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Stakeholders’ conflicting orders and classifications of the environment and land use as drivers of environmental conflicts
Markus Rauchecker et al.
2026
Markus Rauchecker has been a research scientist at ISOE since August 2020. 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.
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Focus of research
- Environmental governance
- Environmental conflicts
- Natural resource management, land use and agriculture
- Policy analysis, political geography and political ecology
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- Kuhn, David, Markus Rauchecker (2026): Natur als Konfliktpartei – Umweltkonflikte als sozial-ökologische Konflikte verstehen. ISOE-Blog Soziale Ökologie. https://www.isoe.de/blog/natur-als-konfliktpartei-umweltkonflikte-als-sozial-oekologische-konflikte-verstehen
- Kuhn, David, Markus Rauchecker (2026): Social-ecological conflicts: conceptualising other-than-humans as conflict parties. From actors to coalitions: advancing a social-ecological conflict perspective beyond anthropocentrism. POLLEN Blog. https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/social-ecological-conflicts-conceptualising-other-than-humans-as-conflict-parties/
- Muche, Svea, Markus Rauchecker, Stefan Liehr (2026): Bush thinning and use – A solution for rangeland management and energy production?. NamTip Factsheet 15. Potsdam, Bonn, Tübingen, Cologne, Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Windhoek: NamTip consortium
- Rauchecker, Markus, Henry Schubert, Grischa Brokamp, Andrés Caballero-Calvo (2026): Stakeholders’ conflicting orders and classifications of the environment and land use as drivers of environmental conflicts. Geoforum 172, 104591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104591
- Brinkmann, Katja, Markus Rauchecker, Diego A. Menestrey (2025): Causes of bush encroachment on freehold and communal land in Namibia. NamTip Factsheet 5. Potsdam u. a.: NamTip consortium
- Brinkmann, Katja, Markus Rauchecker, Martina Winker, Dörte Ziegler (2025): Flash flood management in arid and data-scarce countries: Lessons learnt from Jordan. ISOE Policy Brief 11. Frankfurt am Main. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16950157
- Brinkmann, Katja, Markus Rauchecker, Martina Winker, Dörte Ziegler, Clara Hohmann (2025): Sturzflutmanagement in ariden und datenarmen Ländern. Erkenntnisse aus einem dreijährigen Forschungsprojekt in Jordanien. gwf-Wasser/Abwasser International 166 (12), 67–72
- Brinkmann, Katja, Markus Rauchecker, Dörte Ziegler, Martina Winker (2025): Stakeholder dialogue and transdisciplinary integration. In: Brinkmann, Katja, Dörte Ziegler (Ed.): Capture and retain heavy rainfalls in Jordan. Findings of a transdisciplinary German-Jordanian research project. Frankfurt am Main, 14–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16894182
- Britsch, Marlen, Markus Rauchecker, Katja Brinkmann, Stefan Liehr (2025): Collaboration and Collective Learning to Sustain Freehold Farms. NamTip Factsheet 13. Potsdam, Bonn, Tübingen, Cologne, Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Windhoek: NamTip consortium
- Grieger, Lena, Katja Brinkmann, Markus Rauchecker, Stefan Liehr (2025): Desertification as a Social–Ecological Trap: How Does It Come About and What Are Namibian Freehold Farmers Doing About It?. Land 14 (5), 1016. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14051016
- Rauchecker, Markus, David Kuhn, Diana Hummel, Thomas Fickel, Thomas Friedrich, Katja Brinkmann, Stefanie Burkhart, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Luca Nitschke (2025): Social-ecological conflicts: An emancipatory conceptual approach by bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251384764
- Brinkmann, Katja, Clara Hohmann, Christina Maus, Ahmad Awad, Markus Rauchecker (2024): Integrated flood vulnerability analysis and assessment for Amman. Infosheet WP 5. Frankfurt am Main et al.: CapTainRain Project Consortium
