Dr. Yvonne Kunz
Photo: Jan Meier, Center for Tropical Marine Research
research associate
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Key aspects of activity
- Human-environment-relations
- Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
- governance of natural resources
- Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia
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Since September 2023, Research associate in the sea4soCiety project at the Institute fot Integrative Geography (WG Ratter), Univeristy Hamburg
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April 2021-Juli 2023, Research associate “Climate change and governance in Indonesia and the Caribbean: A pilot program on marine protected areas (MPA’s) and coastal nature reserves” at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden, Netherlands
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September 2022 until March 2023, Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Jan 2021-April 2021 Research Associate German Advisory Council for Global Change, at the German Development Institute (DIE; now IDOS) with Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
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April 2020-January 2021 Research Associate in the project „the project “A Transdisciplinary Approach to Mitigate Emissions of Black Carbon in Metro Manila, Philippines” (financed by Federal German Ministry of Education and Science at at the German Development Institute /Deutsches Institut f ür Entwicklungspolitk (DIE/now IDOS), Program of Environment al Governance and Transformation to Sustainability
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October 2019-April 2020 Research associate at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany, Department of Development and Knowledge Sociology in the project A Transdisciplinary Approach to Mitigate Emissions of Black Carbon in Metro Manila, Philippines
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August 2018-October 2019 Research associate at the University of Göttingen, Department of Human Geography
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August 2016 -February 2017 Geo-Gender-Opportunities-Funds, University Göttingen
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June 2016-August 2018 Environemnt and Climate Desk Officer at the NGO Watch Indonesia! e.V., Berlin, Germany (50%)
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April 2012 bis April 2016 Research Associate at the University of Göttingen, Department of Human Geography, PhD in the DFG funded project CRC 990 on “Ecological and socio-economic functions of lowland rainforest transformation systems in Jambi Province, Indonesia”
Publications
- Kunz,Y., Hein, J., Sobirin, M. (2023): Beyond Protection, toward Respect: Struggle for Environmental Justice in the Kendeng Mountains, Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2267497
- Kunz, Y. and Hornidge, A.-K. (2023) Governability of Air: Beyond Water and Land in Coastal Urbanities. in: Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Kelvin E.Y. Low / Noorman Abdullah / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.), Coastal urbanities: mobilities, meanings, manoeuvrings, Leiden: Brill, 132-153.
- German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2022): Beyond Climate Neutrality. July 2021. Report number: Policy Paper 12. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14424.01280.
- Tõnisson*, L. Kunz*, Y., et al. (2020). From transfer to knowledge co-production: a transdisciplinary research approach to reduce Black Carbon emissions in Metro Manila, Philippines. Sustainability. 12(23).
- Martens, K., Kunz, Y., Rosyani, Ir., Faust, H. (2020). Environmental governance meets reality: a micro-scale perspective on sustainability certification schemes for oil palm smallholders in Jambi, Sumatra, Society & Natural Resources 33(5), 1-17.
- Kunz, Y. , Otten, F. , Mardiana, R. , Martens, K. , Roedel, I. and Heiko Faust (2019). Smallholder Telecoupling and Climate Governance in Jambi Province, Indonesia. Social Sciences, 8(4), 115. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.3390/SOCSCI8040115.
- Hein, J., Faust, H., Kunz, Y., Mardiana, R. (2018). "The transnationalization of competing state projects – carbon offsetting and development in Sumatra’s coastal peat swamps. Antipode, DOI: 10.1111/anti.12381.
- Hein, J., & Kunz, Y. (2018). Adapting in a carbon pool? Politicising climate change at Sumatra's oil palm frontier. In: Kleep, S. & L.C. Rodríguez (eds.): Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Discourses, Policies and Practices. Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York.
- Kunz, Y. & Puder, J. (2018) Unliebsame Karriere einer Palme. Indonesien und Malaysia im Clinch mit der EU. Iz3w, Ausgabe 368, Bioökonomie. ISSN 1614-0095.
- Kunz, Y. (2018) Simbar Wareh – Transnationaler Anarchafeminismus gegen die globale Zementindustrie. Feministische Geo-RundMail, Nr. 76, Juli 2018, 32-35. http://ak-geographie-geschlecht.org/rundmail/.
- Kunz, Y., Steinbach, S., Dittrich, C., Hauser-Schäublin, B., Rosyani Ir., Soetarto, E. & Faust, H. (2017). 'The fridge in the forest': Historical trajectories of land tenure regulations fostering landscape transformation in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Forest Policy and Economics, 81, 1-9. HTTP://WWW.SCIENCEDIRECT.COM/SCIENCE/ARTICLE/PII/S1389934116303173.
- Steinebach, S., & Kunz, Y. (2017). Separating sisters from brothers: Ethnic relations and identity politicsin the context of indigenous land titling in Indonesia. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 10(1),47-64.
- Keller, A. & Kunz, Y. (2017) Dafür sorgen, dass etwas wächst. Graswurzelrevolution (420) Sommer 2017. http://www.graswurzel.net/420/gunarti.php.
- Kunz, Y., Hein, J., Mardiana, R., & Faust, H. (2016) Mimicry of the legal: Translating de jure land formalization processes into de facto local action in Jambi province, Sumatra. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 9(1), 127-146. HTTPS://ASEAS.UNIVIE.AC.AT/INDEX.PHP/ASEAS/ARTICLE/VIEW/1027