Social Ecologist working @ILEN_BOKU @bokuvienna.bsky.social
Human-nature relationships | Plural values | Justice | Nature conservation | Nature Restoration | (Urban) Rewilding | Land use conflicts
Brenda Maria Zoderer
Great to see our new study out: Urban blue spaces provide important sources for urban foraging in India's megacities, particularly for the most marginalized groups in society 👇
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
🏙️ New Research: Giving space back to nature in cities? A multi-scenario analysis of the acceptability of urban rewilding among local communities ➡️ buff.ly/krr06Un
Rewilding our cities - are people on board? New study by @BrendaZoderer and Harald Wieser
First year of TRANSForm sampling in Italy done!🌞To better understand biodiversity, we tested various techniques: pan and pitfall traps for pollinators and carabids, Audiomoth to study birds, netting for targeted pollinator capture, topsoil cores for chemical-physical analysis, and eDNA extraction.🍒🌳
Happy to share my new article looking at why people do NOT use urban wild spaces
Brenda Maria Zoderer
Our systematic overview of how rewilding is practiced in Europe has been published in @consletters.bsky.social. We found five distinct strategies differing in goals, interventions, and people's role as part of the rewilding process.
Read more here👇
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Systematic review of how justice is conceptualized and researched within the field of ecosystem services. Nice collaborative effort, greatly led by Bruno Locatelli.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new paper shows strong support for #urbanrewilding among local communities; however, lower #acceptance of younger residents, non-users & deprived neighborhoods calls for context-specific adaptations to prevent environmental injustices in cities. @bokuvienna.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
Is process-oriented conservation compatible with the protection of threatened species in Natura2000 sites?
Check out our new paper, detailing how synergies and trade-offs between these two goals differ across ecoregions👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
@bokuvienna.bsky.social @euracalpenv.bsky.social
Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️🌈 🟥
People and Nature
Brenda Maria Zoderer
TRANSFOrm BiodivNBS
Brenda Maria Zoderer
BOKU University
Brenda Maria Zoderer
Brenda Maria Zoderer
Brenda Maria Zoderer
Ecosystem services (ES) are integral to environmental justice, in particular because they unevenly contribute to the well-being of different communiti…
🌍 New study: Foraging in India’s urban blue spaces is widespread yet overlooked.
Surveying 1,200 people in 4 cities, we found that lakes & wetlands provide food, income, culture & social ties.
👉 Recognizing foraging can support more equitable, resilient urban food systems.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
🏙️How popular are 'wild spaces' in #cities and what prevents people from visiting these greenspaces? New study by Brenda Zoderer identifies the most salient barriers to using #wildspaces, providing insight into strategies to reconnect people with #nature
➡️ buff.ly/qMRc4Ea
