
Richard Fuchs
Richard Fuchs' main research focus is on land cover/use, its changes and land management. His emphasis is on dynamics and pathways of land changes. He studies land-climate interactions, largely by assessing large-amounts of data, remote sensing products using spatial land use modelling techniques (past and futures). He is interested how land management affects global climate and vice versa.
During his PhD in Wageningen Richard developed the historic land cover/use reconstruction model HILDA (http://www.wur.eu/hilda) which provides a reconstruction of Europe’s land cover/use and its changes of the last century (1900-2010) at 1km spatial resolution. Here in the Land Use Change and Climate research gorup, Karina Winkler is working, together with Richard, on a global follow-up version of this model, the HILDA+.
Currently, Richard assesses how global crop production strategies can be optimized to maximize food production and limit environmental degradation. For example, he studies the efficiency in fertilizer use of top crop producers in the world and ways forward to improve this efficiency. He is particularly interested in the upper limits of agricultural intensification and the margins to reach them, but also in potentials of reducing the negative environmental consequences of such intensive forms of land use.
Email: richard.fuchs@kit.edu
Telephone: +49 8821 183 161
Publications Richard Fuchs
Making protected areas effective for biodiversity, climate and food
2023. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.16664
The elephant in the room is really a cow: using consumption corridors to define sustainable meat consumption in the European Union
2022. Sustainability Science. doi:10.1007/s11625-022-01235-7
On the use of Earth Observation to support estimates of national greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the Global stocktake process: lessons learned from ESA-CCI RECCAP2
2022. Carbon Balance and Management, 17 (1), Art.Nr. 15. doi:10.1186/s13021-022-00214-w
Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated
2021. Nature Communications, 12 (1), Artikel-Nr.: 2501. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22702-2
Diverging land-use projections cause large variability in their impacts on ecosystems and related indicators for ecosystem services
2021. Earth System Dynamics, 12 (1), 327–351. doi:10.5194/esd-12-327-2021
Europe’s Green Deal offshores environmental damage to other nations
2020. Nature <London>, 586 (7831), 671–673. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02991-1
Why the US–China trade war spells disaster for the Amazon
2019. Nature <London>, 567 (7749), 451–454. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00896-2
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
2019. Nature Sustainability, 2 (2), 122–129. doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0220-7
Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
2019. Science, 364 (6438), 341. doi:10.1126/science.aaw8276
Climate change, reforestation/afforestation, and urbanization impacts on evapotranspiration and streamflow in Europe
2019. Hydrology and earth system sciences, 23 (9), 3631–3652. doi:10.5194/hess-23-3631-2019
Models meet data: Challenges and opportunities in implementing land management in Earth system models
2018. Global change biology, 24 (4), 1470–1487. doi:10.1111/gcb.13988
A global assessment of gross and net land change dynamics for current conditions and future scenarios
2018. Earth System Dynamics, 9 (2), 441–458. doi:10.5194/esd-9-441-2018
A global assessment of gross and net land change dynamics for current conditions and future scenarios
2017. Earth System Dynamics Discussions, 1–29. doi:10.5194/esd-2017-121
Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies
2017. Global change biology, 23 (2), 512–533. doi:10.1111/gcb.13443
Uncertainties in the land-use flux resulting from land-use change reconstructions and gross land transitions
2017. Earth System Dynamics, 8 (1), 91–111. doi:10.5194/esd-8-91-2017
Assessing the influence of historic net and gross land changes on the carbon fluxes of Europe
2016. Global change biology, 22 (7), 2526–2539. doi:10.1111/gcb.13191
The potential of old maps and encyclopaedias for reconstructing historic European land cover/use change
2015. Applied geography, 59, 43–55. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.02.013
Gross changes in reconstructions of historic land cover/use for Europe between 1900 and 2010
2015. Global change biology, 21 (1), 299–313. doi:10.1111/gcb.12714