Prof. Dr. Martin Welp

Principal Investigator, HNEE

• C5: From a Centralised Energy Supply to Decentralised Sustainability (Workshop – with Sabine von Löwis, Beril Ocaklı & Kerstin Bischl, ZOiS)
• D1: Environmental Change and Natural Resources Management in the Ferghana Valley (with Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda)
• D2: Upscalling: ‘Lessons Learnt’ for Resource Conflicts on Eastern Europe (Workshop)
• D4: Ressource Conflicts and Ethno-Religious Diversity (Workshop – with Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda)

Martin Welp is a research professor on social-ecological transformations with focus on Asia at HNEE.

Martin Welp received his Master’s Degree in Forestry from the University of Helsinki and gained a doctorate in Agriculture from the Technical University Berlin. He has worked in various projects, among others  at the Cooperation and Consultancy Point for Environmental Questions (Technical University Berlin), European Forest Institute (Joensuu, Finland), Service Centre for Development Cooperation (Helsinki) and Coalition for Environment and Development (Helsinki). Before joining HNEE, Martin Welp was a researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology at the Darmstadt University of Technology and a Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department of Global Change & Social Systems.

• Stakeholder dialogues in natural resources management
• Institutional arrangements for securing ecosystem services
• Transformation and change management at the urban/peri-urban nexus
• Agroforestry systems in China und Central Asia

Welp, Martin; Spies, Michael. Stakeholder-based knowledge mapping for re-establishing agroforestry systems in Central Asia. In: Beyond Post-Soviet: Layered Legacies and Transformations in Central Asia, 33 (2021), 109, pp. 38-48.

Welp, Martin; Glaser, Marion; Krause, Gesche; Ratter, Beate (eds). Human-Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene: Potentials of Social-Ecological Systems Analysis. London: Routledge, 2012

Welp, Martin; Stoll-Kleeman, Susanne (eds). Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management · Theory and Practice. Heidelberg: Springer, 2006

Welp, Martin; Hellström, Eeva. Environmental Forest Conflicts in Germany – from National to International Concern. In: European Forest Institute, 11 (1996), pp. 62