List of Doctoral Candidates and their Dissertations
Doctoral Candidates (in alphabetical order)
Lita Akmentina, Master of Spatial Development Planning (DLGS III)
"Revitalisation for resilient neighbourhoods on community level: Comparative case analysis based
on the characteristics of resilience"
Raphael Ane Atanga, MA Geography (DLGS III)
"Urban resilience: Empirical appraisal of the perennial flooding disaster impacts and urban planning
in Accra, Ghana"
Sudipti Biswas, MSc in Urban Management and Development (DLGS II)
"Urban Renewal in the Traditional Center of a Megacity: A Case Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh"
Methods: Qualitative and exploratory research design, single case study, semi structured interviews, group discussion with different stakeholders, participant observation, mapping and review of legal documents
Jörg Bohnefeld, M.A.
"Climate policy of German Länder: Integration of a new policy challenge. The cases of Saxony and
North Rhine-Westphalia."
Research question: How do Länder develop climate policy and what are important factors (drivers
and barriers)?
Methods: Case study, qualitative content analysis of expert interviews and policy documents
Marianne Darbi, Dipl.-Ing. Landschaftsarchitektur
"Potentials and Risks of Voluntary Biodiversity Offsets"
Markus Dießelmann, Dipl.-Geogr.
"The description of the settlement structure and their development by Geographical Grids: Basics, indicators and evaluation"
Methods: Methods of geoinformatic, geostatistic and image processing
Markus Egermann, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Communal actors between competition and cooperation - The collective actions
of communal actors in regional cooperation using the example of the metropolitan region 'Central Germany'"
Research question: What are the influencing factors that determine collective action of communal actors in regional cooperation and how are they interrelated?
Methods: Participatory observation, face-to-face interviews, document analysis, simulation game
Daniel Eichhorn, Dipl.-Ing. Kartogr.
"Requirements of small area population forecasts - Examination of the methodical developments of the small area population forecast model of the IOER"
Research question: Which strengths and weaknesses do small area population forecasts have?
Methods: The analysis deterministic cohort component method, Examination of
the influence variables in small area population forecasts, potential analysis
Stefan Esch, Dipl.-Geogr. (DLGS III)
"Regional resilience – A comprehensive approach for structurally weak regions?"
Moritz Gies, Ref. iur.
"Adapting Natura 2000 Law to Climate Change: Potentials for Legal Adjustments in European and
National Administrative Law"
Sebastian Golz, Dipl.-Ing.
"Structural options to enhance the resilience of selected residential building types against flooding"
Robert Hecht, Dipl.-Ing. Kartogr.
"Classification of Building Footprints for analysing Settlement Structure"
Jessica Hemingway, MA in City and Regional Planning (DLGS II)
"Building capacity to deal with climate change:
Does the New York State Climate Smart Communities Program make a difference?"
Research question: What are the barriers to local government adaptation to
climate change in the State of New York?
Methods: Online survey
Anne Hennig, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Auswirkungen großer Portfoliotransaktionen auf großstädtische Wohnungsmärkte in Deutschland"
Hendrik Herold, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Methods for object segmentation in multitemporal topographic map series"
Karen Hetz, Dipl.-Geogr. (DLGS III)
"Governance of adaptation to climate change in Johannesburg – Impacts from a spatial planning perspective"
Andre Hilbrich, Dipl.-Landschaftsökologe
"Adaptive management: An approach in dealing with change and uncertainty - Ex ante assessment
using the example of conservation planning of nature protected areas in the context of climate change"
Wei Hou, MSc Geoinformation Science
"Methodical basis for monitoring of changes in landscape structure and landscape diversity"
Methods: Landscape structure, Topography, Biodiversity, Transition zones, Small-scale landscape elements, RapidEye
Martin Jäschke, Dipl.-Phys. (extern)
"Noise mapping and quite areas"
Cindy Krause, Dipl.-Geogr. (DLGS II)
"Large-scale events and urban development effects"
Research question: How cities deal with unsuccessful bids to host such events?
Methods: Comparative case studies, instruments: expert interviews and
document analysis
Oskar Krohmer, Dipl.-Volksw. (DLGS II)
"Effectiveness and Efficiency of Public Expenditures"
Research question: How does regional and cohesion policy of the EU influence (international) competitiveness of regions?
