Dr. Felipe Benra
Projekte
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Unraveling patterns of ecosystem services supply: a case study in Southern Chile
Felipe Benra (Wissenschaftliche Projektleiter*in)
→Projekt: Dissertationsprojekt
Publikationen
Beiträge in Zeitschriften
- Flower resource availability and Tetragonisca fiebrigi flower visits in two farming communities of Bolivian Chiquitanía
Camila Benavides-Frias (Autor*in) , Alexandria Saravia-Nava (Autor*in) , Paula Rodriguez (Autor*in) , Ping Sun (Autor*in) , Felipe Benra (Autor*in) , Daniela Morón Aguilar (Autor*in) , Jan Hanspach (Autor*in) , 01.01.2026 , in: Global Ecology and Conservation, 65 , 15 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review
Bruno Locatelli (Autor*in) , Felipe Benra (Autor*in) , Davide Geneletti (Autor*in) , Lasse Loft (Autor*in) , Jacqueline Loos (Autor*in) , Barbara Schröter (Autor*in) , Klara Winkler (Autor*in) , Brenda Maria Zoderer (Autor*in) , 01.08.2025 , in: Ecosystem Services, 74 , 14 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- Dynamics of the polycrisis: Temporal trends, spatial distribution and co-occurrences of national shocks (1970-2019)
Felipe Benra (Autor*in) , Louis Delannoy (Autor*in) , Alexandre Verzier (Autor*in) , Bernardo A. Bastien-Olvera (Autor*in) , Magnus Nyström (Autor*in) , Peter Søgaard Jørgensen (Autor*in) , 09.06.2025 , in: Global Sustainability, 8 , 32 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- Ecosystem service supply and (in)equality archetypes
Felipe Benra (Autor*in) , Manuel Pacheco Romero (Autor*in) , Joern Fischer (Autor*in) , 01.02.2025 , in: Ecosystem Services, 71 , 11 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
- A social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making
Felipe Benra (Autor*in) , Dula Wakassa Duguma (Autor*in) , Joern Fischer (Autor*in) , Tolera Senbeto Jiren (Autor*in) , Manuel Pacheco Romero (Autor*in) , David Abson (Autor*in) , Elizabeth A. Law (Autor*in) , Jannik Schultner (Autor*in) , Maria Brück (Autor*in) , 01.12.2024 , in: Ambio, 53, 12 , S. 1752-1767 , 16 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
Beiträge in Sammelwerken
- Exploring Traps in Forest and Marine Socio-Ecological Systems of Southern and Austral Chile
Felipe Benra (Autor*in) , Laura Nahuelhual (Autor*in) , Gonzalo Saavedra (Autor*in) , Cristobal Jullian (Autor*in) , María Amalia Mellado (Autor*in) , 31.10.2019 Cham , S. 323–345 , 23 S.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken › Forschung › begutachtet
Lehrveranstaltungen
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Providing solutions to environmental and social issues is a common target of environmental policy. However, environmental and social issues are often assessed separately, generating unbalanced policy outcomes. An example is a policy that considers only environmental efficiency, but it is not socially just, or a policy that focuses only on social aspects but neglects environmental efficiency aspects. In order to avoid these types of unbalanced situations and to contribute to solving many of the “wicked” problems we will focus on a concrete policy instrument: Payment for Ecosystem Services. Payment for Ecosystem Services are spatially explicit market-based instruments that are increasingly including equity aspects (i.e., social variables), that should increase the positive effects and acceptance of these policies.
In this seminar, students will learn spatial aspects designing a Payment for Ecosystem Services Program (PESP) using terrestrial ecosystems of southern Chile as a case study, focusing on interactions between societal and environmental systems. In the first part of the course, students will be introduced to core applied spatial analysis concepts, databases and ways to model and map ecosystem services, along with other environmental and social criteria. For instance, students will learn how to map and model ecosystem services and how to combine that with social spatial variables. This will provide a focus and understanding relevant interactions in the design of PESP. In the second part of the course, students will develop an own project in a selected subset of the study area and develop a spatial project on with the aim of designing a “balanced” PESP.
In this seminar, students will learn spatial aspects designing a Payment for Ecosystem Services Program (PESP) using terrestrial ecosystems of southern Chile as a case study, focusing on interactions between societal and environmental systems. In the first part of the course, students will be introduced to core applied spatial analysis concepts, databases and ways to model and map ecosystem services, along with other environmental and social criteria. For instance, students will learn how to map and model ecosystem services and how to combine that with social spatial variables. This will provide a focus and understanding relevant interactions in the design of PESP. In the second part of the course, students will develop an own project in a selected subset of the study area and develop a spatial project on with the aim of designing a “balanced” PESP.
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Realization of the global assemblage of human-created buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and other artifacts—the “technosphere”—has been achieved at the cost of significant degradation of the biosphere. Consequences are increasingly evident in the form of crises—climate change, biodiversity loss, geopolitical conflicts, etc.—that interact and reinforce one another to form a global “polycrisis”. At the core of these dynamics lie dominant economic institutions and schools of thought that have historically prioritized growth and efficiency over sustainability and resilience. Responding to polycrisis calls for a transformation of economic knowledge itself.
Crises is an ambivalent concept. From its conception in ancient Greek as a moment of decision in an uncertain context, it now refers to prolonged and volatile turmoil unfolding across multiple scales and dimensions. From a social-ecological systems viewpoint, a crisis can be decomposed into two interlinked processes: shocks and creeping changes. Shocks are abrupt, often nonlinear events with noticeable impacts that disrupt the structure or functioning of a system—examples include wildfires, pandemics, or market crashes. They act as exogenous disturbances that can catalyze systemic reorganization. Creeping changes, by contrast, are gradual, cumulative processes that unfold over extended periods, typically lacking a clear onset. These processes—such as democratic backsliding, antimicrobial resistance, etc.—can degrade the stability and adaptive capacity of a system through altering its internal configuration and increasing sensitivity to external perturbations.
Shocks and creeping changes interact through dynamic feedbacks that altogether undermine a system's resilience (i.e., the capacity to deal with change, through persistence, adaptation or transformation).
Crises is an ambivalent concept. From its conception in ancient Greek as a moment of decision in an uncertain context, it now refers to prolonged and volatile turmoil unfolding across multiple scales and dimensions. From a social-ecological systems viewpoint, a crisis can be decomposed into two interlinked processes: shocks and creeping changes. Shocks are abrupt, often nonlinear events with noticeable impacts that disrupt the structure or functioning of a system—examples include wildfires, pandemics, or market crashes. They act as exogenous disturbances that can catalyze systemic reorganization. Creeping changes, by contrast, are gradual, cumulative processes that unfold over extended periods, typically lacking a clear onset. These processes—such as democratic backsliding, antimicrobial resistance, etc.—can degrade the stability and adaptive capacity of a system through altering its internal configuration and increasing sensitivity to external perturbations.
Shocks and creeping changes interact through dynamic feedbacks that altogether undermine a system's resilience (i.e., the capacity to deal with change, through persistence, adaptation or transformation).