Theses
Graduation theses at the Division of Resource Economics are organised under the umbrella of the Master Colloquium MaKo. Please contact simon.karnasch (at) agrar.hu-berlin.de
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Procedures, Decision-making Support and Issue Areas
Proposals for Bachelor and Master Theses
Regulations for Preparations of Theses
Procedures, Decision-making Support and Issue Areas
Graduate theses are supposed to demonstrate that their authors are able to work independently when analysing questions relevant in the respective study area. They are therefore important for successfully completing the study programme and represent a challenge for each student. To cope with this task, careful preparation and planning is required. The following decision-making support for the choice and delimitation of topics for Bachelor and Master Theses as well as Diploma Theses and Study Projects, which is intended to serve this objective, is organised in four parts:
(1) The procedures regarding registration, acceptance, completion and defence of graduate thesis are explained, including the “MaKo” (Master Colloquium).
(2) Then basic information for the choice of topics is provided by means of structuring the knowledge area in which the Division of Resource Economics is working.
(3) After that proposals for concrete topics that could be chosen are made to give an impression of the nature and focus of thesis within this knowledge area.
(4) Finally, lists of current or already completed thesis and projects are added which may serve as examples for successful choices of topics.
1 Procedures Regarding Registration, Acceptance, Writing and Defence of Graduation Thesis and the Master Colloquium (“MaKo”)
The following steps are typical for the process of preparing, conducting and completing a graduation thesis:
1. Looking for a topic: Motivated by the priorities you have chosen during your studies, discussions with teachers and researchers, information from scientists and practitioners and other suggestions you arrive at concrete conclusions regarding “your topic”.
2. Submitting a proposal: Write a short description of your topic and send it to the Secretariat of the Division of Resource Economics (s.heilmann@agrar.hu-berlin.de) as well as to other teachers and researchers which may be involved.
3. Choice of topic: Discuss your proposal in meetings with your advisor and co-advisor in order to improve, delimitate, refine and substantiate your topic step by step, what enables you to arrive at a well structured exposé.
4. Registration: After your proposal has been accepted, and as soon as you are sure that the work is feasible for you and you are really interested in the topic, register your thesis in the examination office by means of the appropriate form.
5. Advice: Your advisor and co-advisor will support you when you are working on your thesis and appreciate being regularly informed about the work progress, upcoming questions and changes in methodology as well as preliminary results from your analysis.
6. Defence: After the examination office has received your thesis and the referee reports, the oral defence of your thesis will be the final stage of the process (for further details see the website of the faculty: Prüfungsangelenheiten).
MaKo – The Master Colloquium at the Division of Resource Economics
As master theses are characterised by intense learning of basic research methods, a special procedure for organising the process of research and writing and advising the master students has been introduced that is linked to the Master Colloquium (MaKo). MaKo is a workshop series at the Division of Resource Economics that is especially devoted to students in the graduation phase of their Master of Science programme. It aims at an exchange among graduating students and between students and their advisors and provides a framework for continuously supporting students during their research work. The graduating students present their work in different stages of investigation and receive suggestions from the participants as regards the process and improvement of their research. Defence of master theses also takes place in the framework of the Master Colloquium Series. MaKo is complementary to individual recommendations given by the adviser and co-adviser and enables the students to benefit from the high potential of a group having the same objective trough critical-constructive discussion, exchange of experience and collective learning.
Participation in this workshop series is obligatory for all those who write their master thesis in the Division of Resource Economics and requires early registration by contacting the MaKo Tutor in charge (simon.karnasch (at) agrar.hu-berlin.de).MaKo is coordinated through the internet platform Moodle.(The key for the coursecan be received from the tutor).The Moodle Platform provides guidelines for writing a master thesis, information on the „MaKo Process“,further instructive and supportive material for scientific workand the workshop programmes.
1 Decision-making Support for Choosing a Topic: structure of knowledge area
The structure of the knowledge area is based on the view that the Interaction between Social and Natural Systems (as suggested by the Institutions of Sustainability Framework IoS) is at the core of resource management and environmental policies. Institutions and governance structures in this domain aim at regularizing such processes of interaction in order to achieve sustainability:
• Accordingly, this knowledge area - Institutional Resource Economics - combines approaches from Environmental and Resource Economics with approaches from Institutional Analysis and Political Economy Research.
