Former Research Projects

  • CUBE: Bioeconomy and Territorial Development in Cuba: Opportunities for local agriculture (Cuba, BMBF), 01.07.2021 - 30.06.2023
  • SuMo Rhine: Sustainable Mobility in the Upper Rhine Region (Germany, Switzerland, France, INTERREG)
  • InterMod: Valuing and Optimizing intermodal travel routes (Carl-Zeiss)
  • Process-based and Resilience-Oriented management of DIversity Generates sustainabilitY (PRODIGY 1.0)”, BMBF-funded seed grant (Program BioTip) headed by the University of Koblenz-Landau (Jungkunst / Frör) with partners Berlin (FU), Hamburg, Hannover, Kassel, Bonn, Laufzeit 1.6.2016 – 31.05.2018
  • “Machbarkeitsstudie Russenweiher“, Projekt gefördert von der Aktion Blau PLUS RLP in Kooperation mit der Stadt Speyer, 1.1.2017 – 31.12.2018
  • Water salinization and its ecological and socioeconomic impacts in the arid Moroccan Draa basin: implications for the sustainable management of freshwater resources (SALIDRAA)”, funded by das BMBF (FKZ 01DH17002), 1.2.2017 – 31.7.2018
  • »Transfer of the results of the INTERREG project Clim'Ability to the context of Rhineland-Palatinate«, project funded by the Comptetence Center for Climate Change Consequences Rhineland-Palatinate, 05.2016 - 12.2018
  • Clim’Ability: Climate change adaptation strategies for firms in the Upper Rhine region«, EU-funded project (INTERREG-V) led by INSA Strasbourg,, 1.1.2016 – 31.12.2018
  • Upper Rhine Cluster for Sustainability Research«, EU-funded project (INTERREG-V) led by University of Basel, 1.1.2016 – 31.12.2018 more information
  • »Development of a concept for the mosquito treatments in the Upper Rhine Valley that is in conformity with nature protection« (AZ 32608/01-33), project funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung für Umwelt (DBU), 2015 -2017
  • Wiesenbewässerung - eine produktive Bewirtschaftungsform mit hohem Wert für Mensch und Natur«, project funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), 2013-2016. more information
  • Umweltökonomische Bewertung innerstädtischer Gewässerentwicklungsprojekte im Rahmen der Aktion Blau Plus am Beispiel Bad Bergzabern“, gefördert durch das Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie, Ernährung und Forsten (MUEEF) Rheinland-Pfalz, 1.11.2016 – 15.1.2019
  • »Analysis and evaluation of network structures for climate change adaptation in Rhineland-Palatinate«, project funded by the Comptetence Center for Climate Change Consequences Rhineland-Palatinate, 12.2015 - 06.2016
  • »Possibilities and constraints of assessing the social value of river rehabilitation measures in monetary units - the example of the Queich and Wied«, project funded by the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture, Nutrition, Winery and Forestry Rhineland-Palatinate, June 2014 - September 2015 more information
  • »Welfare economic valuation of sustainable rubber production in Southeast Asia: an exemplary study in SW-China«, research project SP7 within the Sino-German research cooperation »Sustainable Rubber Cultivation in the Mekong Region - Development of an integrative land-use concept in Yunnan Province, China (SURUMER)« financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2011-2016. 
  • »Contingent Valuation of a more sustainable oasis management in the Tarim Basin«, research project within the German-Chinese Scientific Cooperation »Sustainable Management of River Oases along the Tarim River / China« (SuMaRiO), financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2011-2016. 
  • »Economic Risk Analysis and Valuation«, research project 6.1 within the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research project »Sustainable Coastal Land Management: Trade-Offs in Ecosystem Services (COMTESS)« financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2011-2014. more information
  • »Optimizing the use of direct methods for environmental valuation in northern Thailand and Vietnam«, Research project within the International Collaborative Research Center No. 564 of the German Science Foundation on »Sustainable Landuse and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia«, 2009-2012. More information
  • »Employing direct and participatory valuation methods to support allocation decisions in the environmental sector«, research project within the German-Chinese Scientific Cooperation »Rural development and land use differentiation: actor-based strategies and integrative technologies for rural areas in mountainous Southwest China«, 2007-2010. More information
  • »Economic valuation of environmental improvements in northern Thailand and northern Vietnam«, Research project within the International Collaborative Research Center No. 564 of the German Science Foundation on »Sustainable Landuse and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia«, 2006-2009. More information
  • »Valuation and tenure of common-pool resources in mountainous regions of Thailand and Vietnam«, Research project within the International Collaborative Research Center No. 564 of the German Science Foundation on »Sustainable Landuse and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia«, 2003-2006. More information
  • »Economic Valuation of Changes in Environmental Quality«, Research project within the Collaborative Research Center No. 565 of the German Science Foundation on »Development and Valuation of Disturbed Landscapes«, 2001-2003. More information
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