Norbert Mueller

Erfurt

Norbert Müller is vegetation ecologist and Professor in Landscape Management and Restoration Ecology at the University Applied Sciences Erfurt, Germany. He is teaching for landscape architecture students and his main fields in research and lecturing are conservation biology, urban biodiversity and sustainable design. In these fields he has a 30 years experience both in theory as well as in application. Since 2008 he is president of URBIO – the International network for Urban Biodiversity and Design –with currently over 1000 researchers and practitioners http://www.fh-erfurt.de/urbio. This network is a scientific initiative supporting the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) within the Mayor Group “Local Action”.

He has published a large number of papers – in 2010 the first book on “Urban Biodiversity and Design – implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in towns and cities” (Wiley-Blackwell 626 p.).