Thomas Knoke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1577563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Knoke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Knoke |
| SIGNATURE | KNOKE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technical University of Munich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0535-5946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Balancing biodiversity and economics
Biodiversity loss threatens forest ecosystem stability and functioning, while measures to enhance biodiversity trade-off with economic performance. Native tree-species mixtures are promoted to support associated taxa but usually underperform economically compared to non-native species, both in pure and admixed stands. Quantifying ecological–economic trade-offs remains challenging due to uncertainties in economic and biodiversity indicators. Using…
Towards operational tree-level timber quality and volume estimation using UAV multi-sensor remote sensing
Forests provide numerous ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, water purification, and serving recreational needs. However, many forest owners regard their forest primarily as a capital asset, intended to provide timber. Adapted forest management is required to ensure sustained provision of ecosystem services even under fastening climate change, which can strongly benefit from high-quality data. To facilitate that, some manual techn…
How to assess the contribution of forests and wood use to climate change mitigation
The impact of extreme disturbance events on the economic attractiveness of stand types
Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions
The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land‐use–biodiversity models
Current approaches to project spatial biodiversity responses to climate change mainly focus on the direct effects of climate on species while regarding land use and land cover as constant or prescribed by global land‐use scenarios. However, local land‐use decisions are often affected by climate change and biodiversity on top of socioeconomic and policy drivers. To realistically understand and predict climate impacts on biodiversity, it is, theref…
Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions
Reducing global forest losses is essential to mitigate climate change and its associated social costs. Multiple market and non-market factors can enhance or reduce forest loss. Here, to understand the role of non-market factors (for example, policies, climate anomalies or conflicts), we can compare observed trends to a reference (expected) scenario that excludes non-market factors. We define an expected scenario by simulating land-use decisions s…
Confronting sustainable intensification with uncertainty and extreme values on smallholder tropical farms
Sustainable intensification of agricultural lands might reconcile the conservation of tropical forest with food production, but in-depth assessments considering uncertainty and extreme values are missing. Uncertainty prohibits mapping probabilities to potential future states or ranking these states in terms of their likelihood. This in turn hampers the assessment of possible decision outcomes. Here, we use simulations to investigate how uncertain…
The influence of discounting ecosystem services in robust multi-objective optimization – An application to a forestry-avocado land-use portfolio
Discounting is standard in economics to consider time preferences of people and account for future market changes. However, so far discounting has mainly been applied to monetary flows and ignored for many ecosystem services. In multi-objective optimization, selectively disregarding time preference for some non-monetary services create bias. Here we study how discounting a range of ecosystem service indicators influences a public planner's optima…
Economic losses from natural disturbances in Norway spruce forests – A quantification using Monte-Carlo simulations
Monitoring of Urban Growth Patterns in Rapidly Growing Bahir Dar City of Northwest Ethiopia with 30 year Landsat Imagery Record
Monitoring urban growth patterns is an important measure to improve our understanding of land use/land cover (LULC) changes and a central part in the proper development of any city. In this study, we analyzed the changes over a period of 30 years (1985–2015) in Bahir Dar, one of the rapidly growing cities of northwest Ethiopia. Satellite images of Landsat TM (1985, 1995, and 2008), and OLI (2015) were used. The classification was carried out usin…
Use and misuse of the net present value in environmental studies
How considering multiple criteria, uncertainty scenarios and biological interactions may influence the optimal silvicultural strategy for a mixed forest
Economic impact of growth effects in mixed stands of Norway spruce and European beech – A simulation based study
Cropping systems are homogenized by off-farm income – Empirical evidence from small-scale farming systems in dry forests of southern Ecuador
A critical view on benefit-cost analyses of silvicultural management options with declining discount rates
Livelihood strategies, ethnicity and rural income
Changes of ecosystem service values in response to land use/land cover dynamics in Munessa–Shashemene landscape of the Ethiopian highlands
A portfolio analysis of incentive programmes for conservation, restoration and timber plantations in Southern Ecuador
Banning goats could exacerbate deforestation of the Ecuadorian dry forest – How the effectiveness of conservation payments is influenced by productive use options
Due to ongoing conversion of the dry forests of southern Ecuador to pasture and farmland, they are among the most threatened ecosystems globally. This study explored how to control deforestation in the region while securing the livelihoods of local people through land-use diversification and compensation payments. Results are based on interview data collected from 163 households near the Laipuna Reserve in southern Ecuador. Combining modern finan…
Optimizing agricultural land-use portfolios with scarce data—A non-stochastic model
The theory of portfolio selection has often been applied to help improve economic decisions about the environment. Applying this theory requires information on the covariance of uncertain returns between all combinations of the economic options and also assumes that returns are normally distributed. As it is usually difficult to fulfill all data requirements and assumptions, this paper proposes a variant of robust portfolio optimization as an alt…
Financially optimized management planning under risk aversion results in even-flow sustained timber yield
The influence of the oil price on timber supply
Food production and climate protection—What abandoned lands can do to preserve natural forests
Cost-effective compensation to avoid carbon emissions from forest loss
Livelihood strategies, ethnicity and rural income
Investment decisions under uncertainty—A methodological review on forest science studies
Optimizing agricultural land-use portfolios with scarce data—A non-stochastic model
The theory of portfolio selection has often been applied to help improve economic decisions about the environment. Applying this theory requires information on the covariance of uncertain returns between all combinations of the economic options and also assumes that returns are normally distributed. As it is usually difficult to fulfill all data requirements and assumptions, this paper proposes a variant of robust portfolio optimization as an alt…
Cropping systems are homogenized by off-farm income – Empirical evidence from small-scale farming systems in dry forests of southern Ecuador
Financially optimized management planning under risk aversion results in even-flow sustained timber yield
Food production and climate protection—What abandoned lands can do to preserve natural forests
Confronting sustainable intensification with uncertainty and extreme values on smallholder tropical farms
Sustainable intensification of agricultural lands might reconcile the conservation of tropical forest with food production, but in-depth assessments considering uncertainty and extreme values are missing. Uncertainty prohibits mapping probabilities to potential future states or ranking these states in terms of their likelihood. This in turn hampers the assessment of possible decision outcomes. Here, we use simulations to investigate how uncertain…
Economic impact of growth effects in mixed stands of Norway spruce and European beech – A simulation based study
A portfolio analysis of incentive programmes for conservation, restoration and timber plantations in Southern Ecuador
On the effect of volatile stumpage prices on the economic attractiveness of a silvicultural transformation strategy
Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions
How considering multiple criteria, uncertainty scenarios and biological interactions may influence the optimal silvicultural strategy for a mixed forest
The influence of the oil price on timber supply
On the effect of volatile stumpage prices on the economic attractiveness of a silvicultural transformation strategy
Timber harvesting versus forest reserves—producer prices for open-use areas in German beech forests (Fagus sylvatica L.)
