Roland Olschewski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1414735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Olschewski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Olschewski |
| SIGNATURE | OLSCHEWSKI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3027-2897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards an ethical chocolate supply chain
The chocolate supply chain exemplifies the social and environmental challenges within global food systems. Growing awareness of environmental impact and ethical production practices is increasingly shaping consumer choices and influencing food policy. This highlights the need for an integrated approach to determine consumption preferences and policy support. A discrete choice experiment with Swiss citizens (N = 1102), analyzed through a latent cl…
Analyzing citizens' preferences for sufficiency policy in municipalities — An experimental approach
Sufficiency policies address unsustainable consumption and production patterns by promoting ways of living and economies that prioritize “enough” over “more,” reducing resource use while safeguarding fundamental human needs. Public support is crucial for the effective implementation of sufficiency policies, yet empirical research on citizens' preferences and their underlying mechanisms remains scarce—particularly concerning quantitative studies a…
Determining future climate services of the Swiss forest and wood sector
The Paris Agreement, designed to limit global temperature rise, has led signatory countries to adopt net-zero emission targets. In Switzerland, this target is set for 2050. The forest and wood sector (FWS) can contribute to achieving it through various climate services: carbon sequestration in forests, carbon storage in harvested wood products, and the substitution of energy-intensive materials and fossil fuels with wood. However, the services' f…
Agroecosystem services
Agricultural ecosystems managed by farmers provide and receive multiple ecosystem services that are essential to sustain human well‐being. Understanding how agricultural production systems generate agroecosystem services is as important as gaining deeper insights into how farmers perceive and value them to ensure the adoption and implementation of sustainable agricultural practices. We conducted a comprehensive review and in‐depth analysis of exi…
Preferences for proactive and reactive climate-adaptive forest management and the role of public financial support
The impacts of climate change threaten forest ecosystems and the services they provide. Policies and measures to make forests more resilient to climate-change-induced disturbances are needed, but the success of such efforts depends on their acceptance among forest owners and managers. Based on a discrete choice experiment survey among Swiss forest owners and managers in the canton of Bern, we analysed whether respondents prefer (i) proactive over…
Mainstreaming biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people in Europe and Central Asia
Recent global and regional assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) show that Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are under an alarming threat due to the continuing loss of biodiversity. These assessments call for increasing conservation efforts and a more sustainable use of biodiversity to enhance the chances of halting biodiversity loss and reversing current trends. One of th…
Allowing for compensating lost habitats in the forest
Forested land can play a critical role as a possible area for biodiversity offsetting projects. This would reduce the pressure on agricultural land caused by spreading settlement area and related offsetting requirements. This raises the following question: to what extent have offset regulation and clearance compensation rules become more flexible to allow for compensation projects in the forest due to increased land-use conflicts? To address this…
Optimizing rotation periods of forest plantations
Determining the insurance value of ecosystems
Forest ecosystems provide multiple services. In mountainous regions, protection against gravitational hazards is of particular importance. By preventing soil erosion and functioning as natural barriers and buffers, forests protect the population and infrastructure against avalanches and rock falls. The higher the forests' capacity to regulate and withstand external disturbances and adverse effects the higher the insurance value they provide. To o…
Bringing the neighbors in
Policy Forum
An agent-based model of wood markets
Physical soil protection in forests - insights from production-, industrial- and institutional economics
Avalanche protection by forests — A choice experiment in the Swiss Alps
The Ecosystem Service Controversy
An almond orchard in full bloom.If pollination rarely limits crop production -as Jaboury Ghazoul postulates in his recent GAIA article -, then why do so many farmers in the world, and especially Californian almond farmers
Economic analysis of closing degraded Boswellia papyrifera dry forest from human interventions — A study from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Economic Evaluation of Pollination Services Comparing Coffee Landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia
Olschewski, R., T. Tscharntke, P. C. Benítez, S. Schwarze, and A. Klein. 2006. Economic evaluation of pollination services comparing coffee landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia. Ecology and Society 11(1): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01629-110107
Secondary forests as temporary carbon sinks? The economic impact of accounting methods on reforestation projects in the tropics
The Ecological and Economic Potential of Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Costs of reforestation projects determine their competitiveness with alternative measures to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We quantify carbon sequestration in above-ground biomass and soils of plantation forests and secondary forests in two countries in South America-Ecuador and Argentina-and calculate costs of temporary carbon sequestration. Costs per temporary certified emission reduction unit vary between 0.1 and 2.7 USD Mg(-…
The Ecological and Economic Potential of Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Costs of reforestation projects determine their competitiveness with alternative measures to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We quantify carbon sequestration in above-ground biomass and soils of plantation forests and secondary forests in two countries in South America—Ecuador and Argentina—and calculate costs of temporary carbon sequestration. Costs per temporary certified emission reduction unit vary between 0.1 and 2.7 USD Mg−1…
Bringing the neighbors in
Determining the insurance value of ecosystems
Forest ecosystems provide multiple services. In mountainous regions, protection against gravitational hazards is of particular importance. By preventing soil erosion and functioning as natural barriers and buffers, forests protect the population and infrastructure against avalanches and rock falls. The higher the forests' capacity to regulate and withstand external disturbances and adverse effects the higher the insurance value they provide. To o…
An agent-based model of wood markets
Economic analysis of closing degraded Boswellia papyrifera dry forest from human interventions — A study from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Allowing for compensating lost habitats in the forest
Forested land can play a critical role as a possible area for biodiversity offsetting projects. This would reduce the pressure on agricultural land caused by spreading settlement area and related offsetting requirements. This raises the following question: to what extent have offset regulation and clearance compensation rules become more flexible to allow for compensation projects in the forest due to increased land-use conflicts? To address this…
