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  • Tilaye Teklewold Deneke (PhD) has been assigned as Director of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Gender Research Directorate of the Amhara Regional Agricultural Reserach Institute. 15/05/2012

  • Dr. Andreas Thiel, who worked at the Division of Resource Economics as Lecture since 2007, has been awarded a Guest Professorship in Environmental Governance by the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture ah HU Berlin. The new Professorship can already count on several projects and collaborators, for example, working on water management in Mozambique, climate change adaptation in Germany, the interlinkages between institutionalisms and political ecology and recent transformations of natural resource governance in the EU. See also. 14/05/2012
  • IU's Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis renamed for Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. Further information. 11/05/2012
  • The „Working Group on Field Experiments in Agricultural and Resource Economics” of the Division of Resource Economics organizes a methodical workshop on economic experiments under the guidance of Marco Janssen. The number of participants is limited. Interested parties (master students and researchers) can apply until 30 April 2012 at expgroup@hu-berlin.de. In addition, a public lecture of Marco Janssen will take place on 11 June 2012. Please follow this link for more information. 10/04/2012
  • Vinish Kathuria wins The Mahalanobis Memorial Medal: Vinish Kathuria, School of Management IIT Bombay, has been awarded the prestigious Mahalanobis Memorial Medal for the current round. This award is given by The Indian Econometric Society every two years in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of economics. The other co-winners of this round are Kausik Chaudhuri (Madras School of Economics) and Esther Duflo (MIT). Previous winners include prominent names like Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia (1974), Amartya Sen, Harvard (1976), Pranab Bardhan, UC Berkely (1980), Peter Diamond, Yale (1980) and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT (2000) among others. Vinish Kathuria has worked extensively in the areas of Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics and publishes in reputed journals like Ecological Economics and World Development. He is currently in the Ph.D advisory committee of some doctoral students under the Sustainable Hyderabad Megacity program at The Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University Berlin. 26/03/2012
  • Crafting or Designing? Intended Institutional Change for Social-Ecological Systems:  Sustainable Hyderabad – Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer Kolloquium 2012, 7. - 8. June. Further Information. 20/03/2012
  • Herr Dr. Aseffa Seyoum arbeitet seit Januar 2012 am College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) an der University of Illinois auf dem Gebiet der „Genetic Resources Policy Analysis“ als Post Doctoral Research Fellow. Herr Seyoum hat 2009 zum Thema „Mikroökonomische Auswirkungen von Maßnahmen zum Schutz der genetischen Ressourcen von wildem Kaffee in Südwest Äthiopien: Forstzonierung und ökonomische Anreize für den Umweltschutz“ am Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie promoviert. Das Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie gratuliert seinem Ehemaligen zu seiner neuen Funktion und wünscht ihm weiterhin viel Erfolg! 24/02/2012
  • HUMBOLDT Die Zeitung: Der Artikel "Von Vertrauen zu Gaskochern. Wie Kooperation unter Stadtbewohnern zur Vermeidung von Klimawandel beitragen kann" von Dr. Christine Werthmann ist erschienen in der Ausgabe 4 – 2011/2012, Seite 5.
  • „Sustainable Hyderabad“ project starts into the implementation phase with pilot projects in and around Hyderabad, India. The English language newspaper „The Hindu” reports on the story. Please find the article. Here.
  • HUMBOLDT Die Zeitung: Der Artikel "Das Miteinander ist das eigentliche Potenzial. Einsicht eines Doktoranden" von Herrn Berger ist erschienen in der Ausgabe 3 – 2011/2012, Seite 7.
  • Upcoming Events of Megacity Project 2012/2013:
    June 2012 National Workshop
    The Megacity Project will present its three day National Workshop. We invite PhDs and PostDocs doing their research on megacities to participate in the Young Researchers Day (1st workshop day). Paper contributions will be published in a Special Issue of the Emerging Megacities Series. Further details and the "Call for papers" will follow. The second day of the Workshop will be used for the internal advisory board meeting in order to discuss the next strategic steps for the Megacity Project. Lastly, the third Workshop day is dedicated to "Institutional Change", with the participation of well-known researchers from all over the world. Further details will be communicated soon!
