Andreas Buerkert
Biographic Data
| ID | 130489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Buerkert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Buerkert |
| SIGNATURE | BUERKERT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kassel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1329-1559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Spatial-Econometric Analysis of Fruit Tree Diversity in Lebanon
Fruit tree agrobiodiversity is critical for smallholder livelihoods and resilience in countries of the global south, yet it is threatened by complex socio-economic and environmental pressures. Understanding the spatial drivers of this diversity is fundamental for targeted conservation. This study provides the first spatial-econometric analysis of fruit tree diversity in Lebanon and the region, combining field-based surveys of 112 farming househol…
Navigating the Path to Sustainable Rurbanity
Little is known about the complex power and governance dynamics within e‐waste hubs in the Global South. Taking the example of Sodom‐Agbogbloshie, Mortuary‐road, Ashaiman and Ashaiman New Town in Ghana's capital Accra, we explore their role as catalysts for sustainable rurbanity—a concept that blends urban and rural characteristics within an informal economy. Ghana, home to some of Africa's largest informal e‐waste dumpsites, presents a typical c…
Informal governance and power dynamics in rurban e-waste assemblages of Accra and Ashaiman, Ghana
Despite growing knowledge on informal e-waste economies in the Global South, thorough understanding is lacking of how power structures operate across different urban contexts and what this means for livelihood sustainability. Drawing on dyadic power theory and political ecology, this study examines informal governance in two contrasting e-waste communities in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region: Sodom-Agbogbloshie and Ashaiman. A mixed-methods analysis …
Natural resource governance in Niger's telecoupled oasis systems
West Africa’s rapid urbanization is challenging natural resource governance of its far distant rural hinterlands. This becomes visible in remote oases at the fringe of the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, which have gained access to food markets of growing coastal cities. Farmers have shifted from subsistence-oriented to large scale market production for urban consumers. However, the expansion and intensification of agricultural land use is heavi…
Scope and governance of terrestrial sand mining around Accra, Ghana
Sand is a crucial resource for the construction of urban infrastructure and constitutes an integral part of the built environment. In Ghana, terrestrial sand mining on farmlands is widespread in the rural and peri-urban communities adjoining the country's capital, Accra. Despite an estimated mining volume of 765 truckloads per day, corresponding to about 4.55 Mio m3 annually, the governance of sand has received little research attention. To fill …
Rurbanity
Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned. Example…
Land cover transitions and effects of transhumance on available forage biomass of rangelands in Benin
This study examined the effects of transhumance pressure on total abavoe-ground biomass and forage availability on rangelands in Benin. We also investigated the implications of land cover transitions on rangelands over a 31-year period. Our work was carried out in three regions of Benin representing distinct phytogeographic regimes: Ketou, Tchaourou, and Sinende. Ground-truthing and biomass sampling of the herbaceous and phanaerophyte strata were…
Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good quality of life components in the Mediterranean region
Palaeoecological Interpretation of a Late Holocene Sediment Sequence from the Alpine Belt of the Southern Mongolian Altai Mountains
The climate in the Altai Mountains is determined by two major climate systems whose dominance has varied over time, leading to significant spatio-temporal changes in temperature and precipitation during the Holocene. This study aimed at the reconstruction of the local to regional moisture and temperature conditions in an alpine belt of the southern Mongolian Altai during the Late Holocene. It thereby contributes to a more comprehensive understand…
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems
Thapa, P., M. Torralba, A. Buerkert, C. Dittrich, and T. Plieninger. 2021. Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis. Ecology and Society 26(3):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12579-260324
Landscape transformation processes in two large and two small cities in Egypt and Jordan over the last five decades using remote sensing data
Impacts of integrated soil fertility management on yield and household income
A comparative analysis of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in Kenya and Ghana
Intra-urban and peri-urban differences in cattle farming systems of Burkina Faso
Implications of agricultural transitions and urbanization for ecosystem services
Ethno-botanical remedies used by pastoralists for the treatment of livestock diseases in Cholistan desert, Pakistan
