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Research Areas

The working group Human Geography - Urban and Regional Development is led by Prof. Dr. Peter Dannenberg. The working group focuses on three closely related research domains, which are represented in thrid party funded research projects and teaching.

The Global South in the Context of Economic Globalization

Global value chains, informal arrangements and flows of knowledge, envrionmental governance and management

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Development and Sustainability in the Global South

Land use change and conflicts, urban green and urban development, impacts of "South-South" connections

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European City and Regional Development

Regional innovation systems, creative class and clusters, structural changes and deindustrialization, geographies of trade

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Selection of third party funded research projects

2026 – 2029Digital Agrarian Futures - DFG CRC228 (Phase III)
2026 – 2029Combined Farm & Household Survey - DFG CRC228 (Phase III)
2026 – 2029Future in Chains: Socio Economic Impacts of Growth Corridors - DFG CRC228 (Phase III)
2024 – 2027Digital practices of e-waste businesses in the Global South - The case of Cape Town in South Africa
2023 – 2027Rhetoric and Realities: New Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative in Western Economies
2023 – 2025Integration und Prekarisierung – Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten im Onlinehandel nach der Pandemie
2022 – 2025Future in Chains: Socio Economic Impacts of Growth Corridors - DFG CRC228 (Phase II)
2022 – 2025Combined Farm & Household Survey - DFG CRC228 (Phase II)
2020 – 2025Small and Smart? Digitalisierung in deutschen Mittelstädten
2019 – 2024Between Enclaves and Integration - Chinese and African Special Economic Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa - DFG
2020 – 2023Beyond the Domesticated and Wild Divide: Plant Biology and the Politics of Nutrition - BiPoN
2020 – 2023The new silk road as ‘Beltscapes’: Duisburg, Darwin and the cities in between – DAAD
2020 – 2023(Räumliche) Beschäfftigungseffekte zunehmenden Online-Handels – Hans Böckler Stiftung
2019 – 2023Foreignization of Agricultural Land in Cotacachi, Ecuador - DAAD
2020 – 2022(Räumliche) Beschäftigungseffekte zunehmenden Online-Handels – Hans Böckler Stiftung
2015 – 2022Urban and peri-urban agriculture under rapid urban growth – towards a spatiotemporal understanding of urban and peri-urban agriculture 
2018 – 2021Future in Chains: Socio Economic Impacts of Growth Corridors - DFG CRC228 (Phase I)
2015 – 2017Thematic Network "Remapping the Global South - Natural and cultural heritage as new common" - DAAD
2014 – 2016Information and communication technology in small scale business based agricultural value chains - DFG
2015Summer School "Academic Writing in Global South Studies" - DAAD
2009 – 2014"Cross Regional Influences" und Akzeptanz bei Umweltmanagementstandards in Obst- und Gemüsewertschöpfungsketten - DFG
2013Partnerships for Sustainable Solutions Program: "Changing gender roles in Sub-Saharan horticultural family farming" - BMBF