Department Structural Change
Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas
This department researches process complexities of agrarian structural change. Special focus is placed on inherent dynamics, influencing factors and effects, which are analyzed on various analytical levels by means of a broad array of methodical instruments.
Research subjects are, firstly, the development of enterprises in the agricultural and food sector, including their strategies and organization. Secondly, the effects that changing framework conditions such as agricultural policies have on agricultural businesses and structural change are analyzed. Thirdly, institutional economics and system theory questions relating to the role of nonprofit organizations and civil society engagement in the agricultural and food sector are investigated. A fourth focus is on interdependencies between the environment, resources, structural change and growth, in which context the changes of land use are studied or agricultural production potentials are assessed.
The department’s key methodical competencies are in the field of computational economics, particularly agent-based modeling. Further methodological expertise has been developed in spatial econometry, data mining, econometric methods, as well as productivity and efficiency analyses.
Latest publications of the department
Mkrtchian, Alexander; Müller, Daniel (2024) Assessing the impact of the Russian Invasion on crop production in Ukraine with open satellite data. Ukrainian Analytical Digest (5): 8-14.
Njiru, Ruth; Appel, Franziska; Dong, Changxing; Balmann, Alfons (2024) Application of deep learning to emulate an agent-based model. FORLand Technical Paper, Berlin.
Thonicke, Kirsten; Rahner, Eva; Arneth, Almut; Bonn, Aletta; Borchard, Nils; Chaudhary, Abhishek; Darbi, Marianne; Dutta, Trishna; Eberle, Ulrike; Eisenhauer, Nico; Farwig, Nina; Flocco, Cecilia G.; Freitag, Jens; Grobe, Peter; Grosch, Rita; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Grosse, Angela; Grützmacher, Kim; Hagemann, Nina; Hansjürgens, Bernd; Hartman Scholz, Amber; Hassenrück, Christiane; Häuser, Christoph; Hickler, Thomas; Hölker, Franz; Jacob, Ute; Jähnig, Sonja C.; Jürgens, Klaus; Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie; Kretsch, Conor; Krug, Cornelia; Lindner, Jan Paul; Loft, Lasse; Mann, Carsten; Matzdorf, Bettina; Mehring, Marion; Meier, Rudolf; Meusemann, Karen; Müller, Daniel; Nieberg, Mats; Overmann, Jörg; Peters, Ralph S.; Pörtner, Lisa M.; Pradhan, Prajal; Prochnow, Annette; Rduch, Vera; Reyer, Christopher; Roos, Christian; Scherber, Christoph; Scheunemann, Nicole; Schroer, Sibylle; Schuck, Andreas; Sioen, Giles Bruno; Sommer, Simone; Sommerwerk, Nike; Tanneberger, Franziska; Tockner, Klement; van der Voort, Hein; Veenstra, Tonjes; Verburg, Peter H.; Voss, Maike; Warner, Barbara; Wende, Wolfgang; Wesche, Karsten (2024) 10 Must-Knows aus der Biodiversitätsforschung 2024. Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung.
Balmann, Alfons (2024) Landwirtschaft im nationalen Wettbewerb und die Rolle des Bodenmarktes. Wirtschaftsdienst 104 (3): 148-152.
Balmann, Alfons (2024) Politische, gesellschaftliche und ökologische Herausforderungen für die Nutztierhaltung. In: Proceedings of the Society of Nutrition Physiology (Band 33), 172: DLG-Verlag.
Metelytsia, Volodymyr; Gagalyuk, Taras (2024) Systems of sustainability measurement in the agricultural sector (by the examples of RISE and Position Green). International Scientific Journal "Internauka". Series: "Economic Sciences" 81 (2)
Mkrtchian, Alexander; Müller, Daniel (2024) Satellitendaten zeigen hohen Verlust an ukrainischen Anbauflächen als Folge der russischen Invasion. Ukraine-Analysen (294): 8-13.
Schaft, Franziska; Gagalyuk, Taras; Klein, Eduard (eds) (2024) Folgen des russischen Angriffskriegs für die ukrainische Landwirtschaft. Ukraine-Analysen, Vol. 19, No. 294.
Plaček, Michal; Rossel, Jordi; Valentinov, Vladislav; Krapek, Milan (2024) Green public procurement in the most visited European museums: A comparison and a mapping. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11
Umirbekov, Atabek; Müller, Daniel (2024) SWECA: High-resolution daily Snow Water Equivalent estimates for Mountainous Central Asia (1979–2016). Zenodo.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Alfons Balmann
Director of IAMO,
Head of Department Structural Change
Room: 140
Dr. Franziska Schaft
Deputy Head of Department Structural Change,
Scientific coordinator IAMO Graduate School
Room: 137