Effects of socio-economic household characteristics on traditional knowledge and usage of wild yams and medicinal plants in the Mahafaly region of south-western Madagascar
Wild yams play an important role in local food security in the Mahafaly region, especially for poor farmers, and medicinal plants are a primary source of health care for the majority of local people. Our results indicate the influence of socio-economic household characteristics on the use of forest products and its intensity, which should be considered in future management plans for local and regional forest conservation
Cross-Location Analysis of the Impact of Household Socioeconomic Status on Participation in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in West Africa
This study explores the relation between household socioeconomic status (SES) and participation in urban and periurban agriculture (UPA) in three West African cities. We used a structured questionnaire to survey 700 randomly selected households: 250 in Kano, Nigeria, 250 in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, and 200 in Sikasso, Mali. Multiple correspondence analysis was applied on household asset variables to create an index of assets which was used a…
Prospects of mountain ecotourism in Oman
The continued existence of Oman's unique oasis settlements depends on the productivity of their lush crop fields and orchards. In the course of the country's modernisation process, the more remote of these settlements are rapidly abandoned, if poor infrastructural conditions and limited opportunities for income generation prevail. Given its potential to reconcile the cultural values and needs of oasis residents with the interests of national and …
Effects of socio-economic household characteristics on traditional knowledge and usage of wild yams and medicinal plants in the Mahafaly region of south-western Madagascar
Wild yams play an important role in local food security in the Mahafaly region, especially for poor farmers, and medicinal plants are a primary source of health care for the majority of local people. Our results indicate the influence of socio-economic household characteristics on the use of forest products and its intensity, which should be considered in future management plans for local and regional forest conservation
Cross-Location Analysis of the Impact of Household Socioeconomic Status on Participation in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in West Africa
This study explores the relation between household socioeconomic status (SES) and participation in urban and periurban agriculture (UPA) in three West African cities. We used a structured questionnaire to survey 700 randomly selected households: 250 in Kano, Nigeria, 250 in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, and 200 in Sikasso, Mali. Multiple correspondence analysis was applied on household asset variables to create an index of assets which was used a…
Rurbanity
Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned. Example…
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems
Thapa, P., M. Torralba, A. Buerkert, C. Dittrich, and T. Plieninger. 2021. Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis. Ecology and Society 26(3):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12579-260324
Prospects of mountain ecotourism in Oman
The continued existence of Oman's unique oasis settlements depends on the productivity of their lush crop fields and orchards. In the course of the country's modernisation process, the more remote of these settlements are rapidly abandoned, if poor infrastructural conditions and limited opportunities for income generation prevail. Given its potential to reconcile the cultural values and needs of oasis residents with the interests of national and …
A comparative analysis of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in Kenya and Ghana
Prospects of mountain ecotourism in Oman
The continued existence of Oman's unique oasis settlements depends on the productivity of their lush crop fields and orchards. In the course of the country's modernisation process, the more remote of these settlements are rapidly abandoned, if poor infrastructural conditions and limited opportunities for income generation prevail. Given its potential to reconcile the cultural values and needs of oasis residents with the interests of national and …
Cross-Location Analysis of the Impact of Household Socioeconomic Status on Participation in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in West Africa
This study explores the relation between household socioeconomic status (SES) and participation in urban and periurban agriculture (UPA) in three West African cities. We used a structured questionnaire to survey 700 randomly selected households: 250 in Kano, Nigeria, 250 in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, and 200 in Sikasso, Mali. Multiple correspondence analysis was applied on household asset variables to create an index of assets which was used a…
Implications of agricultural transitions and urbanization for ecosystem services
Ethno-botanical remedies used by pastoralists for the treatment of livestock diseases in Cholistan desert, Pakistan
