David Kreuer
Project Assistant, Junior Research Group POLISES
Department Ecological Modelling (OESA)
Phone: +49 341 235 1705
Fax: +49 341 235 451705
Email: david.kreuer@ufz.de
Leipzig -> Building 1.0-1.3 -> Room 201
Research Interests
- empirical social-geographical fieldwork in the Middle East and North Africa
- topics: rural social change, development, youth studies, mountain and steppe pastoralism
- ongoing PhD project: understand socio-economic transformations and drought in eastern Morocco with the analytical help of actor-network theory
Academic Career
| 2015- |
Project Assistant, Junior Research Group POLISES Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig |
| 2011- |
PhD student, Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies University of Leipzig |
| 2008-2012 |
Research Assistant, Collaborative Research Center 586 ‘Difference and Integration’ University of Leipzig & UFZ Leipzig |
| 2006-2007 |
Student, Global Studies & Middle East Studies University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2005-2006 |
Student, Palestine and Arabic Studies & Computer Science Birzeit University |
| 2002-2008 |
M.A. student, Arabic and Middle East Studies & Computer Science University of Leipzig |
Publications
- Dressler, G., F. Hoffmann, I. Breuer, D. Kreuer, M. Mahdi, K. Frank & B. Müller (2018). Polarization in (post)nomadic resource use in Eastern Morocco: insights using a multi-agent simulation model. Regional Environmental Change.
- Gertel, J. & D. Kreuer (2018). Values. In Gertel, J. & R. Hexel (eds.): Coping with Uncertainty: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Saqi Books.
- Spengler, T., H. Dietrich, D. Kreuer & J. Gertel (2018). Appendix I: Methodology. In Gertel, J. & R. Hexel (eds.): Coping with Uncertainty: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Saqi Books.
- Gertel, J. & D. Kreuer (2017). Werte. In Gertel, J. & R. Hexel (eds.): Zwischen Ungewissheit und Zuversicht: Jugend im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika. Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf.
- Spengler, T., H. Dietrich, J. Gertel & D. Kreuer (2017). Methodik der Studie. In Gertel, J. & R. Hexel (eds.): Zwischen Ungewissheit und Zuversicht: Jugend im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika. Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf.
- Müller, B., L. Johnson & D. Kreuer (2017). Maladaptive outcomes of climate insurance in agriculture. Global Environmental Change 46.
- Müller, B. & D. Kreuer (2016). Ecologists Should Care about Insurance, too. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31(1).
- Kreuer, D. (2015). L’urbanisation en steppe. In Dupret, B., Z. Rhani, A. Boutaleb & J.-N. Ferrié (eds.): Le Maroc au présent : d'une époque à l'autre, une société en mutation. Casablanca: Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz.
- Müller, B., J. Schulze, D. Kreuer, A. Linstädter & K. Frank (2015). How to avoid unsustainable side effects of managing climate risk in drylands — The supplementary feeding controversy. Agricultural Systems 139.
- Kreuer, D. (2014). Ramallah: Formen des Widerstands. In Gertel, J. & R. Ouaissa (eds.): Jugendbewegungen: Städtischer Widerstand und Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Breuer, I., J. Gertel, D. Kreuer & J. Frische (2012). Landwirtschaftliche Existenzsicherung am Limit? In Gertel, J. & I. Breuer (eds.): Alltagsmobilitäten: Aufbruch marokkanischer Lebenswelten. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Kreuer, D. (2012). Wissensmobilität: Entwicklungsinterventionen und lokale Praxis marokkanischer Transhumanz. In Gertel, J. & I. Breuer (eds.): Alltagsmobilitäten: Aufbruch marokkanischer Lebenswelten. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Kreuer, D. (2011). Land Use Negotiation in Eastern Morocco. Nomadic Peoples 15(1).
- Breuer, I. & D. Kreuer (2011). Market Spaces in a Globalising Periphery: Livestock Trade, Borders, and Liberalisation in Eastern Morocco. In Gertel, J. & R. Le Heron (eds.): Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems: Markets and Livelihoods. Farnham: Ashgate.