ZEF theme: Institutions
Ongoing Doctoral Theses
Essays on the nexus between technological change, policies, and value chain governance for a transition towards a low-carbon economy.
Doctoral Thesis at
University of Bonn.
Integrated Pathways for Coherent Land Use Decisions: Untangling and Embracing Complexity in Science-Policy Interfaces in the Sustainable Development Context.
Institute for Political Science, University of Münster.
Published Doctoral Theses
2021
2021.
The Economics of Irrigation Systems in Ethiopia: Technological and Institutional Analysis.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2021.
Agency, opportunity structure and empowerment in everyday refugee life: Enduring and overcoming challenges of daily living in Cologne refugee shelters.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
ULB Bonn
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2018
2018.
The Ethiopian Agricultural Extension System and Its Role as a “Development Actor”: Cases from Southwestern Ethiopia.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2017
2017.
Research and its governance in the health research system of Uzbekistan.
Doctoral Thesis at
University of Bonn.
2017.
Managing Risk under Climate Change in Rural Kenya Multiple Shocks, Poverty, Gender, and Potential for Group-Based Approaches.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.
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2017.
Water Quality in Multipurpose Water Systems, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Outcomes in Ghana.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2017.
The Challenge of Governing Natural Resources - A Social Network Analysis of Actors' Collaboration in Ghana's Petroleum Sector.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2017.
Institutional Pathways to Transformative Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2017.
Water, Sanitation and Agriculture: Linkages and Impacts on Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia.
Doctoral Thesis at
The Faculty of Agriculture, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn.
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2016
2016.
Policies for Food Security in India: An Assessment of Current Policies and Reform Options.
Doctoral Thesis at
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn.
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2016.
Social Interactions, Aspirations, and Agricultural Innovations: Linkages with Income and Food Security.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2016.
Social Interactions, Aspirations, and Agricultural Innovations: Linkages with Income and Food Security in Rural Ethiopia.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2016.
Water Policy in South Africa: Effects, Impacts, and the associated transaction costs in the Olifants basin.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2015
2015.
The impact of large-scale land-acquisition in East Africa on poverty reduction and rural economy: Studies from Ethiopia and Uganda.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2015.
State-Society Interaction in Vietnam: The Everyday Dialogue of Local Irrigation Management in the Mekong Delta.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
Lit Verlag <a href="http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90719-6" target="_blank">http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90719-6</a>
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2015.
Global Value Chains and the Role of Innovation for Sustainable Palm Oil: An International Bioeconomy Analysis for Malaysia.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2015.
Wastewater Management in the Industrial Zones of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A Socio-spatial Analysis of Environmental Management in a Transition Economy.
Doictoral thesis at
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Bonn.
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2014
2014.
Efficient water allocation and water conservation policy modeling in the Aral Sea basin.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2014.
The Vietnamese Hydrocracy and the Mekong Delta - Wate Resources Development from State Socialism to Bureaucratic Capitalism.
Doctoral thesis at
Philosophical Arts, University of Bonn.
ZEF Development Studies #25, Lit Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-643-90437-9
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2014.
Trees, crops, and rural livelihoods: Afforestation of marginal croplands in Uzbekistan.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2014.
Actors’, Ideas and Ideational Realm in Irrigation Management: The Case of Decentralization in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn.
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2013
2013.
Organising and Implementing Local Economic De-velopment Initiatives at the District Level in Ghana.
Thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2013.
Unraveling the Parks and People Dichotomy: Local Interests and Conflicts in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Hohenheim.
Margraph Publishers. Weikersheim, Germany
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2013.
Commercialization of smallholder horticultural farming in Kenya: Poverty, gender, and Institutional Arrangements.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2013.
Gestion des ressources en eau et stratégies d'acteurs. Analyse des politiques locales en matière de gestion d'eau au Burkina Faso: cas de l'Oubritenga en pays moaga.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Mainz.
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2013.
Servicing Transformation. Agricultural Service Organisations and Agrarian Change in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan.
Doctoral thesis at ZEF at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
LIT Verlag
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2012
2012.
Land conflicts, Accountability and Chieftaincy Institution in Ghana.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Köln.
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2011
2011.
Kinship and Islam: The Role of Collective Identities in Shaping Institutional Order of Patronage in Southern Tajikistan.
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn at
ZEF.
Lit Verlag, Münster
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2011.
Water Governance in the Mixed Faming Systems of Amhara highlands (Ethiopia):Institutons and Collective Action.
Doctoral thesis at
Humboldt Univ. Berlin.
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2011.
Socio-Cultural Implications of the Community-Based Water Management: A Case Study of Gujarat, India.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, India
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2010
2010.
Institutions, Incentives and Conflicts in Coffee Forest Conservation and Use: the Case of Yayo Coffee Forest in Ilu Abba Bora Zone, Southwest Ethiopia.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2009
2009.
Gold Mining in Ghana - 'Actors, Alliances and Power.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
LIT Verlag. Berlin
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2008
2008.
Sustainable Tourism and the Influence of Privatization in Protected Area Management. A Case of Kinabalu Park, Malaysia.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Math. & Nat. Science, University of Bonn.
Ecology and Development Series 57
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2007
2007.
Economic Assessment of Different Management Approaches of Kakamega Forest in Kenya: Cost-benefit and Local Community Satisfaction Analysis.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2007.
Flowing structures and concrete struggles: institutional change and irrigation management in central eastern Burkina Faso.
Doctoral thesis at
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Lit Verlag.
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2006
2006.
Water user associations in Uzbekistan: theory and practice.
Doctoral hesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen
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.
Governing the Ethiopian Coffee forests: a local level institutional analysis in Kaffa and Bale mountains.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.