Claudia Bethwell

Claudia Bethwell is a Geographer (Dipl.) at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg, Germany. She operates within Research Area 2 "Land Use and Governance" as part of the Working Group "Provisioning of Biodiversity in Agricultural Systems", focusing on spatial landscape dynamics and agricultural policy impacts.

Her research centers on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial explicit analysis of agricultural landscapes, with emphasis on biodiversity provisioning and ecosystem service valuation. She conducts regionalisation studies to model agricultural land use allocation and its consequences for landscape components, alongside scenario analysis for sustainable land management under changing governance frameworks.

Claudia Bethwell contributes to ZALF's Innovation Centre for Agricultural System Transformation through her expertise in landscape-scale spatial modeling. Her work integrates biophysical and socio-ecological dimensions to address challenges in agricultural biodiversity conservation within the "Agriculture for healthy soils and biodiversity" and "Agriculture under climate change" research topics.