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M.A. Jana Rülke
Institut für Geographie
Universität Osnabrück
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück
Raum: 04/103
Seminarstraße 33
49074 Osnabrück
Tel.: +49 541 969 6402
jana.ruelke[at]uni-osnabrueck.de
Jana Rülke
Koordinatorin des Graduiertenkollegs ECORISK
Mitglied der Arbeitsgruppe Humangeographie mit wirtschaftsgeographischem Schwerpunkt
Forschungsschwerpunkte: Ländliche Entwicklung, Globalisierungsforschung, Globale Produktionsnetzwerke, Agri-Food Netzwerke, Mensch-Mitwelt-Beziehungen
Räumliche Schwerpunkte: Subsahara-Afrika, Costa Rica, Deutschland
Since 1st October, 2024, Jana Rülke is the Coordinator and Public Relations Manager of the DFG-funded research training group (RTG) 'Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems (ECORISK)'. She was also involved in the successful acquisition of the project.
Since 2020, Jana Rülke is working as a research associate in the research group Human Geography with a focus on Economic Geography. She was working in the DBU-funded research project "Value Chains and Consumer Decisions – Remote Effects of Governance and Product Biographies Using Cocoa as an Example". Her dissertation project focuses on the production conditions of cocoa in Ghana as well as the effects of different governance structures considering social, ecological and economic aspects.
She completed her bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences with a focus on agroecology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. After longer stays abroad in different Sub-Saharan countries, she studied in the Master's program Geographies of Rural Areas - Change through Globalization at the University of Vechta. For her Master's thesis, she successfully applied to participate in the international and interdisciplinary DAAD-funded project "Reconciling human livelihood needs and nature conservation" in Kenya. In her master's thesis "An Anthropogeographical Perspective on Human-Environment Relationships. Empirical Research on Human Needs and Nature Conservation in the Kenyan Biodiversity Hotspot Taita Hills Cloud Forest (THCF)" she addressed the challenge of assigning the personal positioning of local rural people, taking into account their individual challenges, to an anthropo- or ecocentric perspective. During her master studies Jana Rülke was supported by the Deutschlandstipendium of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Publikationen
Franz, M.; Rülke, J. (2022): Die gute Geschichte von der Schokolade aus Ghana. In: Geographische Rundschau 2022 (9), S. 38-43.
Rülke, J.: Rieckmann, M.; Nzau, J. M.; Teucher, M. (2020). How Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism Influence Human–Environment Relationships in a Kenyan Biodiversity Hotspot. Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 8213; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198213
Vorträge
| 20.09.2023 | „Ghanaische Kakao-Kleinbäuer*innen im Globalen Schokoladen-Produktionsnetzwerk & die Auswirkungen internationaler Nachhaltigkeits-Standards“ Präsentation im Rahmen Deutschen Kongresses für Geographie 2023 (DKG’23) in Frankfurt, Präsenzveranstaltung |
| 03.06.2023 | „Ghanaian Cocoa Smallholders in the Global Chocolate Production Network & the Effects of International Standards”, Präsentation im Rahmen der 9. European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) in Köln, Präsenzveranstaltung. |
| 24.11.2022 | „Storytelling in der Kakaoindustrie - Auswirkungen von bereitgestelltem geographischen Wissen auf die Positionierung von Akteuren im globalen Kakaoproduktionsnetzwerk“ Präsentation auf dem AK Industriegeographie in Wiesbaden-Neurod – 37. Jahrestagung 2022, Präsenzveranstaltung. |
| 06.10.2022 | „Creation & the different Perceptions of Risk(s) in the Global Cocoa Production Network“ Präsentation auf der IGU CDES 2022 Osnabrück Mini Conference on Reshaping Economic Geography in times of Risk, Uncertainty and Crisis, Präsenzveranstaltung. |
| 06.07.2022 | „Sustainable cocoa farming in Ghana: The impact of cooperatives & sustainability labels on smallholder farmers' lives”, Präsentation im Rahmen der 27. Conference of the International Association People - Environment Studies, online |
Projekte
Research training group (RTG) Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems (ECORISK)
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Duration: Oct. 2024 - Sep. 2029
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Transformative research and capacity building to protect livelihoods and biodiversity in Costa Rica (LiveDiverseCR)
Funding: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Duration: Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2024
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Value Chains and Consumer Decisions – Remote Effects of Governance and Product Biographies Using Cocoa as an Example (CoVaCoa)
Funding: The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
Duration: Aug. 2020 - Jan. 2024
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