Prof. Dr. Kim Schumacher

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

Schumacher, K.P., Bücken, F., Franz, M. & Griese, K.M. (2023): The logistics challenge - communication for sustainable space management. In: Henn, S.; Zimmermann, T.; Braunschweig, B. (eds): Urban regional land management. Springer Spektrum: Berlin, Heidelberg.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63295-6_32-1

Kosow, H.; Wassermann, S.; Bartke, S.; Goede,P.; Grimski, D.; Imbert, I.;Jenssen, T.; Laukel, O.; Proske, M.; Protzer, J.; Schumacher, K. P.; Siedentop, S.; Wagner-Endres, S.; Wittekind, J. & Zimmermann, K. (2022): Addressing Goal Conflicts: New Policy Mixes for Commercial Land Use Management. Land, 11 (6), 795.  doi.org/10.3390/land11060795

Schumacher, K.P. & K.M. Born (2021): New rural-urban relationships of small towns in northwestern Germany. In: Banski, J. (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns. Routledge, New York. S. 231-241

Franz, M., Bücken, F., Schumacher, K. and Griese, K. (2021): Sustainability Transition and Climate Change Adaptation of Logistics. In: Brears, R. (ed.): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_197-1

Griese, K.-M., Franz, M., Schumacher, K.P. (2021): The resource space: limits to efficiency using the example of logistics. Inclusive Productivity Blog. Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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Franz, M. & K. Schumacher (2020): Risk manure - a waste product jeopardizes the global production network of intensive agriculture. In: Bauer, N. L. Hering & E. Kulke (eds.): Goods-Knowledge-Space. Interdependence of production, market and consumption in food commodity chains. Springer: Wiesbaden. S. 187-215

Mayer, P., O. Klein & K. Schumacher (2020): Supply systems in the brewing sector -Regional models of malting barley supply in Bavaria. Location - Journal of Applied Geography. doi.  org/10.1007/s00548-020-00682-7

Mayer, P., O. Klein & K. Schumacher (2020): Ecological benefits through alternative food networks? Prospects of regional barley-malt-beer value chains in Bavaria, Germany. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 265, August 2020. doi.  org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121848

Schumacher, K. (2019): Local awakenings in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Basic article). geography today, 343, pp. 2-8.

Pahlke, M. & K. Schumacher (2019): Small farmers as globalization winners thanks to information and communication technology (ICT)? geographie heute, 343, pp. 30-34.

Franz, M., N. Schlitz. & K. Schumacher (2018): Globalization and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Environmental Science and Policy, 90: 201-212. www.  sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901117301727

Schumacher, K., Yong-wei, S., Franz, M. & Yue-qiang, Z. (2018): The Risks of Manure in Agricultural Industrialization -the Case of Germany. Hubei Agricultural Sciences, 57 (18):125-127,140. (in Chinese) DOI:10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2018.18.031

Schumacher, K. & K. Ammermann (2018): Country Chapter Germany. In: Roth, M. et al. (Eds.) Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality. COST RELY TU1401 Action book. Berlin. S. 40-43.

Schumacher, K. (2018): Bioenergy as an instrument of regional development in rural areas - (k)eine Erfolgsstory? Yearbook of the Marburg Geographical Society 2018. p.141-146.

Schumacher, K. (2017): The (im)permeability of borders - socio-geographical perspectives. In: Bender, O., S. Kanitscheider & B. Ruso (eds.): "Borders in Nature and Culture: Zones of Encounter and Merging, of Separation and Conflict". 42nd Matreier Gespräche zur Kulturethologie 2016, publication series of the Otto Koenig Society. Norderstedt. S. 205-211.

Schumacher, K. (2017): Layer 1765 - Die Badischen Gemarkungskarten als Zeitschnitt eines Kulturlandschafts-GIS. In: Heinz, M. (ed.): 11th Cartographic History Colloquium Nuremberg 2002. Bonn: Kirschbaum Verlag. S. 263-269.

Schumacher, K. & M. Pahlke (2016): Informal economies: Beggars and street children in Madagascar. Practice Geography 7-8/2016, pp. 60-63.

Schumacher, K. & A. Kunz (2016): Gendered rural labor markets and the intention to migrate - a case study in North-Western Germany. In: Wiest, K. (ed.): Women and Migration in Rural Europe. Labor Markets - Representations and Policies. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke: 109-130.

Schumacher, K. (2016): Globalization of ideas and power relations: Gender. In: Bender, O., S. Kanitscheider & B. Ruso (eds.): Colonization. 41st Matreier Gespräche zur Kulturethologie 2015, publication series of the Otto Koenig Society. Norderstedt. S. 65.-71.

Schumacher, K. (2014): Challenges of wine tourism on the Moselle. Standort-Zeitschrift für angewandte Geographie, 38, 4, pp. 215-219

Dannenberg, P. & K. Schumacher (2014): Changes in gender relations in Kenyan horticulture - Implications of a Millennium Development Goal. Praxis Geographie 12/2014, pp. 18-22.

Schumacher, K. (2014): Gender relations in global agri-food value chains - a review. Die Erde, 145 (3), pp. 127-134. www.  die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/105

Krone, M., K. Schumacher & P. Dannenberg (2014): The impact of mobile phones on knowledge access and transfer of small-scale horticultural farmers in Tanzania. Die Erde, 145 (3), pp. 158-161. www.  die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/111

Gössling, S. & K. Schumacher (2012): Conceptualizing the Survival Sector in Madagascar. Antipode, 44 (2), pp. 321-342. onlinelibrary.  wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00838.x/abstract

Schumacher, K. (2012): X-1.5 Weinbaulandschaft Kaiserstuhl. In: Konold, W., R. Bocker & U. Hampicke (eds.): Handbuch Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege - 26. Erg. Lfg. 04/12.

Schumacher, K. & O. Bender (2012): Methodologies and results of a land-register based GIS as tool for historical landscape analysis. In: Zoll+ Österreichische Schriftenreihe für Landschaft und Freiraum, vol. 21, pp. 21-24.

