• Ecological-economic modelling
• agri-environmental and climate schemes (AES) / result-based payment schemes (RBP)
• development of decision support software for grassland management
• transaction cost economics
• governance of biodiversity conservation

Dissertation topic: Make-or-Buy: Should nature conservation agencies buy land and perform conservation activities on their own behalves, or should they pay farmers for voluntarily performing conservation activities?

Peer-reviewed publications

• Hütt, C., Isselstein, J., Komainda, M., Schöttker, O., Sturm, A. (2024): UAV LiDAR-based grassland biomass estimation for precision livestock management. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 18 (1), 017502-017502. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.18.017502
• Schöttker, O., Sturm A., Wätzold, F. (2024): Virtuelles Zäunen und ökologische Wirkungen von Weidebewirtschaftung: Prototyp einer App zur Information der Öffentlichkeit. In C. Hoffmann et al. (2024): Biodiversität fördern durch digitale Landwirtschaft, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, 2024, pp. 401-405. (Link)
• Schöttker, O., Hütt, C., Jauker F., Witt, J., Bareth, G., and Wätzold, F. (2023): Monitoring costs of result-based payments for biodiversity conservation: Will UAV-assisted remote sensing be the game-changer?. Journal for Nature Conservation (2023). (Link)
• Gerling, C., Schöttker, O., Hearne, J. (2023): The multi-period reserve design problem under climate change. Sustainability Analytics and Modeling 2023(3), 100025. (Link)
• Sturm, A., Schöttker, O., Kadir, K., Wätzold, F. (2023): Wann, wo und wie? Ein softwarebasiertes Mehrebenen-Informationssystem zur Optimierung von Beweidungssystemen. In Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, Series of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) Volume P-330, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, 2023 (Link)
• Schöttker, O. and Wätzold, F. (2022): "Climate Change and the Cost-Effective Governance Mode for Biodiversity Conservation". Environmental and Resource Economics 82,409–436 (Link).
• Nolte, C., DeVos, A. and Schöttker, O. (2019) "Cost‐effectiveness of public policy for the long‐term conservation of private lands: What is the deal?", Conservation Letters, 12(6) e12691 (Link)
• Stognief, N., Walk, P., Schöttker, O., Oei, P.-Y. (2019): "The Economic Resilience of German Lignite Regions in Transition", Sustainability 2019, 11(21), 5991 (Link)
• Schöttker, O. and Santos, M.J. (2019): Easement or Public Land? An economic analysis of different ownership modes for nature conservation measures in California, Conservation Letters, 12(6) e12647 (Link)
• Schöttker, O. and Wätzold, F. (2018): Landkauf oder Kompensation von Landwirtinnen und Landwirten? Ökonomische Analyse von Naturschutzmaßnahmen zur Erhaltung eines oligotrophen Sees, Natur und Landschaft93 (2018), pp. 494-500. (Link)
• Schöttker, O. and Wätzold F. (2018): Buy or lease land? Cost-effective conservation of an oligotrophic lake in a Natura 2000 area, Biodiversity and Conservation 27 (2018), pp. 1327–1345(Link)
• Schöttker, O., Johst, K., Drechsler, M., Wätzold, F. (2016): Land for biodiversity conservation – to buy or borrow?, Ecological Economics 129 (2016), pp. 94-103.(Link)

Working Paper

• Sturm, A., Schöttker, O., Kadir, K., Wätzold, F. (2024): SMIBe–Konzept eines softwarebasiertes Mehrebenen-Informationssystem für Behörden zur digitalen Erfassung und Evaluierung von beweidungsbezogenen AUKM. MPRA Paper No. 119741. (Link)
• O. Schöttker, C. Hütt, F. Jauker, J. Witt, G. Bareth, F. Wätzold (2022): Monitoring costs of result-based payments for biodiversity conservation: Will UAV-based remote sensing be the game-changer? MPRA Paper No. 112942 (Link)
• C. Gerling, O. Schöttker, and J. Hearne (2022a): "Irreversible and partly reversible investments in the optimal reserve design problem: the role of flexibility under climate change". MPRA Paper No. 112089 (Link)
  • Revised and extended versions:
    • Gerling, Schöttker, Hearne (2022c): "The ”climate adaptation problem” in biodiversity conservation: the role of reversible conservation investments in optimal reserve design under climate change", MPRA Paper No. 114812. (Link)
    • Gerling, Schöttker, Hearne (2022b): "Optimal time series in the reserve design problem under climate change", MPRA Paper No. 114691. (Link)
• O. Schöttker und F. Wätzold (2020): Climate change and the cost-effective governance mode for biodiversity conservation. MPRA Paper No. 113036 (Link)
• O. Schöttker und F. Wätzold (2017): Cost-effectiveness of buying land for conservation versus paying land-users for conservation measures - the case of preserving an oligotrophic lake in a Natura 2000 area in North Germany. MPRA Paper No. 91981 (Link)