Methods: Regression analysis
Susann Kühn, Dipl.-Volksw. (DLGS II)
"Churches and their secular competitors - the case of Germany"
Research questions: Which demographic, socio-economic and regional variables cause changes in church membership? Which are the determinants of voluntary giving in Germany, and do church membership status and church disaffiliation influence voluntary giving behaviour?
Methods: Economic modelling of household decision making, Statistical and econometric analysis of panel data
Zuzana Ladzianska, MSc Architecture and Urbanism (DLGS I)
"Reflection of the Demographic Change in the Spatial Planning of Slovakia"
José Mercado, Master in Human Settlements and Environment (DLGS II)
"The role of voluntary energy efficiency measures in the private housing sector? The case of Greater Santiago."
Research question: What are the factors that make private developers to offer
and apply residential energy efficiency measures in their current offer in Greater Santiago?
Methods: Qualitative Methods: Semi structured qualitative interviews with private developers, project manager and other key informants. Namely: Public regulatory agents, scholars, and other stakeholders.
Anna Montén, MSc Econ. (extern)
"Demographic change and the provision of local public goods"
Sebastian Muhs, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Gaining large scale information about urban structure, development from maps using automated computer-based methods."
Research question: Which geographic objects can be extracted from maps, how can those be
enriched with semantics and by which means can a time series analysis of the urban structure be
achieved in an efficient and accurate way (object matching, object correlation)?
Methods: Whole spectrum of GIS analysis tools (ArcGIS, Grass), programming (Java, Python, C), methods of image analysis (Halcon, Python), statistics (SPSS, R), object matching
Johannes Nils Nikolowski, Dipl.-Ing.
"Verletzbarkeit von Gebäuden und Baukonstruktionen gegenüber Wasser- und Feuchteeinwirkungen
infolge von Überflutung und Starkregen am Beispiel ausgewählter Wohngebäude in Sachsen"
Martin Nowack, Dipl.-Volksw. (DLGS I)
"Managing the impacts of demographic change on the urban drainage organizations by means
of scenario planning"
Holger Oertel, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Possibilities of spatial differentiation of household formation behavior and
consequences to the generation of parameters of small-scale household forecasts"
Research question: How parameters of the household formation behaviour should be differentiated spatially to reduce imprecisenesses of small-scale household forecasts?
Methods: Descriptive statistics (generally), multivariate analysis (intended)
Alfred Olfert, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Methodologie zur ex post-Evaluierung von Maßnahmen und Instrumenten im Hochwasserrisikomanagement"
Andreas Ortner, Dipl.-Geogr. (DLGS I)
"The impacts of demographic change for the housing stock development in Ukraine"
Research question: Which impacts arise from the demographic change for the
household development in Ukraine and how are these considered by the present
housing stock development? Which recommendations can be given for the
housing stock development in view of future demographic developments?
Methods: Descriptive data analysis, correlation, factor analysis, cluster analysis
Marijana Pantić, MSc in Spatial Planning (DLGS I)
"Population Aging in Mountain Villages of Serbia"
Anne Pfeil, Dipl.-Ing. für Architektur, Dipl.-Biologin (DLGS II)
"The use of emptiness. Change of perspective when coping with Wilhelminian buildings areas in East Germany. A case study in Görlitz"
Nelya Rakhimova, Master of Urban and Environmental Planning (DLGS III)
"Age diversity as a factor of urban resilience: Ageing and youthful cities"
Mei-Ing Ruprecht, Dipl.-Ing. für Architektur (DLGS II)
"Adaptability of urban housing structures - Multi-storey buildings of the 1950/60s in Hannover"
Axel Sauer, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Methodology for the spatially differentiated analysis and evaluation of substance-related flood risks"
Sabine Scharfe, Dipl.-Ing. Landschaftsarchitektur
"'Living on the land' – Inter-relations of individual decisions for a life in a rural area
and the development of the landscape there"
Research question: What is the lived experience of 'living on the land' in Upper
Lusatia and which consideration is paid to the phenomenological approach of lifeworld (Lebenswelt) by regional planning and regional management there?
