H Faust
Biographic Data
| ID | 1298137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Faust |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Faust |
| SIGNATURE | FAUST H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0307-6943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How does biodiversity monitoring impact those who conduct it? Reported outcomes and perspectives of a field team in Lore Lindu National Park, Indonesia
Biodiversity monitoring enhances our understanding of the natural environment, provides insights into ecological trends, and evaluates the effectiveness of conservation and management efforts. However, less is known about how such monitoring affects those who conduct it, both in terms of personal benefits and potential shifts in their environmental perspectives. To explore these impacts, we (the project consortium) interviewed the 44 individuals …
Replanting challenges among Indonesian oil palm smallholders
Three decades after their establishment, many smallholder oil palm plantations are overmatured and will require replanting soon. Replanting offers a unique opportunity to redesign plantations, close yield gaps, boost farm productivity, and secure livelihoods. However, replanting requires knowledge, inputs, and financing. If postponed or done sluggishly, replanting could further exacerbate existing socioeconomic and environmental challenges in sma…
Transformation Role of Forest Farmer Group’s (FFGs) in Indonesia from Development Agent to Brokering Project
The collapse of the Indonesia authoritarian regime in 1998 further elevated the role of the local level groups including Forest Farmer Groups (FFGs) in rural development. This research aims to describe changing the role of FFGs due to the formalization process of development which established them as the only partners at the local level. Taking the case of forest farmer groups in three chosen villages by anthropologic approaches, formalization of…
Preservation, modernization, and transformation
In discourses on sustainability, its underlying conceptualizations and meanings, the role of imaginations and their influence on concrete social practices and mutually dependent sociomaterial structures have been overlooked. Therefore, our article uses Adloff and Neckel's (Sustain Sci 14(4):1015-1025, 2019) conceptual framework to explore the role of imaginations in generating different trajectories from a concrete environmental problem, namely i…
Understanding permaculturist motivations among residents of the “PermaKulturRaum” in Goettingen, Germany
By using an inductive qualitative approach, investigating the micro scale, that is, the individual level, we conducted a case study on the PermaKulturRaum in Goettingen, Germany—an experimental space for students to explore alternative lifedesigns. On the supposition that only a radical transition can achieve sustainability on a global scale, we identified permaculture as an appropriate method to achieve this. However, permaculture is not widely …
Social-ecological transformation and Covid-19
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic points to unequally distributed vulnerabilities in society. Unevenly distributed disadvantages are also found in processes of a social-ecological transformation. The concept of working-class environmentalism arguably presents a way out of this deficiency through incorporating and focusing on working class and precarious people in processes of social change. We develop four theses for our argumentation to revisit work…
The cost of leisure
Using the political ecology approach, we investigated the Indonesian government’s decision to commercialize protected areas (PAs) and promote its tourism sector aggressively, and examined how this commercialization is enabled through various institutions and governing structures. We confirmed that the commercialization of PAs in Indonesia was an alternative accumulation, dealing with the crisis of capitalist accumulation. Our empirical finding sh…
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands
Karl Husa, Rüdiger Korff, Helmut Wohlschlägl (Hrsg.)
From rising water to floods
Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra
Merten, J., C. Stiegler, N. Hennings, E. S. Purnama, A. Röll, H. Agusta, M. A. Dippold, L. Fehrmann, D. Gunawan, D. Hölscher, A. Knohl, J. Kückes, F. Otten, D. C. Zemp, and H. Faust. 2020. Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra: integrating local knowledge and scientific inquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11678-250314
Smallholder Telecoupling and Climate Governance in Jambi Province, Indonesia
Current debates on climate change have led to an increased demand for sustainable commodities. Serving this demand, sustainability certification schemes and eco-friendly labels have become prominent mechanisms of climate governance. Smallholder farmers in Jambi province, Indonesia, producing palm oil and rubber as the two dominant smallholder crops, are impacted by this distal demand. Zimmerer et al. (2018) suggest analyzing the potential sustain…
Governing the yarshagumba ‘gold rush’
Under present conditions of economic globalization, social-ecological systems undergo rapid changes. In this context, internal and external forces put heavy pressure on the governance systems of commons to adapt effectively. While institutional learning has been identified as a key element for the adaptive governance of social-ecological systems, there is still limited knowledge of what roles communities and governmental actors play in these proc…
Environmental Governance Meets Reality
