Georg Kindermann

Research Scholar

Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

Biography

Georg Kindermann is a research scholar in Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services research group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He first joined the Institute in 2005.

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++, Julia) and GIS (QGis, Grass, gdal). He is developing a model estimating forest growth anywhere in the world, called the Global Forest Model (G4M), which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and carbon stored in forests, reacting to 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, Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Austria, where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.

Previously, 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 decision support in companies. He also investigated the field of natural regeneration.

Last update: 06 JUN 2024

Publications

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.

Frank, S. , Böttcher, H., Gusti, M., Havlík, P. , Klaassen, G., Kindermann, G. , & Obersteiner, M. (2016). Dynamics of the land use, land use change, and forestry sink in the European Union: the impacts of energy and climate targets for 2030. Climatic Change 138 (1) 253-266. 10.1007/s10584-016-1729-7.