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Educational Background

Habilitation

Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture

Thesis:
"Power and Leadership in Natural Resource Management - Institutional Analysis of Water Governance"

Venia Legendi

Resource Economics, 18th December 2013

Ph.D.

Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture

Doctoral dissertation on
"A Common-Pool Resource in Transition: Determinants of Bulgaria's Postsocialist Irrigation Sector", 2000-2004
Award of degree: Dr. sc. agr.
With greatest distinction: summa cum laude, 19/11/2004

Diploma

University of Hohenheim
Graduate studies of Agricultural Economics, 1996 - 2000

Diploma thesis:
"Vietnam's Rural Credit Market - Determinants of Farmers' Bankability"
Award of degree: Dipl.-Ing. agr. (Master's Degree)
grade: very good, February 2000

Bachelor

University of Rostock
Bachelor of Agricultural Ecology
grade: good, 1993 - 1996

International Education

Université de Montpellier I and Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Agriculture (ENSA), Montpellier, France
DEA programs (diplôme d'études approfondies), 09/1998 - 01/1999
Main subjects: environmental economics, economy of rural development, agricultural economy and policies

University of Georgia, College of Agricultutal and Environmental Sciences, Georgia, USA
09/1995 - 03/1996
Main subjects: agricultural economics, anthropology


Professional Career

Since 09/2022

Vice President
Vice-Rectorate for Personnel and Organizational Development
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Since 04/2022

Senior Research Fellow
Bloomington, Indiana University, USA
Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

08/2021-05/2022

Interim Director
Bloomington, Indiana University, USA
Commons Governance Program, Ostrom Workshop

Since 02/2014

Professor of Agricultural-, Environmental- and Food Policy
Focus: Institutions and Natural Resource

Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

09/2010-10/2010

Visiting Scholar
Bloomington, Indiana University, USA
Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

09/2007-01/2014

Senior Research Fellow
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transision Economies (IAMO), Division of External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysis
Research Group: Institutions and Natural Resources

08/2005-10/2005

Visiting scholar
Bloomington, Indiana University, USA
Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

01/2005-12/2008

Research Fellow
Humboldt University of Berlin, Division of Resource Economics

SEAMLESS project (System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling: Linking European Science and Society), funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the EU

08/2003-12/2014

Research Associate
Humboldt University of Berlin, Division of Resource Economics

Liaison manager for an EU-wide research consortium

03/2000-07/2003

Research Assistant
Humboldt University of Berlin, Division of Resource Economics

CEESA project (Sustainable Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe), funded under the 5th Framework Programme of the EU


Scientific Committees and Outreach

Since 2023

Past-President of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

2021 - 2022

President of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

2021 - 2022

Interim Director of Commons Governance Program, Ostrom Workshop, Bloomington, Indiana Univerity, USA

2020 - 2022

Editorial Board of the trade journal "welternährung.de", published by the NGO Welthungerhilfe (German Agro Action)
https://www.welthungerhilfe.de/welternaehrung/ueber-uns/redaktionsbeirat/

2020 - 2022

Scientific Advisory Board at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany.

2019 - 2021

Rector`s Commission on Personnel Development, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.

2019 - 2020

President-Elect of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

2019

Scientific review committee, XVIIth Global IASC Conference, Lima, Peru.

2018 - 2020

Member of the local organizing committee for the GEWISOLA conference 2020 in Halle (Saale).

2018

Co-organizer of the Global Commons Week, 4-12 October 2018, https://www.worldcommonsweek.org/

2017 - 2018

Working Group member, building a mission statement “Agriculture 2030” in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, led by the ministry for environment, agriculture and energy.

2017

Scientific review committee, XVIth Global IASC Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2016 - 2020

Lead of the European Group of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC).

2016

Nomination Committee for the election of the board and president of the IASC 2019-2020 term.

