Dr. Judith Bopp

Judith Bopp joined ISOE as an associate research scientist in November 2023 with her project “Fostering the health-nutrition-ecology nexus. Organic farming practices and household resilience in rural Bangladesh and Thailand” (DFG research grant 2023–2026). She investigates how rural smallholder households improve their resilience to overlapping social-ecological crises through adopting organic farming practices. 

She is currently a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society RCC in Munich. She received her PhD in Human Geography from University of Cologne through her empirical research “New momentum to Bangkok’s organic food movement: interspersed scenes lead by mindful pioneers” in 2016.

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Research focus 

• Organic farming
• Food-health-environment nexus
• Smallholder household resilience
• Transdisciplinary research 

Ongoing projects

• Fostering the health-nutrition-ecology nexus. Organic farming practices and household resilience in rural Bangladesh and Thailand DFG Research Grant Programme

Selected publications

Suteethorn, K. and Bopp, J. (2022): Tourism Without Governance: WWOOF. In: Gohar, A. (ed.) Tourism Governance: A Critical Discourse on a Global Industry. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin, Boston, pp. 301-320. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110638141-018

Bopp, J. and Bercht, A.L. (2021): Considering time in climate justice. Geographica Helvetica 76, 29–46. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-29-2021

Bopp, J. (2020): Local notions of alternative practices: Organic food movements in Bangkok, Thailand and Chennai, India. Sustainability, 12(5), 1952. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12051952

Bopp, J. (2019): Civil stakeholder engagement for healthy food and mindful living in Bangkok. Urbana 20, 1-12. https://www.urbanauapp.org/2019-volume-xx/

Bopp, J. (2016): New momentum to Bangkok's organic food movement: interspersed scenes led by mindful pioneers. Dissertation, University of Cologne. http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/6935/

Bopp, J. (2012): Die Architektur der grands ensembles – räumliche und soziale Aspekte einer französischen Großwohnsiedlung der 1960er Jahre. Europa regional, 18(4), 150-162. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-314894

Bopp, J., De Wolff, K. A. (2012): The Elbphilharmonie-Project in discussion – critical voices from Hamburg (A short insight into the current local debate). Risco. Revista de Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Urbanismo 15(1), 117-121. http://www.iau.usp.br/revista_risco/Risco15-pdf/07_cor03b_risco15.pdf