Schumacher, K. (2012): Schwerpunktheft "Gender und Ländliche Räume". Feminist Geo-Rundmail des AK Geographie Rundmail des AK Geographie und Geschlecht in der DGfG, 52, February 2012. (with the collaboration of R. Klichowicz). www.  ak-geographie-geschlecht.org/docs/rundbriefe/RundMail52.pdf

Schumacher, K. (2011): Landscape as a utilization structure. In: Reports of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Society, 23, pp. 164-174

Schumacher, K. & M. Reuschenbach (2011): Sustainable urban development in Germany. In: Geographie heute, 295, pp. 32-38.

Schumacher, K. & K. Kowalzik (2011): Where do our energy resources come from? Raw materials detectives in action. In: Elementary Social Studies and Science 4/2011, pp. 25-30.

Schumacher, K. & C. Tamásy (2010): New research priorities at ISPA. Ländlicher Raum, 61,4: p. 21.

Richter, T. & K. Schumacher (2010): Who Really Cares About Higher Education For Sustainable Development? Journal of Social Sciences, 7, 1, pp. 24-32. www.  thescipub.com/issue-jss/7/1

Gössling, S. & K. Schumacher (2010): Implementing Carbon Neutral Destination Policies: Issues from the Seychelles. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18,3, pp. 377-391.

Schumacher, K. (2009): When viticulture shapes a landscape - the Kaiserstuhl in the Upper Rhine Valley. In: Léveque, L & Ruiz del Arbol, M. [Eds.]: Heritage, Images, Memory of European Landscapes. Editions L' Harmattan, Paris. pp. 307-317.

Richter, T. & K. Schumacher (2009): Who really cares about HESD? - A case study from northern Germany. In: Sanusi, Z. A. et al [Eds:] Transforming Higher Education for a Sustainable Society. 3rd International Conference Higher Education for Sustainable Development at USM. Pulau Pinang/Malaysia.

Bender, O. & K. Schumacher (2008): From Protection to Management - Policies to Sustain (Pre-Industrial) Landscapes in Austria and Germany. In: Fairclough, G. & Grau Møller, P. [Eds.] Landscape as heritage. The Management and Protection of Landscape in Europe - a summary by the COST A27 project "Landmarks" (= Geographia Bernensia, G 79). Bern. pp. 77-127.

Bender, O. & K. Schumacher (2008): Periodization of agrarian landscape dynamics in southern German low mountain ranges from pre-industrial times to date. In: Bartels, C. & C. Küpper-Eichas [Eds.]: Cultural Heritage and Landscapes in Europe. pp 613-638.

Bender, O., K. Schumacher & D. Stein (2007): Landscape, Seasonality and Tourism - Examples from Central Europe. In: Palang, H., H. Sooväli & A. Printsmann [Eds.]: Seasonal Landscapes. (= Springer Landscape Series No. 8). Dordrecht. Springer. pp. 181-213.

Schumacher, K. (2007): "Reben statt Wald" Dynamik der Waldflächen und Waldnutzung am Kaiserstuhl seit 1770. In: Burkart, B. & Konold, W. [Eds:] Space - time - problems in the cultural landscape. IALE Annual Conference 10-12.10.2005 University of Freiburg. Freiburg i.Br. (= Culterra, 51). S. 31-38.

Bender, O., H- J. Böhmer, D. Jens & K. Schumacher (2005): Analysis of land-use change in a sector of Upper Franconia (Bavaria, Germany) since 1850, using land register records. Landscape Ecology, 20, pp. 149-163.

Gössling, S., T. Kunkel, K. Schumacher, J. Birkemeyer, J. Froese, N. Heck, N. Naber & E. Schliermann (2005): A target-group specific approach to 'green' power retailing: Students as consumers of renewable energy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 9, pp 69-83.

Bender, O., H- J. Böhmer, D. Jens & K. Schumacher (2005): Using GIS to analyze long-term cultural landscape change in Southern Germany. Landscape and Urban Planning, 70, pp. 111-125.

Schumacher, K (2005): Dynamics of the Kaiserstühl Cultural Landscape. In: Denzer, V., J. Hasse, K.-D. Kleefeld & U. Recker [Eds:] Kulturlandschaft. Perception - Inventory - Regional examples. Wiesbaden (= Fundberichte aus Hessen, Supplement 4). S. 417-421.

Bender, O. & K. Schumacher (2005): Multitemporal inventory, analysis and evaluation of the cultural landscape - an overview. In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland [ed:] Cultural landscape digital: research and application. Contributions to regional development vol. 58, Cologne. Simultaneously: Kulturlandschaft - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Historische Geographie, vol. 15. Bonn. S. 122-127.

Bender, O., K. Schumacher & D. Stein (2005): Measuring seasonality in Central European Tourism - how and for what? In: Schrenk, M [Ed.]: Proceedings of 10th Symposion on Information Technology in Urban- and Spatial Planning, February 22-25, Vienna University of Technology. Vienna, pp. 303-309.

Gössling, S., K. Schumacher, M. Morelle & N. Heck (2004): Tourism and Street Children in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Hospitality & Tourism Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2004, pp. 131-149.

Gössling, S., T. Kunkel, K. Schumacher & M. Zilger (2004): Use of molluscs, fish, and other marine taxa by Tourism in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Biodiversity and Conservation, 13, pp. 2623-2639.

Bender, O., H- J. Böhmer & K. Schumacher (2003): Die Kulturlandschaftsentwicklung im Regnitzgebiet. In: Gatterer, K. & W. Nezadal [Eds:] Flora of the Regnitz area. Eching. IHW-Verlag. S. 52-63.

Schumacher, K , A. Faustmann, D. Mischka & K. Thiem (2003): Das Graduiertenkolleg "Gegenwartsbezogene Landschaftsgenese". In: Kulturlandschaft - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Historische Geographie, Vol. 13, H. 1-3. Bonn. S. 52-57.

