
Sophie Ittner
Msc (Geoecology)
Fellow
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Sophie Ittner is a Fellow in the fields of agriculture and soil at Ecologic Institute. Her research interests include the impact and acceptance of sustainable agriculture measures, in particular in the context of soil protection, climate and water. She is also interested in landscape management and resource conservation, landscape ecology and soil science. She works in German and English.
Sophie Ittner coordinates Ecologic Institute's contribution to the Soil Mission Support project. Together with stakeholders, the project is developing a European roadmap for R&I on soil and land management. In the research project on the sustainable management of subsoil as part of the bioeconomy (Soil³), Sophie Ittner is working on the acceptance of measures and an extended cost-benefit analysis at the societal level, assessing the impact of subsoil management on ecosystem services. Furthermore, Sophie Ittner supported the evaluation of agricultural measures supported by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on climate, biodiversity and soil for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development. For the European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine Waters (ETC-ICM), she supported the preparation of a report on Water & Agriculture and for the European Topic Centre on Biodiversity (ETC-BD) she contributes to the State of Nature report.
Before joining Ecologic Institute, Sophie Ittner worked as a research assistant at the Department of Soil Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). She examined the ecological aspects of pasture-based dairy production and analyzed the effect of grazing on the quality of soil and yield.
Sophie Ittner studied Geoecology at the University of Potsdam (Germany). During her studies she focused on the effects of agriculture on diverse soil functions. Her Master's thesis analyzed the effect of global land use change on ecosystem services, where she also supported the development of a model based tool for stakeholder to assess global land use strategies.
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Selected projects by Sophie Ittner
Soil Mission Support: Towards a European research and innovation roadmap on soils and land management
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European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Sustainable Subsoil Management as Part of the Bioeconomy (Soil³)
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Coordination of International Research Cooperation on soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture (CIRCASA)
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European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Preventing and Remediating Soil Degradation (RECARE)
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European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Selected publications by Sophie Ittner
EEA, 2020: State of nature in the EU. Results from reporting under the nature directives 2013–2018, Technical report No 10/2020, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen.
Hinzmann M, Ittner S, Kiresiewa Z and Gerdes H (2021). An Acceptance Analysis of Subsoil Amelioration Amongst Agricultural Actors in Two Regions in Germany. Front. Agron. 3:660593. doi: 10.3389/fagro.2021.660593
EEA 2021: Water and agriculture: towards sustainable solutions. EEA report 17/2020. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 128pp.
CIRCASA 2020. Deliverable D2.3: "Synthesis report on knowledge demands and needs of stakeholders". DOI: https://doi.org/10.15454/Q0XVVD
Naumann S. et al. (2019) Land Take and Soil Sealing—Drivers, Trends and Policy (Legal) Instruments: Insights from European Cities. In: Ginzky H., Dooley E., Heuser I., Kasimbazi E., Markus T., Qin T. (eds) International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2018. International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy, vol 2018. Springer, Cham
Frelih-Larsen, Ana et. al. 2018: Remediating Historical Soil Contamination: Effective Measures and Policy Solutions. RECARE Policy Brief. Ecologic Institute: Berlin.
Frelih-Larsen, A.; Hinzmann, M.; Ittner, S. (2018). The 'Invisible' Subsoil: An Exploratory View of Societal Acceptance of Subsoil Management in Germany. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3006.
doi:10.3390/su10093006
Selected events by Sophie Ittner
Workshop:Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture – CIRCASA Stakeholder Workshop
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Workshop:Better Use of Deep Soil Layers in Agriculture as Preparation for Dry Periods
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- Bad Sassendorf, Kleve, Germany
Discussion:Climate Change, Soil and Agriculture: Where do we stand and what we can do
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- Berlin, Germany
Workshop:Optimal Soil Management to Ensure Yield Capacity
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- Moltzow, Germany