Burkhard Schweppe-Kraft studied economics at the University of Münster. From 1982 to 1987 lecturer and researcher at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) in resource economics, landscape planning, valuation, mitigation and compensation of impacts on nature and landscape. Afterwards he worked on projects on environmental impact assessment at the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the TU Berlin. Since 1992 he is Scientific advisor at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), departments for landscape planning, large scale conservation projects and since 1997: legal affairs, economics and ecologically sound regional development. Since 2007 he is also a lecturer on nature conservation economics at the applied university of Bernburg.