Dr. Isabelle Weindl

Employment

Education

• Scenarios of sustainable food futures
• The role of food production for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Environmental impacts of livestock production
• Biomass and nutrient flows in the global food system
• Greenhouse gas emissions (N₂0, CH₄, CO₂) from agriculture and land use
• Climate mitigation and adaptation in agriculture
• Development of quantitative tools and models (MAgPIE, PIAM)

• Soergel, B., Kriegler, E., Weindl, I., et al. A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda. Nature Climate Change, 11, 656–664 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75213-3.

• Bodirsky, B. L., Dietrich, J.P., Martinelli, E., Stenstad, A., Pradhan, P., Gabrysch, S., Mishra, A., Weindl, I., Le Mouël, C., Susanne Rolinski, Baumstark, L., Wang, X., Waid, J.L., Lotze-Campen, H., Popp, A. (2020): The Ongoing Nutrition Transition Thwarts Long-Term Targets for Food Security, Public Health and Environmental Protection. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 19778. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01098-3.

• Weindl, I., M. Ost, P. Wiedmer, M. Schreiner, S. Neugart, R. Klopsch, H. Kühnhold, W. Kloas, I. Henkel, O. Schlüter, S. Bußler, S. Bellingrath-Kimura, H. Ma, T. Grune, S. Rolinski and S. Klaus (2020): Sustainable food protein supply reconciling human and ecosystem health: A Leibniz Position. Global Food Security, 25, 100367, doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100367.

• Kipling, R.P., Topp, C.F.E., Bannink, A., Bartley, D.J., Blanco-Penedo, I., Cortignani, R., del Prado, A., Dono, G., Faverdin, P., Graux, A.-I., Hutchings, N.J., Lauwers, L., Özkan Gülzari, Ş., Reidsma, P., Rolinski, S., Ruiz-Ramos, M., Sandars, D.L., Sándor, R., Schönhart, M., Seddaiu, G., van Middelkoop, J., Shrestha, S., Weindl, I., Eory, V. (2019): To what extent is climate change adaptation a novel challenge for agricultural modellers? Environmental Modelling and Software, doi. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104492

• Dietrich, J.P., Bodirsky, B., Humpenöder, F., Weindl, I., Stevanović, M., Karstens, K., Kreidenweis, K., et al. (2019): MAgPIE 4 – a Modular Open-Source Framework for Modeling Global Land Systems. Geoscientific Model Development 12 (4): 1299–1317. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1299-2019.

• Pikaar, I., Matassa, S., Bodirsky, B., Weindl, I., Bruschi, M., Humpenöder, F., Rabaey, K., Boon, N., Yuan, Z., van Zanten, H., Herrero, M., Verstraete, W., Popp, A. (2018): Decoupling livestock from land use through industrial feed production pathways. Environmental Science & Technology 52 (13) 7351-7359

• Humpenöder, F., Popp, A., Bodirsky, B., Weindl, I., Biewald, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Dietrich, J.P., et al. (2018): Large-Scale Bioenergy Production: How to Resolve Sustainability Trade-Offs? Environmental Research Letters 13 (2): 024011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9e3b.

• Rolinski, S., Müller, C., Heinke, J., Weindl, I., Biewald, A., Bodirsky, B., Bondeau, A., et al. (2018): Modeling Vegetation and Carbon Dynamics of Managed Grasslands at the Global Scale with LPJmL 3.6. Geoscientific Model Development 11 (1): 429–51. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-429-2018.

• Weindl, I., Bodirsky, B., Rolinski, S., Biewald, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Müller, C., Dietrich, J., Humpenöder, F., Stevanović, M., Schaphoff, S., Popp, A. (2017): Livestock production and the water challenge of future food supply: Implications of agricultural management and dietary choices. Global Environmental Change 47, 121–132. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.09.010. Online available.

• Weindl, I., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Humpenöder, F., Dietrich, J.P., Stevanović, M. (2017): Livestock and human use of land: Productivity trends and dietary choices as drivers of future land and carbon dynamics. Global and Planetary Change 159, 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.10.002. Online available.