Schumacher, K (2003): Landkarten des 18. Jahrhunderts als Quellen zur Erforschung der Kulturlandschaftsgenese, erläutert an Beispielen des Kaiserstuhls. In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter, 160. Freiburg. S. 127-136.

Schumacher, K. & O. Bender (2002): GIS-based analysis of agricultural landscape development, using the example of the Wüstenstein district (Franconian Switzerland). In: Mitteilungen der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 49. Erlangen. S. 1-15.

Bender, O. & K. Schumacher (2001): Agriculture in the city - an anachronism? On the spatial and structural development of the urban monument "Bamberg market garden". In: Bender, O. et al. [Eds:] Bamberger Extratouren. A geographical guide through the city & surroundings. Bamberg. University Press. S. 26-57.

Schumacher, K., S. Simmler & L. Morper-Busch (2001): Historische Siedlungsentwicklung im Vorderen Steigerwald. A comparison of Stappenbach, Trabelsdorf and Walsdorf. In: Bender, O. et al. [Eds:] Bamberger Extratouren. A geographical guide to the town and its surroundings. Bamberg. University Press. S. 296-319.

Stiens, G., D. Pick, U. Lemme, B. Neise & K. Schumacher (1999): Erhaltung gewachsener Kulturlandschaften als Grundsatz der Raumordnung. Bonn. Working Papers of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) 2/1999).

Dais, A., T. Nitz & K. Schumacher (1998): Dörfer im Landkreis Bamberg VII - Walsdorf. In: Heimat Bamberger Land, 10th vol. 1+2. Bamberg. S. 3-11.

Schumacher, K (1998): Deserted villages in the surroundings of Walsdorf. In: Heimat Bamberger Land, 10th Vol., H.1+2, Bamberg. S. 53-54.

Dissertation

Schumacher, K. (2006): Landscape change in the Kaiserstuhl since 1770 - analysis and balancing. (= Culterra, 47). Freiburg i.Br. 210 pp.

Reports

Schumacher, K. & U. Welting: Bioenergie-Region Südoldenburg 2.0. Final report of the value creation sub-project. Vechta, March 2014. 130 pp.

Schumacher, K.: Purchasing behavior of organic and regional products in Hildesheim. Prepared for Vermarktungsinitiative HI-Land e. V. January 2010. 10 pp.

Schumacher, K.: Der Kaiserstuhl als Paradigma mitteleuropäischer Kulturlandschaften, in der historischen Interdependenz natürlicher Prozesse und anthropogener Überprägung. Preliminary final report prepared for the DFG. Freiburg, November 2004. 35 pp.

Gössling, S., J. Birkemeyer, A. Cirrica, J. Froese, T. Kunkel, N. Heck, E. Schliermann & K. Schumacher: Studierende und Ökostrom: Eine Analyse des Marktpotenzials Freiburger Studierender als Kunden von Ökostromprodukten. Prepared for BADENOVA, Freiburg, July 2003. 40 pp.

Poster

Richter, T. & K. Schumacher (2010): Sustainable University - Research-oriented learning in the project seminar. "Universities for Sustainable Development: Good Practice in Teaching" Conference of the German UNESCO Commission e.V. on 3.12.10 in Berlin.

Richter, T. & K. Schumacher (2010): Sustainable University - an excellent project seminar. Symposium on energy education for schools. Integration of an interdisciplinary topic in school lessons and teacher training. University of Oldenburg March 15-16, 2010.

Schumacher, K.. (2005): "Reben statt Wald" - Dynamik der Waldflächen und Waldnutzung am Kaiserstuhl seit 1770. Annual conference of the IALE- Region Deutschland "Raum-Zeit-Probleme in der Kulturlandschaft". Institute for Landscape Management at the University of Freiburg, October 10-12, 2005.

Schumacher, K.. (2003): Der Kaiserstuhl als Paradigma mitteleuropäischer Kulturlandschaften. Report colloquium of the DFG Research Training Group 692-1 "Gegenwartsbezogene Landschaftsgenese". Freiburg, June 17, 2003.

Reviews

Schumacher, K: Jekel, T., A. Koller, K. Donert & R. Vogler (Eds.) (2011): Learning with GI 2011: Implementing Digital Earth in Education. Wichman,. Berlin & Offenbach. in: GW-Unterricht 126/2012. p. 95.

Schumacher, K.: Burggraaf, P. & Kleefeld, K.-D. [Eds.] (2008): Entdeckungslandschaft Unterer Niederrhein - Land zwischen Maas und Rhein: neue Forschungen zur Kulturlandschaft des Niederrheins auf Grundlage der Arbeiten von Gerhard Aymans und Rudolf Strasser. In: Geography, 64 (1), 2010 pp. 93-94.

Diploma thesis

Schumacher, K. (2001): GIS-supported analysis of cultural landscape development - using the example of the Wüstenstein district, Nördliche Frankenalb. Unpublished diploma thesis in the schools of geography at the University of Bamberg. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Krings in Bamberg and Prof. Dr. Werner Bätzing in Erlangen.

