Dr. Thomas Neise

Research assistant

Member of the  Human Geography working group with a focus on economic geography

Main research interests: Entrepreneurial resilience, risks in value chains, natural risk research, climate impact adaptation, urban risk governance, behavioral economics

Spatial focus: East and Southeast Asia (esp. Japan and Indonesia), Germany

Dr. Thomas Neise has been working as a research assistant in the Human Geography working group with a focus on economic geography at Osnabrück University since March 2020. In his habilitation project, he is working on risks in global production networks.

From 2014 to 2019, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne. He successfully completed his Doctorate there in September 2018. From 2006 to 2013, Thomas Neise studied human geography with a minor in business administration and economics at the University of Potsdam and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In addition, Thomas Neise was a visiting researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and an intern at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner, at Regionomica (Berlin) and the tourism authority of the Emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah.

Dr. Thomas Neise

Thomas Neise
© Uwe Lewandowski

Institute of Geography
Osnabrück University
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück

Room: 02/210

Phone: +49 541 969-4305

 thomas.neise@uni-osnabrueck.de

Office hours
Tue 1 - 2 pm

Neise, T., Verfürth, P., Franz, M. (Eds.). (2024): The Changing Economic Geography of Companies and Regions in Times of Risk, Uncertainty, and Crisis. Taylor & Francis.

Franz, M.; Neise, T.; Verfürth, P. (2023): Gastronomy between structural change and the COVID-19 crisis. Options for action for economic development and city marketing. In: Korn, T.; Lempp, J.; van der Beek, G. (eds.): Economic development in the crisis. Concepts for crisis management and opportunity utilization. Springer Gabler: Wiesbaden.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41390-3_4

Völlers, P., Neise, T., Verfürth, P., Franz, M., Bücken, F. & Schumacher, K. P. (2023): Revisiting risk in the Global Production Network approach 2.0 - Towards a performative risk narrative perspective. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0(0) (online first).  doi.org/10.1177/0308518X231169288

Schack, C.; Neise, T.; Franz, M. (2023): Success factors for sustainable development of industrial estates. Standort - Journal of Applied Geography.  doi.org/10.1007/s00548-023-00848-z

Haraguchi, M; Neise, T; She, W; Taniguchi, M (2023): Conversion strategy builds supply chain resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: A typology and research directions. Progress in Disaster Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2023.100276.

Verfürth, P., Neise, T., Franz, M., & Sohns, F. (2022): The uneven effects of COVID-19 on the German restaurant and bar industry. Geography, 76 (2), 127-140.

Fekete, A.; Fuchs, S.; Garschagen, M.; Hutter, G.; Klepp, S.; Lüder, C.; Neise, T.; Sett, D.; von Elverfeldt, K. & Wannewitz, M. (2022): Adjustment or transformation? Disaster risk intervention examples from Austria, Indonesia, Kiribati and South Africa. Land Use Policy 120, 106230.  doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106230

Neise, T., Sohns, F., Breul, M., Revilla Diez, J. (2021): The effect of natural disasters on FDI attraction: a sector-based analysis over time and space. Natural Hazards (online first).  doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04976-3

Neise, T.; Leitold, R. (2021): Adaptation to floods in Southeast Asian megacities - What can the private sector do? Location (online first). link.  springer.com/article/10.1007/s00548-021-00708-8

Neise, T., Sambodo, M. T., & J. Revilla Diez (2021): Are micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises willing to contribute to collective flood risk reduction? Scenario-based field experiments from Jakarta and Semarang, Indonesia. In: Organization & Environment 34 (2): 219-242.  DOI: 10.1177/1086026619875435

Neise, T.; Verfürth, P. & Franz, M. (2021): Rapid responding to the COVID-19 crisis: Assessing the resilience in the German restaurant and bar industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management 96(1), 102960.  doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.102960.

Schack, C.; Neise, T.; Heimann, D. & Franz, M. (2021): Building networks for sustainable transition of old industrial areas. Regions e-Zine, 9 (1).  doi.org/10.1080/13673882.2021.00001093

Neise, T.; Garschagen, M; Revilla Diez, J. (2021): Engagement of Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises in Individual Flood Adaptation in Indonesian Coastal Cities-Implications for Flood Governance. In: Climate Change Research, Policy and Actions in Indonesia. Springer International Publishing, 99-120.

Breul, M.; Neise, T. (2020): Tesla is coming - The Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region as a new automotive center? Geographische Rundschau, 72 (10), 46-49. www.  westermann.de/anlage/4624903/Tesla-kommt-Die-Metropolregion-Berlin-Brandenburg-als-neues-Automobilzentrum

Neise, T. & L-M. Bott (2020): Indonesia's capital relocation. Background to the decision and consequences for the megacity Jakarta. In: Geographical Review 72 (1/2): 54-57.

