Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Resource Economics

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Department of Agricultural Economics
and Social Sciences
Division of Resource Economics

Philippstraße 13, Haus 12

D-10115 Berlin Germany

Phone

+49-30-2093-6715

Email

alexandrop (at) gmx.net

·        Environmental conflicts, NIMBY phenomena

·        Environmental Economics, New Institutional Economics, Classic Institutionalism,
         Environmental History, Game Theory

·        Analytic Narratives, Factor Analysis

2007 - present

Ph.D. Project: ?Ex ante Institutional Alignments to NIMBY Problems: The Siting of Sanitary Landfills in Colombia? Supervisors: Prof Dr Dr hc Konrad Hagedorn and Dr. Volker Beckmann.

Humboldt University of Berlin
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Department of Agricultural Economics
and Social Sciences

2002-2005

M.Sc. Sustainable Land Use.

Thesis: ?Conflicts, Power and Environmental Institutions: The Case of Social Unrest on Palawan (Philippines) due Mining External Effects? Supervisors: Prof Dr Dr hc Konrad Hagedorn and Dr. Volker Beckmann. Note: Excellent.

Humboldt University of Berlin
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Department of Agricultural Economics
and Social Sciences

1994-2000

Diploma Agronomist

Thesis: ?Evaluación de Insecticidas en el Control de Tagosodesoriziculus(Muir) y su Impacto sobre la Fauna Benéfica en Arroz (Oryza sativa L)? at the International Center of Tropical Agriculture. Supervisors: Dr. Lee Alexander Calvert, Dr. Rafael Meneses and MSc Luis Antonio Reyes.

National University of Colombia
Faculty of Agriculture

August, 2007

Participation in the Workshop: ?Theory, Analysis and Empirical Study of Institutions and Organisations?. Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences.

November, 2006

Lecturer in the Seminar: ?Emerging Social Conflicts (NIMBY Syndrome) due Environmental Contamination: Causes and Possible Solutions?. IV Integral Seminar of Environment Engineering. Central University of the Valle.

June and August 2004

Participation in the seminar: ?Grenzenlos ? Interkulturelles Lernen im Dialog?. World University Service and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany.

February, 2004

Participation in the Seminar ?ASA-Trail ? Training für Interkulturelles Lernen?. International Training and Service Center (InWent).

November, 2003- April, 2004

Member of the project ?Ecological Agriculture in the Tropics? on the Philippines. Tasks: Planning and implementing the organization of a local ecological network and as lecturer of a workshop at Palawan (Philippines). NGOs: Palawan Conservation Corps Inc., and Carpus e.V.

February-March, 2003

Temporal assistant by Dr. Claudia Oertel. Tasks: Research about the legal and technical conditions for the entrance of Poland in the European Union. Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences. Farm Management Group.

Spanish:          Mother tongue.

German:          Fluent (written and spoken).

English:           Fluent (written and spoken).

French:            Basic knowledge.

 Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), April, 2007

Certificate of Recognition awarded by Palawan Conservation Corps, Inc., March, 2004