• On the one hand, Environmental and Resource Economics can be taken as a starting point for analysis. Then the physical and the social dimensions inherent in the interaction between social and natural systems can be considered two complementary perspectives that to be used for classifying the main issue areas (see Table 1, Section 1 and 2).
• On the other hand, the starting point can be Institutional Analysis and Political Economy. In this case, the institutional analysis and political economy dimensions to be found in the interaction between social and natural systems represent two complementary perspectives for classification of issue areas (see Table 1, Section 3 and 4).
Table 1: Issue Areas from a Physical and a Social Perspective on Natural Resources
1. The Physical Perspective
1.1 Land management and soil protection including land conversion
1.2 Water management and protection of water including irrigation and drainage
1.3 Climate policies, mitigation and adaptation strategies, and air pollution
1.4 Management and economics of fishery, forestry and wild life
1.5 Nature conservation, biodiversity, and genetic resources
1.6 Provision of energy and biomass from agriculture and forestry
2. The Social Perspective
2.1 Natural resources in deep transition processes like institutional change of autocratic or socialist systems: privatisation of land, transformation of water systems, etc.
2.2 Natural resources and agricultural policies and institutions: WTO, EU and multifunctionality, cross compliance, agri-environmental programmes
2.3 Natural resources and development policies and institutions: impact of resource degradation on livelihoods, implications for development cooperation
2.4 Environmental policies for particular farming systems: organic farming, GMO agriculture, precision farming, and co-existence of different systems
2.5 Impact and regulation of inputs and facilities of agricultural production on the environment: pesticides, fertilizers, manure, waste and animal production sites
2.6 Political and institutional responses to natural disasters such as flooding, drought, famine and pests
3. The Institutional Analysis Perspective
3.1 Actors: game theory and frameworks for institutional analysis
3.2 Transactions: transaction costs and transaction characteristics
3.3 Rules: property rights theory and rights to natural resources
3.4 Governance I: contract and principal agent theory
3.5 Governance II: market, firms, hybrids and cooperation
3.6 Frameworks of Human-Ecosystem Interaction
3.7 Institutional change and institutional innovation
4. The Political Economy Perspective
4.1 Economic theory of constitutions
4.2 Voting, elections and party competition
4.3 Legitimation of policies and policy networks
4.4 Collective action and interest groups
4.5 Bureaucracy andfederalism
4.6 The European Union and European policy making
4.7 Policy Reform and the role of deliberation in politics
This brief outline shows that Institutional Resource Economics employs complementary views which include the physical and the social perspective on natural resources and the institutional analysis and political economy perspective on natural resource management. The issue areas classified according to these dimensions (see Table 1) usually aggregate a variety of different single issues. For example, water management refers to both irrigation and drainage, deals with the quantity of water and the quality of water, for example as regards water pollution, and is governed by various institutional arrangements such as water markets, water user associations, government policies and international agreements.
Research Dimensions within the Issue Areas
Analysing these issue areas requires taking into account the dimensions associated with doing research on such subjects, because this is relevant for how to structure the theses. These dimensions can be indicated according to four aspects as shown in the matrix below (Table 2). The first refers to the research approaches used to analyse the issues, the second is derived from the geographical location and economic situation of world regions, the third indicates the level of coordination that can be local, national or international, and the fourth reflects the outcomes of research, knowledge transfer by means recommendations and the potential impact this may have in terms of learning processes that may enable or assist innovation and reform.
Applying these criteria of classification taken from Table 2 on each issue area mentioned in Table 1 would result in numerous sub-topics which, of course, cannot be elaborated in total in one single thesis. Therefore, a thesis should concentrate on a limited set of research aspects and only select a manageable issue within an issue area. For example, if you decide for issue area “Land management and soil protection including land conversion” (see 1.1), you may want to concentrate on institutional analysis of new “sets of rules”, by posing the research question how “property rights” (see 3.3) have changed at local level in a post-socialist transition country depending on to what extent national privatisation laws have been implemented. In other words, your thesis may include aspects from several issue areas mentioned in Table 1 by combining respective views on the research problem.
