Former Team Members
David Kreuer
INTERNAS project
Department Ecological Modelling (OESA)
Phone: +49 341 6025 1112
Email: david.kreuer@ufz.de
Leipzig -> Building 1.0-1.3 -> Room 343a
Research interests
- methods of knowledge transfer in environmental policy
- empirical social-geographical fieldwork in the Middle East and North Africa
- topics: rural social change, development, youth studies, mountain and steppe pastoralism
- dissertation: understand socio-economic transformations and drought in eastern Morocco with the analytical help of actor-network theory
Academic career
| 2022- |
Postdoc, Institute for Geography University of Leipzig |
| 2020-2022 |
Postdoc, INTERNAS project Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig |
| 2015-2019 |
Project Assistant, Junior Research Group POLISES UFZ Leipzig |
| 2011-2019 |
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 |
Recent publications
- Gertel, J., Kreuer, D. (2021):
The impact of the pandemic on young people: a survey among "Young Leaders" in the Middle East and North Africa
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Tunisia Office, La Marsa, 22 pp. - Steger, C., Klein, J.A., Reid, R.S., Lavorel, S., Tucker, C., Hopping, K.A., Marchant, R., Teel, T., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Dorji, T., Greenwood, G., Huber, R., Kassam, K.-A., Kreuer, D., Nolin, A., Russell, A., Sharp, J.L., Šmid Hribar, M., Thorn, J.P.R., Grant, G., Mahdi, M., Moreno, M., Waiswa, D. (2021):
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work
Glob. Environ. Change 68 , art. 102240 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102240 - Will, M., Dressler, G., Kreuer, D., Thulke, H.-H., Grêt‐Regamey, A., Müller, B. (2021):
How to make socio‐environmental modelling more useful to support policy and management?
People Nat. 3 (3), 560 - 572 10.1002/pan3.10207 - Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K.E., Moreno Soares, T., Munoz, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021):
Es geht um unsere Lebensgrundlage: Wie wir jetzt handeln können, um die globalen Gemeingüter Biodiversität, Wälder und Meere für eine lebenswerte Zukunft zu erhalten
UFZ-Bericht 2/2021
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 15 S. - Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K., Moreno Soares, T., Muñoz Escobar, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021):
Transformative change for a sustainable management of global commons — biodiversity, forests and the ocean. Recommendations for international cooperation based on a review of global assessment reports and project experience
UFZ Report 3/2021
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, 154 pp. 10.57699/7s83-7z35 - Müller, B., Hoffmann, F., Heckelei, T., Müller, C., Hertel, T.W., Polhill, J.G., van Wijk, M., Achterbosch, T., Alexander, P., Brown, C., Kreuer, D., Ewert, F., Ge, J., Millington, J.D.A., Seppelt, R., Verburg, P.H., Webber, H. (2020):
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale
Glob. Environ. Change 63 , art. 102085 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102085 - Dressler, G., Hoffmann, F., Breuer, I., Kreuer, D., Mahdi, M., Frank, K., Müller, B. (2019):
Polarization in (post)nomadic resource use in Eastern Morocco: insights using a multi-agent simulation model
Reg. Envir. Chang. 19 (2), 489 - 500 10.1007/s10113-018-1412-9 - Kreuer, D. (2019):
Notions of drought. Nomadic economy and tribal community in eastern Morocco
Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Geschichte, Kunst- und Orientwissenschaften
198 pp.