Participants

Dr. Matteo Roggero

Matteo Roggero is a social scientist with 15 years of experience in environmental and sustainability research. His current and recent work focuses on the determinants of climate action and governance at the local level, with particular emphasis on cities. Drawing on the toolbox of institutional analysis and multi-level governance, Matteo has explored governance processes shaping how cities limit greenhouse gas emissions and reduce their vulnerability to climate impacts. Proficient in qualitative social research methods, Matteo also has a research track on methodological development, contributing to the advancement of comparative research in sustainability sciences under the header of “Archetype Analysis”.

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Dr. Marcelo Inacio da Cunha

Dr. Marcelo Inacio da Cunha works in the IDOS programme Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability (Klimalog Project). He has 14 years of experience in science and policy, and their interface (including at CIFOR-ICRAF, UNCCD and UNFCCC). Marcelo studied economics and sociology in Cologne, and his PhD (Berlin) focused on institutions governing resource and market access by vulnerable groups in the Amazon. Derived suggestions included governance options for reconciling biodiversity conservation with livelihood-relevant access (to collectively used non-timber forest products) in protected areas overlapping with traditionally occupied lands. His research interests include human-nature relations, institutional analyses, political ecology, (social-)environmental (in-)justices.

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Dr. Heidi Wittmer

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Lydia Finzel

Lydia Finzel is currently a PhD student with a main focus on urban climate governance at the Resource Economics Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Lydia has a background in political science and urban studies which is why her current research combines approaches from both disciplines while expanding it with theoretical considerations from resource and institutional economics. Lydia has a strong focus on climate and energy policy implementation challenges on the local level. Using comparative methods, she aims to find mechanisms of paradigmatic configurations, especially in regards to capacity measures, to pinpoint typologies of cities.

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Dr. Nora Schütze

Nora Schütze is a postdoctoral researcher at the Section of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance of University of Kassel. Nora has a background in Political Sciences and received her PhD from University of Kassel for her dissertation on determinants, patterns, and performance of coordination of polycentric water governance in Spain. Her research interests include natural resource governance with a particular focus on water and land, as well as polycentric governance, policy analysis and institutional analysis. Currently, she works in a PRIMA-funded research project on the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus in the Mediterranean.

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Dr. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri

Prathiwi Putri holds a Doctor of Engineering Science (KU Leuven, 2014). Her doctoral thesis is in the scientific field of spatial planning; it analyses the socio-ecological aspects of wastewater infrastructure development in Jakarta, to understand the political ecology and political economy of informal settlements and to find ways for unlocking the potentialities of social innovation in the sector. Her postdoc in global development (University of Copenhagen, 2016-2019) was within an ERC funded research program State Formation through the Local Production of Property and Citizenship. Prathiwi has worked in various international cooperation and development projects, in Indonesia and Viet Nam, with Oxfam GB, Cordaid, Caritas, GIZ, World Bank and others. Her current research is funded by Horison 2020/ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action at APUG Universität Kassel and this study includes urban commons and co-productive planning within the empirical dynamics of social movements and collective actions in the postcolonial South.

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Prof. Dr. Insa Theesfeld

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Andres Suarez

I am Andres Suarez, Environmental Manager and MSc in Sustainable Development. I am a lecturer at the Universidad de la Costa, Colombia. I am currently a PhD student in Agricultural Sciences at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. My dissertation is related to the analysis of the socio-environmental implications generated by the expansion of Hass avocado plantations. My current focus is on issues related to critical realism, political ecology, institutional analysis, and critical resource geography.

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Dr. Stephan Bartke

Since August 2021, Stephan Bartke has been working at the German Environment Agency (UBA) in the President’s Office PB1 on planning, process management and research coordination with a focus on third-party funded projects and strategic European research collaboration. Stephan has been coordinator of several national and EU-funded trans- and interdisciplinary projects including CASRI since January 2024. He is co-coordinator of the Interest Group on Sustainability Research and Solutions (IG EPAS) of the EPA Network – the network of heads of agencies of environmental protection agencies in Europe. Economist by training, his own projects aimed at facilitating more sustainable development, in particular related to land use and governance in urban and rural environments.

