My research develops spatial multi-criteria decision-making methods to identify priority areas for climate change mitigation/adaptation and biodiversity conservation.
It addresses the challenge of balancing climate goals, biodiversity protection, and sustainable land use, contributing to more integrated planning. The study combines geospatial data across multiple habitats, including forests and other ecosystems. A key component focuses on forests, developing spatially explicit data on structure and the abundance of large trees important for biodiversity, and using these to simulate alternative management scenarios with the PREBAS model. The impacts of management and restoration are assessed using the ELITE method, and spatial prioritization tools are applied to identify solutions that balance carbon and biodiversity objectives.
