Dipl.-Ing. Kristin Nicolaus

Dipl.-Ing. Kristin Nicolaus

Contact

Institute for Socio-Economics
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V.
Eberswalder Str. 84
D-15374 Muencheberg

phone: + 49 33432 82-404

email: Kristin.Nicolaus@zalf.de

Focus of research

Inter- and transdisciplinary environmental research, participation research

Kristin Nicolaus’ role in CIVILand

Kristin Nicolaus is a doctoral candidate in the junior research group CIVILand. Her goal is to concentrate on the design processes of PES and to find out what the participation opportunities in these processes are as well as their prerequisites, framework conditions, underlying motives and effects.

Biography

Kristin Nicolaus studied landscape planning at the Techische Universität Berlin. The focus of her studies was, in addition to open space planning, in the field of history of nature (in a cultural context) and international environmental planning. The latter part of her education was enhanced with courses in the field of developmental sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

After the completion of her studies, she gained practical experience through her work at Habitat Forum Berlin, an NGO dealing with the improvement of housing and living conditions of people in urban neighbourhoods and rural settlements all over the world and Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research. At Nexus she worked on methods and opportunities for participation from citizens and various stakeholders in the sustainable development of the city of Hyderabad (India).

Kristin Nicolaus joined the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in July 2008.

Publications

2011

2007

2005

  • Nicolaus, Kristin, 2005: Landscape Architecture in India, in: Topos 53, S. 98-102.

Presentations

2011

  • Nicolaus, K., Krikser, T., "Towards the Big Environmental Society? - Environmental Civil Society Organisations in Germany and Great Britain". Civiland Symposium "Towards the 'Big Environmental Society'? Civil Society, Private Sector and the State in Landscape Governance, Nature Conservation and Ecosystem Service Management", Cardiff University. (15 April 2011).
  • Nicolaus, K., "Participation in the designing of payments for ecosystem services (PES): A comparison of PES design processes in Germany and Great Britain. PhD Away Day, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning. (8 April 2011).

2010

Attended Conferences/Workshops

2011

  • 14 December 2011 PhD Workshop at the Forschungsstelle für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität, Berlin.
  • 10 – 12 November 2011 Payments for Ecosystem Services and their Institutional Dimensions, Berlin.
  • 25 – 27 May 2011 Training Course at ZALF, Müncheberg.
  • 14 – 15 April 2011 Towards ‘The big environmental society’? Civil society, private sector and the state in landscape governance, nature conservation and ecosystem service management. A transdisciplinary British-German Symposium in Cardiff, Wales.
  • 8 April 2011 PhD Away Day – PhD seminars at the Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff, Wales.

2010

  • 16 -18 September 2010 7th Meeting of the Junior Scholars of Environmental Sociology (NGU) in Freiburg to the topic of “Decisions with environmental impacts between freedom and coercion”.
  • 7- 8 July 2010 Coaching on “Participation Research”.

2009

  • 8 -9 October 2009 Fall conference of the work group “Umwelt, Natur, Gesundheit”(Environment, Nature, and Health) (Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen/ Federal Association of German Foundations).
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Datum: 19.05.2012