Michael Beckmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Beckmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckmann |
| SIGNATURE | BECKMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7319-6938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The use of implementation mapping in healthcare settings: A scoping review
Background: Implementation Mapping is a structured, theory-informed approach designed to facilitate the selection and tailoring of implementation strategies to improve the uptake of healthcare interventions. Despite growing use in healthcare settings since being introduced in 2019, there has been limited synthesis of the application or effectiveness of Implementation Mapping. This scoping review aimed to explore the extent and type of evidence th…
Agroecological and technological practices in European arable farming: Past uptake and expert visions for future development
Agroecological and technological innovations are two important approaches in the transition towards agricultural sustainability. We lack knowledge about how current agricultural contexts may influence future development pathways and the relative importance of the two approaches. This study explores the alignment between past uptake of agroecological and technological practices and future visions of agricultural development in seven European arabl…
Farming system archetypes help explain the uptake of agri-environment practices in Europe
The adoption of agri-environment practices (AEPs) is crucial for safeguarding the long-term sustainability of ecosystem services within European agricultural landscapes. However, the tailoring of agri-environment policies to the unique characteristics of farming systems is a challenging task, often neglecting local farm parameters or requiring extensive farm survey data. Here, we develop a simplified typology of farming system archetypes (FSAs), …
Adoption and potential of agri‐environmental schemes in Europe: Cross‐regional evidence from interviews with farmers
In Europe and elsewhere, agri‐environmental schemes (AES) are designed to reduce agriculture's impacts on the environment. Designing effective schemes requires an understanding of the reasons that drive farmers' decisions whether to adopt AES. Currently, most insights come from individual case studies or structured surveys based on predefined questions. There is a paucity of studies that do not rely on rigid preconceptions about relevant behaviou…
Divergent glacier area and elevation changes across the Tibetan Plateau in the early 21st century
Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay
Although from the viewpoint of social psychology task commitment is a driving force for intrinsic motivation in the workplace, this topic has been widely ignored in labor and personnel economics so far. Our paper reduces this gap in the literature by offering a theoretical analysis of worker empowerment and task commitment. This approach also helps to explain the observed variety of compensation schemes across workers and firms. By using a large-…
Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: A multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe
Developing spatially-targeted policies for farmland in the European Union (EU) requires synthesized, spatially-explicit knowledge of agricultural systems and their environmental conditions. Such synthesis needs to be flexible and scalable in a way that allows the generalization of European landscapes and their agricultural potential into spatial units that are informative at any given resolution and extent. In recent years, typologies of agricult…
Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) belong to the main instruments of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to foster sustainable farming practices that contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Farmers’ attitudes towards these voluntary measures and the socio-economic factors influencing their decisions have been widely studied through interviews or surveys. However…
Ecosystem service coproduction across the zones of biosphere reserves in Europe
Biosphere reserves (BR) balance biodiversity protection and sustainable use through different management restrictions in three zones: core areas, buffer zones, and transition areas. Information about the links between zoning and ecosystem services (ES) is lacking, particularly in terms of the relative roles of natural contributions (ecosystem properties and functions) and anthropogenic contributions (human inputs such as technology and infrastruc…
Aligning agri-environmental subsidies and environmental needs: A comparative analysis between the US and EU
The global recognition of modern agricultural practices’ impact on the environment has fuelled policy responses to ameliorate environmental degradation in agricultural landscapes. In the US and the EU, agri-environmental subsidies (AES) promote widespread adoption of sustainable practices by compensating farmers who voluntarily implement them on working farmland. Previous studies, however, have suggested limitations of their spatial targeting, wi…
Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation
Conservation efforts are increasingly supported by ecosystem service assessments. These assessments depend on complex multi-disciplinary methods, and rely on a number of assumptions which reduce complexity. If assumptions are ambiguous or inadequate, misconceptions and misinterpretations may arise when interpreting results of assessments. An interdisciplinary understanding of assumptions in ecosystem service science is needed to provide consisten…
Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments
Multifunctional landscapes are used and shaped by a range of different stakeholders. The high number of diverging values, interests or demands in such landscapes can lead to conflicts that impact sustainability goals. In this study, our aim was to include stakeholders’ valuations of ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments and thereby to identify different and possibly contradictory perspectives on landscape multifunctionality. Two Eu…