• Stevanović, M., Popp, A., Bodirsky, B., Humpenöder, F., Müller, C., Weindl, I., Dietrich, J.P., Lotze-Campen, H., Kreidenweis, U., Rolinski, S., Biewald, A., Wang, X. (2017): Mitigation strategies for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change: Consequences for food prices. Environmental Science & Technology 51 (1), 365–374.

• Popp, A., Calvin, K., Fujimori, S., Havlik, P., Humpenöder, F., Stefest, E., Bodirsky, B., Dietrich, J.P., Doelmann, J., Gusti, M., Hasegawa, T., Kyle, P., Obersteiner, M., Tabeau, A., Takashi, K., Valin, H., Waldhoff, S., Weindl, I., Wise, M., Kriegler, E., Lotze-Campen, H., Fricko, O., Ryahi, K., van Vurren, D. (2017): Land use futures in the Shared Socio-Economic Pathways. Global Environmental Change 42, 331–345.

• Stevanovic, M., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Dietrich, J.P., Müller, C., Bonsch, M., Schmitz, C., Bodirsky, B., Humpenöder, F., Weindl, I. (2016): High-End Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Welfare. Science Advances 8(2).

• Özkan, S.; Vitali, A.; Lacetera, N.; Amon, B.; Bannink, A.; Bartley, D. J.; Blanco-Penedo, I.; de Haas, Y.; Dufrasne, I.; Elliott, J.; Eory, V.; Fox, N. J.; Garnsworthy, P. C.; Gengler, N.; Hammami, H.; Kyriazakis, I.; Leclère, D.; Lessire, F.; Macleod, M.; Robinson, T. P.; Ruete, A.; Sandars, D. L.; Shrestha, S.; Stott, A. W.; Twardy, S.; Vanrobays, M.-L.; Vosough Ahmadii, B.; Weindl, I.; Wheelhouse, N.; Williams, A. G.; Wilson, A. J.; Østergaard, S.; Kipling, R. P. (2016): Challenges and priorities for modelling livestock health and pathogens in the context of climate change. Environmental Research, 151, 130-144 p.

• Kriegler E., Bauer N., Popp A., Humpenöder F., Leimbach M., Strefler J.; Baumstark L., Lavinia; Bodirsky B., Hilaire J., Klein D., Mouratiadou I., Weindl I., Bertram C., Dietrich J.-P., Luderer G., Pehl M., Pietzcker R., Piontek F., Lotze-Campen H., Biewald A., Bonsch M., Giannousakis A., Kreidenweis U, Rolinski S., Schultes A., Schwanitz J., Stevanovic M., Calvin K., Emmerling J., Fujimori S., Edenhofer O. (2017) Fossil-fueled development (SSP5): an energy and resource intensive scenario for the 21st century. Global Environmental Change 42, 297–315.

• Bodirsky, B.L., Rolinski, S., Biewald, A., Weindl, I., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H. (2015): Global food demand scenarios for the 21st century. Plos One, 10, e0139201, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139201.

• Weindl, I., Lotze-Campen, H., Popp, A., Müller, C., Havlík, P.,Herrero, M., Schmitz, C., Rolinski, S. (2015): Livestock in a changing climate: production system transitions as an adaptation strategy for agriculture. Environmental Research Letters 10 (9), 094021. Online available: doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094021.

• Bonsch, M., Popp, A., Biewald A., Rolinski, S., Schmitz, C., Hoegner, K., Heinke, J. Ostberg, S., Dietrich, J.P., Bodirsky, B., Lotze-Campen, H., Stevanovic, M., Humpenöder, F., Weindl, I. (2015): Environmental flow provision: implications for agricultural water and land-use at the global scale. Global Environmental Change 30, 113–132.

