The Global South in the Context of Economic Globalization
Global value chains, informal arrangements and flows of knowledge, envrionmental governance and management
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.
Development and Sustainability in the Global South
Land use change and conflicts, urban green and urban development, impacts of "South-South" connections
European City and Regional Development
Regional innovation systems, creative class and clusters, structural changes and deindustrialization, geographies of trade
Selection of third party funded research projects
Global South in the Context of Economic Globalization
- Household Futures project, combined farm/household survey - CRC228 (Phase II 2022 - 2025)
- The new silk road as ‘Beltscapes’: Duisburg, Darwin and the cities in between – DAAD (2020-2023)
- Between Enclaves and Integration - Chinese and African Special Economic Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa - DFG (2019-2024)
- Future in Chains: Socio Economic Impacts of Growth Corridors - DFG (2018-2025)
- Foreignization of Agricultural Land in Cotacachi, Ecuador - DAAD (2019-2023)
- "Information and communication technology in small scale business based agricultural value chains" - DFG (2014-2016)
- Digital Tech in African Agriculture
Development and Sustainability in the Global South
- Urban and peri-urban agriculture under rapid urban growth – towards a spatiotemporal understanding of urban and peri-urban agriculture (2015 - 2022)
- Thematic Network "Remapping the Global South - Natural and cultural heritage as new common" - DAAD (2015-2017)
- Summer School "Academic Writing in Global South Studies" - DAAD (2015)
- "Cross Regional Influences" und Akzeptanz bei Umweltmanagementstandards in Obst- und Gemüsewertschöpfungsketten - DFG (2009-2014)
- Partnerships for Sustainable Solutions Program: "Changing gender roles in Sub-Saharan horticultural family farming" - BMBF (2013)
- Beyond the Domesticated and Wild Divide: Plant Biology and the Politics of Nutrition - BiPoN (2020-2023)