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Madelene Ostwald

Associate Professor, Docent

How are land and forests managed, and how does it relate to desired outputs such as more products, reduced climate change, and more ecosystem services? In my research, I study the practitioner and the influence of policies, knowledge, and networks.

Land, forest and users in focus

Using forest and land to provide more products and generate positive effects, using it multifunctionally, has great support in science.

Multifunctional land use often delivers to a greater extent the effects demanded by national and international policies in the form of increased carbon sequestration, diversified products, increased biodiversity and resilience against unwanted weather events, changing prices or insect attacks. Nevertheless, it is difficult as a land user to change the production system from the business-as-usual practices as the business is dependent on, among other things, knowledge, inputs, buyers, income and security. How the forest owner, landowner or farmer does and changes their management in order to reach a higher degree of multifunctional land use is my research interest.

Publications

2023

Madelene Ostwald (2023) Klimatkompensation - ett omstritt svar på krisen
Martin Karlson, David Bolin, Hugues Roméo Bazié, Abraham Sotongo Ouedraogo, Boukary Soro, Josias Sanou, Jules Bayala, Madelene Ostwald (2023) Exploring the landscape scale influences of tree cover on crop yield in an agroforestry parkland using satellite data and spatial statistics Journal of Arid Environments, Vol. 218, Article 105051 Continue to DOI
Josias Sanou, Anna Tengberg, Hugues Roméo Bazié, David Mingasson, Madelene Ostwald (2023) Assessing Trade-Offs between Agricultural Productivity and Ecosystem Functions: A Review of Science-Based Tools? Land, Vol. 12, Article 1329 Continue to DOI

2022

Madelene Ostwald (2022) Proposal Mill för Formas 2022 Förslag på åtgärder för att stödja forskare att skriva bättre ansökningar

2021

Madelene Ostwald, Johan Uddling, Eva Lövbrand, Gunnar Köhlin, Björn-Ola Linnér, Cecilia Akselsson (2021) Klimatkompensation i svensk skog en dålig idé

Education and degrees

  • Associate Professor (Docent) in Geography especially Physical Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg. 2007.
  • PhD Geography especially Physical Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg. Thesis: Local protection of tropical dry natural forest, Orissa, India. 2000.
  • Masters Geography especially Physical Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg. 1995.

Engagement, networks and collaborations

Organisational affiliation