Uwe Schneider
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Prof. Dr. Uwe A. Schneider is an agricultural and resource economist with a strong background in agricultural science. His research interests relate to land use externalities regarding climate, water, soils, and nature reserves; impacts of land scarcity on food, biomass, timber, and species protection potentials; and market and welfare effects of environmental policies related to land use. Uwe has a long expertise in mathematical programming with General Algebraic Modelling System (GAMS) and developed, coordinated, and supervised several large-scale optimization models of various scopes in the realm of agriculture, forestry, bioenergy, and fisheries.
Since 2002, Uwe works at Hamburg University where he teaches courses on mathematical programming, dynamic optimization, agriculture and environment, GAMS, and the forest and agricultural sector modeling. He is the principle developer of several land use optimization models and most of his current research uses these models or contributes to their development. Uwe was a contributing author to the IPCC's fourth assessment report. He serves as regular reviewer for a wide variety of academic journals and research funding proposals and he is actively engaged in graduate education programs, i.e. the International Max-Planck Research School on Earth system Modeling and the School of Integrated Climate System Science.
