Carola Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carola Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carola |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6257-2026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
Growing trees for the greater good – German agroforestry farmers are driven by self-transcendence values
Factors influencing the expressed willingness to transition from collection to cultivation of non-timber forest products
Simulation of silvicultural treatments based on real 3D forest data from mobile laser scanning point clouds
Forest management has a direct influence on the structure and stability of forests. In this study, we used the 3D data from mobile laser scanning in real forest stands dominated by European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) to simulate different silvicultural treatments and assess their impact on the structural complexity and short-term economic return. For the structural assessment, we used the box-dimension (Db), a holistic measure of structural compl…
Mechanical weeding enhances ecosystem multifunctionality and profit in industrial oil palm
Oil palm is the most productive oil crop, but its high productivity is associated with conventional management (that is, high fertilization rates and herbicide application), causing deleterious environmental impacts. Using a 2 2 factorial experiment, we assessed the effects of conventional vs reduced (equal to nutrients removed by fruit harvest) fertilization rates and herbicide vs mechanical weeding on ecosystem functions, biodiversity and profi…
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…
Quantifying the consequences of disturbances on wood revenues with Impulse Response Functions
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
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…
Edward de Vere (1550-1604)
Daphne Pearson has set out to build upon the foundations laid by H.E. Bell, Joel Hurstfield, and especially Lawrence Stone for a study of the fortunes of the nobility of Elizabethan England. Fairly she points out that there continues to be a great need for detailed case-studies against which to test Stone's broad claims for a Crisis of the Aristocracy, and in particular to illuminate the practice of wardship and its impact on landowners' incomes.…
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
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…
Quantifying the consequences of disturbances on wood revenues with Impulse Response Functions
Economic impact of growth effects in mixed stands of Norway spruce and European beech – A simulation based study
Factors influencing the expressed willingness to transition from collection to cultivation of non-timber forest products
How considering multiple criteria, uncertainty scenarios and biological interactions may influence the optimal silvicultural strategy for a mixed forest
Edward de Vere (1550-1604)
Daphne Pearson has set out to build upon the foundations laid by H.E. Bell, Joel Hurstfield, and especially Lawrence Stone for a study of the fortunes of the nobility of Elizabethan England. Fairly she points out that there continues to be a great need for detailed case-studies against which to test Stone's broad claims for a Crisis of the Aristocracy, and in particular to illuminate the practice of wardship and its impact on landowners' incomes.…
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…
A critical view on benefit-cost analyses of silvicultural management options with declining discount rates
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
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
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…
Quantifying the consequences of disturbances on wood revenues with Impulse Response Functions
Simulation of silvicultural treatments based on real 3D forest data from mobile laser scanning point clouds
Forest management has a direct influence on the structure and stability of forests. In this study, we used the 3D data from mobile laser scanning in real forest stands dominated by European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) to simulate different silvicultural treatments and assess their impact on the structural complexity and short-term economic return. For the structural assessment, we used the box-dimension (Db), a holistic measure of structural compl…
Mechanical weeding enhances ecosystem multifunctionality and profit in industrial oil palm
Oil palm is the most productive oil crop, but its high productivity is associated with conventional management (that is, high fertilization rates and herbicide application), causing deleterious environmental impacts. Using a 2 2 factorial experiment, we assessed the effects of conventional vs reduced (equal to nutrients removed by fruit harvest) fertilization rates and herbicide vs mechanical weeding on ecosystem functions, biodiversity and profi…
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…
Factors influencing the expressed willingness to transition from collection to cultivation of non-timber forest products
Growing trees for the greater good – German agroforestry farmers are driven by self-transcendence values
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…
Geography (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Environmental Science (10 works) · Forest Management and Policy (10 works) · Agroforestry (8 works) · Forestry (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 works)