Birgit Müller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Müller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit |
| FAMILY NAME | Müller |
| SIGNATURE | MÜLLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8780-4420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unravelling vicious circles of land use competition and food insecurity in agropastoral rangelands
In many regions of the world, the adoption of new livelihood strategies that compete with traditional strategies is one driver of competition over land, resulting in unforeseen impacts on the livelihoods of land users and accelerating land degradation. One example is the Borana Zone in southern Ethiopia, where the expansion of crop cultivation into communal pasturelands undermines traditional livestock‐based livelihoods. The trend of pastureland …
From primary data to formalized decision-making: Open Challenges and Ways Forward to Inform Representations of Farmers' Behavior in Agent-Based Models
Model-based analyses can effectively contribute to investigating leverage points for sustainability transformations in agriculture. They allow for a systematic evaluation of policies under changing environmental, economic, or institutional conditions, and can be used to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of different policy designs. For analyzing agricultural systems, agent-based modeling is particularly useful because it can represent indiv…
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics
Wind erosion from agricultural land is an underrated and understudied environmental challenge in Europe. Its societal and policy relevance will likely increase in the near future due to climate change and associated increases in the frequency, severity and patterns of atmospheric events such as droughts. We review the research on this issue and find it to be fragmented, siloed and dominated by natural sciences, leaving important research gaps. Th…
Determinants of Household Vulnerability in Networks with Formal Insurance and Informal Risk-Sharing
Funder: \n http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659\n Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, c…
Improving the design of climate insurance: Combining empirical approaches and modelling
Extreme weather conditions in the face of due to climate change often disproportionately affects the weakest members of society. Agricultural insurance programs that are specifically designed specifically for smallholders in developing countries are valuable tools that can help farmers to cope with the resulting risks. A broad range of methods including household surveys, experimental games, and agent-based models have been used to assess and imp…
Integrating Equity Considerations into Agent-Based Modeling: A Conceptual Framework and Practical Guidance
Advancing equity is a complex challenge for society, science, and policy. Agent-based models are \nincreasingly used as scientific tools to advance understanding of systems, inform decision-making, and share \nknowledge. Yet, equity has not received due attention within the agent-based modeling (ABM) literature. In this \npaper, we develop a conceptual framework and provide guidance for integrating equity considerations into ABM \nresearch and mo…
How to make socio‐environmental modelling more useful to support policy and management
Dynamic process‐based modelling is often proposed as a powerful tool to understand complex socio‐environmental problems and to provide sustainable solutions as it allows disentangling cause and effect of human behaviour and environmental dynamics. However, the impact of such models in decision‐making and to support policy‐making has so far been very limited. In this paper, we want to take a critical look at the reasons behind this situation and p…
Glyphosate, une histoire d'amour: Propagande et inconscience ordinaire dans l’agriculture industrielle
International audience
Mondes toxiques
Toxicité et invisibilisation. Nucléaire, rapports postcoloniaux et justice environnementale
Ecological and financial strategies provide complementary benefits for smallholder climate resilience: Insights From a Simulation Model
Williams, T. G., G. Dressler, A. Stratton, and B. Müller. 2021. Ecological and financial strategies provide complementary benefits for smallholder climate resilience: insights from a simulation model. Ecology and Society 26(2):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12207-260214
Encounters with Organic Intellectuals in Nicaragua and Indonesia: An Anthropology of Political Practice
This article proposes a conceptual framework for anthropologists who wish to study everyday political practice. The authors develop this framework based on their encounters with their favourite interlocutors, whom they consider to be “organic intellectuals” in Gramsci’s sense, deeply rooted in their communities. The three components of the analytical framework–Eigensinn, empathy, and strategy–enable them to understand politics wherever people eng…
Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: A post-Ostrom research agenda
Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale
‘To Act upon one's Time …’ From the impulse to resist to global political strategy
This article reflects on the possibilities for political action emerging out of quotidian engagements. Following controversies on the patenting of seeds in Canada and globally within the Committee for Food Security I explore what gave the impulse for political resistance in these different arenas. How did collective action emerge and how did it sustain itself? Three political concepts are important for understanding the political actions that I o…
Ecological Vulnerability Through Insurance? Potential Unintended Consequences of Livestock Drought Insurance
An integrated community and ecosystem-based approach to disaster risk reduction in mountain systems
The potential of models and modeling for social-ecological systems research: The reference frame ModSES
