Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser focuses on issues of human-environment interaction, landscape transformation and regional development processes in the high mountains of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. His work stresses the importance of integrating environmental aspects and ecosystem dynamics into development processes, and building upon knowledge, adaptations, and managerial capabilities of local populations. He has also worked on vegetation patterns and floristic inventories. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Mountain Research and Development (since 2003) and Erdkunde (since 2015), the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mountain Science (since 2005) and has been appointed as Series Editor of the Book Series Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research published by Springer Academic Publishers (since 2009).