NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Q Heike Becker-Baumann M.A. was employeed at the Department of Geography at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf until September 2002. She assisted in a research project Consumption of Resources, Problems of Waste Disposal and Endangerment of the Environment through Mass-Tourism in Coastal Areas of Thailand sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Community) and is now working on a dissertation about Industrial Tourism in the Ruhr Area. A Contribution to Sustainable Regional Development?. Andrea Bender is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and a Research Fellow in Cognitive Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Freiburg in 2000. Her research interests include cognitive and linguistic anthropology, cognitive psychology and Oceania. She has concentrated on ecological concepts and behaviour, emotions, concepts of space and time, and ethnomathematics. She carried out field research in Tonga in 1997 99, in 2001 and in 2004/5. Gisela Böhm is Professor of Psychometrics and Research Methods at the University of Bergen. She received her Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin in 1993. Her research centres on social cognition, decision making and risk perception and has focused on mental models, moral judgment and emotional reactions in subjective risk evaluation. She is also interested in research methods and data analysis. Before joining the University of Bergen Gisela Böhm held positions at the University of Bremen (Germany) and the University for Pedagogics, Ludwigsburg (Germany). She was visiting professor at the universities of Dortmund, Freiburg, Lüneburg and at Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg (all Germany). She is Chair of the Bergen Decision Lab.
384 Notes on Contributors Heiko Breit received his Diploma degree in sociology from the University of the Saarland (Saarbrücken) in 1986, where he also worked in the Psychological Institute until 1996. In 1996 he moved to the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt/Main where he works in the Culture and Education section. He finished his doctorate in 2002 at the University of the Saarland. His main research interests are qualitative analyses on cultural and moral issues, particularly the development of judgements on justice, responsibility and democracy. Barbara Casciarri is Professor of Anthropology at the University of St Denis- Paris 8. She has done extensive fieldwork among the Arab nomadic pastoralists of central Sudan, focusing on their political organisation and kinship system. More recently she has been researching the management of water resources among Berber nomad groups and oasis farmers in southeastern Morocco. Currently, she is doing a restudy of the pastoralists in Sudan. Michael J. Casimir is Professor of Ethnology at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Cologne. He has conducted prolonged fieldwork on the ecology, economy, environmental management and nutritional and socialisation patterns among pastoral nomads in west Afghanistan and Kashmir. Together with Aparna Rao he was chairperson of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples of the International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences (1995 1998), and was until 2004 one of the editors of Nomadic Peoples, the official journal of the Commission. His major publications include Flocks and Food. A Biocultural Approach to the Study of Pastoral Foodways (Böhlan, 1991) and, together with Aparna Rao, Mobility and Territoriality (ed. Berg, 1992) and Nomadism in South Asia (ed. Oxford University Press, 2003). Thomas Döring received his Diploma degree in psychology in 1994 and finished his doctorate in 2003. After completing his Diploma he worked at the University of the Saarland (Saarbrücken). In 1996 he moved to the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt/Main as a co-worker in the section Culture and Education. Since 2004 he has worked at the Adolf-Bender- Center in St. Wendel, Saarland, Germany. His main research interests are moral judgments, control beliefs, risk management and xenophobia. Lutz H. Eckensberger is Professor of Psychology at the University of the Saarland (Saarbrücken). He received his Diploma degree in 1996 and finished his doctorate in 1979. He was Director of the German Institute for International Educational Research from 1998 2004 where he is currently head of the Culture and Education section. He also holds a Chair of Psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1985 86 he was Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Berlin. Besides his focus on methodology, his main interest is moral development under a cultural and action theory
Notes on Contributors 385 perspective. He also works on the contextualization of morality, which implies the analysis of the relation between facts and norms, cognition and affect, control and risk taking, as well as self and solidarity with others. He has published over 90 articles in books and journals and edited 15 books. Anita Engels received her doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Bielefeld in 1999. She spent a post-doc research fellowship at Stanford University where she started working on institutional aspects of an emerging global market for emissions trading. Currently she is Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Globalisation and Governance where she teaches courses on globalisation and social change. Her research interests are the emergence of green markets, ecological modernisation, and exploring the links between globalisation theories and organisational theories. Her current research project is a cross-national comparison of company behaviour in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Barbara Göbel has been the Director of the Ibero-American Institute, Berlin since June 2005. She also serves on the boards of diverse national and international organizations working on development and environment issues or on Latin America. She studied social anthropology, prehistory, economic and social history at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen (Germany); in 1990 she received a Ph.D. from the latter. She has been Lecturer at the Universities of Göttingen, Tübingen, Hohenhein, Bonn and Cologne (Germany) and Visiting Professor at several universities in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. She also worked at the Laboratoire d Anthropologie Sociale in Paris (France). Barbara Göbel has more than three and a half years ethnographic fieldwork experience in the Andes, mainly NW-Argentina., N-Chile and S-Bolivia where she worked on economic and environmental topics. Between 2002 and 2005 she was the Executive Director of the International Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Andrea Grotzke studied economics and geography at the University of Freiburg, Germany. After extensive fieldwork in southern Africa, where she analysed small scale co-operative farming systems, she worked for several consulting agencies. Her work focuses on consultancy regarding the financing of sustainable energy projects, and on issues of renewable energy schemes. Götz Hoeppe is a member of the research group on the sociology of knowledge and finance at the University of Constance and part-time Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Heidelberg University. He obtained his Ph.D. in social anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin for a study of Hindu and Muslim fishermen s local knowledge and their perceptions of environmental change in a Kerala village (India). He has published Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen s Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India (Berghahn Books, 2007) and Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (Princeton University Press, 2007).
386 Notes on Contributors Annette Huppert works at the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt/Main. She studied psychology with a focus on cultural and developmental psychology and psychoanalysis. She got her Diploma in 1998 at the University of the Saarland. Her main research interests are qualitative analysis on normative cultural standards, particularly moral development and the development of responsibility. Fred W. Krüger is Professor of Geography and a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research and teaching interests focus on Urban Studies and Development Geography. In the latter, he specialises on theoretical approaches and the empirical, actor-oriented analysis of poverty (especially in cities), vulnerability, coping, livelihood security, and concepts of risk. A regional focus lies on southern Africa. A major current research project deals with the impact of HIV/AIDS on human livelihoods in Botswana. Past research activities in the context of the developing world involved urban planning issues, social vulnerability patterns, and drought management in southern Africa. Josef Nerb is Professor of Educational Psychology at the Department of Education, University of Freiburg (Germany) from where he also had received his Ph.D. With a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation he did a postdoc study at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Hans-Rüdiger Pfister is Professor of Business Psychology at the University of Lüneburg. He received his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Berlin in 1990. Prior to joining the University of Lüneburg in 2001, he worked as a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute IPSI in Darmstadt and the Knowledge Media Research Centre in Tübingen. His research interests include behavioural decision making, the role of emotions in decision making, and risk perception, computer-supported collaborative learning and human-computer interaction. He was founder and is currently Deputy Head of the Institute of Experimental Industrial Psychology (LueneLab) at the University of Lüneburg. Judith Schlehe has been Professor and Head of Department of the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg/Brsg since 2002. She studied cultural anthropology, sociology and psychology, received her Ph.D. at University of Freiburg in 1987. She was a Visiting Professor at University of Bremen (1995 98) and Mainz (2000). Her main fields of research are cultural globalisation and intercultural issues, gender, religion, tourism and the anthropology of disaster. She has published Die Meereskönigin des Südens, Ratu Kidul. Geisterpolitik im javanischen Alltag, (Berlin: Reimer, 1998) and recently Nach dem Erdbeben auf Java: Kulturelle Polarisierungen, soziale Solidarität und Abgrenzung Internationales Asienforum 37(3 4) (2006).
Notes on Contributors 387 Gabriela Schmitt worked for the ministry for intergeneration and familiy affairs, women and integration of the state of Northrhine-Westfalia until December 2006. She was employed at the Department of Geography at the Heinrich- Heine-University Düsseldorf and assisted in a research project about Consumption of Resources, Problems of Waste Disposal and Endangerment of the Environment through Mass-Tourism in Coastal Areas of Thailand sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Community) until October 2001. Her main research areas are sustainable development, sustainable tourism, environmental education, global education/learning. Stefan Seitz is professor of Ethnology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 and finished his Habilitation in 1975. He has done anthropological fieldwork in Central and East Africa as well as in Insular Southeast Asia. His research has been with Pygmies in Rwanda and the Congo, with the Punan of Borneo, the Batak of Palawan, the Ayta at the Mt. Pinatubo in Zambales, Philippines, and the Mamanua in Mindanao, Philippines. Hans Spada is Full Professor at the Department of Psychology, Research Group Cognition-Emotion-Communication, University of Freiburg. He studied psychology at the University of Vienna, earned his doctorate there, and qualified as a University Lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Kiel. He was President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Chairman of the Ph.D.-Program Human and Machine Intelligence, and the European Science Foundation Program Learning in Humans and Machines. He is member of the Virtual Ph.D.-Program Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Exchange with the New Media. He is author/ editor/ coeditor of 10 books including: Learning in Human and Machines: Towards an Interdisciplinary Learning Science, (Pergamon 1996); Environmental Risks, (Cambridge University Press 2001); Barriers and Biases in Computer-mediated Knowledge Communication and How They May Be Overcome, (Cambridge University Press 2005), and author/ co-author of about 100 papers. (http://www. psychologie.uni-freiburg.de/members/spada/). Karl Vorlaufer as Professor Emeritus was the holder of the Chair for Cultural Geography and Development Research at the Department of Geography at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf until (2002). He is one of the editors of the journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (Journal for Economic Geography), has conducted several research projects sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Community) and the Volkwagen- Stiftung (VW-Foundation). He has published widely on the topics: tourism in developing countries, sustainable development, economy and population dynamics and urban geography. His regional specialisation comprises South-East and South Asia; and Africa south of the Sahara.
388 Notes on Contributors Thomas Widlok currently works at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and the Department of Anthropology, Durham University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of Living on Mangetti (Oxford University Press, 1999), co-editor of Property and Equality (Berghahn Books, 2005) and has published widely on the ethnography of hunter-gatherers in southern Africa and in Australia as well as on comparative anthropological issues.