Dr. Katharina Heider

Research Group Climate Change and Security
Institute of Geography
Cluster of Excellence CliSAP
Universität Hamburg

Katharina Heider is a research associate in the CLISEC working group
and completed her doctoral thesis with the title "Between Tradition and
Modernization: Multifunctional Smallholder Agriculture and Sustainable
Rural Development in the Mediterranean Region" in April 2022. Her
reserach interests are human-environment interactions and
sustainability. She focuses on the multifunctionality of smallholder
agriculture using mixed and GIS-based methods. Recently she published
in "Agricultural Systems", "Agricultural Water Management" and
"Regional Environmental Change".

Recent publications:

Heider K, Rodriguez Lopez JM, Balbo AL, Scheffran J. (2021). The state of agricultural landscapes in the Mediterranean: smallholder agriculture and land abandonment in terraced landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain. Regional Environmental Change 21(1), 23. online

Heider K, Quaranta E, García Avilés JM, Rodriguez Lopez JM, Balbo AL, Scheffran J. (2021). Reinventing the wheel - The preservation and potential of traditional water wheels in the terraced irrigated landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain. Agricultural Water Management 259, 107240. online

Heider, K.; Weinzierl, T.; Schwab, N.; Bobrowski, M.; Schickhoff, U. (2018): Future agricultural conditions in the Nepal Himalaya - A fuzzy logic approach using high resolution climate scenarios. In: Die Erde. Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 149(4), S.227-240. DOI: 10.12854/erde-2018-382. online

Heider, K.; Rodriguez Lopez, J. M.; García Avilés, J. M.; Balbo, A. L. (2018). Land fragmentation index for drip-irrigated field systems in the Mediterranean: A case study from Ricote (Murcia, SE Spain). In Agricultural Systems, 166, 48–56. DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2018.07.006. online

Heider, K.; Rodriguez Lopez, J. M; Scheffran, J. (2018): The potential of volunteered geographic information to investigate peri-urbanization in the conservation zone of Mexico City. In: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, S.190-210. doi: 10.1007/s10661-018-6597-3. (online first)

Rodriguez Lopez, J. M.; Heider, K.; Scheffran, J. (2017): Frontiers of urbanization. Identifying and explaining urbanization hot spots in the south of Mexico City using human and remote sensing. In: Applied Geography 79, S. 1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.12.001.

Rodriguez Lopez, J. M.; Heider, K.; Scheffran, J. (2017): Human and remote sensing data to investigate the frontiers of urbanization in the south of Mexico City. In: Data in Brief 11, S. 5-11. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.12.049.

Weinzierl, T. & Heider, K. (2015): Assessment of future agricultural conditions in southwestern Africa using fuzzy logic and high-resolution climate model scenarios. In: Die Erde. Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 146(4), S. 25 9-270. doi: 10.12854/erde-146-19.

Newspaper article:

Heider, K. (2021): Terrassenfeldbau im Kleinformat schont Klima und Natur. Hamburger Abendblatt 04/2021:8.

Bachelor thesis supervision:

Johanna Bollow (2019): Treibhausgasemissionen in der Ernährung - Analyse der Klimatellergerichte des Studierendenwerks Hamburg. Bachelor of Science, Geographie.