- Dockhorn, Thomas, Andreas Kolb, Hooman Mohammadi, Paul Keßeler, Sylvia Kratz, Elke Bloem, Joachim Clemens, Martina Winker, Jonathan Pillen, Markus Rauchecker, Michaela Rohrbach, Engelbert Schramm, Stefanie Meyer, Christoph Siemers, Franziska Gromadecki, Janina Heinze, Hans-Oskar Baron, Johannes Müller-Schaper, Oliver Hermanussen (2024): Aufbau eines Netzwerks zum ressourceneffizienten Phosphor-Recycling und -Management in der Region Harz und Heide - Erfahrungen aus dem Verbundprojekt P-Net. Gewässerschutz - Wasser - Abwasser 257. Aachen: Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Instituts für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft an der RWTH Aachen, 57/1-57/15
- Douhaire, Caroline, Sylvia Kratz, Markus Rauchecker, Hans-Walter Schneichel, Engelbert Schramm, Onno Seitz, Martina Winker (2024): Herstellung und Inverkehrbringung von Struvitdünger rechtssicher gestalten. Diskussion aktueller rechtlicher Fragen. ISOE-Materialien Soziale Ökologie 75. Frankfurt am Main: ISOE - Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12939247
- Eisenberg, Bernd, Alfred Diem, Dörte Meinerling, Lara Rist, Markus Rauchecker, Engelbert Schramm (2024): Machbarkeitsstudie Regenwassertransfer Fellbach. Fellbach
- Geiβler, Katja, Niels Blaum, Graham P. Maltitz, Taylor Smith, Bodo Bookhagen, Heike Wanke, Martin Hipondoka, Eliakim Hamunyelae, Dirk Lohmann, Deike Lüdtke, Meed Mbidzo, Markus Rauchecker, Robert Hering, Katja Irob, Britta Tietjen, Arnim Marquart, Felix V. Skhosana, Tim Herkenrath, Shoopala Uugulu (2024): Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions in Southern African Savanna Rangelands: Threats, Impacts and Solutions. In: Maltitz, Graham P.von, Guy F. Midgley, Jennifer Veitch, Christian Brümmer, Reimund P. Rötter (Ed.): Ecological Studies 248. Cham: Springer, 407–438. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10948-5
- Hauptfleisch, Morgan, Niels Blaum, Stefan Liehr, Robert Hering, Ronja Kraus, Manjana Tausendfreund, Alice Cimenti, Deike Lüdtke, Markus Rauchecker, Kenneth Uiseb (2024): Trends and Barriers to Wildlife-Based Options for Sustainable Management of Savanna Resources: The Namibian Case. In: Maltitz, Graham P.von, Guy F. Midgley, Jennifer Veitch, Christian Brümmer, Reimund P. Rötter (Ed.): Ecological Studies 248. Cham: Springer, 499–525. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10948-5
- Rauchecker, Markus, Katja Brinkmann, Ahmad Awad (2024): Stakeholder analysis. Structural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan. 1. CapTainRain Project Consortium
- Rauchecker, Markus, Katja Brinkmann, Ahmad Awad (2024): Structural challenges for flash flood management in Jordan. Infosheet 1. CapTainRain Project Consortium
- Rauchecker, Markus, Engelbert Schramm, Jonathan Pillen, Franziska Gromadecki, Janina Heinze, Heinrich Ripke, Michaela Rohrbach, Martina Winker (2024): Transformation zu einer nachhaltigen regionalen Phosphor-Kreislaufwirtschaft durch den Aufbau von Struvitnetzwerken. ISOE-Materialien Soziale Ökologie 76. Frankfurt am Main: ISOE - Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13919962
- Blaum, Niels, Dirk Lohmann, Stefan Liehr, Deike Lüdtke, Markus Rauchecker, Ben Mapani, Morgan Hauptfleisch, Martin Hipondoka, Isaac Mapaure, Kenneth Uiseb (2023): Science-led perspectives to guide wildlife-based strategies of land use. Insights from a German-Namibian research cooperation. Factsheet 15. Frankfurt am Main et al.: ORYCS 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. https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ23007
- Irob, Katja, Britta Tietjen, Taylor Smith, Deike Lüdtke, Markus Rauchecker, Morgan Hauptfleisch (2023): Savanna response to management strategies. A simulation model approach with climatic extremes. Factsheet 6. Frankfurt am Main et al.: ORYCS Project Consortium
- 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
- Rauchecker, Markus, Alice Cimenti, Stefan Liehr (2023): How to bring knowledge and policies to farmers. Factsheet 14. Frankfurt am Main et al.: ORYCS Project Consortium
- Rauchecker, Markus, Engelbert Schramm, Jan Hendrik Trapp, Christian Stein, Michel Gunkel (2023): Konstellationen blau-grün-grauer Infrastruktur in der Klimaanpassung am Beispiel der Bewässerung von öffentlichem Grün. gwf-Wasser/Abwasser International 164 (1), 69–76
- Schramm, Engelbert, Jan Hendrik Trapp, Christian Stein, Markus Rauchecker (2023): Aufbau und Erhalt blau-grün-grauer Infrastrukturen für die kommunale Klimaanpassung. Fallbeispiele, Konstellationen und Kooperationsmanagement. netWORKS-Papers 39. Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik Difu