Table 2: Matrix of Dimensions Associated with Research Applied to the Issue Areas
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3. Suggested Research Issues and Topics
After having drawn a sort of mind map of the overall knowledge area, some examples as regards real topics and issues will be listed and outlined. For the sake of simplicity, we will organise them in four groups which are formed in accordance with Section 1-4 in Table 1. Accordingly, you will find topics starting from the Physical, Social, Institutional Analysis and Political Economy Perspective. The issue area(s) defined in Table 1 these topics are related to will be indicated in brackets.
(1) The Physical Perspective as Starting Point for Choosing a Topic
(2) The Social Perspective as Starting Point for Choosing a Topic
(3) The Institutional Analysis Perspective as Starting Point for Choosing a Topic
(4) The Political Economy Perspective as Starting Point for Choosing a Topic
4. Current or Already Completed Graduate Theses or Study Projects
(1) Bachelor Theses
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Bachelor Theses in Progress
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Bachelor Theses Completed
(2) Master Theses
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Master Theses in Progress
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Master Theses Completed
(3) Diploma Theses
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Diploma Theses in Progress
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Diploma Theses Completed
(4) Study Projects
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Study Projects in Progress
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Study Projects Completed
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Funded Master theses and Project works on ‘policy-driven’ collective action in agriculture related water governance in the European Union and the implementation of measures in agriculture related water management."
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Food Waste as a Problem of Unsustainably institutionalized Resource Use." further information /11.1.2012
- Proposal for Master-Theses: " Unwillingness to Pay for Private Water Services in the Emerging Megacity Hyderabad." further information /14.12.2011
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Water Institutions and Diversity." further information /14.12.2011
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Environmental Impact of the Abandonment of the Milk Quota System." further information /12.12.2011
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Flächenschutzprogramm zum Schutz landwirtschaftlicher Flächen: Notwendigkeit, Interessen und ressourcenökonomische Analyse." further information /12.12.2011
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Institutioneller Wandel im deutschen Wassermanagement: Mechanismen zur Implementierung der Verringerung der Nährstoffeinträge und zur Verbesserung der Durchgängigkeit von Oberflächengewässern in verschiedenen Bundesländern." further information /20.01.2011
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Institutioneller Wandel im deutschen Wassermanagement: Mechanismen zur Implementierung des Flussgebietsmanagements in internationalen Flussgebieten in Deutschland." further information /20.01.2011
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "The determinants of hybrid vs. hierarchical governance of urban water service provision in Germany and Spain." further information /20.01.2011
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Recent changes in international river basin management on the Iberian Peninsula between Spain and Portugal" further information /20.01.2011
- Proposal for Study Projekt: "Soil Framework Directive: Rich Past but no Future?" further information /18.10.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses/ Study Projekt: "Agriculture and the provision of water-related ecosystem services in the nature conservation area “Doñana” in Andalucia, Spain" further information /19.07.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses/ Study Projekt: "Die Implikationen der Implementierung der Europäischen Rahmenrichtlinie zur Meeresstrategie am Beispiel des Wattenmeeres. " further information /10.05.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses/ Study Projekt: "Die Implikationen der Implementierung der Europäischen Wasserrahmenrichtlinie am Beispiel des Internationalen bundesübergreifenden Flussgebiets Ems. " further information /10.05.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Impact of Post-socialist Institutional Reform and Climate Change on Land Use in Tyumen Oblast, Western Siberia" further information /22.03.2010
- Proposal for 2 Master-Theses: "Interessenkonstellationen und Regulierungsprobleme veränderter Stoffströme durch Abwasserklärung und Nährstoffgewinnung aus Klärschlamm " further information /22.03.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Re-scaling of natural resource governance: the European Water Framework Directive" further information /11.01.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Re-scaling of natural resource governance: the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive" further information /11.01.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "The articulation of European policies on natural resource governance: the Water Framework Directive, the Marine Strategy Framework and their Implications for …" further information /11.01.2010
- Proposal for Master-Theses: "Urban Wild Life Management. The case of growing numbers of wild boar in Berlin" further information /22.06.2009
- Vorschlag für Masterarbeit: "Institutionalisierung von Nachhaltigkeit bei der Bereitstellung von Bioenergie: Das Beispiel der Biomassestrom-Nachhaltigkeitsverordnung" Masterarbeiten /18.08.2009
- Proposals for Master-Theses: "Farmland Conversion and Protection Policy in Berlin-Brandenburg" and "Reducing the Bureaucratic Burden of Farmland Conversion? Transaction Costs Analysis of Farmland Conversion in Berlin-Brandenburg" Masterarbeiten /15.07.2009
- Vorschläge für Masterarbeiten: Im Rahmen des Projekts "Governing Farmland Conversion in the Quest for Sustainability – Comparing China and Germany" sind Masterarbeiten zu vergeben/17.09.2008
- Vorschläge für Masterarbeiten: Im Rahmen des Projekts "Making rural services work for the poor" sind Masterarbeiten zu vergeben/15.1.2008
More topics will placed here soon.
