Dr. habil. Franz W. Gatzweiler

Research themes

Science Policy
Governance
Environmental and climate change
Knowledge
Institutions
Social and Cultural Change and Adaptation
Growth, inequality and poverty
Ecosystem services
Sustainable use of natural resources
Biodiversity
Methods
Theories of Development
Development Politics
Food and nutrition
New Technologies
Urbanisation
Agriculture, land use, climate change
Innovation and science policy
Governance and conflict
Migration, mobility and urbanization
Health

Research countries

China
Bangladesh
Ethiopia
Ghana
India
Indonesia
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Malaysia
Lebanon

Research projects

Research on the economic value of ecosystems and biodiversity

Central and Eastern European Agriculture during EU accession

Forest landscapes, coffee forest conservation

Poverty, marginality, technological and institutional innovations in agriculture

Complex urban systems and urban health

Working groups

Complex Systems

Teaching

Institutions, Economics and Environment for the Anthropocene (IEE4A)

The course is about institutions, economics and environment in the current epoch of the Anthropocene. It creates understanding for how to rethink human values, institutions, economics and the environment in an epoch which is characterized by increasing resource use, populations, environmental pressures, interconnectedness and complexity. In that new historical context humans on earth are facing their greatest challenges and existential threats from how they have transformed nature, but also opportunities for renewal and stewardship of spaceship earth, recognizing the vulnerability of human and non-human life. In that new historical context, the challenge is to scale up social complexity and enhance collective intelligence by transforming the emerging values into institutions, and governance for the collective public good of planetary and urban health.

Additional information

Please contact me for a full publication list or CV. My google scholar profile: scholar.google.com/citations

Professional experience

Transdisciplinary systems modelling

Participatory modelling of complex systems

Expertise

Transdisciplinary systems modelling

Funding institutions

Past research projects have been funded by:

VW Foundation

FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN)

BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Research)

BfN (German Agency for Nature Conservation)

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Volkswagen Foundation

Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST)

Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)

2025

Siri J.G., Kim J., Indvik K., de Leeuw, E., Dora, C., Gatzweiler, F., Holm, E., Iossifova, D., Obando, F., Simos, J.. 2025. Defining Urban Health for Strategic Action. F1000Research, . (Open Access) Further Information

2024

Thomas, Y., You, N., Gatzweiler, F.. 2024. Urban Health Governance for Sustainable Development Data-Knowledge-Action Systems for Urban and Planetary Health. G20 Insights, . (Open Access) Further Information

2023

2023. Dealing with Data Dilemmas. Towards a Human Centered Systems Approach to Data and Digital Technology Development. Report of the UN World Data Forum Satellite Event in Macau April 25. Further Information

Gatzweiler, F.W., Jayasinghe, S., Siri, J.G., Corburn, J.. 2023. Towards a New Urban Health Science. Urban Science, 7(30) . (Open Access) Further Information

2022

Gatzweiler, F. W., Pulwarty, R., Linnerooth-Bayer, J. Marie-Valentine Florin, M-V, Liu, J.. 2022. Transitions to Systemic Risk Governance. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022: Our World at Risk. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Further Information

2020

Gatzweiler F., B. Fu, C. Rozenblat, H.-J. J. Su, I. Luginaah, J. Corburn, J.I. Boufford, J. Vela Valdes, B. Nguendo-Yongsi, P. Howden-Chapman, R.B. Singh, R. Cooper, T. Oni and Y.-G. Zhu. 2020. COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally. Cities & Health, DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1763761 .

2019

Elmqvist, T. F. Gatzweiler, E. Lindgren and J. Liu. 2019. Resilience Management for Healthy Cities in a Changing Climate. In: M.R. Marselle, J. Stadler, H. Korn, K.N. Irvine and A. Bonn (eds.): Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change. Springer. 411-424. (Open Acess) Further Information

2017

Malek, M.A., F.W. Gatzweiler and J. von Braun. 2017. Identifying technology innovations for marginalized smallholders-A conceptual approach. Technology in Society, 49 : 48-56 . (Open Access) Further Information

2014

Franz W. Gatzweiler. 2014. Value, institutional complementarity and variety in coupled socio-ecological systems. Ecosystem Services, . (Open Access) Further Information

Gatzweiler, F.W.. 2014. Reframing the value of nature: biological value and institutional homeostasis. Environmental Values, 23 : 275-296 .

von Braun J. and F.W. Gatzweiler. 2014. Marginality-Addressing the nexus of Poverty, exclusion and ecology. Springer. Further Information

2013

Gatzweiler F.W. and K. Hagedorn. 2013. Biodiversity and Cultural Ecosystem Services. In: Levin S.A. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Waltham, MA: Academic Press. 332-340.