Resource conservation through Logistics Plus - Logist.Plus
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, joint project of the Stadt.Land.Plus funding line
Duration: Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2023
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Previous courses

Lectures

Spatial Planning and Development (from WS 2021/22 annually, Osnabrück University)

Fundamentals of Cultural and Social Geography (WS 2016/17, University of Hanover)

Interdisciplinary lecture series: Sub-Saharan Africa (WS 2016/17, University of Hanover)

Political design of economic spatial systems (summer semester 2016, University of Hanover)

Introduction to Anthropogeography Part A (WS 2008/09, WS 2009/10, University of Hildesheim)

Anthropogeography Part B (summer semester 2009, summer semester 2010, University of Hildesheim)

Transdisciplinary lecture series "Mobility" (summer semester 2009, University of Hildesheim, organized together with Dr. T. Richter, Institute of Biology)

Lecture series "Managing the Planet - reloaded" (winter semester 2008/09, University of Hildesheim, organized together with the Institute of Biology)

Lecture series "Managing the Planet" (winter semester 2007/08, University of Hildesheim, organization together with the Institute of Biology)

Seminars in Master's programs

Follow-up seminar on the major study project: Agricultural valorization of rural areas - tea cultivation in Indonesia. (WS 2022/23, Osnabrück University, together with Dr. T. Neise)

Preparatory seminar for the large study project/large excursion: Agricultural valorization of rural areas - tea cultivation in Indonesia. (Summer semester 2022, Osnabrück University, together with Dr. T. Neise)

Integrative perspective on transformation in rural areas - Exercise Perspectives of Geography (WS 2021/22, WS 2020/21 - Uni Vechta)

Current topics in regional development (WS 2018/19 - University of Vechta)

(S+V) Theories and concepts of the geographies of rural areas (WS 2019/20, WS 2017/18 - Uni Vechta)

(S+V) Concepts of Globalization (WS 2019/20, WS 2017/18 - University of Vechta)

Globalizing Rural Worlds: Rural areas in the globalization process (WS 2019/20, WS 2018/19, WS 2017/18 - Uni Vechta)

Globalization 'on site' (WS 2019/20 - University of Vechta)

Demographic change in rural areas (WS 2015/16, University of Vechta)

Gender and the development of rural areas (WS 2015/16, University of Vechta)

Current topics of globalization: Economic and social geography (WS 2019/20, WS 2018/19, WS 2017/18, WS 2014/15, WS 2013/14, WS 2012/13 - University of Vechta)

Reading Course "Rural Studies" (SoSe 2019, SoSe2018, SoSe 2014 - Uni Vechta) in English

Current topics in economic geography (summer semester 2015, University of Münster)

Current research issues of rural areas - economy and region (WS 2019/20, WS 2018/19, WS 2017/18, WS 2014/15, WS 2013/14, WS 2012/13, WS 2011/12, Uni Vechta)

International Perspectives - Demography & Gender (WS 2014/15, WS 2013/14, WS 2012/13, Uni Vechta)

Potentials, problems and perspectives of the development of rural areas (summer semester 2018, winter semester 2011/12, University of Vechta)

Energy geography (WS 2009/10, University of Hildesheim)

Geographical development research (WS 2008/09, University of Hildesheim)

Current topics in agricultural geography (summer semester 2008, University of Hildesheim)

Industrial Geography (WS 2007/08, Uni Hildesheim)

Project seminar "Sustainable University III" (summer semester 2010, University of Hildesheim, together with Dr. T. Richter, Institute of Biology)

Project seminar "Sustainable University II" (WS 2009/10, University of Hildesheim, together with Dr. T. Richter, Institute of Biology)

Project seminar "Sustainable University" (summer semester 2009, University of Hildesheim, together with Dr. T. Richter, Institute of Biology)

Seminars in Bachelor programs

Special Topics in Geography II: Tourism (WS 2019/20, WS 2018/19 - University of Vechta)

Geographies of mobility (summer semester 2017, University of Hanover)

Advanced seminar on human-environment relations (WS 2016/17, University of Hanover)

Geographies of consumption (summer semester 2016, University of Hanover)

Sustainable regional development (summer semester 2015, University of Vechta)

Fundamentals of Anthropogeography - Economy and Transport (summer semester 2012, University of Vechta)

Environmental Protection - An Introduction (summer semester 2007, winter semester 2008/09, winter semester 2009/10, University of Hildesheim)

Urban Geography (WS 2009/10, University of Hildesheim)

Fundamentals of Anthropogeography - Economy and Transport (summer semester 2012, University of Vechta)

Developing Countries (SoSe 2011, Uni Vechta)

Environmental Protection - An Introduction (summer semester 2007, winter semester 2008/09, winter semester 2009/10, University of Hildesheim)

Regional Geography of Southeast and Eastern Europe (WS 2009/10, University of Hildesheim)

Urban Geography (WS 2009/10, University of Hildesheim)

Aspects of Cultural Landscape Development (WS 2008/09, University of Hildesheim, together with Dr. A. Germer, Institute of History and Dr. T. Richter, Institute of Biology)

Southeast Asia (summer semester 2008, University of Hildesheim)

De-/colonization in the 19th and 20th century: historical and geographical perspectives. (WS 2007/08, University of Hildesheim, together with A. Pudlat, M.A., Institute of History)

Economic Geography (summer semester 2007, University of Hildesheim)

Historical-geographical aspects of the European city (WS 2006/07, University of Hildesheim, together with Dr. A. Germer, Institute of History)

Tourism in developing countries (WS 2006/07, Uni Hildesheim)

Developing countries (summer semester 2006, summer semester 2009, University of Hildesheim)

Method seminars and exercises

Cartography exercise (WS 2020/21, Osnabrück University)

Methods of anthropogeography (WS 2019/20, WS 2018/19 - University of Vechta)

Introduction to scientific work and anthropogeographical methods (WS 2019/20, WS 2018/19 - Uni Vechta)

Methods seminar and exercise for the study project with field study: 'Local and traffic development in Poggenhagen' (summer semester 2017, University of Hanover)

Seminar Methods of empirical social research (WS 2016/17, University of Hanover)

Exercises in methods of empirical social research (WS 2016/17, University of Hanover)

Methods seminar and exercise for the study project with field study: Regional development in the Wesermarsch - Short Food Supply Chains (summer semester 2016, University of Hanover)

Introduction to anthropogeographical working methods (summer semester 2009, summer semester 2010, University of Hildesheim)

Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (WS 2008/09)

Cartography and Remote Sensing (SoSe 2008)

Introduction to geographical working methods (SoSe 2006, SoSe 2007, Uni Hildesheim)

GIS and Cultural Landscape (WS 2005/06, University of Freiburg)

