Georg Kindermann
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Georg Kindermann joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in 2005 as a Research Scholar in the Forestry Program, now the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program. He holds a PhD in forestry, with particular focus on forest growth and yield modeling. He has experience in forest measurement and sample plot design, data storage (SQL), statistics (R), programming (C++, Perl) and gis (QGis, Grass). He has developed a model estimating forest growth for any point on the globe (global forest growth model - g4gm) which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and stored carbon in forests which are reacting on changes in the environment (temperature, precipitation, C02) and management (rotation time, thinning). In combination with economic estimates such as the wood price, it is possible to calculate the competition over land between different land uses, and to find regions which have high pressure on deforestation.Currently, Dr. Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.
Previously, Dr. Kindermann worked at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in the Institute of Forest Growth and Yield Research in Vienna. He refined a distance dependent single tree growth simulator (Moses) to use it as a decision support in a company. He has also investigated in the field of natural regeneration.
Last update: 04 MAR 2015
Publications
Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Fuß, S., Kindermann, G. , Mesfun, S. , Spokas, K., Mendoza Ponce, A. , MacDowell, N., Wetterlund, E., Lundgren, J., Dotzauer, E., Yowargana, P., & Obersteiner, M. (2018). Reducing US coal emissions can boost employment. Joule 2 (12) 2633-2648. 10.1016/j.joule.2018.10.004.
Wehkamp, J., Pietsch, S. , Fuss, S., Gusti, M., Reuter, W., Koch, N., Kindermann, G. , & Kraxner, F. (2018). Accounting for institutional quality in global forest modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software 102 250-259. 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.01.020.
Kraxner, F., Schepaschenko, D. , Fuss, S., Lunnan, A., Kindermann, G. , Aoki, K., Dürauer, M., Shvidenko, A., & See, L. (2017). Mapping certified forests for sustainable management - A global tool for information improvement through participatory and collaborative mapping. Forest Policy and Economics 83 10-18. 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.04.014.
Fricko, O. , Havlik, P. , Rogelj, J. , Klimont, Z. , Gusti, M., Johnson, N., Kolp, P., Strubegger, M., Valin, H. , Amann, M. , Ermolieva, T., Forsell, N., Herrero, M., Heyes, C. , Kindermann, G. , Krey, V. , McCollum, D., Obersteiner, M. , Pachauri, S. , Rao, S., Schmid, E., Schöpp, W. , & Riahi, K. (2017). The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century. Global Environmental Change 42 251-267. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.06.004.
Sung, S., Forsell, N., Kindermann, G. , & Lee, D.K. (2016). Estimating Net Primary Productivity under Climate Change by
Application of Global Forest Model (G4M). Journal of the Korean Society People, Plants, and Environment 19 (6) 549-558. 10.11628/ksppe.2016.19.6.549.