The working team provides scientific and technical support in the field of sustainable land use. Our main research topics are agri-environmental analysis and biomass analyses from agriculture and forestry. Special emphasis is given to develop methodological approaches for analysing key-environmental impacts of bioenergy production in Europe. Therefore we use geostatistical methods referring to the European, national and regional level.

Our current subjects are listed below:

• update of agri-environmental indicators
  
• analyses of regional bioenergy potential:
  • GIS-based modelling of biomass potential considering crop rotation, soil fertility and carbon balance
  • Sustainable straw use for biofuel production
  • development of GIS-based methods for biomass potential analyses of grassland
• investigation of short rotation coppices: installation of field trials, development of site specific management systems, yield modelling of SRC: BIODEM - Trial and demonstration plots for the cultivation of fast-growing tree species in short-rotation coppice
  
• energy wood logistics: investigation and optimisation of regional value chains
  
• landscape planning & bioenergy: landscape scenery analyses, regional bioenergy development planning
  
• bioenergy for transport and heat: market analyses, business models, feasibility analyses
  
• Master Class Course Conference “Renewable Energies”
  
• BIOBRA - Joined Research Project Biochar Brandenburg