Nils is a political scientist and ecological economist by training. He works as an associate professor at the Department of Political Science and the Strategic Research Area for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC) at Lund University Sweden. He holds a PhD in Public Finance and Environmental Economics from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Martin-Luther University Halle Wittenberg. He is an an applied econometrician interested in understanding the effectiveness of land use policies and how to transition towards sustainable human-environment relations.