Identifying Agricultural Frontiers for Modeling Global Cropland Expansion
The increasing expansion of cropland is major driver of global carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. However, predicting plausible future global distributions of croplands remains challenging. Here, we show that, in general, existing global data aligned with classical economic theories of expansion explain the current (1992) global extent of cropland reasonably well, but not recent expansion (1992-2015). Deviations from models of cropland exten…
Environmental change, adaptation strategies and the relevance of migration in Sub-Saharan drylands
Understanding coping and adaptation behaviour of different population groups in the context of global environmental change has become increasingly important, especially in regions with high vulnerability such as Sub-Saharan drylands. In this regard, household strategies tend to be dependent on local and context-specific conditions. However, the strategic development of climate change adaptation measures, as well as natural resource and migration …
Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead
Service‐wide management of healthy gestational weight gain following an implementation science approach
The aim of health guidelines is to ensure consistency in the delivery of care to minimise health-related complications. However, even when good evidence is available, professionals do not necessarily implement it. Following a 2011 survey (Time 1) of staff in a tertiary maternity hospital, a number of service changes were implemented to facilitate best practice delivery of care to pregnant women regarding gestational weight gain (GWG). A (second) …
Arbeitslosigkeitserfahrungen und soziopolitische Einstellungen
Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Untersuchung steht die Frage, ob Arbeitslosigkeit in der Jugendphase demotivierend wirkt und von anomischen Tendenzen begleitet ist. Im einzelnen wird untersucht, inwieweit Arbeitslosigkeitserfahrungen Jugendlicher im Zusammenhang stehen mit bestimmten Einstellungen zu Arbeit und Beruf, Attributionen beruflichen Erfolgs, Motivationsvariablen und soziopolitischen Einstellungen wie etwa Anomie. Als nächstes wird gepr…
Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation
Conservation efforts are increasingly supported by ecosystem service assessments. These assessments depend on complex multi-disciplinary methods, and rely on a number of assumptions which reduce complexity. If assumptions are ambiguous or inadequate, misconceptions and misinterpretations may arise when interpreting results of assessments. An interdisciplinary understanding of assumptions in ecosystem service science is needed to provide consisten…
Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) belong to the main instruments of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to foster sustainable farming practices that contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Farmers’ attitudes towards these voluntary measures and the socio-economic factors influencing their decisions have been widely studied through interviews or surveys. However…
Agroecological and technological practices in European arable farming: Past uptake and expert visions for future development
Agroecological and technological innovations are two important approaches in the transition towards agricultural sustainability. We lack knowledge about how current agricultural contexts may influence future development pathways and the relative importance of the two approaches. This study explores the alignment between past uptake of agroecological and technological practices and future visions of agricultural development in seven European arabl…
Arbeitslosigkeitserfahrungen und soziopolitische Einstellungen
Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Untersuchung steht die Frage, ob Arbeitslosigkeit in der Jugendphase demotivierend wirkt und von anomischen Tendenzen begleitet ist. Im einzelnen wird untersucht, inwieweit Arbeitslosigkeitserfahrungen Jugendlicher im Zusammenhang stehen mit bestimmten Einstellungen zu Arbeit und Beruf, Attributionen beruflichen Erfolgs, Motivationsvariablen und soziopolitischen Einstellungen wie etwa Anomie. Als nächstes wird gepr…
Service‐wide management of healthy gestational weight gain following an implementation science approach
The aim of health guidelines is to ensure consistency in the delivery of care to minimise health-related complications. However, even when good evidence is available, professionals do not necessarily implement it. Following a 2011 survey (Time 1) of staff in a tertiary maternity hospital, a number of service changes were implemented to facilitate best practice delivery of care to pregnant women regarding gestational weight gain (GWG). A (second) …
Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead
Environmental change, adaptation strategies and the relevance of migration in Sub-Saharan drylands
Understanding coping and adaptation behaviour of different population groups in the context of global environmental change has become increasingly important, especially in regions with high vulnerability such as Sub-Saharan drylands. In this regard, household strategies tend to be dependent on local and context-specific conditions. However, the strategic development of climate change adaptation measures, as well as natural resource and migration …
Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments
Multifunctional landscapes are used and shaped by a range of different stakeholders. The high number of diverging values, interests or demands in such landscapes can lead to conflicts that impact sustainability goals. In this study, our aim was to include stakeholders’ valuations of ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments and thereby to identify different and possibly contradictory perspectives on landscape multifunctionality. Two Eu…
