Luana Schwarz (she/her)

• Farmer decision-making process
• Understanding transformative change in food and land use systems
• Regenerative dynamics and paradigms
• Learning and transformative cognitive systems change in sustainability transformations
• Understanding diversity within transition processes
• Combining simulation modeling, qualitative empirical research, and conceptual work
• Case study work in Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Germany

Schwarz, L., Janssen, C., & Halbe, J. (2025). Pineapple production and visions of regeneration–contrasting Costa Rican (agri) cultural paradigms. Revista Académica Arjé, 8(1), 1-32.

Klein, A., Unverzagt, K., Alba, R., Donges, J. F., Hertz, T., Krueger, T., ..., Schwarz, L., ... & Wijermans, N. (2024). From situated knowledges to situated modelling: a relational framework for simulation modelling. Ecosystems and people, 20(1), 2361706.

Bechthold, M., Barfuss, W., Butz, A., Breier, J., Constantino, S. M., Heitzig, J., ..., Schwarz, L., ... & Donges, J. F. (2024). Social norms and groups structure safe operating spaces in renewable resource use in a social-ecological multi-layer network model. EGUsphere, 2024, 1-43.

Martin, M. A., Boakye, E. A., Boyd, E., Broadgate, W., Bustamante, M., Canadell, J. G., ..., Schwarz, L., ... & Zhao, Z. J. (2022). Ten new insights in climate science 2022. Global Sustainability, 5, e20.

Schwarz, L. & Donges, J.F. (2025). Why regenerative farming needs social change. Blogpost contributing to the Earth4All Initiative's outreach. https://earth4all.life/views/why-regenerative-farming-needs-social-change/

Schwarz, L., Breier, J., Prawitz, H., Constantino, S., Bechthold, M., Gerten, D., ... & Donges, J. (2025). Investigating transitions to regenerative agriculture using the InSEEDS World-Earth model–foundations, first results, and research directions. Oral presentation, EGU25, Vienna (EGU25-19136).

Breier, J., Müller, C., Schwarz, L., Prawitz, H., von Bloh, W., Bechthold, M., ... & Donges, J. (2025). copan: LPJmL: A new hybrid DGVM-based modeling framework for dynamic land use and agricultural management. Oral presentation, EGU25, Vienna (No. EGU25-19244). 

Breier, J., Schwarz, L., Prawitz, H., von Bloh, W., Müller, C., Constantino, S., ... & Bechthold, M. (2024). Modeling Resilient Land Use in the Anthropocene: Integrating Global Biogeophysical and Social Systems with the InSEEDS Model. Oral presentation, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Washington D.C.  (Vol. 2024, pp. GC01-8).

Schwarz, L., Breier, J., Donges, J., and Rockström, J. (2024). Exploring the transformation to regenerative agricultural systems using empirical case studies and a coupled social-ecological model. Poster presentation, Social Simulations Conference 2024, Cracow

Schwarz, L. & Prawitz, H. (2024). Multi-Level Transformation Towards Regenerative (Agri-)culture. Symposium co-organization and oral presentation, PECS-3: Pathways to Sustainability Conference, Montreal

Tuninetti, M., Giordano, V., Constantino, S., Perri, S., Rocha, J., Schwarz, L., ... & Levin, S. (2024). Positive Tipping Points in the Food Systems: the Role of Scales. Oral presentation, EGU25, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 22274).

Schwarz, L. (2024). Modeling Resilient Land Use in the Anthropocene: Integrating Global Biogeophysical and Social Systems with the InSEEDS Model. Oral presentation, Earth Resilience Sustainability Initiative, Critical Transitions in Social-Ecological Systems Workshop, Stockholm

Schwarz, L. & Donges, J (2023). Exploring the transformation to more regenerative agricultural systems using empirical case studies and a coupled social-ecological model. Oral presentation, European Conference on Ecological Modeling, Leipzig

Breier, J., Schwarz, L., Donges, J. F., Gerten, D., & Rockström, J. (2023). Regenerative agriculture for food security and ecological resilience: illustrating global biophysical and social spreading potentials. EARTH4ALL: DEEP-DIVE PAPER, 13.

Schwarz, L. (2023). Towards understanding the transition to regenerative (agri-)cultural systems - an integrated social-ecological modeling approach. Oral presentation at LOOPS-4 workshop, Stockholm

Schwarz, L. (2023) Systems Modeling to Foster Understanding of the Transition to Regenerative Agriculture - a Mulit-Level Criticality Perspective. Oral presentation, Earth Resilience Sustainability Initiative, Critical Transitions in Social-Ecological Systems Workshop, Princeton

• 2024: Kapp-Prize for Ecological Economics, Association of Ecological Economics Germany, prize for excellent Master's / PhD Thesis
• 2021: Thinkathon "Humanity in a Changing Climate", 2500€ granted by Sievert Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Kultur
• 2021: Early Career Prize for best presentation at WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Interacting Tipping Elements in the Natural and Social Components of the Earth System"
• 2021: Poster prize at "Cognition and Climate" online Summer School on "Challenges of Climate Change", hosted by the Institute of Cognitive Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada