Andreas Thiel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Thiel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Thiel |
| SIGNATURE | THIEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kassel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1290-0375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Combining social, ecological and economic approaches in knowledge co‐production enables the identification of sustainable farming options
Farming systems face an increasing sustainability challenge requiring integrated solutions to minimize the trade‐offs between the social, ecological and economic dimensions of sustainability. Yet, most research remains siloed, limiting interdisciplinary understanding of farming systems as coupled social‐ecological systems (SESs) and precluding holistic solutions. Addressing this gap, we employed an interdisciplinary knowledge co‐production approa…
Ein römisch-germanisches Arrangement der Spätantike
Diverse values of nature can drive transformative change in the Wefe nexus governance in Mediterranean countries
The water–energy–food–ecosystem (WEFE) nexus has emerged as a useful concept to describe and address complex interdependencies in natural resource governance. However, most existing research predominantly emphasizes biophysical and economic dimensions, overlooking the social and cultural dimensions of the nexus and how communities perceive and value these interconnections at diverse local scales. This study aims to bridge this gap by integrating …
Exploring agricultural stakeholders’ mental models of the water-energy-food-ecosystems (Wefe) Nexus
Empirical research on polycentric governance
Polycentric governance (PG) describes governance systems characterized by multiple, interdependent centers of decision‐making, offering an alternative to centralized governance models. PG is often assumed to be effective at helping policy actors address complex collective action problems, but burgeoning empirical literature on PG shows that it is not a panacea – PG is associated with both positive and negative governance outcomes. In this article…
State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context
Sustaining agricultural production in arid and semi-arid regions is of paramount importance to food security, geo-political independence, and social stability. In this context, it is vital to understand the effectiveness of policies. In this article, we aim to answer the question of what role the state and its policies play for soil protection in rainfed agriculture in Tunisia, and why. Beyond evaluating soil protection, this work contributes to …
Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems
Pathways towards enhanced capacity in water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Hadrian in Germany and the Construction of the Limes Palisade in a.d . 120
Germania Inferior and Germania Superior , along the Rhine, and neighbouring Raetia were provinces inherited by Hadrian which lacked major external threats and had the potential to become flourishing parts of the Roman Empire. Relying on his personal knowledge of the regional situation he strengthened civilian self-government by gradually reducing the role of the military. Apart from the legions, all other units were stationed in a small defined c…
Coordination across the policy cycle
Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Property rights and the conservation of forests in communal areas in Zimbabwe
Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe
Ancient DNA informs on past cultures Archaeology has used analysis of the artifacts and remains of people to uncover their past behaviors and to infer their cultural practices. However, establishing genetic relationships has only recently become possible. Mittnik et al. examined the kinship and inheritance of the remains of people from the German Lech River Valley over a time period spanning the Late Neolithic Corded Ware Culture, the Bell Beaker…
Governing Complexity
There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it in contemporary settings involving complex natural resource systems, as well as a critical eval…
Understanding the Role of Power in Changes to Pastoral Institutions in Kyrgyzstan
Our article reflects on the Kyrgyz experience of a transformation in pasture use and management, seeking to contribute to the literature on institutional change in post-socialist contexts. We employ the distributional theory of institutional change in order to understand gradual, informal de facto institutional change which emerged because of changes in formal institutions (laws) that changed the bargaining positions of actors involved. The study…
Diagnosing the role of the state for local collective action
Alexandru Popa, Frontiera Imperiului Roman din Dacia în drum spre Lista patrimoniului mondial. Pro bleme și responsabilităţi pentru cercetarea arheologică, protecția patrimoniu lui și turism / The Lim…
Today, limes is an en vogue term in Romania. Scientific research, heritage protection and, more recently, politic discourse – they all deal, directly or indirectly, with issues regarding the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in today’s Romania. In the context of nominating the Frontiers of the Roman Empire as a serial site of UNESCO World Heritage, each of the previously mentioned domains has its responsibilities towards the monument itself. In this …
Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework
Van Riper, C. J., A. Thiel, M. Penker, M. Braito, A. C. Landon, J. M. Thomsen, and C. M. Tucker. 2018. Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework. Ecology and Society 23(3):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10047-230325
Transferring Williamson's discriminating alignment to the analysis of environmental governance of social-ecological interdependence
Evaluating an instrument for institutional crafting
Institutional design in transformation
Crafting or designing? Science and politics for purposeful institutional change in Social–Ecological Systems
Constitutional state structure and scalar re-organization of natural resource governance
Developing an analytical framework for reconstructing the scalar reorganization of water governance as institutional change
Diagnosing the role of the state for local collective action
Evaluating an instrument for institutional crafting
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Crafting or designing? Science and politics for purposeful institutional change in Social–Ecological Systems
From Sandoz to Salmon
In this paper we use a case study of the Rhine River to examine the relevance of Common Pool Resource (CPR) Theory for two conditions in which it has not been extensively tested: large scale international water management and pollution problems. For that purpose, we link variation in pollution abatement to a set of explanatory variables proposed by CPR theory. Causal inference is established through process tracing and a series of within-case com…
Constitutional state structure and scalar re-organization of natural resource governance
Institutional design in transformation
The use of ex-ante modelling tools in European Impact Assessment
Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems
Understanding the Role of Power in Changes to Pastoral Institutions in Kyrgyzstan
Our article reflects on the Kyrgyz experience of a transformation in pasture use and management, seeking to contribute to the literature on institutional change in post-socialist contexts. We employ the distributional theory of institutional change in order to understand gradual, informal de facto institutional change which emerged because of changes in formal institutions (laws) that changed the bargaining positions of actors involved. The study…
