Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinimann

Areas of professional focus at CDE

• Development-oriented research in the field of sustainable regional development, at the interface between knowledge production, development interventions, and policy
• Partnership based research approaches for sustainability transformation with the global South
• Ecosystem services, biodiversity and wellbeing
• Land System Science
• Geographic Information System, Earth Observation and large spatial information systems and online platforms

Projects

• Geo-Myanmar: Democratization land data access towards sound resource management decisions that protect citizens’ rights to tenure, provide an ecological basis for sustainable economic development
• COUPLED: Operationalising Telecouplings for Solving Sustainability Challenges for Land Use
• NASA LCLUC: Shifting Cultivation at a Crossroads: Drivers and Outcomes of Recent Land-use Changes in Lao PDR
• Agrobiodiversity Initiative (TABI), Lao PDR
• Lao DECIDE Info Project
• Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)

Further professional interests

• Land governance
• Knowledge-based dialogues between science and society
• Spatial planning
• Land rights and Environmental justice
• Innovation and learning cycles

Field experience

Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Kenya, Peru, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar

Languages

German, English, French, and oral Lao