Identifying Agricultural Frontiers for Modeling Global Cropland Expansion
The increasing expansion of cropland is major driver of global carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. However, predicting plausible future global distributions of croplands remains challenging. Here, we show that, in general, existing global data aligned with classical economic theories of expansion explain the current (1992) global extent of cropland reasonably well, but not recent expansion (1992-2015). Deviations from models of cropland exten…
Ecosystem service coproduction across the zones of biosphere reserves in Europe
Biosphere reserves (BR) balance biodiversity protection and sustainable use through different management restrictions in three zones: core areas, buffer zones, and transition areas. Information about the links between zoning and ecosystem services (ES) is lacking, particularly in terms of the relative roles of natural contributions (ecosystem properties and functions) and anthropogenic contributions (human inputs such as technology and infrastruc…
Aligning agri-environmental subsidies and environmental needs: A comparative analysis between the US and EU
The global recognition of modern agricultural practices’ impact on the environment has fuelled policy responses to ameliorate environmental degradation in agricultural landscapes. In the US and the EU, agri-environmental subsidies (AES) promote widespread adoption of sustainable practices by compensating farmers who voluntarily implement them on working farmland. Previous studies, however, have suggested limitations of their spatial targeting, wi…
Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation
Conservation efforts are increasingly supported by ecosystem service assessments. These assessments depend on complex multi-disciplinary methods, and rely on a number of assumptions which reduce complexity. If assumptions are ambiguous or inadequate, misconceptions and misinterpretations may arise when interpreting results of assessments. An interdisciplinary understanding of assumptions in ecosystem service science is needed to provide consisten…
Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay
Although from the viewpoint of social psychology task commitment is a driving force for intrinsic motivation in the workplace, this topic has been widely ignored in labor and personnel economics so far. Our paper reduces this gap in the literature by offering a theoretical analysis of worker empowerment and task commitment. This approach also helps to explain the observed variety of compensation schemes across workers and firms. By using a large-…
Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: A multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe
Developing spatially-targeted policies for farmland in the European Union (EU) requires synthesized, spatially-explicit knowledge of agricultural systems and their environmental conditions. Such synthesis needs to be flexible and scalable in a way that allows the generalization of European landscapes and their agricultural potential into spatial units that are informative at any given resolution and extent. In recent years, typologies of agricult…
Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) belong to the main instruments of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to foster sustainable farming practices that contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Farmers’ attitudes towards these voluntary measures and the socio-economic factors influencing their decisions have been widely studied through interviews or surveys. However…
Adoption and potential of agri‐environmental schemes in Europe: Cross‐regional evidence from interviews with farmers
In Europe and elsewhere, agri‐environmental schemes (AES) are designed to reduce agriculture's impacts on the environment. Designing effective schemes requires an understanding of the reasons that drive farmers' decisions whether to adopt AES. Currently, most insights come from individual case studies or structured surveys based on predefined questions. There is a paucity of studies that do not rely on rigid preconceptions about relevant behaviou…
Divergent glacier area and elevation changes across the Tibetan Plateau in the early 21st century
Farming system archetypes help explain the uptake of agri-environment practices in Europe
The adoption of agri-environment practices (AEPs) is crucial for safeguarding the long-term sustainability of ecosystem services within European agricultural landscapes. However, the tailoring of agri-environment policies to the unique characteristics of farming systems is a challenging task, often neglecting local farm parameters or requiring extensive farm survey data. Here, we develop a simplified typology of farming system archetypes (FSAs), …
The use of implementation mapping in healthcare settings: A scoping review
Background: Implementation Mapping is a structured, theory-informed approach designed to facilitate the selection and tailoring of implementation strategies to improve the uptake of healthcare interventions. Despite growing use in healthcare settings since being introduced in 2019, there has been limited synthesis of the application or effectiveness of Implementation Mapping. This scoping review aimed to explore the extent and type of evidence th…
Agroecological and technological practices in European arable farming: Past uptake and expert visions for future development
Agroecological and technological innovations are two important approaches in the transition towards agricultural sustainability. We lack knowledge about how current agricultural contexts may influence future development pathways and the relative importance of the two approaches. This study explores the alignment between past uptake of agroecological and technological practices and future visions of agricultural development in seven European arabl…
Geography (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works)