Schlüter, M., B. Müller, and K. Frank. 2019. The potential of models and modeling for social-ecological systems research: the reference frame ModSES. Ecology and Society 24(1):31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10716-240131
Peasants
The attempt to define “peasant” and “peasantry” has a long, complicated, and contentious history. The “peasant condition” is historically one of subordination, domination, and exploitation. In the medieval societies of Europe, peasants were tied as persons to their lords. Anthropologists have pointed out that today's “peasants” everywhere have become involved in market relations and debate whether, contrary to “farmers,” they aim at subsistence a…
International Organizations, Anthropology of
Through their advisers, projects, and funds, international organizations are active in parts of the world where anthropologists have traditionally done fieldwork among “indigenous” and rural populations. But also in the newer fields of anthropological enquiry (in enterprises, urban settings, tourism, state organizations, and the domain of intellectual property rights and cultural policies), the guidelines, codes of conduct, and other soft laws pr…
Theoretical foundations of human decision-making in agent-based land use models – A review
Agent-Based Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems: Achievements, Challenges, and a Way Forward
Understanding social-ecological systems (SES) is crucial to supporting the sustainable management of resources. Agent-based modelling is a valuable tool to achieve this because it can represent the behaviour and interactions of organisms, human actors and institutions. Agent-based models (ABMs) have therefore already been widely used to study SES. However, ABMs of SES are by their very nature complex. They are therefore di icult to parameterize a…
Maladaptive outcomes of climate insurance in agriculture
A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems
Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: A post-Ostrom research agenda
Maladaptive outcomes of climate insurance in agriculture
How much climate change can pastoral livelihoods tolerate? Modelling rangeland use and evaluating risk
Comment rendre le monde gouvernable sans le gouverner: Les organisations internationales analysées par les anthropologues
Infringing and trespassing plants
Patents on objects that have agency such as seeds pose new challenges for governance, raising fundamental questions of control and responsibility. In May 2004 the Supreme Court of Canada found the farmer Percy Schmeiser guilty of infringing the Monsanto patent on genetically modified canola, because he reseeded part of his canola harvest although he knew or ought to have known that it contained seeds of GM canola plants that had blown into his fi…
An integrated community and ecosystem-based approach to disaster risk reduction in mountain systems
Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems
Governmental response to climate risk: Model-based assessment of livestock supplementation in drylands
Uncertainty and sustainability in the management of rangelands
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale
Les droits de propriété intellectuelle sur « la nature
La Convention internationale sur la biodiversité (1992) a institué des droits de propriété privée sur la nature sauvage pour la protéger. Les accords fondant l'OMC (1994) demandent le respect des brevets sur les composants génétiques des plantes et des animaux. Ces composants génétiques sont analysés d'abord dans les pays anciennement colonisateurs détenteurs d'échantillons alors que l'usage quotidien des mêmes plantes ou animaux n'est pas reconn…
Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics: The role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research
We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims of ecological economics require a specific combination of inter- and transdisciplinary research, and discuss the epistemological position on which this approach is based. In accordance with this …
Mondes toxiques
Toxicité et invisibilisation. Nucléaire, rapports postcoloniaux et justice environnementale
The potential of models and modeling for social-ecological systems research: The reference frame ModSES
Schlüter, M., B. Müller, and K. Frank. 2019. The potential of models and modeling for social-ecological systems research: the reference frame ModSES. Ecology and Society 24(1):31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10716-240131
Toward an Alternative Culture of Work: Political Idealism and Economic Practices in West Berlin Collective Enterprises
The research on which this book is based was supported financially by a St. John' s Colleg e scholarship.Jack Goody w
Commodities as Currencies: The Integration of Overseas Trade into the Internal Trading Structure of the Igbo of South-East Nigeria
B. Mùller - Les marchandises comme monnaies : l'intégration de la traite d'outremer dans la structure commerciale interne des Igbo du Sud-Est-Nigeria. Les recherches récentes ont prouvé l'existence, en pays igbo, d'importants échanges internes, indépendants du commerce avec l'outre-mer et probablement antérieurs à son apparition. Il est dès lors possible de démontrer que le commerce européen de la première moitié du xixe siècle répondait à une de…
Toward an Alternative Culture of Work: Political Idealism and Economic Practices in West Berlin Collective Enterprises
The research on which this book is based was supported financially by a St. John' s Colleg e scholarship.Jack Goody w
Macht und Disziplin auf dem Weg vom Plan zum Markt: Belegschaftsinteressen und Managementstrategien in ostberliner Industriebetrieben 1990-1993
C'est ça la démocratie: Mise en scène d'un contre-pouvoir lors du sommet de Seattle
