew.de [PDF]).

Jesko Hirschfeld, Julika Weiß, Marcin Preidl, Thomas Korbun: The Impact of German Agriculture on the Climate . In: Commissioned by foodwatch eV series of IÖW 189/08, Berlin 2008 ( ioew.de [PDF]).

Jesko Hirschfeld, Julika Weiß, Thomas Korbun: Climate Protection and Sustainable Land Use - Approaches to a Climate- Friendly Agricultural Policy . In: Ecological Economy . No. 01/09 . Munich 2009, p. 15-16 .

Jesko Hirschfeld, Julika Weiß, Thomas Korbun: Underestimated Potentials: Climate Effects of Conventional and Organic Agriculture . In: Agrarbündnis eV (Ed.): The critical agricultural report 2009 . ABL-Verlag, Hamma 2009, p. 52-58 .

Reinhard Pfriem, Uwe Schneidewind, Jonathan Barth, Silja Graupe, Thomas Korbun: Transformative economics in the context of sustainable development . Metropolis Verlag, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7316-1286-5 .