• Humpenöder, F., Popp, A., Stevanovic, M., Müller, C., Bodirsky, B.L., Bonsch, M., Dietrich, J.P., Lotze-Campen, H., Weindl, I., Biewald, A., Rolinski, S., 2015. Land-Use and Carbon Cycle Responses to Moderate Climate Change: Implications for Land-Based Mitigation? Environmental Science & Technology 49(11). Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es506201r

• Popp, A., Humpenöder, F., Weindl, I., Bodirsky, B., Bonsch, M., Lotze-Campen, H., Müller, C., Biewald, A., Rolinski, S., Stevanovic, M., Dietrich, J.P. (2014): Land use protection for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change 4,1095–1098 doi:10.1038/nclimate2444.

• Bonsch, M., Humpenöder, F., Popp, A., Bodirsky, B., Dietrich, J.P., Rolinski, S., Biewald, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Weindl, I., Gerten, D., Stevanovic, M. (2014): Trade-offs between land and water requirements for large-scale bioenergy production. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy. Online available: doi:10.1111/gcbb.12226.

• Humpenöder, F., Popp, A., Dietrich, J.P., Klein, D., Lotze-Campen, H., Bonsch, M., Bodirsky, B., Weindl, I., Stevanovic, M., Müller, C. (2014): Investigating afforestation and bioenergy CCS as climate change mitigation strategies. Environmental Research Letters 9 (6): 064029. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064029. PDF

• Bodirsky, B.L., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Dietrich, J.P., Rolinski, S., Weindl, I., Schmitz, C., Müller, C., Bonsch, M., Humpenöder, F., Biewald, A., Stevanovic, M. (2014): Reactive nitrogen requirements to feed the world in 2050 and potential to mitigate nitrogen pollution, Nature Communications, 5, 3858, Online available: doi: 10.1038/ncomms4858 (PDF).

• Bodirsky, B., Popp, A., Weindl, I., Dietrich, J.P., Rolinski, S., Scheiffele, L., Schmitz, C., Lotze-Campen, H. (2014). N2O emissions of the global agricultural nitrogen cycle - current state and future scenarios. Biogeosciences 9 (10) (October 31): 4169–4197. doi:10.5194/bg-9-4169-2012 (under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License).

• Schmitz, C., Biewald, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Popp, A., Dietrich, J.P., Bodirsky, B., Krause, M., Weindl, I. (2012): Trading more Food - Implications for Land Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and the Food System. Global Environmental Change, 22(1): 189-209.

• SHAPE (Sustainable development pathways achieving Human well-being while safeguarding the climate And Planet Earth) 

SHAPE will develop and analyse Sustainable Development Pathways (SDPs) that achieve the SDGs in 2030 and maintain sustainable development to reach the Paris climate goals until 2100. To this end, the project sets out to analyse three key questions: a) What are the crucial interactions between climate action and other SDGs? b) Which system transformations can overcome trade-offs and enhance synergies to achieve a broad range of sustainable development objectives simultaneously? c) What are effective means of governance facilitating the deep transformations required to climate action and other SDGs while mitigating trade-offs and exploiting synergies between them?

• FOCUS ( Food security and sustained coastal livelihoods through linking land and ocean and bio-economy)

Many food production systems on land and in the oceans are under pressure from intensive human use and global environmental change. FOCUS contributes to tackling this challenge by quantifying how climate change will affect food production, food security and rural livelihoods around the world and especially in coastal areas, where the largest part of population growth and economic growth is expected. FOCUS aims to assess the economic effects of climate change on marine ecosystem services (fisheries, and aquaculture) and agriculture. Particular challenges are distributive and welfare effects as well as the market “teleconnections” of the coastal rural economies, i.e. the interconnectedness of different world regions due to global food markets.

• FABLE India (The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy Project – India)

PIK will develop together with Indian stakeholders a structured training module on the Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment model (MAgPIE) for India. In collaboration with the Indian institutes, PIK will further develop the MAgPIE model, in order to reflect the specificities of the food and land system of India. PIK will, together with the Indian institutes, implement scenarios towards sustainable land use and food systems for India.