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Technical University of Munich

Dr. Susanne Raum

Dr. Susanne Raum

Research and Teaching Associate
Technical University of Munich
Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management

Phone: +49 (0)8161 / 71 4773
Office hours: by arrangement 
Email: susanne.raum@tum.de
Bluesky: @susanneraum.bsky.social

Expertise/Research Interest

Research

  • Urban Forestry
  • Forest Policy and Sustainable Management
  • Nature and Society
  • Participation, Citizen Science and Stakeholder Analysis
  • Climate Change
  • Ecosystem Services

Teaching

  • Landscape Planning
  • Landscape Development
  • Environmental Policy
  • Ecosystem Services

Biography

Dr Susanne Raum's research explores human-environmental relationships and how this information can inform policy, planning and practice. Her work focuses on urban trees, forest policy and governance, and the diverse ways in which nature contributes to society and human well-being.

As a recent Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellow, she led research on the growing risks posed by pests and diseases to urban trees in the EU Horizon 2020 funded project TREEPACT. She has also contributed to StreuWiKlim, a citizen science project examining the impacts of climate change on traditional orchards; SUPERB, a Horizon 2020 project dedicated to advancing large-scale forest restoration across Europe; and UNPICK, aimed at understanding public risk in relation to tree health.

Susanne has a BA in Geography, an MSc in Environmental Management, and a PhD in Environmental Policy from Imperial College London. She has held positions at Imperial College's Centre for Environmental Policy, the Environmental Law Foundation, and Forest Research, the UK government's forestry research institute. Between 2008-2010, she coordinated the Air Pollution Research in London network.

Since 2021, she has been a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where she teaches in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Landscape Planning.

 

Latest Research Activities

StreuWiKlim: Streuobstwiesen im Klimawandel gemeinsam erforschen (Funding: BSfELF 2022-2026) [project details]

SUPERB: Upscaling Forest Restoration (Funding: EU Horizon 2020, 2021-2025) [project details]

TREEPACT: Impacts of tree pests and diseases under a changing climate (Funding: EU Horizon 2020, 2021-2024) [project details]

 

Selected Publications

[all publications]

  • Erdozain, M., De Miguel, S., Raum, S. et al. (2025). The role of social, political and economic forces in shaping forest restoration practices in Europe. Land Use Policy, 161. 107876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107876

  • Raum S, Collins T, Urquhart J, Egerer, M., Pauleit S, (2025). Recommendations for improving risk awareness, managing impacts, and delivering effective action in managing tree pests and pathogens in urban environments. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 129140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129140

  • Raum S, Collins T, Urquhart J, Potter C, Pauleit S, Egerer M (2023) Tree insect pests and pathogens: a global systematic review of their impacts in urban settings. Urban Ecology 26:587-604. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01317-5

  • Collins T, Cook-Monie I, Raum S (2019) What do people know? Ecosystem services, public perception, and sustainable management of urban park trees in London, UK. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 43:126362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.06.005

  • Raum S, Hand K, Hall C, Edwards D, O'Brien L, Doick K (2019) Achieving impact from ecosystem assessment and valuation of urban green space: The case of i-Tree Eco in Great Britain. Landscape and Urban Planning 190:103590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103590

  • Raum S (2018) A framework for integrating systematic stakeholder analysis in ecosystem services research: stakeholder mapping for forest ecosystem services in the UK. Ecosystem Services 29:170-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.01.001

  • Raum S and Potter C (2015) Forest paradigms and policy change: the evolution of forestry policy in Britain in relation to the ecosystem approach. Land Use Policy 49:462-470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.08.021

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