- Baquero-Melo, Jairo, Frank Müller, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura (Ed.) (2022): El posacuerdo en Colombia - Procesos situacionales: Temporalidad, territorio y materialidad. Bogotá D.C.: Editorial Universidad del Rosario
- Baquero-Melo, Jairo, Frank Müller, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura (2022): Presentación. In: Baquero-Melo, Jairo, Frank Müller, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura (Ed.): El posacuerdo en Colombia - Procesos situacionales: Temporalidad, territorio y materialidad. Bogotá D.C.: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, IX–XI. https://doi.org/10.12804/urosario9789587849820
- Baquero-Melo, Jairo, Frank Müller, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura (2022): Temporalidad, territorialidad y materialidad de procesos situacionales del posacuerdo en Colombia. In: Baquero-Melo, Jairo, Frank Müller, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura (Ed.): El posacuerdo en Colombia - Procesos situacionales: Temporalidad, territorio y materialidad. Bogotá D.C.: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 19–43. https://doi.org/10.12804/urosario9789587849820
- Kerber, Heide, Markus Rauchecker, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky (2022): Social ecology meets political ecology: A chance to gain new perspectives?. ISOE Blog Soziale Ökologie. Krise - Kritik - Gestaltung. https://www.isoe.de/en/blog/social-ecology-meets-political-ecology
- Rauchecker, Markus (2022): The role of plant characteristics in environmental conflicts. ISOE Blog Soziale Ökologie. Krise - Kritik - Gestaltung. https://www.isoe.de/en/blog/the-role-of-plant-characteristics-in-environmental-conflicts
- Rauchecker, Markus, Andrés Salcedo Fidalgo (2022): Presencia diferenciada del Estado y gestión de usos del suelo en conflicto en el sur de Bogotá D.C. In: Baquero-Melo, Jairo, Frank Müller, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura (Ed.): El posacuerdo en Colombia - Procesos situacionales: Temporalidad, territorio y materialidad. Bogotá D.C.: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 177–210. https://doi.org/10.12804/urosario9789587849820
- 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. International Grassland Congress Proceedings
- Rauchecker, Markus (2021): Transgenic soy as a political crop and a resistance crop in Argentina - The struggle around control and rent appropriation between the state, seed corporations and soy farmers. Geoforum, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.09.002
- Brinkmann, Katja, Markus Rauchecker, Stefan Liehr, Lena Grieger: Desertification as interlinked crisis situations and freehold farmers responses. NamTip Factsheet 12. Potsdam u. a.: NamTip consortium
Current Publications
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Stakeholders’ conflicting orders and classifications of the environment and land use as drivers of environmental conflicts -
Social-ecological conflicts: An emancipatory conceptual approach by bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis Environment and Planning E: Nature and SpaceSocial-ecological conflicts: An emancipatory conceptual approach by bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis
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Transformation zu einer nachhaltigen regionalen Phosphor-Kreislaufwirtschaft durch den Aufbau von Struvitnetzwerken ISOE-Materialien Soziale ÖkologieTransformation zu einer nachhaltigen regionalen Phosphor-Kreislaufwirtschaft durch den Aufbau von Struvitnetzwerken
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Presencia diferenciada del Estado y gestión de usos del suelo en conflicto en el sur de Bogotá D.C El posacuerdo en Colombia - Procesos situacionales: Temporal...Presencia diferenciada del Estado y gestión de usos del suelo en conflicto en el sur de Bogotá D.C
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Transgenic soy as a political crop and a resistance crop in Argentina - The struggle around control and rent appropriation between the state, seed corporations and soy farmers GeoforumTransgenic soy as a political crop and a resistance crop in Argentina - The struggle around control and rent appropriation between the state, seed corporations and soy farmers
Markus Rauchecker
2021