Methods of empirical social research for questions of environmental history. Block course in the diploma program Forest Science (WS 2003/04 - University of Freiburg, together with S. Hook, Institute for Forest Policy)

GIS for cultural geography research projects. With GIS through time and space. (Summer semester 2003, University of Freiburg)

Cultural geography internship: "Investigation of the perception of landscape and landscape change using the example of the Kaiserstuhl." (Summer semester 2003, University of Freiburg, together with S. Hook, Institute for Forest Policy)

Seminars on geography didactics

Media in geography teaching (summer semester 2006, winter semester 2006/07, University of Hildesheim)

Introduction to the didactics of geography (WS 2006/07, WS 2007/08, University of Hildesheim)

Excursions and field exercises

Major study project/major excursion: Agricultural valorization of rural areas - tea cultivation in Indonesia. (16 days, summer semester 2022, Osnabrück University, together with Dr. T. Neise)

Day excursion "Regional development in the coal conversion region Ibbenbüren" (summer semester 2022, Osnabrück University)

Excursion Poland: 'Warsaw and the Southeast' (10 days, summer semester 2017, University of Hanover)

Excursion Latvia & Estonia (10 days, summer semester 2016, University of Hanover)

Field trip in the Master's course 'Regional Development in Rhineland-Palatinate & Luxembourg' (6 days, summer semester 2015, University of Vechta)

Field trip in the Master's program 'Development of rural areas in Brandenburg and Lower Saxony' (5 days, summer semester 2014)

Field trip in the Master's program Rhineland-Palatinate and Luxembourg (6 days, summer semester 2013, University of Vechta)

Field trip in the Master's program - Wendland & Prignitz (4 days, summer semester 2012, University of Vechta, together with O. Klein)

Major excursion to eastern Saxony and southern Poland (10 days, summer semester 2011, University of Vechta)

Major excursion to Saxony and southern Poland (9 days, summer semester 2010, University of Hildesheim)

Major excursion to southern Poland and neighboring regions (9 days, summer semester 2007, University of Hildesheim)

Large excursion to southern Grisons and northern Lombardy (10 days, summer semester 2004, University of Freiburg, together with Dr. O. Bender, ÖAW, Vienna)

Anthropogeographical field course (summer semester 2010, summer semester 2009, University of Hildesheim)

Freiburg and the Breisgau (4 days summer semester 2008, University of Hildesheim)

Lower Saxony Wendland (3 days summer semester 2008, University of Hildesheim, together with Dr. T. Richter, Institute of Biology)

Day excursion to the city of Hildesheim for first semester students (WS 2009/10, WS 2010/11, Uni Hildesheim)

Day excursion Alfeld/Leine - Loss of significance of a former district town (summer semester 2009, University of Hildesheim)

December 05, 2022: Risks in Global Production Networks - the Economic Geography Perspective. 47th Matrei Talks, Matrei in East Tyrol, Austria.03.-06.12. 2022.

November 24, 2022: International joint study projects in Geography - German-Indonesian experiences. ICOSAG -International Conference on Applied Science and Geography, Universitas Indonesia, Depok in Indonesia (Online). Together with Masita Dwi Mandini Manessa & Nurul Sri Rahatiningtyas, Department of Geography, Universitas Indonesia.

September 29, 2022: Land(scapes) for logistics. 29th session of PECSRL, Living together in European Rural Landscapes, 26.09.-30.09. 2022 in Jaén and Baeza (Spain).

September 27, 2022: "Vegan landscapes" and the future of meadow landscapes in Central Europe. 29th session of PECSRL, Living together in European Rural Landscapes, 26.09.-30.09. 2022 in Jaén and Baeza (Spain).

September 13, 2022: Saving space and resources in commercial space development - lessons learned from the Logist.Plus project. Regional economic development between global transformation and new funding policies Conference of the Protestant Academy Loccum, 12.+13.09.2022. Invited lecture.

August 02, 2022: Rural regional development in Germany and value chains of intensive agriculture. Department of Geography, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia. Invited guest lecture.

June 10, 2022: Drivers and barriers for a more sustainable logistics - a regional case study from Northwestern Germany. Global Conference on Economic Geography. Dublin 07.06.-10.06.2022 Dublin (together with F. Bücken)

April 25, 2022: Conflicts of sustainability objectives in the complex system of urban-regional land management. 46th Matrei Talks, Matrei in East Tyrol, Austria. 22.-26. 04. 2022.

September 29, 2021: The future of the meadows in Central Europe: A more vegan diet as a threat? 29th session of PECSRL, Living together in European Rural Landscapes, Jaen (Spain) 29.+ 30.09.2021 (Online).

September 03, 2021: "Risks in the Global Production Networks - insights from meat production in Germany". Presentation together with Philip Völlers (Osnabrück) in the context of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021 (online).

November 26, 2020: Food systems in transition and new land-use conflicts. Sustainable & Resilient Urban-Rural Partnerships - URP2020, Leipzig, Nov. 25-27, 2020 (online).

November 25, 2020: Resource Conservation through Logistics Plus: How can governance structures be combined with approaches of cooperative operational environmental and transport management? Status conference 2020 of the BMBF funding measure "Stadt-Land-Plus". Leipzig (online).

December 02, 2019: The role of trust in human geography. Matrei talks: "Fake, deceive, lie". Matrei in East Tyrol, Austria. 29.11.-03. 12. 2019.

November 26, 2019: Tourism in rural areas - challenges and contributions to regional development. Keynote speech for the SPD working group Dümmerland in the district of Diepholz. Stemshorn.

October 10, 2019: Perspectives for the regional development of rural areas: Updating the REK Weserbergland plus. Regional conference of the Regional Development Cooperation Weserberglandplus in Bodenwerder-Buchhagen. Invited expert lecture.

