Ass. jur. Claas Meyer, M.Sc.

Ass. jur. Claas Meyer, M.Sc.

Contact

Institute for Socio-Economics
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V.
Eberswalder Str. 84
D-15374 Muencheberg

phone: + 49 33432 82-146

email: Claas.Meyer@zalf.de

Focus of research

Inter- und trans-disciplinary environmental research, Governance, Institutional economics.

Claas Meyer in CIVILand

Claas Meyer is a PhD candidate in the junior research team CIVILand. He will examine state-initiated "Payments for Ecosystem Services" in Germany, England, and the United States and analyze their strengths and weaknesses.

Biography

Claas Meyer studied law at the University of Osnabrück, University of Milan, and Humboldt University in Berlin. He completed his legal training at the Berlin District Court of Appeals. The focus of his legal training was in administrative law.

Claas had additionally completed a Masters degree in “Integrated Natural Resource Management” at the Institute of Economics and Social Sciences of Agriculture at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

He gained hands-on experience as an assistant in the department of International Agricultural Trade and Development of the Humboldt University in Berlin, a law firm specializing in administrative law and as a consultant for the Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property, CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research).

Claas has been with the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) since August 2009.

Publications

2010

  • Schmidt S., Metzger J., Tatsuhiko S., Esser L., Meyer C., Sokolova E. (2010) Rapporteur Theme Reports: Balancing Competing Demands. In: Stockholm International Water Institute (Ed.)(2010): World Water Week 2010. Overarching Conclusions. Responding to Global Changes: The Water Quality Challenge - Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement.

2009

  • Meyer, C. (2009): Die Wasserrahmenrichtlinie, integriertes Ressourcenmanagement und institutioneller Wandel. Eine institutionenökonomische Analyse der Bewirtschaftung von Küstenzone und Flussgebiet am Beispiel von landwirtschaftlichen Nährstoffeinträgen in der Flussgebietseinheit Oder. EUCC- Die Küsten Union Deutschland e.V. (Hrsg.): IKZM-Oder Berichte 58, Rostock

Presentations

2011

  • Sattler C., Matzdorf B., Schomers S., Meyer C., Multi-Classification of Payments for Ecosystem Services. International conference on Payments for Ecosystem Services. “Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions”, Berlin (10. -12. November 2011).
  • Matzdorf B., Meyer C., The relevance of the Ecosystem Service concept for water and biodiversity policy-making in the EU and the US – A comparative case study. 4th ESP International Conference. “Ecosystem Services: integrating Science and Practice”, Wageningen, The Netherlands (4 – 7 October 2011).
  • Meyer C., Matzdorf B., The utilization of the Ecosystem Service concept at various policy levels: A comparative case study on environmental policy-making in the USA and EU. European meeting of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Plovdiv, Bulgaria (14 – 17 September 2011).
  • Meyer C., Thiel A., Institutional change in water management cooperation: implementing the European Water Framework Directive in the Eastern German Odra basin. 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) “Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future”, Hyderabad, India (10 – 14 January 2011).

2010

  • Meyer C., Governmental initiated Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) - Systematisation and performance assessment in the United States of America, United Kingdom and Germany. Marie Curie Training Course on the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change, Berlin, Germany (4 – 13 October 2010).

Attended Conferences/Workshops

2011

  • 10 – 12 November 2011 Payments for Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions, Berlin.
  • 14 – 17 September 2011 European meeting of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
  • 25 – 27 May 2011 Training Course at ZALF, Müncheberg.
  • 14 – 15 April 2011 Towards ‘The big environmental society’? Civil society, private sector and the state in landscape governance, nature conservation and ecosystem service management. A transdisciplinary British-German Symposium in Cardiff, Wales.
  • 10 - 14 January 2011 IASC 2011 in Hyderabad, India.

2010

  • 04 -13 October 2010 Marie Curie Training Course in Berlin.
  • 5 -11 September 2010 World Water Week 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden.

2009

  • 27 October 2009 Perspectives on Institutional Economics (IAMO), Halle.
© 2012 Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
Online: http://www.civiland-zalf.org/en/team/claas-meyer/index.php
Datum: 19.05.2012