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Prof. Dr. Insa Theesfeld

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III

Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften

Von-Seckendorff-Platz 4

06120

Halle (Saale)

Tel.:+49 345 5522510

Fax:+49 345 5527327

insa.theesfeld@landw.uni-halle.de

Profil

Vita

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, 18^th 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 6^th 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 5^th 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

KULUNDA: Wie verhindert man das nächste Global Dust? Ökologische und ökonomische Strategien zur nachhaltigen Landnutzung

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