Avalanche protection by forests — A choice experiment in the Swiss Alps
Economic Evaluation of Pollination Services Comparing Coffee Landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia
Olschewski, R., T. Tscharntke, P. C. Benítez, S. Schwarze, and A. Klein. 2006. Economic evaluation of pollination services comparing coffee landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia. Ecology and Society 11(1): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01629-110107
The Ecological and Economic Potential of Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Costs of reforestation projects determine their competitiveness with alternative measures to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We quantify carbon sequestration in above-ground biomass and soils of plantation forests and secondary forests in two countries in South America—Ecuador and Argentina—and calculate costs of temporary carbon sequestration. Costs per temporary certified emission reduction unit vary between 0.1 and 2.7 USD Mg−1…
Secondary forests as temporary carbon sinks? The economic impact of accounting methods on reforestation projects in the tropics
The Ecological and Economic Potential of Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Costs of reforestation projects determine their competitiveness with alternative measures to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We quantify carbon sequestration in above-ground biomass and soils of plantation forests and secondary forests in two countries in South America-Ecuador and Argentina-and calculate costs of temporary carbon sequestration. Costs per temporary certified emission reduction unit vary between 0.1 and 2.7 USD Mg(-…
The Ecological and Economic Potential of Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Costs of reforestation projects determine their competitiveness with alternative measures to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We quantify carbon sequestration in above-ground biomass and soils of plantation forests and secondary forests in two countries in South America—Ecuador and Argentina—and calculate costs of temporary carbon sequestration. Costs per temporary certified emission reduction unit vary between 0.1 and 2.7 USD Mg−1…
Economic analysis of closing degraded Boswellia papyrifera dry forest from human interventions — A study from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Economic Evaluation of Pollination Services Comparing Coffee Landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia
Olschewski, R., T. Tscharntke, P. C. Benítez, S. Schwarze, and A. Klein. 2006. Economic evaluation of pollination services comparing coffee landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia. Ecology and Society 11(1): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01629-110107
The Ecosystem Service Controversy
An almond orchard in full bloom.If pollination rarely limits crop production -as Jaboury Ghazoul postulates in his recent GAIA article -, then why do so many farmers in the world, and especially Californian almond farmers
Avalanche protection by forests — A choice experiment in the Swiss Alps
Physical soil protection in forests - insights from production-, industrial- and institutional economics
Policy Forum
An agent-based model of wood markets
Bringing the neighbors in
Optimizing rotation periods of forest plantations
Determining the insurance value of ecosystems
Forest ecosystems provide multiple services. In mountainous regions, protection against gravitational hazards is of particular importance. By preventing soil erosion and functioning as natural barriers and buffers, forests protect the population and infrastructure against avalanches and rock falls. The higher the forests' capacity to regulate and withstand external disturbances and adverse effects the higher the insurance value they provide. To o…
Mainstreaming biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people in Europe and Central Asia
Recent global and regional assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) show that Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are under an alarming threat due to the continuing loss of biodiversity. These assessments call for increasing conservation efforts and a more sustainable use of biodiversity to enhance the chances of halting biodiversity loss and reversing current trends. One of th…
Allowing for compensating lost habitats in the forest
Forested land can play a critical role as a possible area for biodiversity offsetting projects. This would reduce the pressure on agricultural land caused by spreading settlement area and related offsetting requirements. This raises the following question: to what extent have offset regulation and clearance compensation rules become more flexible to allow for compensation projects in the forest due to increased land-use conflicts? To address this…
Agroecosystem services
Agricultural ecosystems managed by farmers provide and receive multiple ecosystem services that are essential to sustain human well‐being. Understanding how agricultural production systems generate agroecosystem services is as important as gaining deeper insights into how farmers perceive and value them to ensure the adoption and implementation of sustainable agricultural practices. We conducted a comprehensive review and in‐depth analysis of exi…
Preferences for proactive and reactive climate-adaptive forest management and the role of public financial support
The impacts of climate change threaten forest ecosystems and the services they provide. Policies and measures to make forests more resilient to climate-change-induced disturbances are needed, but the success of such efforts depends on their acceptance among forest owners and managers. Based on a discrete choice experiment survey among Swiss forest owners and managers in the canton of Bern, we analysed whether respondents prefer (i) proactive over…
Towards an ethical chocolate supply chain
The chocolate supply chain exemplifies the social and environmental challenges within global food systems. Growing awareness of environmental impact and ethical production practices is increasingly shaping consumer choices and influencing food policy. This highlights the need for an integrated approach to determine consumption preferences and policy support. A discrete choice experiment with Swiss citizens (N = 1102), analyzed through a latent cl…
Analyzing citizens' preferences for sufficiency policy in municipalities — An experimental approach
Sufficiency policies address unsustainable consumption and production patterns by promoting ways of living and economies that prioritize “enough” over “more,” reducing resource use while safeguarding fundamental human needs. Public support is crucial for the effective implementation of sufficiency policies, yet empirical research on citizens' preferences and their underlying mechanisms remains scarce—particularly concerning quantitative studies a…
Determining future climate services of the Swiss forest and wood sector
The Paris Agreement, designed to limit global temperature rise, has led signatory countries to adopt net-zero emission targets. In Switzerland, this target is set for 2050. The forest and wood sector (FWS) can contribute to achieving it through various climate services: carbon sequestration in forests, carbon storage in harvested wood products, and the substitution of energy-intensive materials and fossil fuels with wood. However, the services' f…
Economics (15 works) · Forest Management and Policy (14 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 works) · Ecosystem (10 works) · Ecosystem services (10 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works)