2010

Brondízio, E.S. and F.W. Gatzweiler. 2010. Chapter 4: Socio‐cultural context of ecosystem and biodiversity valuation. In: Pushpam Kumar (eds.): The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Ecological and Economic Foundations. Earthscan, London and Washington. Further Information

2009

Gatzweiler, F. 2009. Biodiversity Conservation: Accounting for the diversity of values in nature and society. ZEF Policy Brief Nr. 8 Further Information

2008

Gatzweiler, F. 2008. Beyond Economic Efficiency in Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 20 : 217-240 .

Gatzweiler, F. 2008. Institutionalising Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of Ethiopian Coffee Forests. Current Conservation, Issue 1.1 . Download [PDF | 168.92KB]
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2007

Gatzweiler, F. 2007. Deforestation of Ethiopia’s Afromontane forests. Reasons for concern.. ZEF Policy Brief Nr. 7 Further Information

Robinson D.T., D. G. Brown, D. Parker, P. Schreinemachers, M.. Janssen, Marco Huigen, H. Wittmer, N. Gotts, P. Promburom, E. Irwin, T. Berger, F. Gatzweiler & C. Barnaud. 2007. Comparison of empirical methods for building agent-based models in land use science. Journal of Land Use Science, 2 (1) : 31-55 . (Open Access) Further Information

2006

Gatzweiler, F.W. 2006. Organising a Public Ecosystem Service Economy. Ecological Economics, 59(3) : 296-304 . Download [PDF]
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Hein, L. and F. Gatzweiler. 2006. The Economic Value of Coffee (Coffea arabica) Genetic Resources. Ecological Economics, 60(1) : 176-185 . Download [PDF]
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Vlek, P.L.G. and F.W. Gatzweiler. 2006. Can we walk the "Middle Path" in coping with global environmental change? Paper submitted for the conference on Ecology and Buddhism in the Knowledge-based Society, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, May 25-27, 2006. Download [PDF]
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2005

Gatzweiler, F. 2005. Central and Eastern European Agriculture and Environment: The Challenge of Governance at Multiple Levels. Sociologia Ruralis, 45 (3) . Download [PDF]
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Gatzweiler, F.W. 2005. Institutionalising Biodiversity Conservation - The Case of Ethiopian Coffee Forests. Conservation and Society, 3 (1) : 201-223 . Download [PDF | 806.79KB]
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2003

Gatzweiler, F. 2003. The Changing Nature of Economic Value. Indigenous Forest Garden Values in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Shaker. Aachen.

Gatzweiler, F.W. 2003. Institutions for Sustainable Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe. Chapter 13. In: Brouwer, F (eds.): Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Economy: Governance, Policy and Multifunctionality. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 247-265. Download [PDF]
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2002

Gatzweiler, F. and K. Hagedorn (eds.). 2002. Institutional Change in Central and Eastern European Agriculture and Environment, Volumes 1-4. CEESA/FAO Series. FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome. Download [PDF | 355.12KB]
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Gatzweiler, F.W. and K. Hagedorn. 2002. The Evolution of Institutions in Transition. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 2 (1) : 37-58 . Download [PDF]
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Gatzweiler, F.W., R. Judis and K. Hagedorn (eds.). 2002. Sustainable Agriculture in Central and Eastern European Countries. The Environmental Effects of Transition and Needs for Change. In: Beckmann, V. and K. Hagedorn (eds.): Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources. Vol. 10. Shaker Verlag. Aachen. Download [PDF | 91.54KB]
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2001

Gatzweiler, F. 2001. The Changing Nature of Economic Value. Indigenous Forest Gatden Values in Kalimentan, Indonesia. In: Beckmann, V. and K. Hagedorn (eds.): Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources. Vol. 16. Shaker Verlag. Aachen. Download [PDF | 72.65KB]
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Additionals, Curriculum Vitae
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Senior Fellow

Division/Group:
Economic and Technological Change

E-Mail:
franzga(at)uni-bonn.de, gatzweiler02(at)gmail.com