Dr. Jennie Barron PhD
Agriculture, water management, ecosystem services, agro-ecological landscape change and transformation in sub Sahara Africa, South Asia
Agriculture
Resource economics, institutional economics, agricultural economics, governance research, commons research
Agricultural and environmental political analysis
Environmental and resource economics
Resilience of socio-ecological systems
Institutions and natural resources
Participation and rural development
Geopolitics and cross-border natural resources
Behavioural theory and theory of collective action
Development of methods and analysis of institutions
Land and water management
Participation in the ProFiL interuniversity programme for female academics on the way to a professorship (Professionalisation of women in research and teaching), 2011 – 2012
Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research visit to the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (Prof. Elinor Ostrom), Bloomington, Indiana University, USA, 2005
Nomination of the "Institutional Constraints for Multiple Use of Water in Bulgaria" case study as a 2005 PRODWAT case study by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2005
ACE Phare grant from the EU for the Sustainable Agriculture in Central and Eastern European Countries seminar: the Environmental Effects of Transition and Needs for Change, in Nitra, Slovakia, 2001
Hans H. Ruthenberg graduate research award from the Eiselen Foundation, Ulm, Germany, 2000
Scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation to collect data for the Diploma Thesis within the framework of the interdisciplinary study project "Rural Transformation in Northern Vietnam. Impact on agriculture, institutions and gender", 1999
English, German
Dufhues, T., Theesfeld, I. and G. Buchenrieder (2014). The Political Economy of Decentralization in Thailand: How Past and Present Decentralization Affects rural Actors’ Participation European Journal of Development Research. doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2014.68
Prazan, J. and I. Theesfeld (2014). The role of agri-environmental contracts in saving biodiversity in the post-socialist Czech Republic. International Journal of the Commons, 8(1): 1-25.
Theesfeld, I. and A. MacKinnon (2014). Giving birds a starting date: The curious social solution to a water resource issue in the U.S. West. Ecological Economics, 97(0): 110-119.
Sandberg, A., Theesfeld, I. Schlüter, A., Penov, I. and V. Dirimanova (2013). Commons in a changing Europe. International Journal of the Commons, 7(1): 1-6.
Theesfeld, I. and C. Schleyer (2013). Germany’s Light Version of Integrated Water Resource Management. Environmental Policy and Governance, 23(2): 130-144.
Schmidt, O., Theesfeld, I. (2012). Elite Capture in Local Fishery Management. Post-socialist Experiences from Albania. In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology (IJARGE), 9(3/4): 103-120.
Bues, A. and I. Theesfeld (2012). Water Grabbing and the Role of Power: Shifting Water Governance in the Light of Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment. Water Alternatives, 5(2): 266-263.
Labar, K, Dirimanova, V. and I. Theesfeld (2012). The Role of Bulgaria’s Extension Service in Supporting the CAP. Outlook on Agriculture, 41(1): 21-25.
Schleyer, C. and I. Theesfeld (2011). Agrar- und Umweltpolitiken aus institutioneller Sicht: eine Ex-ante Methode zur Politikbewertung. German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 60(3): 186-199
Theesfeld, I.(2011). Perceived Power Resources in Situations of Collective Action. In: Water Alternatives 4(1): 86-103.
KULUNDA – How to prevent the next "Global Dust Bowl"? Ecological and Economic Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the Russian Steppes: A Potential Solution to Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Project
German Research Foundation (DFG) project: Institutional analysis of decentralisation and options of stakeholders for participation in agro-rural policy design
German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) project: Water as a geo-resource and the challenge of global change. Study on institutional requirements for integrated resource management in Germany
Climate change and development project for the German Institute of Developmental Policy: Best practice adaptation strategies of water bureaucracies in developed countries
SEAMLESS (System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling; Linking European Science and Society) project, funded by the EU's 6th Research Framework Programme
CEESA (Sustainable Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe) project, funded by the EU's 5th Research Framework Programme
Council member of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), www.iasc-commons.org, 2013 – 2018
Steering Committee of the KULUNDA project “Kulunda – How to prevent the next Global Dust Bowl? – Ecological and Economic Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the Russian Steppes", 2011 – 2016
Scientific board, 3rd European IASC Conference held in Umeå, Sweden, 2014 Appointed member of the “SES-Club” founded by Prof. Elinor Ostrom, since 2012
Chair of the European IASC Conference 2011 (International Association for the Study of the Commons)
Member of the climate adaptation working group, senate of German federal research institutes within the operational division of the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV), since 2010
Member of the organising committee for the IAMO Forum 2010 Institutions in Transition: Challenges for New Modes of Governance, 16th – 18th June 2010, Halle, Germany
Creation and coordination of the "New Challenges for the Management of Shared Water Resources" research group, in conjunction with the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, Indiana University, USA, since 2008
Scientific advisory board of the PONA junior research group in socio-ecology (Policies on Shaping Nature), 2008 – 2011
Active member of the NIÖ network (New Institutional Economics in Northeastern Germany), since 2006. Organiser of the 2009 network meeting in Halle, Germany
Academic review committee, XI Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bali, Indonesia, 18th – 23rd June 2006
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Agriculture, water management, ecosystem services, agro-ecological landscape change and transformation in sub Sahara Africa, South Asia
Agriculture, Field Agricultural sciences: Area of specialization: food science
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Food Science and TechnologyPostharvest Pathology
Agriculture, Agricultural and food economics, economics of developing countries