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Causes of bush encroachment on freehold and communal land in Namibia
Katja Brinkmann, Markus Rauchecker, Diego A. Menestrey
2025
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Katja Brinkmann has been a research scientist at ISOE since 2019. Since April 2023, she has been head of the Social-Ecological Systems hub together with Stefan Liehr. She habilitated at the University of Kassel where she was dealing with land-use changes and their effects on ecosystem services and related functions in the tropics and subtropics. Previously, she had studied Forest and Environmental Sciences at the University of Freiburg and had received her PhD for her doctoral thesis on the “Effects of management changes on traditionally used Grassland in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania”.
Research focus
- Participatory modelling of social-ecological interactions
- Land-use changes
Publications
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- Brinkmann, Katja, Markus Rauchecker, Diego A. Menestrey (2025): Causes of bush encroachment on freehold and communal land in Namibia. Potsdam u. a.: NamTip consortium
- Brinkmann, Katja, Clara Hohmann, Christina Maus, Ahmad Awad, Markus Rauchecker (2024): Integrated flood vulnerability analysis and assessment for Amman. Frankfurt am Main et al.: CapTainRain Project Consortium
- Rauchecker, Markus, Katja Brinkmann, Ahmad Awad (2024): Stakeholder analysis. Structural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan. CapTainRain Project Consortium
- Rauchecker, Markus, Katja Brinkmann, Ahmad Awad (2024): Structural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan. Frankfurt am Main et al.: CapTainRain Project Consortium
- Brinkmann, Katja (2024): Vulnerability assessment for Amman. In: CapTainRain Project Consortium (Ed.): . Frankfurt am Main et al.: CapTainRain Project Consortium
- Brinkmann, Katja, Diego A. Menestrey Schwieger, Lena Grieger, Sara Heshmati, Markus Rauchecker (2023): How and why do rangeland changes and their underlying drivers differ across Namibia's two major land-tenure systems?. The Rangeland Journal 45 (3), 123–139. DOI: 10.1071/RJ23007
- Kuhn, David, Thomas Fickel, Markus Rauchecker, Diana Hummel, Katja Brinkmann, Stefanie Burkhart, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Thomas Friedrich, Luca Nitschke (2023): Natur im Konflikt. Konzeptualisierungen des Nichtmenschlichen in der Forschung zu Umweltkonflikten. ISOE-Diskussionspapiere, 48. Frankfurt am Main: ISOE - Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung
- Awad, Ahmad, Clara Hohmann, Katja Brinkmann (2022): Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Urbanization and its Impacts on Flash Flood Risk: A Case Study from Jordan's Wadi System. In: Tielkes, Eric (Ed.): Can agroecological farming feed the world? Book of Abstracs. Cuvillier Verlag, 588
- Brinkmann, Katja, Daniel Kübler, Stefan Liehr, Andreas Bürkert (2021): Agent-based modelling of the social-ecological nature of poverty traps in southwestern Madagascar. Agricultural Systems 190, 103125. DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103125
- Männer, Florian A., Lisa-Maricia Schwarz, Diego A. Menestrey Schwieger, Vistorina Amputu, Mark C. Bilton, Katja Brinkmann, Gunnar Dressler, Ndamonenghenda Hamunyela, Hendrik Heita, Sara Heshmati, Stefan Liehr, Meed Mbidzo, Faith Munyebvu-Chambara, Wellencia Carla Nesongano, Markus Rauchecker, Alexandra Sandhage-Hofmann, Katja Tielbörger, Klaus Zimmer, Anja Linstädter (2021): An Integrated Framework to Study Ecological Tipping Points in Social-Ecological Systems
- Ellison, James, Katja Brinkmann, Rodrigue V. Cao Diogo, Andreas Bürkert (2021): Land cover transitions and effects of transhumance on available forage biomass of rangelands in Benin. Environment, Development and Sustainability, DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01947-3
- Brinkmann, Katja, Stefan Liehr, Lena Bickel (2021): Rangeland Management in Namibia in the Face of Looming Desertification: Insights from the Freehold Farmers' Perspective. In: National Organizing Committee of 2021 IGC/IRC Congress (Ed.): International Grassland Congress Proceedings
- Frick-Trzebitzky, Fanny, Katja Brinkmann, Katharina Koböck, Stefan Liehr, Thomas Fickel (2021): Sozial-ökologische Konfliktanalyse zur Deichsanierung entlang der Weschnitz zwischen Biblis und Einhausen. ISOE-Materialien Soziale Ökologie, 64. Frankfurt am Main: ISOE - Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung
- Konersmann, Cathlin, Fanambinantsoa Noromiarilanto, Yedidya R. Ratovonamana, Katja Brinkmann, Kai Jensen, Susanne Kobbe, Michael Köhl, Daniel Kübler, Petra Lahann, Kim J. E. Steffens, Jörg U. Ganzhorn (2021): Using Utilitarian Plants for Lemur Conservation. International Journal of Primatology, DOI: 10.1007/s10764-021-00200-y
- Brinkmann, Katja, Ellen Hoffmann, Andreas Bürkert (2020): Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Urban Wetlands in an Indian Megacity over the Past 50 Years. remote sensing 12 (4), 662. DOI: 10.3390/rs12040662
Current Publications
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Causes of bush encroachment on freehold and communal land in Namibia -
Integrated flood vulnerability analysis and assessment for Amman Infosheet WPIntegrated flood vulnerability analysis and assessment for Amman
Katja Brinkmann et al.
2024Available online
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Stakeholder analysis. Structural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan Stakeholder analysis. Structural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan
Markus Rauchecker, Katja Brinkmann, Ahmad Awad
2024Available online
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Structural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan InfosheetStructural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan
Markus Rauchecker, Katja Brinkmann, Ahmad Awad
2024Available online
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Vulnerability assessment for Amman Vulnerability assessment for Amman
Katja Brinkmann
2024Available online
