Luise Werland

Associate Fellow

Fortstraße 7, 76829 Landau
Building I, Room 2.28


11/2024 - todayResearch assistant and doctoral candidate - AG Human Geography, RPTU, Landau
05/2024 - 09/2024Research assistant (substitute position) - Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research, University of Münster
10/2020 - 02/2021Semester abroad - Máster en Biodiversidad Terrestre y Conservación en Islas,Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife
09/2019 - 05/2024Master - Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Greifswald
10/2015 - 09/20192-subject Bachelor - Conservation Biology & Philosophy, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau

  • Environmental ethics
  • Qualitative research, e.g. in the form of expert interviews
  • Actor-based conflict analysis
  • Human-wildlife interactions and conflicts (e.g. the return of the gray wolf(Canis lupus) to Germany)
  • Interactions between humans and the environment and environmental conflicts (e.g. over wind and land)

RPTU
Seminar: "Special regional geography of Germany with a focus on land use conflicts"

Essays; Journal Articles

Schilling, Janpeter; Pinzón, Claudia; Froese, Rebecca; Figueroa, Diana; Villavicencio, Miguel; Werland, Luise; Schönenberg, Regine (2024): "All We Have Left is to Defend Our Reserve": Social Structures and Community Resistance to Large-Scale Gold Mining in the Manuripi Wildlife Reserve in Northern Bolivia. In: The Extractive Industries and Society 20, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101574

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2023): Facing Old and New Risks in Arid Environments: The Case of Pastoral Communities in Northern Kenya. In: PLOS Climate 2(7), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000251

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2021): 10 years of the Arab Spring - Where does North Africa stand today? In: Geographische Rundschau 11, pp. 10-14.

Book chapter

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2022): Climate change, heat, aggression and conflict. In: Cohrs, Christopher; Knab, Nadine; Sommer, Gert (eds.): Handbook of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.17192/es2022.0050

Schilling, Janpeter; Werland, Luise (2020): Interaction Between Wind Energy, Climate Vulnerability, and Violent Conflict in Northern Kenya. In: Brzoska, Michael; Scheffran, Jürgen (eds.): Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts. Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg. Hamburg University Press. PP. 67-81. https://doi.org/10.15460/hup.105.778

Other (blog/newspaper)

Pinzón, Claudia; Froese, Rebecca; Schilling, Janpeter; Figueroa, Diana; Werland, Luise; Schönenberg, Regine (2023): Environmental Peacebuilding and Gold Mining. Resistance in a protected area in Bolivia. In: Science and Peace 41(2), pp. 20-24.