More and more people outside and inside academic specialisms are becoming aware of the pressing need to halt dramatic losses in biodiversity worldwide.
The EU H2020 project, FRAMEwork is mounting an ambitious response to these critical problems.
The project will create a Biodiversity Sensitive Farming System that will encourage and enable farmers to conserve biodiversity, promote a rebalancing of agriculture in a way
that capitalises on the value of native biodiversity, and
improve the capacity of farming to deliver food and
nutritional security in the face of climate change, disease pandemics and other pressures on the system.
Thomas Rellensmann
Osnabrück University (UOS)
PhD Researcher at Institute of Environmental Systems Research
Mr Rellensmann is a Ph.D. candidate in the FRAMEwork project. During his master’s research in Environmental Systems Science, he focused on drivers for and barriers to agri-environmental collaboration by contrasting the farmer cluster approach with prevalent approaches in decentralised natural resource management. His work within FRAMEwork foremost aims to design public incentives (i.e., agri-environmental schemes) that promote the concerted development and implementation of environmental measures on agricultural land on a landscape scale. Further research interests of Mr Rellensmann include the analysis and modelling of social-ecological-system dynamics, participatory resource management, and environmental policy.