September 29, 2019: Unruly Monuments - Nuclear Power Plants and their Decommissioning. Session L5-FS-134.1 Unruly Materialities - Geographies and Temporalities of Anthropogenic Waste. German Congress for Geography 2019, September 25 - 30, 2019, Kiel

September 24, 2019: Vegan landscapes? What changes follow the transformation of food production? Annual Conference of the German Academy of Regional Geography, Kiel, 23. +24.09.2019.

December 03, 2018: By-Products and waste from food production: The significance of manure in the German meat production network. Agri-food XXV Annual meeting of the Australasian Agri-food Research Network. University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), 02.-05.12.2018.

October 16, 2018: Cooperation, resource management and regional development along international rivers in Europe. Conference Cross Border Cooperation on water resource management organized by the University of Social Sciences (USSH), Hanoi and the Regional Office Vietnam of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

September 03, 2018: Intensive agriculture and landscape quality: an oxymoron? 28th session of PECSRL, European Landscapes for quality of life? Clermont-Ferrand & Mende (France), 03.-09.09.2018.

July 27, 2018 - Economic geographies of manure and nutrients in northern Germany. 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography, Cologne 24-27.07.2018.

July 25, 2018: Meat and manure from the Oldenburger Münsterland - the Potential of the Global Production Networks Approach for Analysis of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography, Cologne 24-27.07.2018. (together with M. Franz & N. Schlitz, Osnabrück University).

June 04, 2018: Energy Geographies and Regional Development in Northern Germany. Geographical Society Hannover.

February 23, 2018: Researching regional geographies: Regional geographies of the university location? DAL Annual Conference Perspective: Regional Geography. University of Tübingen February 22-23, 2018.

February 19, 2018: Risk manure - a waste product endangers the global production network of intensive agriculture. Workshop Goods and Knowledge: The coordination of consumers and producers in commodity chains using the example of food retailing. HU-Berlin: Economic Geography & Economic Sociology, February 18-20, 2018 (together with M. Franz, Osnabrück University).

February 15, 2018: What is different in rural areas? Specific conditions and challenges. Wide country with short distances - mobility strategies for rural areas. Protestant Academy Loccum, February 15-16, 2018.

03 October 2017: Digitalization in rural areas - a critical review (together with KM Born, University of Vechta) German Congress for Geography in Tübingen, 30.09.-05.10.2017

October 01, 2017: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Global Production Networks (together with M. Franz and N. Schlitz, Osnabrück University) German Congress of Geography in Tübingen, 30.09.-05.10.2017.

June 27, 2017: Bioenergy as an instrument of regional development in rural areas - (k)eine Erfolgsstory? Marburger Geographische Gesellschaft.

21 June 2017: Is Tanzania following in Kenyan footsteps? Recent developments of agricultural commercialization in Eastern Africa and their impacts on small scale farms. 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM). 18-21.06.2017, University of Stockholm.

June 16, 2017: The geography of manure in northern Germany. RuralGeo2017: New rural geographies in Europe: actors, processes, policies". Thünen Institute Braunschweig, June 14-17, 2017.

December 05, 2016: The (im)permeability of borders - socio-geographical perspectives. Matrei Talks: "Borders in nature and culture: Zones of encounter and fusion, separation and conflict". Matrei in East Tyrol, Austria. 03-07. 12. 2016.

September 05, 2016: The geography of manure from a landscape perspective. "European landscapes from an altitudinal perspective. " 27th session of PECSRL, Innsbruck & Seefeld (Austria), 05.-09.09.16. Conference travel grant of the DAAD.

August 25, 2016: The promotion of bio-energy production as instrument of rural development in Germany - a critical analysis. 33rd International Geographical Congress. 21-25.08.2016, Beijing, China.

20 April 2016: Manure - from a scarce resource to a problem of regional development? Rehabilitation of the Dümmer area: Dümmerforum 2016 in Stemshorn. State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying of Lower Saxony.

February 11, 2016: Historical-geographical analysis of regional differences in women's employment in Germany: Between history and geography, between space and time II. University of Bamberg, February 11-12, 2016 (together with S. Klüsener, MPI, Rostock & T. Leibert, IFL, Leipzig).

February 03, 2016: Gender effects of the value chain integration of East African smallholder families. Osnabrück Geographical Colloquium: "Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Production Networks". Osnabrück University.

October 03, 2015: The commodification of by- and waste products of intensive agriculture using the example of manure. German Congress of Geography 2015 in Berlin. Session VE-FS-19 "Intensive farming: change processes and impacts".

October 01, 2015: The "Bioenergy Region Südoldenburg" as a contribution to solving regional conflicts? German Congress for Geography 2015 in Berlin. Specialist session LN-FS-07B "Energy transition - space in transition".

September 17, 2015: Energy landscape versus landscape of intensive agriculture - the case of the 'bio-energy region Suedoldenburg'. European Conference of the Landscape Research Group "Energy Landscapes: Perception, Planning, Participation, Power," September 16-18, 2015, Dresden.

July 07, 2015: Wirtschaftsgeographische Genderforschung im Kontext globaler Wertschöpfungsketten und Produktionsnetzwerke. Colloquium of the schools of Geography at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Invited contribution.

April 14, 2015: Sustainable University - Concepts, Obstacles and Perspectives for the University of Vechta. Keynote speech at the strategy workshop "Sustainable University of Vechta" (together with Marco Rieckmann, Vechta). Invited contribution.

April 13, 2015: Creating value out of liquid manure - a value chain approach in rural Lower Saxony. Cologne Geosciences Colloquium, University of Cologne. Invited contribution.

February 25, 2015: Regional value creation from bioenergy - the special case of the "Bioenergy Region Südoldenburg." Innovation Team Markets and Finance of the State Initiative NieKE. Rastede. Invited contribution.

October 21, 2014: Challenges of regional development in intensive agricultural areas. ALR seminar "Recreation - tourism - agriculture - how do they fit together? Examples of good conflict solutions". Akademie ländlicher Raum Niedersachsen e.V. in Stemshorn. Invited contribution.

