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Curriculum Vitae: Christoph Oberlack
April 2015
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Christoph Oberlack
11th April 1983
Dr.
University of Bern
Centre for Development and Environment
Hallerstr. 10
3012 Bern, Switzerland
[email protected]
+41-31-631-3893
German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (good), Spanish (beginner).
1. CURRENT POSITION
Since 04/2015
Research Scientist, Centre for Development and Environment, University of
Bern, Switzerland
Research Fields and Interests:
 Methods for constructing and analyzing archetypical patterns in the governance in socialecological systems, in particular methods for meta-analyses of case studies.
 Large-scale land acquisitions, land tenure conflicts, natural resource competition.
 Governance of climate change adaptation, barriers and opportunities.
 Polycentric governance systems.
 Sustainability science.
 Institutional diagnostics.
 Transdisciplinary research methods; teaching methods.
2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-2015
2011-2012 (parallel)
2011-2012 (parallel)
2008-2012
2006
2005
2003-2004
Research Associate, Department of Economic Policy and Constitutional
Political Theory, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
Lecturer for Master course “Economics, Institutions, and the Environment”,
Institute of Forestry Economics, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
Tutor for Master Theses and Bachelor course “Weltwirtschaftsordnung und
Global Governance” Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
Assistant to the dean of studies and student advisor for economics, AlbertLudwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
Internship, Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics, Germany.
Design of the conference ”Corporate Responsibility in the Energy Sector”;
contributions to the ”Africa Forum 2006 - Fostering Entrepreneurial Spirit”.
Internship in the department of environmental management, FTE automotive
GmbH & Co.KG.
Free-lance research about architecture software market in the Czech Republic,
Euro Info Centre, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany.
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3. EDUCATION
2015
2008
2005-2006
2004
2002
PhD in Economics (summa cum laude), Albert-Ludwigs-University of
Freiburg, Germany. Title: Institutional Economics of Climate Change
Adaptation in Polycentric Systems. Elaborating Diagnostic Methods for
Adaptation Barriers and Opportunities.
M.Sc. Economics (among best 10% of graduates), Westphälische WilhelmsUniversity of Münster, Germany.
Semester abroad as a freemover, University of Leeds, UK.
Study subjects: Environmental science, Ethics, Economics.
Pre-diploma in Economics, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Abitur, Gymnasium Höchstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
4. PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Eisenack K, Moser SC, Hoffmann E, Klein RJT, Oberlack C, Pechan A, Rotter M, Termeer CJAM.
2015. Response to: Opening the black box of adaptation decision-making. Nature Climate Change
(in press).
Oberlack C, La Haela Walter P, Schmerbeck J, Tiwari BK. 2015. Institutions for Sustainable
Governance of Forests: Equity, Robustness and Cross-level Interactions in Mawlyngbna,
Meghalaya, India. International Journal of the Commons (in press)
Eisenack K, Moser SC, Hoffmann E, Klein RJT, Oberlack C, Pechan A, Rotter M, Termeer CJAM.
2014. Explaining and overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation. Nature Climate Change 4,
867-872.
Oberlack C, Eisenack K. 2014. Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through
international cooperation. Global Environmental Change 24, 349-362.
Monograph
Oberlack C. 2015. Institutional economics of climate adaptation. Elaborating diagnostic methods for
adaptation barriers and opportunities. PhD Thesis, University of Freiburg.
Other Publications
Oberlack C, Neumärker B. 2013. A diagnostic approach to the institutional analysis of climate
adaptation. Constitutional Economics Network Paper 01-2013. Freiburg: Univ. Freiburg.
Oberlack C, Neumärker B. 2011. Economics, institutions and adaptation to climate change.
Constitutional Economics Network Paper 04-2011. Freiburg: Univ. Freiburg.
Conference Papers in Preparation for Journal Submission
Oberlack C. 2014. Diagnostic patterns of livelihood impacts of large-scale land acquisitions. Paper
presented at the 8th General ECPR Conference, Glasgow, 4-6 September 2014; also presented at the
5th Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW5), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 18-21
June 2014.
