Dr. Thomas Berger

 
 
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Area of Specialization
Farm Management, Rural Development, Resource and Environmental Economics  
Department ZEFb - Economic and Technological Change (Prof. Frohberg)
Current Research Topics Policies for Improved Land Management in Uganda - Coordinator of Bioeconomic Modeling IFPRI/ZEF Project; Sustainable Water and Land Use in the Volta Basin - Coordinator of Economic Components GLOWA-Volta Project
Further Research Topics Multi-Agent Systems Approach to Agro-ecological Development; Non-technical Barriers to Bioenergy Implementation in Developing Countries
Contacts / Partners / Funding Institutions see IFPRI/ZEF project; see GLOWA-Volta Project
Publications
Berger, T., Brandes, W. (in press): Evolutorische Ökonomik in der Anwendung - Agrarökonomie. In: Handbuch zur evolutorischen Ökonomik, Band 3. Springer-Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin. (Handbook of Applied Evolutionary Economics - Agricultural Economics).  
BERGER, T. (forthcoming): Innovation as an alternative to migration? Exemplary results from a multiple-agent programming model applied to Chile. In: BENISTON, M. ET AL. (eds.) Advances in Global Change Research, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
BERGER, T., RINGLER, C. (2002): Trade-offs, efficiency gains and technical change - Modeling water management and land use within a multiple-agent framework. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 41 (1/2): 119-144.
Parker, D.C., Berger, T., Manson, S. (eds., 2002): Agent-Based Models of Land Use / Land Cover Change. LUCC Report Series No. 6, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Downloadable at http://www.indiana.edu/~act/focus1/  
Asante, F.A., Berger, T., Engel, S., Iskandarani, M. (2002): Water security in the Ghanaian Volta Basin: Patterns, determinants, and consequences. In: Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 41 (1/2): 145-167.  

Berger, T. (2001): Objektorientierte Implementierung eines Programmierungsansatzes mit Verhaltensheterogenität und betrieblichen Interaktionen. In: Zeitschrift für Agrarinformatik 9/2, 26-33.

 
BERGER, T. (2001): Agent-based spatial models applied to agriculture: a simulation tool for technology diffusion, resource use changes and policy analysis. Agricultural Economics 25 (2/3), 245-260.
Berger, T. (2000): Agentenbasierte räumliche Simulationsmodelle in der Landwirtschaft. Anwendungsmöglichkeiten zur Bewertung von Diffusionsprozessen, Ressourcennutzung und Politikoptionen. Agrarwirtschaft Sonderheft 168. (Agent-based Spatial Simulation Models in Agriculture).  
Berger, T., Brandes, W. (1998): Evolutionäre Ansätze in der Agrarökonomik. In: Agrarwirtschaft 47, 275-282. (Concepts of Evolutionary Economics for analyzing structural change in agriculture).  
Brandes, W., Recke, G., Berger, T. (1997): Produktions- und Umweltökonomik – traditionelle und moderne Konzepte, Band 1. Ulmer UTB, Stuttgart. (Production and Environmental Economics – Traditional and Modern Concepts).  
Curriculum Vitae
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Teaching

Bonn University, summer term 2003: Theorie der ökonomischen Entwicklung - Terminplan; Material

ZEF doctoral studies program, 2002

Bonn university, summer term 2001

 
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