September 12, 2014: Gender and European Rural Landscapes. Unravelling the logics of landscape. 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL), Gothenburg & Mariestad (Sweden), 08-12. 09. 2014.

August 22, 2014: Gender analysis of knowledge transfer in small-scale family farming - a case study in Northeastern Tanzania. IGU Regional Conference in Kraków, Poland. 18-22. 08.2014 (together with Madlen Krone and Peter Dannenberg, Cologne).

August 19, 2014: The complex and problematic interlinkages of agricultural based bio-energy production and intensive agriculture for the regional development in the Oldenburger Muensterland (NW-Germany). IGU Regional Conference in Kraków, Poland. 18-22.08.2014.

June 20, 2014: Gendered employment and income structures in the hotel sector of Barbados. International Geographical Union (IGU) - Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces. 2014 Amsterdam Mini-conference "Globalization and New Patterns of Services Sector Driven Growth," University of Amsterdam, 19./20.06. 2014.

March 14, 2014: Gendered rural labor markets and the intention to migrate - examples from northwestern Germany. Conference of the IfL - Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography "Women in rural areas: labor markets, images, policies," 14.03.2014 in Berlin.

October 06, 2013: Gender and knowledge in global agrifood networks. Contribution to session 42 "Global production in regional responsibility: knowledge and governance" of the German Geographers' Day in Passau.

October 05, 2013: The recruitment of highly qualified people for rural regions - a gender perspective. Contribution to session 101 "Economic perspectives of peripheral rural regions in demographic change" of the German Geographers' Conference in Passau (together with R. Klichowicz).

12.07.2013: Gender relations in global food value chains - a review. International Geography Union (IGU) - Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces. 2013 Berlin Mini-conference "Dynamics in Food and Agriculture based Supply Chains". HU-Berlin 11-13.07.2013. Keynote Lecture.

26 March 2013: Industrialized agriculture and land-use competition in northwestern Germany. Guest lecture, St. Augustine University of Tanzania. Mwanza/ Tanzania.

21 March 2013: Enhancing the concept of the informal economy by conceptualizing the survival sector. Guest lecture, St. Augustine University of Tanzania. Mwanza/ Tanzania.

10 November 2012: Konzeptualisierung der Wertschöpfungskette von Gülle im Oldenburger Münsterland. Annual conference of the AK Ländlicher Raum "Wertschöpfungsketten in Ländlichen Räumen", University of Marburg, 9/10.11.2012.

September 27, 2012: Disparate structural change in rural Lower Saxony - Boom in the northwest, weaknesses in the southeast? Lecture/workshop at the Lower Saxony School Geography Day. University of Hildesheim, September 27/28, 2012. Invited contribution.

September 06, 2012: Methodological foundations and results of a cadastre-based GIS for historical landscape analysis. The landscape as an archive of the future. Vienna. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. 06.-08.09. 2012 (together with PD Dr. Oliver Bender, Innsbruck). Invited contribution.

28 August 2012: Introduction to the session "Contextualizing Gender & Climate Change". 32nd International Geographical Congress, Cologne 26-30 August 2012.

August 20, 2012: Land-use competition between industrial livestock farming and biogas in the Oldenburger Muensterland (NW-Germany). Reflection on landscape change: the European perspective. 25th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL) Leuuwarden & Terschelling (NL), August 20-24, 2012. Conference travel grant of the DAAD.

May 05, 2012: Moving to the countryside? Recruiting highly qualified labor for rural areas - a gender perspective. IGU-Mini-Conference. Krakow, University of Krakow, May 03-05, 2012 (together with R. Klichowicz)

October 11, 2011: Current Drivers and Barriers for the Implementation of Sustainability in Germanys Higher Education System. AASHE Conference & Expo Creating Sustainable Campuses and Communities. Pittsburgh 09.-12.10.2011 (together with T. Richter Dept. of Biology, Univ. of. Hildesheim)

June 30, 2011: Gender geographies in rural areas - findings from Germany. 3rd Global Conference on economic Geography 2011 - Space, Economy and environment. Seoul. 28.06.-02.07.2011. Conference travel grant of the DAAD.

May 20, 2011: Gender, employment and the rural labor-market in Germany. IGU Mini-Conference "Globalizing Rural Places". University of Vechta. 19.-21.05.2011.

April 29, 2011: Gender as an analytical category - not a topic for economic geography? 11th Rauischholzhausen Symposium on Economic Geography. University of Giessen. 28.-30.04.2011.

April 03, 2011: Landscape as a utilization structure. Annual conference of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Society. University of Hanover. Invited contribution.

January 31, 2011: Gender & Rural Studies - a geographical assessment. Inaugural lecture at the University of Vechta.

November 12, 2010: Gender Issues in Rural Areas - Insight & Outlook. Workshop Development of Rural Areas: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Research and Policy Options of the Working Group "Rural Areas" in the German Society for Geography (DGfG). University of Vechta. November 12/13, 2010.

August 27, 2010: Landscapes of wine-growing: Pathways towards a productive or a scenic future? 24th session of the Permanent European Conference for the study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL), Riga & Liepaja, Latvia. 23-27.08.2010. Conference travel grant of the DAAD.

June 24, 2010: Project seminar Sustainable University - self-directed competence-oriented learning despite Bologna? Conference of the working group "Hochschullehre Geographie" in the German Society for Geography (DGfG), Kloster Bronnbach 24-25.06.2010. (together with T. Richter, Institute of Biology, University of Hildesheim).

February 08, 2010: New Insights into the Informal Economy: The Survival Sector in Madagascar. Lecture at the Institute for Structural Research and Planning in Intensive Agricultural Areas (ISPA), Vechta University of Applied Sciences.

November 22, 2009: Who really cares about HESD? - A case study from northern Germany. 3rd International Conference Higher Education for Sustainable Development: 5 Years of HESD: Looking Back - Moving Forward. Penang/Malaysia (together with T. Richter Dept. of Biology, Univ. of. Hildesheim.) Conference travel grant of the DAAD.