Multi-stakeholder sustainability certification schemes have become a favorite instrument for applying good governance, though studies indicate their inefficiency at the producer level. In this study, we used a mixed-method approach to first, map the institutional context of independent oil-palm smallholders in rural Sumatra while, second, reflecting upon the impact of the Smallholder Standard proposed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil on …
Production networks and borderlands
Indonesian Traditional Market Flexibility Amidst State Promoted Market Competition
The penetration of modern supermarkets is believed to be the cause of the declining role of traditional markets and street vendors in Indonesia. Nevertheless, the competition between state-promoted markets and traditional markets is rarely discussed, both adaptation of market institution and strategy of market actors. This research outlined a theoretical understanding of the dynamics of traditional markets, along the concepts of market flexibilit…
The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects
Indonesia's peatlands can be considered as conflict arenas where different state projects and actors compete. The case presented here stands for a new conservation controversy. The Berbak Carbon Initiatives overlap with a settlement project, inducing struggles among different state apparatuses, transnational actors, and peasants. This article is based on a novel conceptual approach building on political ecology, politics of scale and state theory…
Catastrophe & Regeneration in Indonesia's Peatlands
Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita, and Shuichi Kawai, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. xxvii and 466 pp; 14 tables, 80 figures, 4 photographs, glossary, index. $46.00 SGD (ISBN 978-4-87698-877-8).Whe
The fridge in the forest’
Economic and ecological trade-offs of agricultural specialization at different spatial scales
Specialization in agricultural systems can lead to trade-offs between economic gains and ecosystem functions. We suggest and explore a conceptual framework in which economic gains can be maximized when production activities are specialized at increasingly broader scales (from the household to the village, region or above), particularly when markets for outputs and inputs function well. Conversely, more specialization likely reduces biodiversity a…
Water scarcity and oil palm expansion
Merten, J., A. Röll, T. Guillaume, A. Meijide, S. Tarigan, H. Agusta, C. Dislich, C. Dittrich, H. Faust, D. Gunawan, J. Hein, . Hendrayanto, A. Knohl, Y. Kuzyakov, K. Wiegand, and D. Hölscher. 2016. Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes. Ecology and Society 21(2):5.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08214-210205
Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review
1. Agricultural intensification reduces ecological resilience of land-use systems, whereas paradoxically, environmental change and climate extremes require a higher response capacity than ever. Adaptation strategies to environmental change include maintenance of shade trees in tropical agroforestry, but conversion of shaded to unshaded systems is common practice to increase short-term yield. \n \n2. In this paper, we review the short-term and lon…
Humanökologie tropischer Regenwälder
No abstract available
Kulturelle Aspekte der Landnutzung in Indonesien
Voraussetzung für die Schaffung einer nachhaltigen Balance zwischen Naturschutzbelangen und den Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung im Randbereich tropischer Bergwälder sind Kenntnisse über die lokalen Veränderungen von Landnutzungsstrategien und deren Einflussfaktoren. Dieser Beitrag fokussiert dabei insbesondere kulturelle Faktoren wie Migration, Ethnizität und Wissen. Für diese Untersuchung wurden drei repräsentative Dörfer im Hochland Zentralsulawes…
Comparative Cultural Geography
Vergleichende Kulturgeographie: Empirische Befunde zu regionalen Integrationsprozessen in landlichen Raumen Boliviens, der Elfenbeinkiiste und Indonesiens In vielen tropischen Staaten werden Naturwaldgebiete gerodet und kultiviert, um einer wachsenden Bevolkerung Entfal tungsmoglichkeiten zu geben. Migranten bilden neue Gemeinschaften und es entwickeln sich Mechanismen des Zusammen lebens, die sich in gesellschaftlicher Organisation und Stratifik…
Economic and ecological trade-offs of agricultural specialization at different spatial scales
Specialization in agricultural systems can lead to trade-offs between economic gains and ecosystem functions. We suggest and explore a conceptual framework in which economic gains can be maximized when production activities are specialized at increasingly broader scales (from the household to the village, region or above), particularly when markets for outputs and inputs function well. Conversely, more specialization likely reduces biodiversity a…
The fridge in the forest’
From rising water to floods
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands
The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects
Indonesia's peatlands can be considered as conflict arenas where different state projects and actors compete. The case presented here stands for a new conservation controversy. The Berbak Carbon Initiatives overlap with a settlement project, inducing struggles among different state apparatuses, transnational actors, and peasants. This article is based on a novel conceptual approach building on political ecology, politics of scale and state theory…
Water scarcity and oil palm expansion
Merten, J., A. Röll, T. Guillaume, A. Meijide, S. Tarigan, H. Agusta, C. Dislich, C. Dittrich, H. Faust, D. Gunawan, J. Hein, . Hendrayanto, A. Knohl, Y. Kuzyakov, K. Wiegand, and D. Hölscher. 2016. Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes. Ecology and Society 21(2):5.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08214-210205