Graduate Theses in Progress
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| Ethel Banzuela | Problems and Prospects of Ethical Trade Labeling in Developing Countries (M.Sc.) | |
| Marie-Luise Steiner | Institutions of sustainable palm oil production from a smallholder’s perspective in Indonesia (M.Sc.) | |
| Fakir Azmal Huda | Exports of Shrimps by the Cost of Environment, Welfare Consequences in Bangladesh (M.Sc.) | |
| Katrin Horn | Institutionalisierung von Nachhaltigkeit bei der Bereitstellung von Bioenergie: Das Beispiel der Biomassestrom-Nachhaltigkeitsversorgung (M.Sc.) | |
| Constantin Boese | Tierhaltung und institutioneller Wandel. Eine bessere Welt durch mehr Tierrechte? (M.Sc.) | |
| Miira Koltermann | tba. (M.Sc.) | |
| Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo | Institutional analysis of council forestry management in my home country (Cameroon) (M.Sc.) | |
| Joseph Froilan Liwanag | Rescaling of natural resource governance: the case of Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) in the Philippines (M.Sc.) | |
| Anna Kropina | Possibility of institutional change: impact of EU maritime policies on Russian Environmental Governance in the Baltic Sea (M.Sc.) |
Graduate Theses Completed
| 2012 | Anna Kienappel | In-Wert-Setzung von Ökosystemleistungen der Wälder institutionelle Lösungen mit Schwerpunkt auf periphere Regionen Brandenburgs (M.Sc.) |
| Jeronimo Rodriguez | Groundwater Management in National Park 'Doñana' (M.Sc.) | |
| Johannes Herweg | Economic Incentives towards Sustainable Forest Management: An Institutional Analysis of the Implementation of the new Native Forest Law in Chile (M.Sc.) | |
| 2011 | Andrea Bues | Institutions of water regulation in the context of land use change, the case of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia (M.Sc.) |
| Teresa Kraus | Traditional fruit tree meadows as production integrated compensation measures in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania: Bridging link between nature conservation and agriculture? (M.Sc.) | |
| Karl Bär | Wassernutzung in Saudi-Arabien (B.Sc.) | |
| Jan Erler | Co-Management in the Municipal Conservation Area Aguajal-Renacal del Alto Majo, Northern Peru (M.Sc.) | |
| Kanchan Joshi | Is Nepal Reddy for REDD+? An Analysis of Institutional Preconditions and Implications for Further Research (M.Sc.) | |
| Juan Qiao | Land Compensation of Urban and Rural Construction Land in China (M.Sc.) | |
| Thomas Sedlin | Agricultural Extension Services in Taihu Lake Watershed, Jiangsu Province/ P.R. China – Institutions to face Non-Point Source Pollution of a Common-pool Resource (M.Sc.) | |
| Xiaoxi Wang | An Institutional Analysis of Water Governance in the Qiyi Irrigation District, North China (M.Sc.) | |
| Matheus Zanella | Why do Farmers Join Payment for Environmental Services (PES) Schemes? An Assessment of PES-Water Project Participation in Brazil (M.Sc.) | |
| 2010 | Nataly Juerges | Effects of transaction costs in small-scale CDM-projects and options for institutional change (M.Sc.) |
| Claudia Kimmich | Assessment of sustainability in value chains of agricultural products.(M.Sc.) | |
| Klodian Rama | Property Rights in Post-Communist Albania (M.Sc.) | |
| Fodè Dramé | Decentralisation of Forest Management in Senegal.Community-based Forest management in the rural community of Missirah (M.Sc.) | |
| Elise Grubits | Water demand scenario for the upcoming Mega City of Hyderabad (India) - A qualitative study on changing water consumption patterns among urban middle classes from an institutional perspective. (M.Sc.) | |
