Dr. Wolfram Laube
Research themes
- Water resources (management)
- Mobility and migration
- Knowledge
- Social and Cultural Change and Adaptation
- Sustainable use of natural resources
- Theories of Development
- Decentralization & Reforms
- Agriculture, land use, climate change
Research countries
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Niger
Research projects
Capacity Building:
Ghanaian-German Center for Development Studies (GGCDS, DAAD Centre of African Excellence)
West African Center for Sustainable Rural Transformation (WAC-SRT, DAAD Centre of African Excellence)
Research:
- Global Value Chain Restructuring, National Policy Regimes and Local Livelihood Impacts in Ghana’s Shea Sector (with VW Senior African Fellow Dr. Martha Awo)
- Agricultural Commercialization for Inclusive Economic Development: Comparative of Crop and Non-Food Crop Models in Ghana (with VW Senior African Fellow Dr Michael Ayamga)
Tutorship of doctoral candidates
Completed:
Dr. William Tsuma, Dr. Tapiwa Nyasulu, Dr. Emmanuel Derbile, Dr. Benjamin Schraven, Dr. Martha Awo, Dr. Jonas Akugudu, Dr. Monica Gruezmacher, Dr. Nana Ato Arthur, Dr. Johanna Rapp
Ongoing:
Aline Pereira, Darius Mwingyine, Galia Figueroa Alfonso, Ernesto Cruz-Kanter, Adjoa Annan, Elizabeth Ekren, Dima Al-Munajed, Edna Agyepong, Albert Dakyie, Namrata Rawat
Supervision of
completed doctoral theses
completed doctoral theses
Antoinette Tsiboe Darko (GGCDS, ISSER, University of Ghana), Emmanuel Abeka (GGCDS, ISSER, University of Ghana), Mohammed Asaah (GGCDS, ISSER, University of Ghana), Maliam Acio (GGCDS, ISSER, University of Ghana)
2023
2023.
Agroecology and resilience of smallholder food security: a systematic review..
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems,
7
.
(Open Access)
2022
2022.
Sustaining decentralized collaborative governance arrangements in Africa: a case study of land management committees in the Upper West Region, Ghana..
GeoJournal,
.
(Open Access)
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2020
2020.
Introduction.
In: Laube, Wolfram & Aline R. B. Pereira (eds.):
'Civilizing'Resource Investments and Extractivism: Societal negotiations and the role of law.
LIT Verlag.
3-15.
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2020.
'Civilizing' Resource Investments and Extractivism. Social negotiations and the role of law.
Lit Verlag.
Wien.
(Open Acess)
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2020.
From Contentious Politics to Political Bargaining: Negotiations for local benefits from the oil and gas sector in Ghana.
In: W. Laube & A. R. B. Pereira (eds.):
'Civilizing'Resource Investments and Extractivism: Societal negotiations and the role of law.
LIT Verlag.
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2020.
Elite Capture of Land Commodification and Land Use Planning In Peri-Urban Northern Ghana.
In: W. Laube & Aline R. B. Pereira (eds.):
'Civilizing'Resource Investments and Extractivism: Societal negotiations and the role of law.
LIT Verlag.
185-203.
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2019
2019.
Contested causes of flooding in poor urban areas in Accra, Ghana: an actor-oriented perspective.
Environment, Development and Sustainability,
: 1-17
.
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2018
2018.
Knowledge Politics in Environmental Conflicts: A Case from Brazil.
Gestion & Ambiente,
21 (suppl. 2)
: 30-46
.
(Open Access)
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2017
2017.
Smallholder Integration into the Global Shea Nut Commodity Chain in Northern Ghana.
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2016
2016.
What Makes Kofi Run? Changing Aspirations and Cultural Models of Success in Northern Ghana.
AnthropoChildren,
6
: 1-25
.
(Open Access)
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2016.
Climate Change Adaptation, Education, and Rural Transformation in Northern Ghana. Moving Beyond an Agricultural Focus.
In: J. A. Yaro & J. Hesselberg (eds.):
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa.
Springer International Publishing.
121-145.
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2015
2015.
Global Shea Nut Commodity Chains and Poverty Eradication in Northern Ghana: Myth or reality?.
UDS International Journal of Development,
2 (1)
: 128-148
.
(Open Access)
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2015.
Laube, W. (2015). Changing Aspirations, Cultural Models of Success, and Social Mobility in Northern Ghana. ZEF Working Papers, 145.
