Dr. Jan Janosch Förster

Degrees / expertise

B (Hons, 1st class) - Political Sciences

Master (Distinction) - Integrated Water Management

PhD - Water Governance in collaborative management institutions

 

2020

Biber-Freudenberger, Lisa & Ergeneman, Candan & Förster, Jan Janosch & Dietz, Thomas & Börner, Jan. ..  2020.  Bioeconomy Futures: Expectation patterns of scientists and practitioners on the sustainability of bio-based transformation.  Sustainable Development , 10.1002/sd.2072.   : 1-16   . (Open Access)   Further Information
Förster J.J., L. Downsborough, L. Biber- Freudenberger, G.K. Mensuro and J. Börner.  2020.  Exploring criteria for transformative policy capacity in the context of South Africa’s biodiversity economy.  Policy Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s11077-020-09385-0   . (Open Access)   Download [PDF]
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2018

Dietz, T. Börner, J; Förster, J.J.; von Braun, J..  2018.  Governance of the bioeconomy: A global comparative study of national bioeconomy strategies.  Sustainability , 10(9)   : 20   . (Open Access)   Further Information
Förster, J.J. and Virgin, I..  2018.  Bioeconomy between Europe and Africa - summarizing workshop outcomes "Global Bioeconomy Summit" in Berlin, April 2018.  Download [PDF]
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2017

Förster, J.J., Downsborough, L. and M.J. Chomba.  2017.  When Policy Hits Practice: Structure, Agency and Power in South African Water Governance.  Society & Natural Resources , http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2016.1268658   .

Additionals, Curriculum Vitae
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Research themes
  • Institutions
  • Agriculture, land use, climate change
  • Governance and conflict
  • Health
Research countries
  • Germany
  • Australia
  • South Africa
Research projects

STRIVE project (Sustainable trade and innovation transfer in the bioeconomy): from national strategies to global sustainable development goals.

 

Working groups

- STRIVE project (Sustainable trade and innovation transfer in the bioeconomy)

- BION (Biodiversitätsnetzwerk Bonn)

- STRN, Sustainable Transitions Research Network

- SDSN, Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Teaching

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Course Bonn International Graduate School

- Case study design

- Transect walks and mapping

- Term paper writing

Additional Information:

SUPERVISION of Master's students

Isabell Pasternack (ILR, Uni Bonn), Graduated 2018 with high distiction

"Identifying WEF - Governance Nexus challenges. the case of smallholder cash crop production in Lima Province, Peru"

 

 

 

Tutorship of doctoral candidates

Madiha Hussein

"Young women's participation in Pakistan's politics"

Ojewole Oginni

"Humanitarian Urbanism: Everyday life of the displaced incities around the Lake Chad Basin"

Franziska, Geiger

"Resilient livelihoods of female refugees in Bonn, Bad Godesberg"

Arif Buddy Pratama

 

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Degrees

B (Hons, 1st class) - Political Sciences

Master (Distinction) - Integrated Water Management

PhD - Water Governance in collaborative management institutions

 

Expertise

Water; governance; policy; livelihoods; sustainability; bioeconomy; geopolitics of oil and gas; life science and nexus topics

Jan Janosch Förster

Former Senior Researcher

Former Department :
ZEF A: Department of Political and Cultural Change