AG Human Geography

Luise Werland

Research Fellow

Contact

Fortstraße 7, 76829 Landau
Building I, Room 3.28

E-Mail: luise.werland(at)rptu.de

 

Visiting hours:

please request an appointment via mail

Further Information

  • Environmental ethics
  • Qualitative research based on expert interviews
  • Actor-based conflict analysis
  • Human-wildlife-conflicts
    (e.g., the return of the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) to Germany)
  • Human-environment interactions and environmental conflicts
    (e.g., over wind and land)

11/2024 – today Research Fellow – Research Group Human Geography,
RPTU, Landau
05/2024 – 09/2024Research Fellow (Substitute) – Center of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research, 
University of Münster
10/2020 – 02/2021

Semester abroad – Máster en Biodiversidad Terrestre y Conservación en Islas,
Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife

09/2019 – 05/2024Master – Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation,
University of Greifswald
10/2015 – 09/20192-Subject Bachelor – Nature Conservation Biology & Philosophy,
University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau

 

Journal articles

2024

Schilling, Janpeter; Pinzón, Claudia; Froese, Rebecca; Figueroa, Diana; Villavicencio, Miguel; Werland, Luise; Schönenberg, Regine (2024): "All we have left is to defend our reserve": Social structures and community resistance to large-scale gold mining in the Manuripi Wildlife Reserve in northern Bolivia. In: The Extractive Industries and Society. vol. 20. pp. 1-11

2023

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2023): Facing Old and New Risks in Arid Environments: The Case of Pastoral Communities in Northern Kenya. In: PLOS Climate. vol. 2. no. 7. pp. 1-16.

2021 

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2021): 10 Jahre Arabischer Frühling - Wo steht Nordafrika heute?. In: Geographische Rundschau. no. 11. pp. 10-14.

 

Book chapters

2022

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2022): Klimawandel, Hitze, Aggression und Konflikte. In: Cohrs, Christopher; Knab, Nadine; Sommer, Gert (Hrsg.): Handbuch Friedenspsychologie.

2020

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2020): Interaction Between Wind Energy, Climate Vulnerability, and Violent Conflict in Northern Kenya. In: Brzoska, Michael; Scheffran, Jürgen: Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts. Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg. Hamburg University Press. pp. 67-81.

 

Other publications

2023

Pinzón, Claudia; Froese, Rebecca; Schilling, Janpeter; Figueroa, Diana; Werland, Luise; Schönenberg, Regine (2023): Environmental Peacebuilding und Goldabbau. Widerstand in einem Schutzgebiet in Bolivien. In: Wissenschaft und Frieden. vol. 41. no. 2. pp. 20-24.