05 June 2009: Conceptualization of a survival sector using the example of Antananarivo, Madagascar. In_Formality and City - Global Trends, Local Dynamics. Annual conference of the working group "Geographische Stadtforschung im Entwicklungskontext" in the DGfG, University of Innsbruck, June 05-07, 2009 (together with S. Gössling, Lund University).

December 05, 2008: How viticulture shaped a landscape - The Kaiserstuhl in the Upper Rhine Valley. Presentation at the workshop "Environmental History" of the Graduate school "Human development in landscapes". Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.

October 31, 2008: Too much forest? The effects of planting trees on European landscapes - an overview. Annual conference of the IALE-D in Bonn "Global Change and Landscape Response - Die Rückkopplungen von Landschaften auf den Globalen Wandel. 30.10.-02.11. 2008 Geographisches Institut der Univ. Bonn (together with Oliver Bender, Innsbruck and Torsten Richter, Hildesheim).

September 04, 2008: Planting forests - a widespread solution for climate neutrality and its impact on European landscapes. The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape - 23rd Session "LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT" Lisbon and Óbidos, Portugal, 1st - 5th September 2008 (together with Oliver Bender, Innsbruck). Conference travel grant of the DFG.

February 01, 2008: Die Kulturlandschaftsgeschichte des Kaiserstuhls. Invited lecture as part of the lecture series of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg and the Badischer Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz. Freiburg i. Br. Invited contribution.

January 31, 2008: Perspektiven für einen klimaneutralen Tourismus auf den Seychellen. Frankfurt/M. Lecture at the Institute for Human Geography of the University of Frankfurt/M..

June 09, 2007: Agrarian Landscape-dynamics in southern German low-mountain ranges: Cultural Heritage and Landscapes in Europe. Deutsches Bergbaumuseum Bochum, June 8-10, 2007 (together with Oliver Bender, Innsbruck).

May 08, 2007: Afrika - Ein Thema für die Historische Geographie? Historisch-Geographisches Kolloquium, Geographisches Institut der Univ.

January 17, 2007: Die Toskana Deutschlands - Zur Konstruktion von Landschaftsimages, Department of Geography, University of Saarland. Saarbrücken.

November 17, 2006: Experiences with interdisciplinary cooperation in the research training group "Contemporary Landscape Genesis". Workshop: "An der Grenze: Historische-Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen als transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld" at the Konvent Frauenchiemsee (16.-20.11.2006) at the invitation of the LMU Munich and the Volkswagen Foundation.

September 21, 2006: The district maps of the first land survey in the Breisgau region of Lower Austria (ca. 1760-1790). 13th Cartographic History Colloquium in Dresden (September 20-22, 2006).

September 05, 2006: Landscape dynamics in southern German low mountain ranges. Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape "European rural future: Landscape as an interface", Berlin / Brandenburg, September 4-9, 2006 (together with Oliver Bender, Innsbruck).

04 March 2005: Multitemporal Inventory, Analysis and Evaluation of the Cultural Landscape - An Overview. Annual Conference of the Working Group for Applied Historical Geography: Cultural Landscape Digital - Research and Application. RWTH Aachen, March 2-5, 2005 (together with Oliver Bender, Vienna).

February 25, 2005: Measuring seasonality in Central European Tourism - how and for what? CORP 10, Vienna. (Together with Oliver Bender and David Stein, Vienna).

February 21, 2005: Die Toskana Deutschlands - zur mentalen Konstruktion von Landschaften. Workshop "Ideen von Kulturlandschaft", Department of Ecology, TU Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan.

September 16, 2004: Mediterranean landscapes in the Rhine Valley? - The Germans and their longing for the south. Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape: One Region, Many Stories: Mediterranean Landscapes in a Changing Europe. Limnos and Lesbos/Greece 15.09.-23.09.2004. The trip was co-financed by the Scientific Society of Freiburg.

May 25, 2004: Kaiserstuhl winegrowing landscape. A review and explanation of 230 years of cultural landscape change. Colloquium of the working group Settlement Geography and Landscape History of the Institute of Geography of the University of Bern. (Invited)

March 19, 2004: Dynamics of the Kaiserstuhl Cultural Landscape. Annual conference of the Working Group for Applied Historical Geography in the Working Group for Genetic Settlement Research in Central Europe in cooperation with the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: "KULTURLANDSCHAFT: Wahrnehmung - Inventarisation - Regionale Beispiele". University of Frankfurt/M.

May 17, 2003: The Kaiserstuhl as a paradigm of Central European cultural landscapes: Forum Historische Geographie, University of Bonn.

September 21, 2002: Layer 1765 - Die badischen Gemarkungskarten als Zeitschnitt eines Kulturlandschafts-GIS. 11th Cartographic History Colloquium Nuremberg (September 19-21, 2002).

August 29, 2002: Using GIS to reconstruct 200 years of landscape change in southern Germany. Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape: past processes and future strategies. Tartu and Otepää/ Estonia 26.08.-01.09.2002 (together with Oliver Bender, H.-J. Böhmer and Doreen Jens). The trip was co-financed by the Scientific Society of Freiburg.

June 11, 2002: Kulturlandschaft Kaiserstuhl - Ein Thema im Graduiertenkolleg "Gegenwartsbezogene Landschaftsgenese". Historical-Geographical Colloquium, Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn.

15 March 2002: Cultural Landscape Kaiserstuhl - a project presentation - Annual Conference of the Working Group for Applied Historical Geography in the Working Group for Genetic Settlement Research in Central Europe in cooperation with the Salzburg Institute for Spatial Research: "Internationalization of Applied Historical Geography: Examples and Activities for Cultural Landscape Conservation". University of Linz.

Awards and prizes

Prize for outstanding teaching in the 2008/2009 academic year from the University of Hildesheim for the project seminar "Sustainable University" (together with Dr. Torsten Richter, Institute of Biology).