    October 2012: International Megacity Project Workshop Hyderabad
    This Workshop is proposed to deal with three key analytical steps of the Research Agenda of Megacity Project: (a) Monitoring, Evaluation and Networking of the Pilot Projects to synthesise outcomes on Crafting Rules by Discourse (b) Appraisal and Implementation of Capacity Building Measures within all Pilot Projects(c) Towards formulating a Perspective Action Plan (PAP)for Hyderabad. However, the focus of the Workshop will be on the first two parts of the Agenda, where as the formulation and declaration of the PAP for Hyderabad will be the task of the final conference in March 2013.
    March 2013: Final Conference of International Megacity Project Hyderabad
    This conference will deal with the results of the last analytical step - Formulation and Declaration of a PAP for Hyderabad. It is proposed to keep the results of the Megacity Project Research in the form of a Perspective Action Plan for Hyderabad for discussion. Apart from scientific discussions, the focus will be on the necessary institutional innovation and governance changes in facilitating the implementation of PAP. Commitments for PAP - evolved out of the joint implementation of this 5 year Project - by key Actors from the local Government, private, public and civil society will be the highlight of this conference.
  • Im Rahmen des "Visitors Program of the Federal Republic of Germany" der Internationalen Grünen Woche 2012 findet im Dekanatssaal der Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin am 20.1.2012 um 14 Uhr eine vom Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie organisierte Diskussionrunde zum Thema "Insight and experience gained from German-international research cooperation in the field of agricultural and sustainability studies in the “Sustainable Hyderabad Project” statt. Weitere Informationen. 11/1/2012
  • Erste Einstein Junior Fellows gefördert: Die Einstein Stiftung Berlin fördert ab 1. Januar 2012 die ersten zwei „Einstein Junior Fellows“. Der Geograph Tobias Kümmerle forscht zum Thema Landnutzungswandel und dessen Auswirkungen auf die Artenvielfalt. Im Forschungsvorhaben von Volkswirt Andreas Thiel geht es um die Steuerung natürlicher Ressourcensysteme. Beide Nachwuchswissenschaftler arbeiten an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Durch die Förderung der Einstein Junior Fellows stärkt die Einstein Stiftung den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in Berlin. weitere Informationen. 11/01/2012
  • Tilaye Teklewold Deneke - Promotion abgeschlossen: Herr Deneke hat am 15.12.2011 seine Doktorarbeit erfolgreich verteidigt. Das Thema seiner Dissertation lautet: „Water Governance in Amhara Region of Ethiopia: An Institutional Analysis“. 16/12/2011
  • Neue Publikation: Christine Werthmann hat im Dezember 2011 Ihre Dissertation mit dem Titel „Understanding Institutional Arrangements for Community-Based Natural Resource Managment in the Mekong Delta of Cambodia and Vietnam. A mixed methods approach“ veröffentlicht. Die Disputation fand am 18. August 2011 an der Philipps-Universität Marburg statt.
  • HIP 2012: 2nd HIP Workshop on 27th of January, 2012. Further Information. 14/12/2011

  • Berlin Institute for Cooperative Studies launches new research project on energy cooperatives. One researcher amongst others is M.Sc. Jens Rommel from Division of Resource Economics. More Information. 29/11/2011
  • IMRD-Gastprofessor der Humboldt-Universität erhält diesjährigen Reimar Lüst-Preis der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. US-amerikanischer Agrarökonom Prof. Daniel Bromley mit renommiertem Wissenschaftspreis geehrt. Weitere Informationen 28/11/2011

 

  • Guest Lecture as part of Master Teaching Programme at the LGF, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wednesday, 14.12.2011, Lecture Hall 3, Phillipstr. 13, 18:00 s.t. - 19:30 o’clock, Sergio Villamayor Tomas (Indiana University, Bloomington) "Research Design Reflection: combining multiple data collection methods for social-ecological research on robustness"
  • Guest Lecture as part of Master Teaching Programme at the LGF, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wednesday, 1.12.2011, Lecture Hall 3, Phillipstr. 13, 18:00 s.t. - 19:30 o’clock, Professor Daniel W. Bromley (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "The Research Process in Applied Resource Economics"
  • Discussion Group on The Philosophy of Sciences (meeting regularly once a month; venue room 1.22, Philippstrasse 13, House 12, Berlin 10115, Contact: Ranjan Kumar Ghosh; ranjan.kumar.ghosh.1 (at) agrar.hu-berlin.de)