Dissertation

• Make-or-Buy: Should nature conservation agencies buy land and perform conservation activities on their own behalves, or should they pay farmers for voluntarily performing conservation activities? (Link)

Conference and other Presentations

• Conference: "Virtuelles Zäunen und ökologische Wirkungen von Weidebewirtschaftung: Prototyp einer App zur Information der Öffentlichkeit", 44. GIL Tagung, Hohenheim
• Conference and poster presentationby Oliver Schöttker "SMI - A software-based, multi-level information system for famers and administrations and the general public" at the Agrarsysteme der Zukunft (Agricultural Systems of the Future; AdZ) status seminar 2023 and the AdZ Summit 2023, Archenhold Sternwarte, Berlin, 27./28.09.2023
• Conference: "SMILe - Grazing improvement with a software-based, multi-level information system for farmers" at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ecology in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, in Leipzig, 15.09.2023.
• Conference: "Monitoring costs of result-based payments for biodiversity conservation: Will UAV-based remote sensing be the game-changer?" at the ECCB 2022 in Prag (25.08.2022)
• Conference: "Keep it or leave it - the role of reversible conservation investments in optimal reserve design under climate change" at the 27^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE2022) in Rimini (Italy) on 30.06.2022
• Conference: "Keep it or leave it - the role of reversible conservation investments in optimal reserve design under climate change" at the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling (WCNRM 2022) in Leipzig on 17.06.2022
• Presentation: "Economic Perspectives on Land Change" for the lecture course Land Change Science at the Department of Geography - Earth System Science at the University Zürich (Switzerland), 13.04.2022 (online)
• Conference: "Climate change and the cost-effective governance mode for biodiversity conservation" at the 22. Bioecon Conference (Jackson, Wyoming, USA, online), 18.09.2021
• Presentation: "Economic Perspectives on Land Change" in the series Land Change Science at the Earth System Science department of the University of Zürich, 14.04.2021 (online)
• Conference: “Climate change and the cost-effective governance mode for biodiversity conservation” at the  EAERE conference 2020 (online) in the session " Four perspectives on biodiversity conservation: climate governance, offsets, bioeconomic approach and stated preferences", 29.6.2020
• Presentation: “Climate change and the cost-effective governance mode for biodiversity conservation” at the "Economics of biodiversity conservation under climate change" workshop, 17.03.2020 in Lübbenau/Cottbus/online
• Presentation: "Economics of Land Change" in the series Land Change Science at the Earth System Science department of the University of Zürich, 3.4.2019 and 1.4.2020 (online)
• Conference: "Does Climate Change Influence the Cost-effective Mode of Governance for Biodiversity Conservation Measures?" at the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling 2018 (WCNRM 2018) in Guangzhou (China)
• Conference: "Cost-effectiveness of buying vs. borrowing land in a Natura 2000 site in Northern Germany" at the 28th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2017) in Cartagena (Colombia) (Link, Press Release)
• Conference: "Cost-effectiveness of buying land for conservation versus paying land-users for conservation measures – the case of preserving an oligotrophic lake in a Natura 2000 area in North Germany" at the 12th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economists, Budapest (Hungary) (Link)
• Presentation: "Flächenkauf oder Kompensation von Landnutzern für Naturschutzmaßnahmen - Fallstudie Bültsee" (Buying Land or Compensating Landusers for the Provision of Nature Conservation Area - a Case Stuy at the Lake Bülsee) at the Stiftung Naturschutz Schleswig-Holstein, 24.02.2016 (presentation by Frank Wätzold and Oliver Schöttker).
• Conference: "Land for Biodiversity Conservation - to Buy or Borrow?", 26.06.2015 at the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in Helsinki, Finnland.
• Presentation: "To Make or Buy? - Should conservation areas be bought or should farmers be paid for conservation?", NIÖ-Workshop, November 2011 at the BTU Cottbus.

Former involvment in the following lectures / modules:

• Economics
• Environmental Economics
• Advanced Environmental Economics
• Cost Benefit Analysis in Environmental Evaluation
• Economics of Land and Biodiversity Conservation Management
• Umweltökonomie

Guest presentations in lectures / modules:

• "Economics of Land Change" in the series Land Change Science at the Earth System Science department of the University of Zürich, , 4/2019, 4/2020, 4/2021, 4/2022