| 2009 | Lars Berger | Attributes and mechanisms in land-use decisions within rural societies in South West China. (M.Sc.) |
| Margarita Mora | Making Conservation Agreement Work: a case study in northwestern Ecuador (M.Sc.) Zweitgutachter Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn | |
| Lenka Fikarova | Forest use conflicts in Slovakia. An institutional analysis (M.Sc.) | |
| Liza Meza | The Role of Informal Institutions in the Provision of Services To Rural Communities in South Coast, Guatemala (M.Sc.) Zweitgutachter Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn | |
| Saikumar Bharamappanavara C | The performance of microcredit organization – a Comparitive perspective (M.Sc.) Zweitgutachter Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn | |
| Cosmas Kombat Lambini | Forest Conflicts influence on local people livelihoods: A case study of conflicts between timber operators and farmers in the off-reserve forest of the Mankaso District of Ghana (M.Sc.) | |
| Enrique Medina | Building mechanisms to transact ecosystem services. The case of Yasuni-ITT initiative (M.Sc.) | |
| Claas Meyer | Integrated Coastal Zone and River Basin Management from a New Institutional Economics Perspective – Case Study in the Odra Catchment Area (M.Sc.) | |
| Anne Hackenberger | The Contribution of Forests to Rural Livelihoods and its Potentials and Risk for Poverty Alleviation in the Ecuadorian Amazon (M.Sc.) Zweitgutachter Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn | |
| Oscar Schmidt | Challenges to collective action in a transitional Commons. An institutional analysis of local fishery at Lake Ohrid, Albania (M.Sc.) | |
| Anja Techen | Determinants of farmers’ compliance with the Nitrates Directive in Märkisch-Oderland – an exemplary analysis in the light of institutional compatibility assessment (M.Sc.) | |
| 2008 | Anna-Maika Schulze | Land Privatization in Mongolia the Law on Allocation of Land to Mongolian Citizens for Ownership (M.Sc.) |
| Johannes Rupp | The Institutional Dimension of Tree Growing Activites/Agroforestry Practices: An Attempt to Integrate Snallholder Farmers in international Carbon Markets in Western Kenya (M.Sc.) | |
| Robert Krause | Das institutionelle Arrangement der Weidenutzung in Madruschkat – Tajikistan (M.Sc.) | |
| Chay Kongkruy | Water Resources Management in Cambodia. Case Study of Institution for Water Management of Stund Chinit Irrigation Reservoir (M.Sc.) | |
| Edward Vandevivere | Payments for Environmental Services in Watersheds: An Explorative Case Study in Tai Lake Basin, East China (M.Sc.) | |
| Elias Rebai | Institutional Arrangements’ Influence on Farmers’ Choices in Adopting more Environmentally Friendly Management Practices – Case of Lake Tai, Eastern China (M.Sc.) | |
| Christoph Nolte | Property Rights and Payments for Watershed Services from Forests in China: An Exploratory Case Study of Beijing’s Miyun Reservoir (M.Sc.) | |
| Nondh Nuchmorn | Hybrid Governance of Food Supply Chain in the High-Risk Environment: Case Study of Contract Cage Tilapia Culture in Chi River Basin, Thailand (M.Sc.) | |
| Paul Ndayishimiye | Auswirkungen der institutionellen Transformation der chinesischen Landwirtschaft auf die Agrar¬struktur - Das Beispiel der Provinz Zhejiang der VR China (Diplom) | |
| 2007 | Elena Inschakowa | Position der Russischen Föderation in der internationalen Klimapolitik: Russlands Ratifizierung des Kyoto-Protokolls im Rahmen des Zwei-Ebenen-Ansatzes (M.Sc.) |
| Lennart Mohr | Institutions for Sustainable Projects – host Countries’ Designs under the Clean Development Mechanism (Diplom) | |