C’est ça la démocratie ! » (« This is what democracy looks like ! ») En scandant cette phrase sur un rythme dansant, les manifestants ont parcouru les rues de Seattle pendant la semaine du sommet de l’Organisation mondial du commerce (OMC), du 30 novembre au 3 décembre 1999. C’est avec ce slogan qu’ils se sont approchés des policiers en tenue de combat qui bloquait l’accès au centre des conventions où se sont rencontrés les négociateurs des 135 p…
A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models
Uncertainty and sustainability in the management of rangelands
Infringing and trespassing plants
Patents on objects that have agency such as seeds pose new challenges for governance, raising fundamental questions of control and responsibility. In May 2004 the Supreme Court of Canada found the farmer Percy Schmeiser guilty of infringing the Monsanto patent on genetically modified canola, because he reseeded part of his canola harvest although he knew or ought to have known that it contained seeds of GM canola plants that had blown into his fi…
Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics: The role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research
We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims of ecological economics require a specific combination of inter- and transdisciplinary research, and discuss the epistemological position on which this approach is based. In accordance with this …
Capitalism and modernity: The great debate - Jack Goody
Les droits de propriété intellectuelle sur « la nature
La Convention internationale sur la biodiversité (1992) a institué des droits de propriété privée sur la nature sauvage pour la protéger. Les accords fondant l'OMC (1994) demandent le respect des brevets sur les composants génétiques des plantes et des animaux. Ces composants génétiques sont analysés d'abord dans les pays anciennement colonisateurs détenteurs d'échantillons alors que l'usage quotidien des mêmes plantes ou animaux n'est pas reconn…
Pitfalls and potential of institutional change: Rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management
Comment rendre le monde gouvernable sans le gouverner: Les organisations internationales analysées par les anthropologues
Describing human decisions in agent-based models – ODD + D, an extension of the ODD protocol
The Gloss of Harmony: The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations
How much climate change can pastoral livelihoods tolerate? Modelling rangeland use and evaluating risk
The seed and the citizen
While farmers set up conditions for the development of plants, the seeds they help grow into plants determine conditions for the farmers. Modern plants not only have agronomic characteristics but also intellectual property rights, phytosanitary regulations, and classifications attached to them. Interacting with their seeds creates fields of property and power, situations of possibility and impossibility, in which farmers and breeders operate. The…
Fools Gold on the Prairies: Ontologies, Farmers and their Seeds
The "ontological turn" in anthropology is linked to the insight that environmental thinking requires reflecting on conflicting ways of "being and becoming in the world". This article explores how large-scale industrial farmers engage with the world, their ontic relationship with seeds, their direct reconnection to reality and sensorial perception of the non-human. However, seeds not only become what they are in multifarious networks of natural, c…
The Real Dirt on Responsible Agricultural Investments at Rio+20: Multilateralism versus Corporate Self-Regulation
This article uses a fine-grained anthropological and linguistic analysis to expose the routine negotiating practices and power games behind the conclusion of paragraph 115 on responsible agricultural investments during the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012. These negotiations are simultaneously a telling example for the quotidian stuff of international governance-an arena in which much larger forces are played out through small language-based tactic…
A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems
Governmental response to climate risk: Model-based assessment of livestock supplementation in drylands
Theoretical foundations of human decision-making in agent-based land use models – A review
Agent-Based Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems: Achievements, Challenges, and a Way Forward
Understanding social-ecological systems (SES) is crucial to supporting the sustainable management of resources. Agent-based modelling is a valuable tool to achieve this because it can represent the behaviour and interactions of organisms, human actors and institutions. Agent-based models (ABMs) have therefore already been widely used to study SES. However, ABMs of SES are by their very nature complex. They are therefore di icult to parameterize a…
Maladaptive outcomes of climate insurance in agriculture
Peasants
The attempt to define “peasant” and “peasantry” has a long, complicated, and contentious history. The “peasant condition” is historically one of subordination, domination, and exploitation. In the medieval societies of Europe, peasants were tied as persons to their lords. Anthropologists have pointed out that today's “peasants” everywhere have become involved in market relations and debate whether, contrary to “farmers,” they aim at subsistence a…
International Organizations, Anthropology of
Through their advisers, projects, and funds, international organizations are active in parts of the world where anthropologists have traditionally done fieldwork among “indigenous” and rural populations. But also in the newer fields of anthropological enquiry (in enterprises, urban settings, tourism, state organizations, and the domain of intellectual property rights and cultural policies), the guidelines, codes of conduct, and other soft laws pr…
Political science (22 works) · Economics (18 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Environmental resource management (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Law (9 works)