A L Bercht
Biographic Data
| ID | 1282856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Bercht |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bercht |
| SIGNATURE | BERCHT A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9102-0386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The emotional toll of fieldwork
Navigating the scepticism towards qualitative research – Reflections of a human geographer
This Note reflects on the challenges of being a qualitative researcher, emphasising the ongoing struggle for recognition and credibility within certain quantitatively oriented circles. Drawing on personal experience as a human geographer and on the history of qualitative research within geography, it offers practical guidance for qualitative researchers across disciplines on how to assert themselves and succeed despite methodological tensions. Fu…
Introduction to the special issue “Climate and marine justice – debates and critical perspectives”
This special issue (SI) shows that environmental justice perspectives are especially useful for analysing current socio-ecological conflicts. These perspectives help to bridge epistemological and ontological gaps in inter- and transdisciplinary settings and promote normative and justice-oriented discussions on environmental struggles within and beyond the academy. Currently, the following two interrelated environmental crises and their impacts re…
Considering time in climate justice
Time shapes every single human–environment relationship and is inherent in 21st-century global challenges such as climate change and the urgent move towards global sustainability. Nonetheless, the concept of time is still insufficiently addressed in climate justice debates. This paper aims to help fill this gap by presenting empirical results about experiences of climate change in farming communities in Tamil Nadu, South India, and fishing commun…
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern
Nonetheless, qualitative methods still play an understated role in climate and ocean change research. One important reason for this are continuing tendencies in the natural sciences to value ‘hard’ and value-free quantitative approaches over ‘soft’ and value-laden qualitative approaches. This paper argues that to overcome such methodological reservations, it is necessary to inform not only about the key characteristics of qualitative research but…
Mind the mind: How to effectively communicate about cognition in social–ecological systems research
Social-ecological systems (SES) research underlines the tremendous impact of human behaviour on planet Earth. To enable a sustainable course of humanity, the integration of human cognition in SES research is crucial for better understanding the processes leading to and involved in human behaviour. However, this integration is proving a challenge, not only in terms of diverging ontological and epistemological perspectives, but also-and this has re…
Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image-building and city development through entrepreneurial governance
The continuing integration of the Chinese economy into the globalizing world and increasing intercity competition have had significant and comparatively recent implications for post-socialist urbanization in China. Driven by market-oriented development and globalization, decentralization of economic decision-making and downscaling of governance from the central state to local governments and authorities characterize the changing role of the state…
Resilience in the face of changing living conditions in Guangzhou, China – insights and perspectives from psychology
To respond to increasing intercity competition and to improve its leading role as the regional centre in southern China, the Guangzhou government has been constructing the South Railway Station in Shibi Village, the largest passenger railway station in Asia. This paper explores and reflects upon how the inhabitants of this village appraise and deal with the project's impacts on their living conditions. In this regard, the question is particularly…
A Psychological-Geographical Approach to Vulnerability: The Example of a Chinese urban Development Project from the Perspective of the Transactional Stress Model
Since the 1980s, reform, the open-door policy, and rapid economic growth have encouraged Chinese cities to become fast-growing and highly dynamic urban areas. They are subject to both innovations and international connectivity as well as to rising socioeconomic and ecological vulnerability. In this paper we sketch the main transformation processes of a traditional Chinese village in the megacity Guangzhou, South China, processes that are linked t…
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern
Nonetheless, qualitative methods still play an understated role in climate and ocean change research. One important reason for this are continuing tendencies in the natural sciences to value ‘hard’ and value-free quantitative approaches over ‘soft’ and value-laden qualitative approaches. This paper argues that to overcome such methodological reservations, it is necessary to inform not only about the key characteristics of qualitative research but…
Mind the mind: How to effectively communicate about cognition in social–ecological systems research