Environmental Governance Meets Reality
Multi-stakeholder sustainability certification schemes have become a favorite instrument for applying good governance, though studies indicate their inefficiency at the producer level. In this study, we used a mixed-method approach to first, map the institutional context of independent oil-palm smallholders in rural Sumatra while, second, reflecting upon the impact of the Smallholder Standard proposed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil on …
Production networks and borderlands
Preservation, modernization, and transformation
In discourses on sustainability, its underlying conceptualizations and meanings, the role of imaginations and their influence on concrete social practices and mutually dependent sociomaterial structures have been overlooked. Therefore, our article uses Adloff and Neckel's (Sustain Sci 14(4):1015-1025, 2019) conceptual framework to explore the role of imaginations in generating different trajectories from a concrete environmental problem, namely i…
Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra
Merten, J., C. Stiegler, N. Hennings, E. S. Purnama, A. Röll, H. Agusta, M. A. Dippold, L. Fehrmann, D. Gunawan, D. Hölscher, A. Knohl, J. Kückes, F. Otten, D. C. Zemp, and H. Faust. 2020. Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra: integrating local knowledge and scientific inquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11678-250314
"Colonial Interventions on the Cultural Landscape of Central Sulawesi by "Ethical Policy
The colonial conquest of Palu and Kulawi Valley in western Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, is characterised by the so-called "ethical policy", which was introduced to Dutch colonial policy at the beginning of the 20th century. An in-depth analysis of Dutch colonial sources, the memories van overgave , which have never been analysed in such detail on the subject of cultural geography, reveals that almost all facets of cultural landscape were influenc…
Humanökologie tropischer Regenwälder
No abstract available
Kulturelle Aspekte der Landnutzung in Indonesien
Voraussetzung für die Schaffung einer nachhaltigen Balance zwischen Naturschutzbelangen und den Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung im Randbereich tropischer Bergwälder sind Kenntnisse über die lokalen Veränderungen von Landnutzungsstrategien und deren Einflussfaktoren. Dieser Beitrag fokussiert dabei insbesondere kulturelle Faktoren wie Migration, Ethnizität und Wissen. Für diese Untersuchung wurden drei repräsentative Dörfer im Hochland Zentralsulawes…
Comparative Cultural Geography
Vergleichende Kulturgeographie: Empirische Befunde zu regionalen Integrationsprozessen in landlichen Raumen Boliviens, der Elfenbeinkiiste und Indonesiens In vielen tropischen Staaten werden Naturwaldgebiete gerodet und kultiviert, um einer wachsenden Bevolkerung Entfal tungsmoglichkeiten zu geben. Migranten bilden neue Gemeinschaften und es entwickeln sich Mechanismen des Zusammen lebens, die sich in gesellschaftlicher Organisation und Stratifik…
Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review
1. Agricultural intensification reduces ecological resilience of land-use systems, whereas paradoxically, environmental change and climate extremes require a higher response capacity than ever. Adaptation strategies to environmental change include maintenance of shade trees in tropical agroforestry, but conversion of shaded to unshaded systems is common practice to increase short-term yield. \n \n2. In this paper, we review the short-term and lon…
Economic and ecological trade-offs of agricultural specialization at different spatial scales
Specialization in agricultural systems can lead to trade-offs between economic gains and ecosystem functions. We suggest and explore a conceptual framework in which economic gains can be maximized when production activities are specialized at increasingly broader scales (from the household to the village, region or above), particularly when markets for outputs and inputs function well. Conversely, more specialization likely reduces biodiversity a…
Water scarcity and oil palm expansion
Merten, J., A. Röll, T. Guillaume, A. Meijide, S. Tarigan, H. Agusta, C. Dislich, C. Dittrich, H. Faust, D. Gunawan, J. Hein, . Hendrayanto, A. Knohl, Y. Kuzyakov, K. Wiegand, and D. Hölscher. 2016. Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes. Ecology and Society 21(2):5.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08214-210205
Catastrophe & Regeneration in Indonesia's Peatlands
Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita, and Shuichi Kawai, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. xxvii and 466 pp; 14 tables, 80 figures, 4 photographs, glossary, index. $46.00 SGD (ISBN 978-4-87698-877-8).Whe
The fridge in the forest’
Indonesian Traditional Market Flexibility Amidst State Promoted Market Competition
The penetration of modern supermarkets is believed to be the cause of the declining role of traditional markets and street vendors in Indonesia. Nevertheless, the competition between state-promoted markets and traditional markets is rarely discussed, both adaptation of market institution and strategy of market actors. This research outlined a theoretical understanding of the dynamics of traditional markets, along the concepts of market flexibilit…
The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects
