Guest Researcher |
Dr. Benjamin Schraven |
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| Department | ZEF A: Department of Political and Cultural Change | ||
| Research areas |
- Environmental Change - Knowledge Governance - Natural Resource Management |
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| Research countries |
- Ghana - Uzbekistan |
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| Projects |
- Cooperation on Doctoral Education between Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe (CODOC) - West African Science Service Center on Climate and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) - Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land and Water Use in the Khorezm Region |
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| Teaching | Several courses on quantitative research methods and SPSS-based data analysis for BIGS-DR and the Ghanaian-German Centre for Development Studies since 2007. 2010/2011 Coordinator of the ZEFa disciplinary course. | ||
| Contacts | schraven[at]uni-bonn.de | ||
| Partners | Benjamin Schraven is a Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE/ GDI) since March 2011 | ||
| Degrees | Master in Political Science, Sociology and History PhD in Development Research (both University of Bonn) |
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| Professional experience | Data analyst for the project "Strengthening Early Warning Capacities in Sri Lanka" of the United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) Research assistance for several studies of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Research assistant for the ZEF b project "Policy Analysis for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Southern Africa" (PASAD) |
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| Cooperation partners | University of Ghana; International Water Management Institute (IWMI) | ||
| Publications |
Schraven B., I. Eguavoen and G. Manske. 2011. Capacity Development durch Bildungsmigration: Ergebnisse einer Befragung von afrikanischen Entwicklungsforschern. In: Baraulina, T., A. Kreienbrink and A. Riester (eds.): Potenziale der Migration zwischen Afrika und Deutschland. Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, Nürnberg. Evers, H.D., Genschick, S. and B. Schraven. 2010. Constructing epistemic landscapes: methods of GIS-based mapping. The IUP Journal of Knowledge Management, 8(3): 7-23.
Schraven, B.
2010.
Irrigate or migrate? Local livelihood adaptation in Northern Ghana in response to ecological changes and economic challenges. University of Bonn (Dissertation), Bonn.
B. Schraven, I. Eguavoen and G. Manske.
2009.
Doctoral degrees for capacity development: Results from a survey among African BIGS-DR Alumni. ZEF Working Paper Series 51.
Evers, H.D., S. Genschick and B. Schraven. 2009. Constructing epistemic landscapes: methods of GIS- based mapping. ZEF Working Paper Series 44. Laube, W., M. Awo and B. Schraven. 2009. Potentials and limitations of shallow groundwater irrigation as an adaptive strategy in response to climate and environmental changes in Northern Ghana. Presented at the 3rd European Conference on African Studies, Leipzig, June 3rd-7th.
Laube, W.; Awo, M. and B. Schraven.
2008.
Erratic rains and erratic markets: environmental change, economic globalisation and the expansion of shallow groundwater irrigation in West Africa. ZEF Working Paper Series 30.
Schraven, B. 2008. Klimawandel in West-Afrika: Kleinstbewässerungslandwirtschaft in Nord-Ghana als lokaler Anpassungsprozess. Presented at the annual Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) - Network conference „Nachhaltige Landnutzung angesichts von Klimawandel und UNCCD-Reformprozessen“, Bonn, August 18th-19th.
Birkmann,J., N. Fernando, S. Hettige, S. Amarasinghe, T. Jayasingam, D. Paranagama, M.D.A. Nandana, M. Nassel, S. Voigt, U. Grote, S. Engel, B. Schraven and J. Wolferts.
2007.
Rapid vulnerability assessment in Sri Lanka - post-tsunami study of two cities: Galle and Batticaloa. United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn.
Laube, W., B. Schraven and C. Sebaly. 2007. Climate and environmental change: local adaptation processes in Northern Ghana. Presented at the Eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 8) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Madrid, September 3rd-14th.
Birkmann,J., N. Fernando, S. Hettige, S. Amarasinghe, T. Jayasingam, D. Paranagama, M.D.A. Nandana, M. Nassel, S. Voigt, U. Grote, S. Engel, B. Schraven and J. Wolferts.
2006.
Rapid and multidimensional vulnerability assessment in Sri Lanka at the local level. United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn.
Grote, U., S. Engel and B. Schraven.
2006.
Migration due to the tsunami in Sri Lanka - analyzing vulnerability and migration at the household level, ZEF – Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 106, Center for Development Research, Bonn.
pp. 37.
Looman, M. and B. Schraven. 2006. "Bei der Europawahl wird doch der Bundespräsident gewählt, oder?" Über das Politikverständnis deutscher Jugendlicher. In: Lucke, D. (eds.): Jugend in Szenen - Lebenszeichen aus flüchtigen Welten, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster.
Schraven, B. and P. Wobst.
2005.
Kenya: social accounting matrix 2001. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C.
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| Additional Information | Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE/ GDI) |