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Dr. Ines Dombrowsky

Dr. Ines Dombrowsky holds a PhD in Economics and an MSc in Environmental Engineering and heads the Research Programme ‘Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability’ at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Her research, grounded in institutional economics and political sciences, focuses on coordination and cooperation in environmental governance across levels, sectors, actor types and scales. A particular thematic focus lies on water and the water-energy-food-climate nexus. She has prior work experience with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (2001-2010), the World Bank (1997-2001) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (1995-1997).

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Dr. Arezoo Mirzaei

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Portraitbild Dr. Srigiri Reddy Srinivasa

Dr. Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri

Dr. Srinivasa Srigiri received his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2010. His primary research interests involve governance of natural resources, sustainability transformations in rural and agricultural sectors, and strategies for climate adaptation at national and subnational levels. Since August 2019, he holds a position as senior researcher within the Research Programme on Environmental Governance at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). In recent years, he is engaged in research on governance of interdependencies among water, energy and food (WEF) Nexus related SDGs and One Health governance. Applying the analytical lens of polycentric governance, he analyses barriers and options for coordination among various interdependent decision centres across different sectors and levels in different country contexts. Prior to joining IDOS, he held research positions with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India, and Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Humboldt University Berlin in Germany. Besides research, he did several consultancy assignments for various research, development and humanitarian organizations.

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Theresa Meyer

I am a PhD student and research assistant at the section for International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance at Kassel University. I want to focus my dissertation on how institutions, governance and policy can enable or hinder an agroecological transformation of the European Food System at different scales and contexts. I have a background in "International Relations" (B.Art) and did my Master in "Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science" at Lund University.

Dr. Nina Hagemann

Nina Hagemann is a political scientist and did her PhD in the field of resource economics. She is currently working at the German Environment Agency (UBA), where she is involved in the establishment of the “International Academy Transformation and Sustainability (TES Academy)”, an in-house research project at UBA. Her work at the TES Academy focuses on formats and methods to support transformative learning – the core tool of the academy. She has prior work experience in various national and international projects and in teaching with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2008), the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (2008-2019) and Technische Universität Dresden (2017-2023).

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Manuel Francisco Diaz Baca

"Manuel is a social scientist who has conducted cutting-edge research, unraveling the complexities of nature-institution interactions and translating insights into viable policies for a sustainable and resilient future. Manuel is starting his PhD at the University of Kassel and has a Master's in Agricultural Economics at the University of Hohenheim. His doctoral thesis deals with institutional arrangements for water governance and its interrelationship with food systems in the Kilimanjaro region. Previously, for his master's thesis, Manuel researched governance arrangements for carbon projects on agricultural soils in western Kenya. Likewise, before coming to Germany, Manuel was a researcher at the International Bioversity Alliance and CIAT where he analyzed policies and institutions for livestock activities in Latin American countries."

Prof. Dr. Andreas Ebert

Prof. Dr. Andreas Eberth

Raum NK 514

Tel.: +49(0)851/509-3734

Andreas.Eberth@uni-passau.de

Prof. Dr. Christine Schmitt

Raum NK 505

Innstraße 40

Passau

Tel.: +49(0)851/509-2738

Fax: +49(0)851/509-2732

Christine.Schmitt@uni-passau.de

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Prof. Dr. Graf Lambsdorff

Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff

Raum WIWI 108

Innstraße 27

Passau

Tel.: +49(0)851/509-2550

Fax: +49(0)851/509-2552

Johann.GrafLambsdorff@uni-passau.de

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Sprechzeiten: Fr. 10:00-11:30

Stephan Geschwind

Stephan Geschwind is a PhD student and research assistant at the Chair of Economic Theory at University of Passau. He is mainly interested in using methods from experimental and behavioral economics to investigate conflict behavior, resource conservation and collective action.

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