Indonesia's peatlands can be considered as conflict arenas where different state projects and actors compete. The case presented here stands for a new conservation controversy. The Berbak Carbon Initiatives overlap with a settlement project, inducing struggles among different state apparatuses, transnational actors, and peasants. This article is based on a novel conceptual approach building on political ecology, politics of scale and state theory…
Smallholder Telecoupling and Climate Governance in Jambi Province, Indonesia
Current debates on climate change have led to an increased demand for sustainable commodities. Serving this demand, sustainability certification schemes and eco-friendly labels have become prominent mechanisms of climate governance. Smallholder farmers in Jambi province, Indonesia, producing palm oil and rubber as the two dominant smallholder crops, are impacted by this distal demand. Zimmerer et al. (2018) suggest analyzing the potential sustain…
Governing the yarshagumba ‘gold rush’
Under present conditions of economic globalization, social-ecological systems undergo rapid changes. In this context, internal and external forces put heavy pressure on the governance systems of commons to adapt effectively. While institutional learning has been identified as a key element for the adaptive governance of social-ecological systems, there is still limited knowledge of what roles communities and governmental actors play in these proc…
Environmental Governance Meets Reality
Multi-stakeholder sustainability certification schemes have become a favorite instrument for applying good governance, though studies indicate their inefficiency at the producer level. In this study, we used a mixed-method approach to first, map the institutional context of independent oil-palm smallholders in rural Sumatra while, second, reflecting upon the impact of the Smallholder Standard proposed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil on …
Production networks and borderlands
Karl Husa, Rüdiger Korff, Helmut Wohlschlägl (Hrsg.)
From rising water to floods
Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra
Merten, J., C. Stiegler, N. Hennings, E. S. Purnama, A. Röll, H. Agusta, M. A. Dippold, L. Fehrmann, D. Gunawan, D. Hölscher, A. Knohl, J. Kückes, F. Otten, D. C. Zemp, and H. Faust. 2020. Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra: integrating local knowledge and scientific inquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11678-250314
Understanding permaculturist motivations among residents of the “PermaKulturRaum” in Goettingen, Germany
By using an inductive qualitative approach, investigating the micro scale, that is, the individual level, we conducted a case study on the PermaKulturRaum in Goettingen, Germany—an experimental space for students to explore alternative lifedesigns. On the supposition that only a radical transition can achieve sustainability on a global scale, we identified permaculture as an appropriate method to achieve this. However, permaculture is not widely …
Social-ecological transformation and Covid-19
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic points to unequally distributed vulnerabilities in society. Unevenly distributed disadvantages are also found in processes of a social-ecological transformation. The concept of working-class environmentalism arguably presents a way out of this deficiency through incorporating and focusing on working class and precarious people in processes of social change. We develop four theses for our argumentation to revisit work…
The cost of leisure
Using the political ecology approach, we investigated the Indonesian government’s decision to commercialize protected areas (PAs) and promote its tourism sector aggressively, and examined how this commercialization is enabled through various institutions and governing structures. We confirmed that the commercialization of PAs in Indonesia was an alternative accumulation, dealing with the crisis of capitalist accumulation. Our empirical finding sh…
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands
Transformation Role of Forest Farmer Group’s (FFGs) in Indonesia from Development Agent to Brokering Project
The collapse of the Indonesia authoritarian regime in 1998 further elevated the role of the local level groups including Forest Farmer Groups (FFGs) in rural development. This research aims to describe changing the role of FFGs due to the formalization process of development which established them as the only partners at the local level. Taking the case of forest farmer groups in three chosen villages by anthropologic approaches, formalization of…
Preservation, modernization, and transformation
In discourses on sustainability, its underlying conceptualizations and meanings, the role of imaginations and their influence on concrete social practices and mutually dependent sociomaterial structures have been overlooked. Therefore, our article uses Adloff and Neckel's (Sustain Sci 14(4):1015-1025, 2019) conceptual framework to explore the role of imaginations in generating different trajectories from a concrete environmental problem, namely i…
Replanting challenges among Indonesian oil palm smallholders
Three decades after their establishment, many smallholder oil palm plantations are overmatured and will require replanting soon. Replanting offers a unique opportunity to redesign plantations, close yield gaps, boost farm productivity, and secure livelihoods. However, replanting requires knowledge, inputs, and financing. If postponed or done sluggishly, replanting could further exacerbate existing socioeconomic and environmental challenges in sma…
Geography (16 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Asian Studies and History (7 works) · Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (7 works) · Law (6 works)