Jana Igl, MS

Jana Igl holds a BS in landscape architecture and landscape planning from the Technical Universty of Munich (TUM). While gaining professional experience as a landscape planner, she completed a BA in philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and an MS in landscape planning and nature conservation at TUM. For her master's thesis “Connectedness to Nature as ‘Option of the Good Life’” she was honored with the IALE-D student award. Since 2023, she has been a lecturer at the Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management at TUM.

In 2024 she joined the Rachel Carson Center’s Doctoral Program Environment and Society. In her dissertation, she deals with planning principles and practices such as nature-based solutions (NbS) and green infrastructure (GI) and explores the implicit understandings of nature, its value, and the relationship between humans and nature that they contain. With her research, she aims to contribute to a critical examination of planning concepts in order to make their implementation more equitable, inclusive and sustainable.

Selected Publications

• 2023. „Was kann relationale Umweltethik zum Biodiversitätsschutz beitragen?“ In Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XX: Interdisziplinärer Forschungsaustausch im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt, edited by Jutta Stadler. Bundesamt für Naturschutz. https://doi.org/10.19217/skr664
• 2022. Naturverbundenheit als „Option des Guten Lebens“: Haben wir ein Recht auf ein Leben im Einklang mit der Natur? Master Thesis. TUM School of Life Sciences, Technische Universität München. https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1729672
• with Teucher, Mike, Christina Fischer, Christin Busch, Michelle Horn, Janika Kerner, Anke Müller, Ronald K. Mulwa, and Jan Christian Habel. 2015. “A Kenyan Endemic Bird Species Turdoides Hindei at Home in Invasive Thickets.” Basic and Applied Ecology 16 (2): 180–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2015.01.002