Effects of socio-economic household characteristics on traditional knowledge and usage of wild yams and medicinal plants in the Mahafaly region of south-western Madagascar
Wild yams play an important role in local food security in the Mahafaly region, especially for poor farmers, and medicinal plants are a primary source of health care for the majority of local people. Our results indicate the influence of socio-economic household characteristics on the use of forest products and its intensity, which should be considered in future management plans for local and regional forest conservation
Intra-urban and peri-urban differences in cattle farming systems of Burkina Faso
A comparative analysis of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in Kenya and Ghana
Impacts of integrated soil fertility management on yield and household income
Landscape transformation processes in two large and two small cities in Egypt and Jordan over the last five decades using remote sensing data
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems
Thapa, P., M. Torralba, A. Buerkert, C. Dittrich, and T. Plieninger. 2021. Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis. Ecology and Society 26(3):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12579-260324
Land cover transitions and effects of transhumance on available forage biomass of rangelands in Benin
This study examined the effects of transhumance pressure on total abavoe-ground biomass and forage availability on rangelands in Benin. We also investigated the implications of land cover transitions on rangelands over a 31-year period. Our work was carried out in three regions of Benin representing distinct phytogeographic regimes: Ketou, Tchaourou, and Sinende. Ground-truthing and biomass sampling of the herbaceous and phanaerophyte strata were…
Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good quality of life components in the Mediterranean region
Palaeoecological Interpretation of a Late Holocene Sediment Sequence from the Alpine Belt of the Southern Mongolian Altai Mountains
The climate in the Altai Mountains is determined by two major climate systems whose dominance has varied over time, leading to significant spatio-temporal changes in temperature and precipitation during the Holocene. This study aimed at the reconstruction of the local to regional moisture and temperature conditions in an alpine belt of the southern Mongolian Altai during the Late Holocene. It thereby contributes to a more comprehensive understand…
Rurbanity
Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned. Example…
Scope and governance of terrestrial sand mining around Accra, Ghana
Sand is a crucial resource for the construction of urban infrastructure and constitutes an integral part of the built environment. In Ghana, terrestrial sand mining on farmlands is widespread in the rural and peri-urban communities adjoining the country's capital, Accra. Despite an estimated mining volume of 765 truckloads per day, corresponding to about 4.55 Mio m3 annually, the governance of sand has received little research attention. To fill …
Natural resource governance in Niger's telecoupled oasis systems
West Africa’s rapid urbanization is challenging natural resource governance of its far distant rural hinterlands. This becomes visible in remote oases at the fringe of the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, which have gained access to food markets of growing coastal cities. Farmers have shifted from subsistence-oriented to large scale market production for urban consumers. However, the expansion and intensification of agricultural land use is heavi…
A Spatial-Econometric Analysis of Fruit Tree Diversity in Lebanon
Fruit tree agrobiodiversity is critical for smallholder livelihoods and resilience in countries of the global south, yet it is threatened by complex socio-economic and environmental pressures. Understanding the spatial drivers of this diversity is fundamental for targeted conservation. This study provides the first spatial-econometric analysis of fruit tree diversity in Lebanon and the region, combining field-based surveys of 112 farming househol…
Navigating the Path to Sustainable Rurbanity
Little is known about the complex power and governance dynamics within e‐waste hubs in the Global South. Taking the example of Sodom‐Agbogbloshie, Mortuary‐road, Ashaiman and Ashaiman New Town in Ghana's capital Accra, we explore their role as catalysts for sustainable rurbanity—a concept that blends urban and rural characteristics within an informal economy. Ghana, home to some of Africa's largest informal e‐waste dumpsites, presents a typical c…
Informal governance and power dynamics in rurban e-waste assemblages of Accra and Ashaiman, Ghana
Despite growing knowledge on informal e-waste economies in the Global South, thorough understanding is lacking of how power structures operate across different urban contexts and what this means for livelihood sustainability. Drawing on dyadic power theory and political ecology, this study examines informal governance in two contrasting e-waste communities in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region: Sodom-Agbogbloshie and Ashaiman. A mixed-methods analysis …
Geography (16 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 works) · Livelihood (5 works)