Markus Rauchecker has been a research scientist at ISOE since August 2020 and works in the research unit Water Resources and Land Use. His research focuses on environmental governance and environmental conflicts between stakeholders with regard to the subject areas (transgenic) agriculture, land use and biodiversity. His analyses are based on concepts of policy analysis, political geography and political ecology. He received his doctorate in political science from the Free University of Berlin on conflicts over pesticide use in transgenic agriculture in Argentina. Prior to that, he studied political science, geography and history at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the Free University of Berlin.
Focus of research
- Environmental governance and conflicts
- Policy analysis, political geography and political ecology
- (transgenic) agriculture, land use and biodiversity
Projects
- Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
- CapTain Rain – Capture and retain heavy rainfalls in Jordan
- LIMO – Land Use and Integrated Modelling
- NamTip: Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points – A Namibian Perspective
- P-Net – Regional network for resource-efficient phosphorus recycling and management