    Next: 1st of December 2011 from 14:00 to 15:45 Hrs; special session on "Pragmatism" with Prof. Bromley. 10/11/2011
  • The new issue 05/06 of the Sustainable Hyderabad Project newsletter is available here. 4/11/2011
  • New Publication: On October 26, 2011, Bhuvanachithra Chidambaram published her first phase of research work on Vehicle emissions in International Journal of ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT. Further Information. 3/11/2011
  • Erfolgreiches Wassermanagement braucht auch in der Mongolei Mitbestimmung und finanzielle Mittel: Organisatorische Reformen im Wassermanagement sollten mit Abgabenreformen einhergehen. Zu diesem vorläufigen Ergebnis kommen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), der Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und des Helmholtz-Zentrums für Umweltforschung (UFZ). Für die Studie wurden die Veränderungen in Portugal mit denen in der Mongolei verglichen, da beide Länder grundlegende Reformen im Wassersektor hinter sich haben. Ziel war es herauszufinden, was Nicht-EU-Länder beim Wassermanagement von den Reformen der letzten Jahre in Europa lernen könnten. Die Ergebnisse wurden am Donnerstag (13.10.11) auf einer Wasserkonferenz in Dresden vorgestellt. Weitere Informationen. 19/10/2011
  • INRM-Einführungsveranstaltung: Am 19.10. findet die Informationsveranstaltung zum Studiengang "Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) von 17.30 bis 18.30 Uhr im Hörsaal 3 im Haus 12 auf dem Gelände der Philippstraße 13 statt. 12/10/2011
  • Christine Werthmann hat am 18. August 2011 an der Philipps-Universität Marburg ihre Dissertation im Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften erfolgreich verteidigt. Das Thema der Arbeit lautet: Understanding Institutional Arrangements for Community-Based Natural Resource Management in the Mekong Delta of Cambodia and Vietnam. A mixed methods approach. 11/10/2011
  • European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Event “The Role of New Approaches in Studying Sustainable Governance”: Two members of the division were invited to participate in the European workshop on experimental methods and agent-based modeling organized by the Centre for Transdisciplinary Study of Institutions, Evolution and Policies (CETIP), IF SAS in Bratislava, Slovakia. Further Information. 5/10/2011
  • Dr. Christoph Walther zum Honorarprofessor ernannt: Herr Dr. Walther, Forschungspartner im Projekt Megacity "Klima und Energie in einem komplexen Transformationsprozess zur Nachhaltigkeit in Hyderabad - Vermeidungs- und Anpassungsstrategien durch institutionellen Wandel, Governance-Reformen sowie veränderte Lebensstile und Konsummuster" wurde mit Wirkung vom 25.5.2011 zum Honorarprofessor für das Fachgebiet "Gesamtwirtschaftliche Bewertung von Netzinfrastrukturen" an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar ernannt. Pressemitteilung. 21/09/2011
  • WORKSHOP POSTPONED. NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED. The International Workshop of Megacity Project Hyderabad will take place from 10th to 14th October 2011 at Hyderabad. Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, will inaugurate the Workshop on 10th October, 17.30 at Jubilee Hall, Public Gardens, Hyderabad. A 20 member delegation of the consortium led by the Project Leader, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn, will participate in the deliberations. 20/09/2011
  • Special Megacity Project Session will take place at the International Conclave for Climate Change (ICCC) on 13th October 2011 from 16.30 to 17.45 at HITEX, Madhapur, Hyderabad. For further details see.  20/09/2011
  • Abschlussworkshop RSP-Projekt: Das Verbundprojekt "Bereitstellung von Leistungen für arme Bevölkerungsgruppen auf dem Land. Die Rolle Ruraler Institutionen und Governancestrukturen für eine durch die Landwirtschaft stimulierte ländliche Entwicklung" (RSP) findet seinen Abschluss auf dem Tropentag 2011 in Bonn. Dazu wird ein Worskhop "Rural Service" am 6.10.2011 von 13.30 bis 15 Uhr veranstaltet. Programm. 19/09/2011
  • Die Stiftung fiat panis verleiht den Hans H. Ruthenberg-Graduierten-Förderpreis 2011: “Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment, Water Rights and Conflict – an Institutional Analysis from Ethiopia” von Frau Andrea Bues, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, betreut von Frau Dr. Insa Theesfeld. Pressemitteilung. / Nachrichten der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 06/09/2011