| Felix Theopold | Factors Determining the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies: Anaerobic Digestion in the UK Brewing Industry | |
| Nicola Große | Koordination und Kooperation beim Anbau von Bt-Mais in Brandenburg | |
| Claudia Ballesteros Ocampo | Analysis of the Effect of Decentralization on the Responsiveness to Local Preferences in Rural Municipalities of Bolivia | |
| Nury Rossana Disegni Gili | “Chile Emprende” Program in Maule Sur: An Analysis of Performance of the Public and Private Councils | |
| Shah Faisal | Institutional Analysis of Participatory Development Projects: A Literature Review | |
| Shigeo Watanabe | The Prospects for Installing Access to Genetic Resource and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Framework; Problems and Solutions with Institutional Analysis in Ethiopian Coffee Forest | |
| Abdul Hamid Khan | The Impact of Transformation on Socio-Economic Functioning of Agricultural Cooperatives in Rural Areas of Slovakia (M.Sc.) | |
| Elmy Nahida Othman | Institutional Implications of Introducing Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) in Project Planning: the Case of Thermal Treatment of Solid Waste in Malaysia (M.Sc.) | |
| Emma Estela Saavedra Serrano | The Impact of International Cooperation on Rural Producer Organizations: Case Study of a Dairy Associaton in Bolivia (M.Sc.) | |
| Mario Alberto Aráuz Torres | Institutions and Forest Management in Northern Nicaragua: The Case of Rules in Use Regarding the Current Forest Use in Nueva Segovia (M.Sc.) | |
| Prakashan Chellatan Veettil | Institutions of Land Property Rights and its Influence on Rural Livelihood: An Analysis of Indigenous People in Western Ghant Region of Kerala, India (M.Sc.) | |
| 2006 | Ilka Lindt | The Economic Impact of Desertification in the Topar-Rayon, Kazakhstan – an Assessment of Use Values (M.Sc.) |
| Sanjay Kumar Verma | An Institutional Study of Farmer Managed Irrigation System of Nepal: Meta-Analytical Approach (M.Sc.) | |
| Nataliya Stupak | Institutional Changes in Post-socialist Societies: The Case of Land Reform in Ukraine (M.Sc.) | |
| Amare Hagos Adhena | Property Rights and Issues of Land Policy in Ethiopia (M.Sc.) | |
| Andrew Chipongo | Economic Value of Wate in Agricultural Production. Case Study of the Kafue Flats, Zambia (M.Sc.) | |
| Iven Schad | Umweltverträglicher Intensivgemüsebau in Nordchina – eine akteurszentrierte Betrachtung der Anreizsysteme zur Übernahme integrierter Anbaustrategien (IPM) (M.Sc.) | |
| Sören Bronsert | Institutionelle Probleme der Kommunalabgabepolitik – am Beispiel der Grundwasserabgabe in Hessen (Diplom) | |
| 2005 | Johanna Braack | The WFD – Institutional Change in the Transboundary Management of the River Elbe (M.Sc.) |
| Adelheid Becker | Die Integration der Landwirtschaft in das Europäische Emissionshandelssystem (M.Sc.) | |
| Sonja Bartelt | How does Mother Nature corrupt? Towards an institutional analysis of corruption, natural resources and growth (M.Sc.) | |
| Lena Schätzlein | Agrarumweltprogramme in Brandenburg. Eine Fallstudie zum Wirkungspotential von Agrarumweltmaßnahmen am Beispiel des Biosphärenreservats Schorfheide-Chorin (Diplom) | |
| Kristina Schälicke | Potenziale und Perspektiven erneuerbarer Energien: Energie aus Biomasse, dargestellt am Beispiel Holz und Raps (B.Sc.) | |
| Christian Kimmich | Kooperative Ansätze zur Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen und Beschäftigungssicherung – eine Fallstudie (B.Sc.) | |
| Alexander Grajdankin | Privatisierung und Umstrukturierung der landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe in Russland aus der Sicht der Neuen Institutionenökonomie – das Beispiel der Entstehung großer Agriholdings als regionale Monopolisten (M.Sc.) | |