Nudging Evolution
This Special Feature, "Nudging Evolution? Critical Exploration of the Potential and Limitations of the Concept of Institutional Fit for the Study and Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems," aims to contribute toward the development of social theory and social research methods for the study of social-ecological system dynamics. Our objective is to help strengthen the academic discourse concerning if, and if so, how, to what extent, and …
State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context
Sustaining agricultural production in arid and semi-arid regions is of paramount importance to food security, geo-political independence, and social stability. In this context, it is vital to understand the effectiveness of policies. In this article, we aim to answer the question of what role the state and its policies play for soil protection in rainfed agriculture in Tunisia, and why. Beyond evaluating soil protection, this work contributes to …
Coordination across the policy cycle
Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research
Property rights and the conservation of forests in communal areas in Zimbabwe
Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework
Van Riper, C. J., A. Thiel, M. Penker, M. Braito, A. C. Landon, J. M. Thomsen, and C. M. Tucker. 2018. Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework. Ecology and Society 23(3):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10047-230325
The use of ex-ante modelling tools in European Impact Assessment
Nudging Evolution
This Special Feature, "Nudging Evolution? Critical Exploration of the Potential and Limitations of the Concept of Institutional Fit for the Study and Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems," aims to contribute toward the development of social theory and social research methods for the study of social-ecological system dynamics. Our objective is to help strengthen the academic discourse concerning if, and if so, how, to what extent, and …
Developing an analytical framework for reconstructing the scalar reorganization of water governance as institutional change
From Sandoz to Salmon
In this paper we use a case study of the Rhine River to examine the relevance of Common Pool Resource (CPR) Theory for two conditions in which it has not been extensively tested: large scale international water management and pollution problems. For that purpose, we link variation in pollution abatement to a set of explanatory variables proposed by CPR theory. Causal inference is established through process tracing and a series of within-case com…
Evaluating an instrument for institutional crafting
Institutional design in transformation
Crafting or designing? Science and politics for purposeful institutional change in Social–Ecological Systems
Constitutional state structure and scalar re-organization of natural resource governance
Transferring Williamson's discriminating alignment to the analysis of environmental governance of social-ecological interdependence
Alexandru Popa, Frontiera Imperiului Roman din Dacia în drum spre Lista patrimoniului mondial. Pro bleme și responsabilităţi pentru cercetarea arheologică, protecția patrimoniu lui și turism / The Lim…
Today, limes is an en vogue term in Romania. Scientific research, heritage protection and, more recently, politic discourse – they all deal, directly or indirectly, with issues regarding the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in today’s Romania. In the context of nominating the Frontiers of the Roman Empire as a serial site of UNESCO World Heritage, each of the previously mentioned domains has its responsibilities towards the monument itself. In this …
Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework
Van Riper, C. J., A. Thiel, M. Penker, M. Braito, A. C. Landon, J. M. Thomsen, and C. M. Tucker. 2018. Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework. Ecology and Society 23(3):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10047-230325
Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe
Ancient DNA informs on past cultures Archaeology has used analysis of the artifacts and remains of people to uncover their past behaviors and to infer their cultural practices. However, establishing genetic relationships has only recently become possible. Mittnik et al. examined the kinship and inheritance of the remains of people from the German Lech River Valley over a time period spanning the Late Neolithic Corded Ware Culture, the Bell Beaker…
Governing Complexity
There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it in contemporary settings involving complex natural resource systems, as well as a critical eval…
Understanding the Role of Power in Changes to Pastoral Institutions in Kyrgyzstan
Our article reflects on the Kyrgyz experience of a transformation in pasture use and management, seeking to contribute to the literature on institutional change in post-socialist contexts. We employ the distributional theory of institutional change in order to understand gradual, informal de facto institutional change which emerged because of changes in formal institutions (laws) that changed the bargaining positions of actors involved. The study…
Diagnosing the role of the state for local collective action
Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Property rights and the conservation of forests in communal areas in Zimbabwe
Hadrian in Germany and the Construction of the Limes Palisade in a.d . 120
Germania Inferior and Germania Superior , along the Rhine, and neighbouring Raetia were provinces inherited by Hadrian which lacked major external threats and had the potential to become flourishing parts of the Roman Empire. Relying on his personal knowledge of the regional situation he strengthened civilian self-government by gradually reducing the role of the military. Apart from the legions, all other units were stationed in a small defined c…
Coordination across the policy cycle
Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems
Pathways towards enhanced capacity in water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Empirical research on polycentric governance
Polycentric governance (PG) describes governance systems characterized by multiple, interdependent centers of decision‐making, offering an alternative to centralized governance models. PG is often assumed to be effective at helping policy actors address complex collective action problems, but burgeoning empirical literature on PG shows that it is not a panacea – PG is associated with both positive and negative governance outcomes. In this article…
State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context
Sustaining agricultural production in arid and semi-arid regions is of paramount importance to food security, geo-political independence, and social stability. In this context, it is vital to understand the effectiveness of policies. In this article, we aim to answer the question of what role the state and its policies play for soil protection in rainfed agriculture in Tunisia, and why. Beyond evaluating soil protection, this work contributes to …
Ein römisch-germanisches Arrangement der Spätantike
Economics (17 works) · Business (13 works) · Environmental resource management (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Corporate governance (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Water resources management and optimization (7 works)