  • Jes Weigelt - Promotion abgeschlossen: Herr Jes Weigelt hat am 26.08.2011 seine Doktorarbeit erfolgreich verteidigt. Das Thema seiner Dissertation lautet: „Reforming Development Trajectories? Institutional Change of Forest Tenure in the Brazilian Amazon“. Herr Dr. Weigelt nimmt am 1. September 2011 seine Tätigkeit im “Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V.” in Potsdam auf. 01/09/2011
  • José Hernández - Promotion abgeschlossen: Herr José Hernández hat am 19.07.2011 seine Doktorarbeit erfolgreich verteidigt. Das Thema seiner Dissertation lautet: „Analysis of economic driving forces in crop protection. Case study: apple production in the European Union“. 01/09/2011
  • Neue Publikation in der ICAR-Reise: Die Dissertation von Frau Carlotta von Bock und Polach "Die Bedeutung von Sozialkapital und Netzwerken für die saisonale Migration polnischer Arbeitskräfte nach Deutschland. Am Beispiel des brandenburgischen Spargelanbaus." wurde veröffentlich in der Reihe "Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources", Vol. 43., Aachen: Shaker
  • Elektronische Dissertationspublikation: Die Dissertation "Preservation of an Ecosystem in the Scenario of Land Use Change specifically Wetland of Gujranwala (a Case Study)" von Frau Tasneem Akthter ist elektronisch verfügbar: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?id=37822
  • In-between 22. and 26 August 2011 the Division of Resource Economics and collaboration with the Division for Horticultural Production and VÖW, and SNEEP held a Summer Academy on Sustainable Value Chains. 25 Students from all over Germany attended and worked on problem identification and solutions for value chains in food production, renewable energy and textiles. The Academy ended with a public presentation of results. Further information / Program. 31/08/2011
  • Dr. S. Raveesha has been selected as Assistant Professor for University of Agricultural Sciences Raichur, India. 20/07/2011
  • Jens Rommel has been awarded with the Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Award 2011: During this year’s summer party of the faculty on 6 July 2011, Jens Rommel will receive the Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Award. The award promotes young researchers in the area of agricultural, horticultural and fisheries sciences. Since 1996, it is awarded for excellent PhD dissertations and degrees (B.Sc., M.Sc., and Diploma) at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The title of Jens Rommel’s thesis is: „Ethnic Heterogeneity, Economic Inequality, and External Leadership in Group-based Finance: Evidence from Uganda“ (at the Division of Professor Hanisch "Cooperative Sciences"). 10/06/2011
  • Professor Dr. Dr. sc. Konrad Hagedorn will give a key note speech at the International Conclave on Climate Change to be held in Hyderabad, 12-14 October 2011. The Sustainable Hyderabad Project participates with a special session. More info. 30/05/2011
  • The new issue of the Sustainable Hyderabad Project newsletter is available here. 30/05/2011
  • National Workshop Sustainable Hyderabad Project: The National Workshop of the Sustainable Hyderabad Project takes place between May 18 - 20. 02.05.2011
  • The Draft Proposal for the ‚FutureLand Graduate School – The Transformation of Land Use to Sustainability‘ has been accepted for the final application round within the ‚Exzellenzinitiative’. The Division of Resource Economics participates in the application. The planned Graduate School aims to offer a structured doctoral training in the area of ‚Land Sytem Science‘. Further Information (in German). 27.04.2011
  • The Cooperative project" Development of an Integrated Approach to Land Management for Sustainable Use of Water and Matter in North-Eastern Germany (ELaN) hast started. Katrin Daedlow is responsible for the Sub-project 9 “Property Rights and Transactions”. Further Information. 07.02.2011
  • Andreas Thiel is currently Visiting Scholar at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in Bloomington, Indiana University, USA. He will be back at the Division from mid May onwards. In the meantime he can be reached by Email. / 07.02.2011
  • New book has been published - ICAR Series:Katharina Rauchenecker: Institutioneller Wandel im Bereich Jagd und Wildtiermanagement. Das Beispiel der Jagdgenossenschaften. Band: 42. Reihe: Institutioneller Wandel der Landwirtschaft und Ressourcennutzung - Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources
    • 978-3-8322-9587-5, November 2010. /02.02.2011