Methods: Qualitative interviews (guided, narrative-biographical), in particular: method
of example hermeneutics (Hahn, 2009), Qualitative analysis of visual data
Kristin Stechemesser, Dipl.-Kauffrau (DLGS II)
"Organizational adaptation to the impacts of climate change"
Reimund Steinhäußer, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Development of a method for identifying areas capable of energy crop cultivation
using the ecosystem services concept"
Lars Stratmann, Dipl.-Ing. Landschaftsarchitektur
"Monitoring of environmental effects of urban land-use planning" (according to Art. 10 SEA-Directive 2001/42/EC)
Research question: What characterises effective measures and methods for the monitoring of unforeseen adverse effects in follow-up of urban land-use planning,
which effective measures and methods are known and how can the respectively
suitable ones be identified or developed during the assessment?
Methods: Theory-driven development of requirement specifications, case studies with analysis of documents/content, qualitative, guided interviews of planning authorities
Martin Stumpler, Msc. European Spatial Planning and Regional Development (DLGS III)
"Post-riot institutionalization of revitalization efforts in deprived neighbourhoods: Towards more
resilient communities?"
Thomas Topf, Dipl.-Kaufmann (DLGS II)
"Efficiency of Elderly Care in Germany: An empirical analysis for the years 1999-2009"
Jennifer Washco, MA in City and Regional Planning (DLGS II)
"The Role of Advocacy in Mortgage Servicer Decision-Making & Neighborhood Change"
Sandra Wille, Dipl.-Geogr.
"Energetic enhancement of single family houses"
Research question: Which are the (most) essential factors of the different types of home-owners regarding the energetic modernization of single family houses in an urban context?
Methods: Quantitative survey, enhancement of an environmentally-oriented player model
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Completed doctoral theses (in chronological order)
Christian Schmidt: (Dipl.-Volksw., MSc in International Finance and Economic Development, DLGS I)
"Individual and Household Mobility Decision Making under Uncertainty" (January 2012)
Dr. phil. Katharina Ulbrich:
"Intergenerational Relationships and the Transition to Parenthood from a Bi-cultural Perspective"
(August 2011)
Dr. rer. nat. Christine Meyer:
"Planning for an Ageing Population. Experiences from Local Areas in the United Kingdom" (May 2011)
Dr.-Ing. Elena Wiezorek:
"Local property owner partnerships in housing districts as part of urban development strategies“
(March 2011)
Dr. rer. nat. Katharina Mörl:
"Städtische Strategien im Umgang mit dem demographischen Wandel" (November 2010)
Dr.-Ing. Georg Schiller:
"Kostenbewertung der Anpassung zentraler Abwasserentsorgungssysteme bei Bevölkerungsrückgang" (April 2010)
Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Küpper:
"Regionale Reaktionen auf den Demographischen Wandel in dünn besiedelten, peripheren Räumen"
(April 2010)
Dr.-Ing. Rico Vogel:
"GIS-basierte multikriterielle Bewertung der Retentionseignung von Auenflächen – am Beispiel der Elbe" (December 2009)
Dr.-Ing. Patrycja Bielawska-Roepke:
"Handlungsmöglichkeiten kommunaler Verwaltungen in den Revitalisierungsprozessen städtischer Altbaugebiete am Beispiel von Stettin (Szczecin)" (October 2009)
Dr. rer. pol. Maren Regener:
"Der Einfluss der Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung auf das Ergebnis der Umweltprüfung von Bebauungsplaenen" (July 2009) PDF
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Hoechstetter:
"Enhanced methods for the analysis of landscape structure? On the integration of relief and ecological gradients into large-scale landscape studies" (May 2009)
Dr.-Ing. Tobias Krüger:
"Digitale Geländemodelle im Hochwasserschutz: Detektion, Extraktion und Modellierung von Deichen und vereinfachte GIS-basierte Überflutungssimulationen" (May 2009)
Dr.-Ing. Stefanie Rößler:
"Freiräume in schrumpfenden Städten: Chancen und Grenzen der Freiraumplanung im Stadtumbau"
(May 2009)
Dr.-Ing. Wiebke Wendler:
"Integrierte Bewirtschaftungsplanung von Flussgebiets- und Hochwasserrisikomanagement" (March 2009)
