Forest Economics and Sustainable Land-use Planning

Prof. Dr. Carola Paul


  • Bio-economic simulation and optimization in forest managagement planning
  • Impacts of climate change on forest management decisions
  • Multicriteria land use modeling
  • Agroforestry systems and diversified land use concepts


since 2018 Head of the Department of Forest Economics and Sustainable Land Use Planning - Georg August University of Göttingen (W3) (parental leave: 04/2020-04/2021)
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2013 – 2018 Research associate at the Department of Forest Inventory and Sustainable Use at the Technical University of Munich (Prof. Dr. Knoke)
  • Project coordination Forest Climate Fund Project Survival-KW - Changing survival of forest stands: Economic implications of climate change for forestry. Management Options to Optimize the Risk-Return Ratio under a Changing Climate
  • Post-doc Project: Balancing regulating and provisioning ecosystem services: Comprehensive land-use concepts for effective conservation
    Project in Ecuador (German Research Foundation (KN586/9-1))
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2014 – 2018 Lecturer in Business Administration - University Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
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2009 – 2013 Doctoral thesis at the Department of Silviculture of the Technical University of Munich Agroforestry options to promote reforestation in Panama - a silvicultural-economic assessment
  • Doctoral Scholarship (University of Bavaria e.V. 2009 – 2012)
  • Doctoral Scholarship (Laura Bassi Preis 2012 – 2013)
  • 2-year research stay in Panama
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2009 Research associate at the Karl Gayer Institute Freisingen
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2008 Research Associate at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy Technical University Munich
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Honours
2014 Thurn und Taxis Award for Forestry Science
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2008 Prize of the Munich Forestry Society for the diploma thesis Comparative studies on understory diversity in teak (Tectona grandis) and mixed plantations of native tree species in western Panama