Mixed forests and finance — Methodological approaches
Optimizing the shares of native tree species in forest plantations with biased financial parameters
Effectiveness and distributional impacts of payments for reduced carbon emissions from
This paper analyses the effectiveness and distributional effects of payments to avoid tropical deforestation. As a first aspect, we investigated whether or not expected payments for avoided deforestation would be acceptable for tropical farmers in Southern Ecuador, with the study area located directly adjacent to the Podocarpus National Park. Second, we explored possible distributional effects resulting from voluntary or mandatory remuneration sc…
Investment decisions under uncertainty—A methodological review on forest science studies
Cost-effective compensation to avoid carbon emissions from forest loss
Financial consequences of losing admixed tree species
The influence of the oil price on timber supply
Food production and climate protection—What abandoned lands can do to preserve natural forests
Financially optimized management planning under risk aversion results in even-flow sustained timber yield
Banning goats could exacerbate deforestation of the Ecuadorian dry forest – How the effectiveness of conservation payments is influenced by productive use options
Due to ongoing conversion of the dry forests of southern Ecuador to pasture and farmland, they are among the most threatened ecosystems globally. This study explored how to control deforestation in the region while securing the livelihoods of local people through land-use diversification and compensation payments. Results are based on interview data collected from 163 households near the Laipuna Reserve in southern Ecuador. Combining modern finan…
Optimizing agricultural land-use portfolios with scarce data—A non-stochastic model
The theory of portfolio selection has often been applied to help improve economic decisions about the environment. Applying this theory requires information on the covariance of uncertain returns between all combinations of the economic options and also assumes that returns are normally distributed. As it is usually difficult to fulfill all data requirements and assumptions, this paper proposes a variant of robust portfolio optimization as an alt…
Changes of ecosystem service values in response to land use/land cover dynamics in Munessa–Shashemene landscape of the Ethiopian highlands
A portfolio analysis of incentive programmes for conservation, restoration and timber plantations in Southern Ecuador
A critical view on benefit-cost analyses of silvicultural management options with declining discount rates
Livelihood strategies, ethnicity and rural income
Economic impact of growth effects in mixed stands of Norway spruce and European beech – A simulation based study
Cropping systems are homogenized by off-farm income – Empirical evidence from small-scale farming systems in dry forests of southern Ecuador
Monitoring of Urban Growth Patterns in Rapidly Growing Bahir Dar City of Northwest Ethiopia with 30 year Landsat Imagery Record
Monitoring urban growth patterns is an important measure to improve our understanding of land use/land cover (LULC) changes and a central part in the proper development of any city. In this study, we analyzed the changes over a period of 30 years (1985–2015) in Bahir Dar, one of the rapidly growing cities of northwest Ethiopia. Satellite images of Landsat TM (1985, 1995, and 2008), and OLI (2015) were used. The classification was carried out usin…
Use and misuse of the net present value in environmental studies
How considering multiple criteria, uncertainty scenarios and biological interactions may influence the optimal silvicultural strategy for a mixed forest
Economic losses from natural disturbances in Norway spruce forests – A quantification using Monte-Carlo simulations
Confronting sustainable intensification with uncertainty and extreme values on smallholder tropical farms
Sustainable intensification of agricultural lands might reconcile the conservation of tropical forest with food production, but in-depth assessments considering uncertainty and extreme values are missing. Uncertainty prohibits mapping probabilities to potential future states or ranking these states in terms of their likelihood. This in turn hampers the assessment of possible decision outcomes. Here, we use simulations to investigate how uncertain…
The influence of discounting ecosystem services in robust multi-objective optimization – An application to a forestry-avocado land-use portfolio
Discounting is standard in economics to consider time preferences of people and account for future market changes. However, so far discounting has mainly been applied to monetary flows and ignored for many ecosystem services. In multi-objective optimization, selectively disregarding time preference for some non-monetary services create bias. Here we study how discounting a range of ecosystem service indicators influences a public planner's optima…
Economics (24 works) · Forest Management and Policy (21 works) · Geography (20 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (16 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Environmental Science (15 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 works) · Forest ecology and management (13 works) · Forestry (13 works) · Business (12 works)