Prof. Dr. Martin Welp

Professur Sozioökonomie und Kommunikation

Teaching area / fields of activity

Global Change Management (M.Sc.)
Wintersemester
    •    Condition and Tools: Change Management
    •    Objects and Dynamics: Global Systems Analysis
    •    Scientific Writing and Presenting

Sommersemester
    •    Response Strategies: Adaptation to Global Change
    •    Response Strategies: Mitigation of Global Change
    •    Natural Resource Management in Transformation Countries
    •    Research Colloquium

Forest Information Technology (M.Sc.)
Wintersemester
    •    Project Planning & Management
    •    Scientific Writing and Presenting

International Forest Ecosystem Management (B.Sc.)
Wintersemester
    •    Introduction to Socioeconomics
    •    Intercultural Communication
    •    Social Survey Methods

Sommersemester
    •    Social forestry & Extension Methods
    •    Project-based Conservation and Land-use Management

Forstwissenschaft (B.Sc.)
Wintersemester
    •    Kommunikation und Informationsmanagement
    •    Partizipatives Waldmanagement

Research areas

  • Socioeconomics and Communication
  • Social-ecological transformations with regional focus on Asia

Academic career

2000–2006

2000-2006 Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department of Global Change & Social Systems. Founding member and contact person of European Climate Forum (later renamed to Global Climate Forum)

1999–2000

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology at the Darmstadt University of Technology.

Project work a.o. at the Cooperation and Consultancy Point for Environmental Questions (Technical University Berlin), European Forest Institute (Joensuu, Finland), Service Centre for Development Cooperation (Helsinki) and Coalition for Environment and
Development (Helsinki).

1998

Doctoral Thesis at the Technical University Berlin, Institute for Management in Environmental Planning. Funded by the Academy of Finland and the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation.

1993

Masters Degree at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Land Use Economics.

Memberships & committee activities

Biosphere Reserves Institute

Centre of Econics and Ecosystem Management

Publications

2023

Perspektiven von Schlüsselakteuren auf das Potenzial der Agroforstwirtschaft in Nordostdeutschland

Litschel, Johannes ; Berendt, Ferréol ; Welp, Martin ; Cremer, Tobias

 

2023

Key Actors’ Perspectives on Agroforestry’s Potential in North Eastern Germany

Litschel, Johannes ; Berendt, Ferréol ; Wagner, Hanna ; Heidenreich, Simon ; Bauer, David ; Welp, Martin ; Cremer, Tobias

 

2022

In Search for the Optimal Forest Use Behaviour: Riparian Forest Use in Central Asia, Using the Example of Ak-Tal, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan

Missall, Siegmund ; Welp, Martin ; Mehta, Kedar ; Degembaeva, Nadira ; Akmatov, Kuban ; Zörner, Wilfried

 

2022

Mit regenerativen Materialien zur Brandenburger Bauwende?

Litschel, Johannes ; Berendt, Ferréol ; Cremer, Tobias ; Welp, Martin

 

2022

Spatial distribution patterns of trunk internal decay of Euphrates poplar riparian forest along the Tarim River, northwest China

Wei, Zhicheng ; Halik, Ümüt ; Aishan, Tayierjiang ; Abliz, Abdulla ; Welp, Martin

 

2022

Potential of Agroforestry to Provide Wood Resources to Central Asia

Thevs, Niels ; Aliev, Kumar ; Emileva, Begayim ; Yuldasheva, Dilfuza ; Eshchanova, Guzal ; Welp, Martin

 

2021

Sustainable land-use alternatives for the Tarim Basin

Rouzi, Aihemaitijiang ; Halik, Ümüt ; Cyffka, Bernd ; Welp, Martin ; Thevs, Niels ; Aishan, Tayierjiang

 

2021

Stakeholder management

Welp, Martin ; Yiliminuer

 

2021

Spatiotemporal investigation of the interactive coercing relationship between urbanization and ecosystem services in arid northwestern China

Shi, Lei ; Halik, Ümüt ; Mamat, Zulpiya ; Aishan, Tayierjiang ; Abliz, Abdulla ; Welp, Martin

 

2021

Policy recommendations

Döll, Petra ; Bolch, Tobias ; Cyffka, Bernd ; Disse, Markus ; Doluschnitz, Rainer ; Halik, Ümüt ; Huang, Shaochun ; Yiliminuer ; Kügel, Benno ; Krysanova, Valentina ; Stahr, Karl ; Thomas, Frank M. ; Welp, Martin

 

2020

Urban Green Space Accessibility and Distribution Equity in an Arid Oasis City: Urumqi, China

Shi, Lei ; Halik, Ümüt ; Abliz, Abdulla ; Mamat, Zulpiya ; Welp, Martin

 

2020

Farmers’ Perceptions of Tree Shelterbelts on Agricultural Land in Rural Kyrgyzstan

Ruppert, Daniel ; Welp, Martin ; Spies, Michael ; Thevs, Niels

 

2020

Coupling analysis of the major impact on sustainable development of the typical arid region of Turpan in Northwest China

Sun, Lingxiao ; Yu, Xiang ; Li, Boshan ; Zhang, Haiyan ; Sha, Dong ; Wang, Yao ; Lei, Jiaqiang ; Yu, Yang ; Welp, Martin ; Yu, Ruide

 

2020

Climate change in Central Asia: Sino-German cooperative research findings

 Yu, Yang ; Chen, Xi ; Disse, Markus ; Cyffka, Bernd ; Lei, Jiaqiang ; Zhang, Haiyan ; Brieden, Andreas ; Welp, Martin ; Abuduwaili, Jilili ; Li, Yaoming ; Zeng, Fanjiang ; Gui, Dongwei ; Thevs, Niels ; Ta, Zhijie ; Gao, Xin ; Pi, Yuanyue ; Yu, Xiang ; Sun, Lingxiao ; Yu, Ruide