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Research for the Environment

Dr. Heidi Wittmer

Head of the Working Group Governance & Institutions

Link internLink internDivision of Social Sciences
Link internLink internDepartment of Environmental Politics
Link internLink internWorking Group Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
Link internLink internWorking Group Governance & Institutions

Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1629
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 1836

E-MailE-MailDr. Heidi Wittmer

Dr. Heidi Wittmer

Curriculum Vitae

since 12/2001

post-doc researcher at UFZ

2000

consultancy for the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn

1999 - 2001

senior researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Göttingen

1995 - 1998

Ph D. in Socio-economics of rural development, University of Göttingen

1994

economist, Food and Agricultural Organisation, FAO, Rome

1990 - 1993

DAAD-long term lecturer Univ. of Tunja in Colombia

1983 - 1989

Agricultural Sciences: B.Sc. (1985 Univ. Gießen) M.Sc. (1989 TU-Berlin)

Current Projects

Link internLink internTEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Link internLink internPATH - Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology
Link internLink internPartizipative Entscheidungsprozesse
Link internLink internNested Networks: Neue Formen der Governance der globalen Umweltforschung (NESNET)

Completed Projects

Link internLink internIBEFish: Interaction between Environment and Fisheries - a Challenge to Management
Link internLink internDas Millennium Ecosystem Assessment und seine Relevanz für Deutschland
Link internLink internFRAP - Development of a Procedural Framework for Action Plans to Reconcile Conflicts between Large Vertebrate Conservation and the Use of Biological Resources: Fisheries and Fish-eating Vertebrates as a Model Case
Link internLink internStrategies for the Resolution of Conflicts in Nature Conservation: Participation, Co-operation, and Negotiation
Link internLink internUmsetzung der Biodiversitätskonvention: Chancen und Probleme der Integration von Naturschutz und landwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in Guatemala: Eine politik- und institutionenökonomische Analyse

Memberships

since 2000

Link externLink externInternational Society for New Institutional Economics

since 1999

Link externLink externInternational Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)
Link externLink externInternational Association of Agricultural Economists

since 1997

Link externLink externCouncil for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research

Workshops Organised

  • New Strategies for Solving Environmental Conflicts: Potentials for Combining Participation and Multicriteria Analysis, Summersymposium, 26.-28.06.2002, UFZ Leipzig
  • EU INCO-DEV International Workshop: Policy Options for the Sustainable Use of Coral Reefs and Associated Ecosystems, 19.-22.6.2000, Mombasa, Kenya
Link externLink externPolicy Options for the Sustainable Use of Coral Reefs and Associated Ecosystems

Teaching Experiences

  • 1990-98 a total of 25 lectures, seminars and workshops at universities, public administrations and non-governmental organisations covering: participatory methods in rural development, empirical social research, 'Farming Systems Development', agricultural economics and marketing, natural resource management
  • 2000 'learning cabinet' for interdisciplinary communication between natural social and legal sciences

Publications

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