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2014
2014.
Local Knowledge Flows for Reducing Vulnerability of Rain-fed Agriculture to Environmental Change: Patterns and Drivers of Flow in North-Eastern Ghana.
Information and Knowledge Management,
4 (7)
: 24-28
.
(Open Access)
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2013
2013.
Peasant Adaptation to Environmental Change and Globalization in Northern Ghana.
In: Joseph Awetori Yaro (eds.):
Rural Development in Northern Ghana.
Nova Science Publishers. New York.
2012
2012.
Smallholder adaptation to climate change: dynamics and limits in Northern Ghana.
Climate Change,
111 (3-4)
: 753-777
.
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2012.
Consumption and Production: Changing perceptions of water in northern Ghana.
In: Hahn, H.P, K. Cless and J. Soentgen (eds.):
People at the Well.
Campus, Frankfurt.
145-169.
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2012.
Consumption and Production: Changing perceptionsof water in northern Ghana.
In: Hahn, H.P, K. Cless and J. Soentgen (eds.):
People at the Well.
Campus, Frankfurt.
145.
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2010
2010.
Shallow Groundwater in the Atankwidi Catchment of the White Volta Basin: current status and future sustainability.
Research Report 139. International Water Management Institute (IMWI).
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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2010.
Natural Resource Governance-Negotiations of community and the state in developing countries.
In: Eguavoen, I. and W. Laube (eds.):
Negotiating Local Governace. Natural Resource Management at the Interface of Communities and the State .
LIT.
1-20.
2010.
Negotiationg Local Governance. Natural resource Management at the Interfaceof Communities and the State.
LIT.
Münster.
2010.
Changing the Course of History? Ceontextualising the Adoption and Implementation of Water Policies in Ghana and South Africa..
In: Mollinga, P., Bhat, A. & S.V. Saravanan (eds.) (eds.):
Water, Politics and Development.
LIT, Berlin.
2010.
Temporal water productivity of tomato irrigated from a small reservoir and hand-dug-wells in dry season cropping in the Upper East Region, Ghana.
Journal of Applied Irrigation Science,
45 (1)
: 75-93
.
2008
2008.
GLOWA Case Studies: Volta.
IHP/HWRP-Reports,
7
.
2008.
Adapting to climate change in West Africa.
UNDP. Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery
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2007
2007.
Promise and Perils of Water Reform. Perspectives from Northern Ghana.
Afrika Spectrum,
3
: 419-437
.
2007.
Changing Natural Resource Regimes in Ghana. Actors, Structures, Institutions.
LIT .
Berlin.
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2007.
The GLOWA Project: A framework for water resources decision-making and scientific capacity building in a transnational West African basin.
Water Resource Management,
21
: 295-313
.
2006
2006.
Changing Natural Resource Regimes in Northern Ghana. Actors, Structures and Institutions.
Doictoral thesis at
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Köln.
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2006.
Virtueller Wasserhandel und Konflikte um Wasser: Expertenstatement im Rahmen des BMZ-Projekts "Virtueller Wasserhandel - Ein realistisches Konzept zum Umgang mit Wasserarmut in Entwicklungsländern?".
Bonn, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
2006.
Ghananian water law and policy: institutional and hydrological perspectives.
In: Wallace JS., Wouters, P., Pazvakavambwa, S (eds.):
Hydrologocal information in water law and policy: current practices and future potential.
Kluwer.
2005
2005.
Vision und Wirklichkeit: Die Umsetzung des IWRM und die Erfahrungen mit Landreformen in Subsahara-Afrika.
In: Neubert, S.,W. Scheumann, A.V. Edig and W. Huppert (eds.):
Integriertes Wasserresource-Management (IWRM). Ein Konzept in die Praxis überführen.
Nomos, Baden-Baden.
217-238.
2004
2004.
Konzept einer armutsorientierten Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Wassersektor. Gutachten im Auftrag des BMZ.
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).
Bonn.
From Transnational Corporations to Domestic Medium-Scale Investors: An exposition of land deals in northern Ghana.
In: W. Laube & A. R. B. Pereira (eds.):
'Civilizing'Resource Investments and Extractivism: Societal negotiations and the role of law.
LIT Verlag.
157-183.
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Senior Researcher
Phone:
+49-228-73-4914
Division/Group:
Cultural and Political Change
E-Mail:
wlaube(at)uni-bonn.de