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Oberlack C, Eisenack K. 2014. Diagnostic patterns of barriers to climate adaptation in water resource
systems. Paper presented at the 5th Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW5), Indiana
University, Bloomington, USA, 18-21 June 2014.
Oberlack C. (submitted) Institutional traps, trade-offs and opportunities for climate change adaptation
(paper under review).
5. THIRD-PARTY FUNDING AND AWARDS
Research Grant “The Political Economy of Land Grabbing” (with Reinhart Kößler, Tim Krieger,
Bernhard Neumärker Marcel Baumann), University Freiburg (20.300€), Oct. 2013 - Mar 2015.
Travel Award: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, University Freiburg: Travel Award for the “8th
General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research”, September 2014,
Glasgow, Scotland (550€).
Travel Award: International Graduate Academy, University Freiburg: Travel Award for the “5th
Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop”, June 2014, Bloomington, IN, USA (537€).
Travel Award: International Graduate Academy, Univ. Freiburg: Travel Award for the “Research
Workshop on Barriers to Adaptation to Climate Change”, September 2012, Berlin (289€).
Travel Award: Deutscher Adademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD): Travel Award for the Lund
Conference 2012 on Earth System Governance, April 2012, Sweden (710€).
Main contributions to grant proposals under review/in revise and resubmit:
Research Grant “Conflict prevention and assurance of human security in the context of large-scale
land acquisitions in Morrocco”, within the Land Research Group ICP-L. Main contributions until
March 2015; currently in revise and resubmit (94.994€).
Research Grant “Agrophotovoltaic as resilience concept in viniculture for adaptation to climate change
and land scarcity”, with Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and Prof. Bernhard
Neumärker (U Freiburg). Main contributions until March 2015 (540.000€).
6. ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS, SESSIONS AND OTHER FUNCTIONS
05/2015
Co-chair, session “Institutional economics of climate adaptation”, 2nd European
Climate Change Adaptation Conference, 12-14 May 2015, Copenhagen (with Klaus
Eisenack and Matteo Roggero).
09/2014
Co-chair, Panel “The political economy of large-scale land acquisitions: Institutional
diagnostics.” 8th ECPR General Conference, 4-6 September 2014, Glasgow, Scotland
(with Tim Krieger).
09/2014
Co-chair, Panel “The political economy of large-scale land acquisitions: Food
sovereignty and water security.” 8th ECPR General Conference, 4-6 Sept. 2014,
Glasgow, Scotland (with Tobias Haller).
05/2012
Co-chair, 24th Workshop of the European Ph.D. network on International Climate
Policy, University of Freiburg and Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems,
Freiburg, 03-04 May 2012 (with Sabine Reinecke, Stephan Hoch, Stephan Schindele).
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11/2011
Co-chair, 2nd KLIMZUG Ph.D. Workshop on Climate Adaptation Research in the
Social Sciences, Leibniz Institute IOER Dresden, 29 November 2011 (with Lena
Herlitzius, Jörg Bohnefeld).
Scientific Reviewer:
IPCC AR5
Reviewer of the 5th Assessment Report 2014 of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II on Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation,
Second-order draft.
Journals
International Journal of the Commons; Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for
Global Change; Environmental Policy and Governance; Homo Oeconomicus; Journal
of Geography and Natural Disasters.
Conferences
2nd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Copenhagen, May 2015;
24th Workshop of the European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy,
University of Freiburg and Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems, May 2012;
2nd KLIMZUG Ph.D. Workshop on Adaptation Research in the Social Sciences,
Dresden, November 2011.
Membership and Involvement:
2013-2015
2013-2015
2009-2012
2010
2006
2003-2005
Land Research Group: Institutions, Conflict, Property Rights (ICP-L), based at the
University of Freiburg and Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute Freiburg.
International Research Group “Institutional Economics of Climate Adaptation”
(informal network of senior and junior researchers from ~12 research institutes from
Europe, US and Australia).
European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy.