Angga Reksa, A.F. & T. Neise (2019): One year after the disaster - Reconstruction and survival in Palu, Indonesia. In: Geographical Review 71 (12): 46-49.

Neise, T. (2019): Firms′ adaptation strategies to floods and their potential implication on regional economic development - Insights from Jakarta and Semarang, Indonesia. Dissertation University of Cologne.

Neise, T. & J. Revilla Diez (2019): Adapt, move or surrender? Manufacturing firms' routines and dynamic capabilities on flood risk reduction in coastal cities of Indonesia. In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 33: 332-342. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.10.018

Breul, M. & T. Neise (2018): Temporary clusters and cognitive proximity, new research from the Young Economic Geographers Network. In: Regions e-Zine 2.

Neise, T., Revilla Diez, J., & M. Garschagen (2018): Firms as drivers of integrative adaptive regional development in the context of environmental hazards in developing countries and emerging economies - A conceptual framework. In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36 (8): 1522-1541. DOI: 10.1177%2F2399654418771079

Neise, T. & J. Revilla Diez (2018): Floods and regional development. The role of industries in Jakarta and Semarang. Geographical Review 70 (4): 16-21.

Neise, T. & J. Revilla Diez (2018): Firms' contribution to flood risk reduction - scenario-based experiments from Jakarta and Semarang, Indonesia. Procedia Engineering 212: 567-574.

Neise, T.; Revilla Diez, J.; Garschagen, M.; Djalante, R.; Novianti, K. & C. N. Syahid (2017): Manufacturing Firms' Adaptations to Floods and Proposal for Integrative Adaptive Regional Development in Jakarta. In: Djalante R., Garschagen M., Thomalla F., Shaw, R. (eds.): Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia. Springer International Publishing: Cham, pp. 281-305.

Organizational resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic: Crisis management and strategic adaptation of catering businesses in Lower Saxony's cities
Funding: Pro*Niedersachsen - Research Projects in the Humanities, Cultural and Social Sciences
Duration:Oct. 2022 - Sept. 2025
Management: together with Prof. Martin Franz and Dr. Philip Verfürth

winter semester 22/23

Lecture: Economic Geography, Tuesday: 14:00 - 16:00 and Thursday: 10:00 - 12:00, together with Prof. Martin Franz and Dr. Philip Verfürth

Methods seminar: Qualitative methods of human geography, Tuesday: 14:00 - 16:00, together with Dr. Philip Verfürth

Follow-up seminar: Large-scale study project: Agricultural valorization of rural areas - tea cultivation in Indonesia, Tuesday: 8:30-10:00, together with apl. Prof. Kim Philip Schumacher

Conference excursion: Wolfsburg, 12. and 13.01.2023

(since 2020)

29.04.2023 "Performative Risk Narratives - A Reconsideration of the Concept of Risk in the Global Production Networks Approach 2.0" Presentation together with Philip Völlers (Osnabrück) at the 16th Rauischholzhausen Symposium on Economic Geography
26.06.2021 "Steering through troubled waters: Response strategies of cruise ship labor amid the Covid-19 pandemic". Presentation together with Tatiana López, Fikri Angga Reksa at the annual conference of the working groups Southeast Asia and East Asia (DGfG)
22.06.2021 "Risks in global production networks. Reconfigurations of the German Medical Technology Industry" as part of the Jena Talks in Economic Geography
11.02.2021 "Steering through troubled waters: Response strategies of cruise ship labor amid the Covid-19 pandemic". Presentation together with Tatiana López, Fikri Angga Reksa at the annual conference of the working group Labor Geography

24.09.2020

"Coupled risk transfer schemes as mitigation options for micro entrepreneurs in risk prone urban areas. A research proposal exemplified for Indonesia" at the Summer Academy on World Risk and Adaptation Futures: Social Protection (United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security; Munich Re Foundation; UNFCCC and LMU Munich).
17.06.2020 "The strong will survive - the effects of the corona crisis on gastronomy in Germany". Presentation together with Martin Franz and Philip Müller (both Osnabrück) as part of the joint online working group meeting on the topic "Effects of Corona on the gastronomy sector" of the working groups Retail, Real Estate, Urban Development and Economic Development of the German Association for Applied Geography (DVAG)
05.06.2020

"In crisis mode - the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the hospitality industry in Germany". Presentation together with Martin Franz and Philip Müller (both Osnabrück) at the digital annual conference of the working group Geographical Retail Research.