2016

Scientific board, 4rth European Conference on the International Asso-ciation for the Study of the Commons “Commons in a Glocal World”, Conference held in Bern, Switzerland, May 10-13, 2016.

2015 - 2016

Member of the „Future Forum“: Advisory council to the Agricultural and Environmental Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Dr. Hermann Onko Aeikens.

2015

Scientific board, Thematic Conference on Urban Commons “The City as a Commons, Reconceiving Urban Space, Common Goods and City Governance”, Bologna, Italy, November 6-7,2015.

Since 2015

Foundation and coordination of a working research group "Power in Institutions and Institutional Analysis" affiliated withe the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, USA, together with Prakash Kahwan, Gustavo Garcia, Eric Coleman

2014

Scientific board, 3rd European IASC Conference held in Umeå, Sweden, September 16-19, 2014

2012 - 2018

Council member of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) www.iasc-commons.org

2012 - 2017

Appointed member of the "SES-Club" founded by Prof. Elinor Ostrom and Colleagues, to further the development of an analytical system framework for socio-ecological and socio-technical systems

2011 - 2016

Steering Committee of the KULUNDA project "Kulunda - How to prevent the next Global Dust Bowl? - Ecological and Economic Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the Russian Steppes: A Potential Solution to Climate Change", financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

2010 - 2012

Member of the Working Group "Climate Adaptation" of the Senate of the German federal research institutes under the lead of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

2010 - 2011

Chair and conference organizer of the European IASC Conference 2011 (International Association for the Study of the Commons) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, September 14-17,2011

2010

Member of the Organising Committee if the IAMO Forum 2010 on "Institutions in Transistion: Challenges for the New Modes of Governance", June 16-18,2010, Halle (Salle), Germany

2008 - 2011

Scientific advisory board of the PONA junior research group in social-ecological research (Politics of Nature Design), Leuphania University Lüneburg

2008 - 2009

Creation and coordination of a working research group "New Challenges in the Management of Shared Water Resources" affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University; USA

2006

Academic Review Committee, XI Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property held in Bali, Indonesia, June 18-23,2006

Since 2006

Active member of the NIÖ Network (New Institutional Economics in North-East Germany). Organization of the network meeting in Halle (Saale) in 2009

Expertenprofil

Professorin für Agrar-, Umwelt- und Ernährungspolitik
  • Governance natürlicher Ressourcen und komplexer ökologisch-gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen
  • Commons Governance und Institutionenanalyse
  • Verhaltenstheorie und Theorie des kollektiven Handelns
  • Methodenentwicklung zur Erfolgsmessung gesellschaftlicher Transformation
  • Kooperative Ansätze in der Agrar-, Umwelt- und Ernährungspolitik
  • Wechselwirkungen zwischen Organisationsformen in der Landwirtschaft und dem Schutz lokaler wie globaler Naturgüter
  • Interdisziplinäre und transdisziplinäre Forschung

Forschergruppen • Projekte • Kooperationen

Forschergruppen

Projekte

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Kooperationen

  • Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
  • Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Department für Bodenphysik, Prof. Dr. Ralph Meißner
  • BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Lehrstuhl Gewässerschutz, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Nixdorf, Dr. Jacqueline Rücker
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften, Abteilung Graslandwissenschaften, Prof. Dr. Johannes Isselstein
  • Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Department für Ökologische Systemanalyse, Dr. Dr. Martin Drechsler
  • BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Lehrstuhl VWL, insb. Umweltökonomie, Prof. Dr. Frank Wätzold
  • Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC)
  • Samarkand Agricultural Institute, Usbekistan
  • Leibniz Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsökonomien (IAMO)
  • Prof. Dr. Reimund Schmidt-De Caluw, MLU Halle/Wittenberg, Juristischer Bereich - Law School//Öffentliches Recht mit Nebengebieten
  • Prof. Dr. Schmidt-De Caluwe, Reimund; Juristischer Bereich - Law School//Öffentliches Recht mit Nebengebieten