Zunehmender Grenznutzen, Freiburg
Forum and blog of doctoral candidates and students of economics, Freiburg.
Unabhängiges Forum Ökonomie Münster
Forum of students of economics.
AIESEC Osnabrück
Involvement at the international student organization AIESEC, focussing on project
management, fundraising and trainee support.
7. PRESENTATIONS
05/2015
Institutional traps, trade-offs and opportunities for climate adaptation. 2nd European
Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Copenhagen, Danmark.
05/2015
Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international
agreements. 2nd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Copenhagen,
Danmark.
03/2015
Institutionelle Diagnostik in der Klimaanpassung. Conference “Ökonomie der
Klimaanpassung in Deutschland”, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, 17 March
2015 (invited presentation).
12/2014
Diagnostic methods in sustainability research. University of Bern, Centre for
Development and Environment, Switzerland, 17 December 2014.
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10/2014
Diagnostic patterns of livelihood impacts of large-scale land acquisitions.
26th Freiburg-Nagoya-Seminar, Freiburg, Germany.
09/2014
Diagnostic patterns of livelihood impacts of large-scale land acquisitions. 8th General
Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Glasgow,
Scotland.
06/2014
Institutions for Sustainable Forest Governance: Robustness, Equity, and Cross-level
Interactions in Maywlyngbna, Meghalaya, India. 5th Workshop on the Ostrom
Workshop (WOW5), Bloomington, USA.
06/2014
Diagnostic patterns of barriers to climate adaptation in water resource systems.
5th Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW5), Bloomington, USA.
06/2014
Diagnostic patterns of livelihood impacts of large-scale land acquisitions.
5th Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW5), Bloomington, IN, USA.
03/2014
Institutional diagnostics of climate adaptation. 4th Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Kolloquium
on the Institutional Economics of Climate Adaptation, Humboldt University Berlin,
Germany.
03/2013
Towards an institutional economics theory of climate adaptation. 1st European Climate
Change Adaptation Conference, Hamburg, Germany.
10/2012
Institutional barriers and enabling environments for public adaptation to climate
change. 25th Workshop of the European Ph.D. Network on International Climate
Policy, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
09/2012
Institutional barriers and enabling environments for public adaptation to climate
change. Research Workshop on Barriers to Adaptation to Climate Change, Berlin,
Germany.
08/2012
Overcoming local barriers to climate adaptation through international agreements?
Modes and challenges under the UNFCCC. 3rd International Conference on Research
in Development, Bern, Switzerland.
04/2012
Overcoming local barriers to climate adaptation through international agreements?
Modes and challenges under the UNFCCC. Lund Conference on Earth System
Governance, Lund, Sweden.
04/2012
Overcoming local barriers to climate adaptation through international agreements?
Modes and challenges under the UNFCCC. 24th Workshop of the European Ph.D.
Network on International Climate Policy, Freiburg, Germany.
02/2012
Economics, institutions and adaptation to climate change. Verein für Socialpolitik,
Ausschuss für Ressourcen- und Umweltökonomik, Nachwuchsworkshop, Bern,
Switzerland.
04/2011
After Cancun: Challenges to the global adaptation regime under the UNFCCC to
address barriers to adaptation in urban areas. 22nd Workshop of the European Ph.D.
Network on International Climate Policy, Cologne, Germany.
11/2010
Determinanten der Anpassungsfähigkeit an Klimawandel in Mehrebenensystemen.
7. Workshop Ordnungsökonomik und Recht. Walter-Eucken-Institute, Freiburg,
Germany.
10/2010
Determinants of the capacity to adapt to climate change in multi-level governance
systems – A meta-analysis of case study evidence. 21st Workshop of the European
Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy, University Zürich, Switzerland.
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10/2010
Determinants of the capacity to adapt to climate change in multi-level governance
systems – A meta-analysis of case study evidence. Berlin Conference 2010 on the
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Berlin, Germany.
8. TEACHING AND SUPERVISION
At the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany:
Winter 2014/15
Theorie Wirtschaftspolitischer Reformen (Master)
Weekly Tutorial, German.