Dr. rer. nat. Gérard Hutter:
"Planung und Wandel - Theoretische Grundlagen der Strategieforschung für kommunale Fallstudien zur strategischen räumlichen Planung" (July 2008)
Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Otto:
"Von Downtown zum Arts and Crafts District. Entwicklung des Einzelhandels in den Stadtzentren von Kleinstädten im ländlichen Raum der USA am Beispiel von Ohio." (May 2008) PDF
Dr.-Ing. Christiane Westphal:
"Dichte und Schrumpfung. Kriterien zur Bestimmung angemessener Dichten in Wohnquartieren schrumpfender Städte aus Sicht der stadttechnischen Infrastruktur" (December 2007)
Dr.-Ing. Robert Knippschild:
"Grenzüberschreitende Kooperation: Gestaltung und Management grenzüberschreitender Kooperationsprozesse in der Raumentwicklung im deutsch-polnisch-tschechischen Grenzraum"
(October 2007)
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Naumann:
"Arbeiterwohnhäuser des 19. Jahrhunderts im Plauenschen Grund - Raumstruktur und Baukonstruktion" (May 2007)
Dr. iur. Juliane Albrecht:
"Umweltqualitätsziele im Gewässerschutzrecht. Eine europa-, verfassungs- und verwaltungsrechtliche Untersuchung zur Umsetzung der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie am Beispiel des Freistaates Sachsen"
(October 2006)
Dr.-Ing. Markus Biegel:
"Hydrologische Modellierung urbaner Nährstoffeinträge in Gewässer auf Flussgebietsebene" (December 2005)
Dr. rer. nat. Marco Neubert:
"Bewertung, Verarbeitung und segmentbasierte Auswertung sehr hoch auflösender Satellitenbilddaten vor dem Hintergrund landschaftsplanerischer und landschaftsökologischer Anwendungen" (October 2005)
Dr. jur. Jana Bovet:
"Sanierung und Entwicklung als raumordnerische Aufgabe" (August 2002)
Dr. phil. Ulrich Graute:
"Kooperation in der Europäischen Raumentwicklungspolitik. Mehrebenenkooperation in komplexen Politikprozessen analysiert am Beispiel der Formulierung und Implementierung einer Politik zur integrierten Entwicklung des europäischen Raums" (October 2001)
Dr. jur. Gerold Janssen:
"Die rechtliche Zulässigkeit der Einrichtung von Ostseeschutzgebieten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des deutschen und schwedischen Naturschutzrechts" (2001)
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Siedentop:
"Kumulative Umweltwirkungen in der Strategischen Umweltprüfung von Raumordnungsplänen" (April 2001)
Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Walz:
"Charakterisierung der Landschaftsstruktur mit Methoden der Satelliten-Fernerkundung und Geoinformation" (November 1999)
Dr.-Ing. Karina Pallagst:
"Raumordnung der mittel- und osteuropäischen Staaten vor dem Hintergrund europäischer Raumordnungsbestrebungen - das Beispiel Tschechische Republik" (July 1999)
Dr. rer. nat. Maik Netzband:
"Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der digitalen Fernerkundung zur Versiegelungskartierung in Siedlungsräumen" (May 1998)
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Completed postdoctoral lecture qualifications (Habilitationen)
Dr. rer. nat. habil. Thorsten Wiechmann:
Habilitation an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Fakultät Forst-, Geo- und Hydrowissenschaften auf dem Gebiet der Raumentwicklung.
Thema der Habilitationsschrift:
"Planung und Adaption - Strategieentwicklung in Regionen, Organisationen und Netzwerken"
(November 2007)
Dr.-Ing. habil. Karina Pallagst:
Habilitation an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Fakultät Forst-, Geo- und Hydrowissenschaften auf dem Gebiet der Raumordnung.
Thema der Habilitationsschrift:
"Growth Management: City and Regional Planning in the San Francisco Bay Area between Theory and Practice"
(June 2006)
Dr. rer. nat. habil. Nguyen Xuan Thinh:
Habilitation an der Universität Rostock, Agrar- und Umweltwissenschaftliche Fakultät im Fachgebiet Geodäsie und Geoinformatik.
Thema der Habilitationsschrift:
"Entwicklung von mathematisch-geoinformatischen Methoden und Modellen zur Analyse, Bewertung, Simulation und Entscheidungsunterstützung in Städtebau und Stadtökologie"
(December 2005)
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