Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Resource Economics

• Research Projects in Progress
• Completed Research Projects
• Projects Combining Teaching and Research
   

Research Projects in Progress

• econCCadapt
  Economics of Climate Change Adaptation - Integrating Economic Modeling and Institutional Analysis at Different Scales
• COOP
  Support for Farmers' Cooperatives
• ELaN
  Development of an Integrated Approach to Land Management for Sustainable Use of Water and Matter in North-Eastern Germany, Sub-project 9 “Property Rights and Transactions”
• SASCHA
  Sustainable Land Management and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change for the Western Siberian Corn-belt
• SUNRISE
  Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in an Institutional Perspective

• GoCon
  Governing Farmland Conversion in the Quest for Sustainability: A comparative study of China and Germany
• MEGACITY 2
  Climate and Energy in a Complex Transition Process Towards Sustainable Hyderabad. Mitigation and adaptation strategies by changing institutions, governance structures, life styles and consumption patterns
• RICIP
  Sharing Water and Environmental Values: Peace Construction efforts in Cyprus

Completed Research Projects

• ADAPTFISH-2

   Adaptive Dynamics and Management of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems Exemplified by Recreational Fisheries
   (ADAPTFISH).

• ARC
  The Changing Role of Agricultural Institutions and Farming: A Collaborative Project in Germany and United Kingdom
• Bahro-Archive
  Reworking the Scientific Bequest of Rudolf Bahro
• CAPRI
  Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction
• CEESA
  Sustainable Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe
• COST A 12 RURAL INNOVATION
  European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research
• European COST Project
  Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe
• EPLR 2000-2003
  Evaluation of the Effects of the Compensatory Allowances in less Favoured Areas and Areas with Environment-Specific Requirements in Brandenburg within the Midterm-Review of the Development Plan for the Rural Areas in Brandenburg

• Ethiopia
  The Role of Local Level Institutions Towards Enhancing Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Rural Ethiopia
• GRANO
  Approaches for a Sustainable Agricultural Production in North-eastern Germany (GRANO); Project group 1: Decentral evaluation and coordination mechanisms
• INTRO-Organic Farming
  Institutions and Transaction Costs in Organic Farming
  • INTRO - Institutional Success Factors
  • INTRO - Costs of Acieving Environmental Quality Objectives

• IDARI
  Integrated Development of Agricultural and Rural Institutions in Central and Eastern European Countries
• ITAES
  Integrated Tools to Design and Implement Agri-Environmental Schemes
• KATO
  Comparative Analysis of the Transition Process of the Agricultural Sector in Selected Central and Eastern European Countries
• LABOR
  Labour Organization and the Adoption of Integrated Pest Management
• Land Use Conflicts (Spreewald)
  Does Money Solve Land Use Conflicts? On Governance Problems of Agri-Environmental Support Programs
• MEACAP
  Impact of Environmental Agreements on the Common Agricultural Policy
• MEGACITY 1
  Hyderabad as a Megacity of Tomorrow: Sustainable Urban Food and Health Security and Environmental Resource Management

• MULTAGRI
  Capitalisation of Research Results on the Multifunctionality of Agriculture and Rural Areas
• PINE (Transcoop)
  Promotion of Institutions for Natural Resource and Environmental Management in Central and Eastern Europe
• RSP
  Making Rural Services Work for the Poor. The Role of Rural Institutions and their Governance for Agriculture-led Development
• SEAMLESS
  A System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling; Linking European Science and Society
• SENSOR
  Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmental, Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions
• SIAG
  FG 986: Structural Change in Agriculture - Sub-project 11: Cooperative and Hierarchical Forms of Institutional Change (SIAG)e
• SOCO-CS
  Soil conservation and policy measures: case studies (SoCo-CS)
• SUTRA-Research Group: structural change and transformation in the agricultural sector
  Sub-project TP 8: "Institutional Change of Water Regulation Systems
• KSPW Regionale Strukturen im Wandel
  Third research and promotion period from the commission of research about the social and political changes in the new federal states of Germany
• Housing Co-operatives
  Promotion of Membership in Housing Co-operatives as a Challenge for a Sustainable Development of Enterprises
• VIETNAM
  Devolution of Forest Management in Vietnam

Projects Combining Teaching and Research

• Support of Democracy in the Ukraine
  Topic: „Developing Multi-Level and Decentralized Implementation Capacity for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Policies: A contribution to polycentric governance in an emerging democracy“
• Asia-Link RECREATE Project
  Restructuring Higher Education in Resource and Environmental Economics in East-Asian Transition Economies
• MACE
  Moderne Landwirtschaft in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Marie Curie)
• TEMPUS-BULGARIA
  European Integration - A Trainee Programme for Administrators in Agriculture and the Food Industry The Quality of Food: From the Soil to the Consumer
• TEMPUS-UKRAINE
  The Quality of Food: From the Soil to the Consumer
• Special Chair 
  Special Chair in “Socio-Economic Aspects of Transformation Processes in Central and Eastern European Agriculture“ at Wageningen University, The Netherlands (1994-1999)