| Jenny Walther-Thoß | Bausteine endogener ländlicher Entwicklung in Deutschland am Beispiel von „Regionen aktiv – Land gestaltet Zukunft“ (M.Sc.) | |
| Wibke Crewett | Property Rights to Land in Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia. History, Debate and Implementation of the “Oromia Regional Land Use and Administration Proclamation of 2002“ (M.Sc.) | |
| Alexander Perez Carmona | Conflicts, Power and Environmental Institutions. The Case of Social Unrest on Palawan (Philippines) due Mining External Effects (M.Sc.) | |
| Katrin Seidel | Institutional Change of Indigenous Tenure Systems and the Challenge of their Recognition in Cambodia (M.Sc.) | |
| Hannes Mesecke | Unternehmensbewertung von Agrargenossenschaften (M.Sc.) | |
| Simone Richter | Kooperationsmodelle im Gewässerschutz. Vertragliche Vereinbarungen zwischen Wasserversorgern und Landwirtschaft – ein “Modernes Umweltpolitisches Steuerkonzept”? (Diplom) | |
| 2004 | Meike Lechler | Wie beeinflussen die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen die Entwicklung des ökologischen Landbaus in Polen? (Diplom) |
| Birgit Zander | Evaluierung der Agrarumweltprogramme des KULAP-Brandenburg auf der Basis vorhandener Daten des Flächenmonitoring im Biosphärenreservat Spreewald (Diplom) | |
| Isabel Aust | Eine institutionenökonomische Betrachtung des Schutzgebietsmanagements in Zentralamerika am Beispiels des Nationalparks Cerro Hoya in Panama (Diplom) | |
| Hannes Mesecke | Rechtsformwechsel von Agrargenossenschaften aus Sicht der Neuen Institutionenökonomik (Diplom) | |
| Clara Hoffmann | Diversification as a Risk Reducing Strategy (B.Sc.) | |
| C. Philipp Riedel |
Strategien zur nachhaltigen Intensivierung der ländlichen Wirtschaft in (Ost)EuropaStrategies for Enterprise Development and Sustainable Intensification in CEE countries (M.Sc.) |
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| Franziska Steffen | Der Tauschring als Organisation im Lichte der Neuen Institutionenökonomik - eine theoretische Analyse (Diplom) | |
| Andrej Sarnatzky | Property Reform in Ukraine – the analysis of agricultural ownership transformation (M.Sc.) | |
| 2003 | Corinna Schmidt | Die Europäische Genossenschaft (SCE) im ländlichen Genossenschaftssektor: Versuch einer Bewertung der Brauchbarkeit des europäischen Genossenschaftsstatuts für ländliche Genossenschaften (Diplom) |
| Katharina Rauchenecker | Jagd und Wildtiermanagement. Eine Literaturübersicht unter Anwendung des Konzepts ‚Institutionen der Nachhaltigkeit‘ (M.Sc.) | |
| Katharina Winkel | Agrarumweltmaßnahmen als institutionelle und kognitive Herausforderungen für die Beitrittsländer auf ihrem Weg in die EU (Magisterarbeit) | |
| 2002 | Silja Tiemann | Bodenschutz durch Information? - Die Bedeutung der Institution Bodenmonitoring für eine nachhaltige Bodennutzung in Osteuropa - Das Fallbeispiel Lettland vor dem Hintergrund des EU-Beitrittprozesses (Diplom) |
| Christiane Ratschow | Die Integration von Umweltbelangen in die Agrarpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Diplom) | |
| Jan Sommer | The Price of Change – Building Implementation Structures for SAPARD in CEECs (Diplom) | |
| Kerstin Stelmacher | Nachhaltige Entwicklung „VorOrt?“ Eine qualitative Untersuchung zum Nachhaltigkeitsziel im Berliner Quartiersmanagement (Diplom) | |
| Jennifer L. Wagner | A New Institutional Economics Perspective of the Cooperative-Corporation Question: Case Study of Dakota Growers Pasta Company (M.Sc.) | |
| Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri | Equity and Poverty Issues in Watershed Development Projects in India: A Case Study of Impact Assessment on Landless and Marginal Farmers (M.Sc.) | |
| 2001 | Stefan Jungcurt | In situ-Conservation of Crop Genetic Resources in the Context of Economic Development and Globalization (M.Sc.) |
| Annette Hurrelmann | Land Markets in Economic Theory. A Review of the Literature and Proposals for Further Research (Diplom) | |
| Tobias Leiber | How to Prepare Rural Areas and Agriculture for Accession? - SAPARD in the Context of EU Policies and the Polish Preparation for EU Membership (Diplom) | |
| 2000 | Carsten Berg | Ökonomische Globalisierung, materielles Wirtschaftswachstum und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit – Mögliche Herausforderungen an Politik und Gesellschaft in Deutschland (Diplom) |
| 1999 | Dirk Mettel | Ermittlung der Zahlungsbereitschaft der Berliner Bevölkerung für den nutzungsunabhängigen Wert einer vom Aussterben bedrohten Pflanzenart (Diplom) |
| Steffen Sörgel | Betriebswirtschaftliche Analyse einer Agrargenossenschaft mit der einer Kombination von landwirtschaftlicher und gewerblicher Tätigkeit (Diplom) | |
| Andreas Marschner | International Trade and the Environment. An Empirical Investigation of the Pollution Heaven Hypothesis Using Foreign Direct Investment (Diplom) | |
| Katja Schindler | Umweltgerechte Abwasserentsorgung in Marokko (Diplom) | |
| Antje Neumann | Empirische Untersuchung der Bereitschaft zum kollektiven Handeln im Agrarumweltbereich als ein Ansatz zur Lösung regionaler Umweltprobleme im ländlichen Raum (Diplom) | |
| 1998 | Jörg Eggers | Planung und Management einer situationsgerechten Nacherntetechnologie für Reis. Ein Mechanisierungsbeispiel im Tiefland Boliviens (Diplom) |
| Christiane Otto | Die Umsetzung der lokalen Agenda 21 in ländlichen Gebieten; dargestellt an einer Gemeinde in Hessen (Diplom) | |
| 1997 |
Jana Hanusch Yvonne Stengl |
Analyse der obligatorischen und fakultativen Funktionen eines Genossenschaftsverbandes, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Gründungs- und Pflichtprüfungen sowie der Beratungsaufgaben, dargestellt an Beispielen des Genossenschaftsverbandes Berlin-Hannover e.V. (Diplom) |
| Werner Prystav | Maßnahmen zu den umweltgerechten und natürlichen Lebensraum schützenden landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsverfahren – Verordnung (EWG) (Diplom) | |
| Jana Gebauer | Belastung der Umweltmedien durch die Landwirtschaft und ihre Beeinflußbarkeit im Rahmen des Agrarfördersystems (Diplom) | |
| Matthias Karkuschke | Ressourcen, Abfall und Entropie – eine neo-österreichische Analyse (Diplom) | |
| Katja Hintzsche | Honorierung ökologischer Leistungen der Landwirtschaft am Beispiel des Ökopunkteprogramms Niederösterreich (Diplom) | |
| 1996 | Thorsten Brunzema |
Umweltschutz im FöderalismusDie ökonomische Operationalisierung des Subsidiaritätsprinzips für ausgewählte Güter des Agrarbereichs (Diplom) |
| Jeanette Bacha | Qualifikation und Berufseinstieg von Diplomagraringenieuren aus Berlin der Jahre 1992 - 1995 (Diplom) | |
| Andreas Schulze |
Der ökonomische Wert des ArtenschutzesKonzepte zur monetären Bewertung des Nutzens von Arten und Artenvielfalt (Diplom) |
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| Markus Hanisch |
Die Privatisierung landwirtschaftlicher Flächen im TransformationsprozessBulgariens Bodenreform aus Sicht der Politischen Ökonomie (Diplom)
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| Andreas Kutschke | Politische Ökonomie der Protektion im estnischen Agrarsektor (Diplom) |