Social-ecological systems (SES) research underlines the tremendous impact of human behaviour on planet Earth. To enable a sustainable course of humanity, the integration of human cognition in SES research is crucial for better understanding the processes leading to and involved in human behaviour. However, this integration is proving a challenge, not only in terms of diverging ontological and epistemological perspectives, but also-and this has re…
A Psychological-Geographical Approach to Vulnerability: The Example of a Chinese urban Development Project from the Perspective of the Transactional Stress Model
Since the 1980s, reform, the open-door policy, and rapid economic growth have encouraged Chinese cities to become fast-growing and highly dynamic urban areas. They are subject to both innovations and international connectivity as well as to rising socioeconomic and ecological vulnerability. In this paper we sketch the main transformation processes of a traditional Chinese village in the megacity Guangzhou, South China, processes that are linked t…
A Psychological-Geographical Approach to Vulnerability: The Example of a Chinese urban Development Project from the Perspective of the Transactional Stress Model
Since the 1980s, reform, the open-door policy, and rapid economic growth have encouraged Chinese cities to become fast-growing and highly dynamic urban areas. They are subject to both innovations and international connectivity as well as to rising socioeconomic and ecological vulnerability. In this paper we sketch the main transformation processes of a traditional Chinese village in the megacity Guangzhou, South China, processes that are linked t…
Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image-building and city development through entrepreneurial governance
The continuing integration of the Chinese economy into the globalizing world and increasing intercity competition have had significant and comparatively recent implications for post-socialist urbanization in China. Driven by market-oriented development and globalization, decentralization of economic decision-making and downscaling of governance from the central state to local governments and authorities characterize the changing role of the state…
Resilience in the face of changing living conditions in Guangzhou, China – insights and perspectives from psychology
To respond to increasing intercity competition and to improve its leading role as the regional centre in southern China, the Guangzhou government has been constructing the South Railway Station in Shibi Village, the largest passenger railway station in Asia. This paper explores and reflects upon how the inhabitants of this village appraise and deal with the project's impacts on their living conditions. In this regard, the question is particularly…
Mind the mind: How to effectively communicate about cognition in social–ecological systems research
Social-ecological systems (SES) research underlines the tremendous impact of human behaviour on planet Earth. To enable a sustainable course of humanity, the integration of human cognition in SES research is crucial for better understanding the processes leading to and involved in human behaviour. However, this integration is proving a challenge, not only in terms of diverging ontological and epistemological perspectives, but also-and this has re…
Introduction to the special issue “Climate and marine justice – debates and critical perspectives”
This special issue (SI) shows that environmental justice perspectives are especially useful for analysing current socio-ecological conflicts. These perspectives help to bridge epistemological and ontological gaps in inter- and transdisciplinary settings and promote normative and justice-oriented discussions on environmental struggles within and beyond the academy. Currently, the following two interrelated environmental crises and their impacts re…
Considering time in climate justice
Time shapes every single human–environment relationship and is inherent in 21st-century global challenges such as climate change and the urgent move towards global sustainability. Nonetheless, the concept of time is still insufficiently addressed in climate justice debates. This paper aims to help fill this gap by presenting empirical results about experiences of climate change in farming communities in Tamil Nadu, South India, and fishing commun…
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern
Nonetheless, qualitative methods still play an understated role in climate and ocean change research. One important reason for this are continuing tendencies in the natural sciences to value ‘hard’ and value-free quantitative approaches over ‘soft’ and value-laden qualitative approaches. This paper argues that to overcome such methodological reservations, it is necessary to inform not only about the key characteristics of qualitative research but…
The emotional toll of fieldwork
Navigating the scepticism towards qualitative research – Reflections of a human geographer
This Note reflects on the challenges of being a qualitative researcher, emphasising the ongoing struggle for recognition and credibility within certain quantitatively oriented circles. Drawing on personal experience as a human geographer and on the history of qualitative research within geography, it offers practical guidance for qualitative researchers across disciplines on how to assert themselves and succeed despite methodological tensions. Fu…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · China (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works)