Publications in the last 4 years

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2025

Gisevius, K., Niesters, L.-M. & B. Braun (2025), The role of community leadership in building community adaptive capacity to coastal hazards – Insights from neighborhood networks in Semarang, Indonesia. Environmental Science and Policy 163 (2025) 103963, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103963

2024

Gisevius, K., Niesters, L.-M., Larasati, A. & B. Braun (2024), Local and translocal social capital in flood adaptation: evidence from Indonesian coastal communities. Environmental Hazards 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2024.2424310

Follmann, A., Dannenberg, P., Baur, N., Braun, B., Walther, G., Bernzen, A., Börner, J., Brüntrup,M., Franz, M., Götz, L., Hornidge, A.-K., Hulke, C., Jaghdani, T. J., Krishnan, A., Kulke, E., Labucay, I., Nduru, G. M., Neise,T., Priyadarshini, P., Diez, J. R., Ruett, J., Scheller, C., Spengler, T. & E. Sulle (2024), Conceptualizing sustainability and resilience in value chains in times of multiple crises – Notes on agri-food chains. Die Erde 155 (1) https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2024-692

Dannenberg, P., Braun, B., Greiner, C., Follmann, A., Haug, M., Yuwono, P.S.H., Stetter, M., Widlok, T. & S. Kopriva (2024), Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security. Plants People Planet 2024, 1-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10492

Braun, B. & S. A. Issaka (2024), Küstenerosion im Südosten von Ghana. Migration und soziale Netzwerke als Anpassung an dynamische Umweltveränderungen. geographische Rundschau 76 (12) 20-25.

Braun, B. & T. B. Winkler (2024), Soundscapes in Natur- und Landschaftsschutzgebieten: Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen im Ballungsraum Köln-Düsseldorf. Natur in NRW 1/2024, 31-36.

2023

Gröne, K., Mayer, I. & B. Braun (2023), Living wages and living incomes in fair supply chains? A critical review. Die Erde 153 (3), 73-79. doi.org/10.12854/erde-2023-711

Al-Maruf, A., Jenkins, J.C., Bernzen, A. & B. Braun (2023), Human capital as a turnkey resource in resilience to cyclones and storm surges: Empirical evidence from coastal Bangladesh. Marine Pollution Bulletin 197, 115721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115721

Lawhon, M., Follmann, A., Braun, B., Cornea, N., Greiner, C.; Guma, P., Karpouzoglou, T., Revilla Diez, J.,  Schindler, S., Schramm, S., Sielker, F., Tups, G., Vij, S. & P. Dannenberg (2023), Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south. Futures 154 (2023) 103270. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103270

Bernzen, A., Sohns, F., Jia, Y. & B. Braun (2023), Crop diversification as a household livelihood strategy under environmental stress. Factors contributing to the adoption of crop diversification in shrimp cultivation and agricultural crop farming zones of coastal Bangladesh. Land Use Policy 132,  106796. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106796

Braun, B. (2023), Natursportarten – rämliche Wirkungen und Konflikte. In: Gans, P., Horn, M. & C. Zemann (Hrsg.): Sportgeographie. Ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Perspektiven. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, 37-48.

Braun, B. & F. Haensch (2023), Schneller, höher, ökologischer? Die Auswirkungen von Sportgroßveranstaltungen wie den Olympischen Spielen auf Natur und Umwelt. In: Gans, P., Horn, M. & C. Zemann (Hrsg.): Sportgeographie. Ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Perspektiven. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, 119-136.

Braun, B. & C. Schulz (2023), Umwelt. In: Suwala, L. (Hrsg.): Schlüsselbegriffe der  Wirtschaftsgeographie. Stuttgart: Ulmer, 322-377.

Nirwansyah, A.W., Braun, B., Demirdag & I. Suwarno (2023), Method for economic loss estimation in traditional coastal salt farming towards tidal inundation. MethodsX 10, 102176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102176

2022

Ruett, J., Hennes, L., Teubler, J. & B. Braun (2022), How Compatible Are Western European Dietary Patterns to Climate Targets? Accounting for Uncertainty of Life Cycle Assessments by Applying a Probabilistic Approach. Sustainability 2022, 14, 14449. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114449

Nirwansyah, A.W., Braun, B. & F. Ramdani (2022), Salt for living: sustainable practice of salt harvesting in the Cirebonese community and its threat by coastal hazard. In: Chatterjee, U., Kashyap, A., Everad, M., Panda, G.K. & D. Mahata, eds., Indigenous People and Nature. Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability. Amsterdam, Oxford, Cambridge: Elsevier, 577-592. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91603-5.00006-3

Research Interests

Environmental economic geography, environmental management, industrial and urban change; environmental and social impacts of globalization, economic and social aspects of natural hazards; Southern Asia (mainly India and Bangladesh), West Afrika, Indonesia, Australia, Germany and Western Europe
 

University Education

Diploma (1992), PhD (1994) and Habilitation (2001) at the University of Bonn

Professional Career

Since January 2008
University professor (W3) for Human and Economic Geography, Department of Geography, University of Cologne
April 2003 – December 2007
University professor (C4) for Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Bamberg
April 2002 - March 2003
University professor (fixed-term contract) for Economic Geography, Faculty of Economics, University of Mannheim
September 1995 – March 2003
Assistant professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Department of Geography, University of Bonn
February 1992 – August 1995
Research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter), Department of Geography, University of Bonn

Other Responsibilities:

• Member of the Review Board for geography, Germany Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG)

• Chairman d of the German Association of Geographers

• Head of the Cologne Graduate School of Geoscienes (GSGS)

• Speaker of the Natural Science Graduate Schools, University of Cologne

• PI in the Global South Study Center (GSSC), Cologne

• Chairman of the Examination Board of the teacher education program (BAGG + MEd), University of Cologne

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association of Australian Studies (GASt)

• Member of Advisory Board of "Zeitschrift für Australienstudien (ZfA)"

• Book series KOALAS - memer of editorial board

• Book series "Wirtschaftsgeographie“ (Lit-Verlag) – member of editorial board

• ‘Vertrauensdozent’ (tutor) – Heinrich Böll Foundation

• Member of the DAAD selection committee for scholarships

• Referee for various national and international research foundations and several national and international journals