Winter 2014/15
The Political Economy of Conflict and Power (Master)
Block Seminar, English.
Summer 2014
Constitutional Economics (Master)
Weekly Tutorial, English.
Summer 2014
Ordnungspolitisches Seminar (Bachelor)
Block Seminar, German.
Winter 2013/14
Theorie Wirtschaftspolitischer Reformen (Master)
Weekly Tutorial, German.
Winter 2013/14
The Political Economy of Land Grabbing (Master)
Block Seminar, English.
Summer 2013
Constitutional Economics (Master)
Weekly Tutorial, English.
Summer 2012
Economics, Institutions and the Environment Master)
Block Lecture, English.
Summer 2011
Economics, Institutions and the Environment (Master)
Block Lecture, English.
Summer 2011
Weltwirtschaftsordnung und Global Governance (Bachelor)
Weekly Tutorial, German.
Supervised Master Theses
1. Ana Helena Cavalcante (2015): Barriers and opportunities for adaptation to climate and landuse change: The water crisis in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2. Mingjuan Chi (2014): Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Altersarmut aus
sozialvertraglicher Perspektive.
3. Ines Zangl (2014): Land-use conflicts at the food-energy nexus: Institutional analysis,
sustainability appraisal and Agrophotovoltaic as a conflict mitigation strategy (jointly with
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Prof. Weber).
4. Benjamin Drescher (2014): Anpassung an den Klimawandel als Reformproblem in föderalen
Staaten.
5. Lynna Jirpongopas (2013): The value of agency: Experimental evidence and application to
public choice (jointly with University Zurich, Switzerland, Prof. Fehr).
6. Philipp Walter (2013): Institutions for sustainable community forestry: Forest conservation,
equity, and cross-level governance interactions in Mawlyngbna, Meghalaya, India (jointly
with Prof. Pregernig and North-Eastern Hill University Shillong, India, Prof. Tiwari).
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7. Thomas Absmayr (2013): Internationale Landinvestitionen in Subsahara-Afrika: Potenzieller
Entwicklungsmotor oder ausbeutendes “Land Grabbing”?
8. Martha Kontodaimon (2013): Two-level reform game problems in Greece.
9. Li Qiu (2012): Constitutional rules of polycentric governance of global environmental change.
Supervised Bachelor Theses
10. Simon Lenz (2015): Die Bedeutung von sozialen Normen und sozialen Präferenzen für soziale
Gerechtigkeit.
11. Alexandra Mayer (2013): Die „Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of
Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests“ der UN-FAO zur Regulierung von Land Grabbing:
eine ordnungsökonomische Analyse.
9. FURTHER TRAINING
01/2011
International Graduate Academy and Hochschuldidaktikzentrum, University of
Freiburg
Ph.D. Workshop, “Aktivierende Methoden in der Lehre” (activating methods in higher
education), Freiburg, 27-28 Jan. 2011.
11/2010
International Graduate Academy, University of Freiburg
Ph.D. Workshop, “Professional Communication Skills”, Freiburg, 23-24 Nov. 2010.
05/2009
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics
Young-Leaders-Seminar “Die Welt in der wir leben (wollen). Ein Theorieseminar“,
Wittenberg, 06-08 May 2009.
07/2008
Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics
International Ph.D. Summer School „Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility in a
Globalized World“, Leipzig, 20-25 July 2008.
11/2007
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics
Young-Leaders-Seminar “Zukunftsszenario 2030 – Globale Herausforderungen für
eine Soziale Marktwirtschaft”, Wittenberg, 14-16 November 2007.
10/2007
KIEM Institute for Intercultural Management, Values and Communication & HTWG
Constance
Constance Academy of Business Ethics, Summer School “Business Ethics and
Management Studies”, 03-05 October 2007.
05/2006
Oswald-von-Nell-Breuning Institute St. Georgen, Frankfurt
Seminar “Current issues of Business Ethics”, Frankfurt/Main, 04-06 May 2006.
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