Dr Konstantin Gisevius
Konstantin Gisevius has been employed as an evaluator at DEval since October 2024. Previously, he worked as a research fellow in the working group for Economic Geography and Environmental Change at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne in research and teaching. He studied Liberal Arts and Sciences with a focus on Environmental and Social Sciences (B.A.) at the University of Utrecht and Human Geography (M.Sc.) at the University of Cologne. He wrote his doctoral thesis on “Networks of adaptation: Local and translocal social capital as drivers of community adaptive capacity towards coastal hazards in Indonesia” at the University of Cologne.
Key Qualifications
- Thematic Focus
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Human-environment interactions, natural hazards and environmental change, social networks,
urban and regional development, resilience and vulnerability, migration, sustainable development - Methods
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Quantitative and qualitative methods of empirical social research
- Regional Focus
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South and Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia)
Further Publications:
Gisevius, K. (2024), „Networks of adaptation: Local and translocal social capital as drivers of community adaptive capacity towards coastal hazards in Indonesia“, University of Cologne. [Link]
Gisevius, K., L.-M. Niesters, A. Larasati and B. Braun (2023), „(Trans)local Social Capital and its Role in Enhancing Adaptation to Coastal Hazards: Evidence from Urban Coastal Communities in Indonesia“, Proceedings of the International Conference “Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Transition”, Växjö.
Bott, L.-M., T. Schöne, J. Illigner, M.H. Haghighi, K. Gisevius and B. Braun (2021), „Land subsidence in Jakarta and Semarang Bay – The relationship between physical processes, risk perception, and household adaptation“, Ocean & Coastal Management, Vol. 211, S. 105775. [Link]
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