Jürgen Pretzsch
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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pretzsch
Senior Professor
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Academic and research experience
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Since 1993 Full Professor in Tropical forestry, Technische Universität Dresden in Tharandt, dealing with lecturing and research in the socio-economics and policy of tropical forestry. 2002-2009 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Forest-, Geo- and Hydrosciences.
- Establishment and headship of the international MSc course Tropical Forestry and Management with participants of many tropical countries (since 1994).
- Field experiences, international research co-operation (mainly on the base of PhD studies) and university lecturing in Latin America (Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Chile, Bolivia), Africa (Ivory Coast, Madagascar, South Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan), and Asia (Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, India, Vietnam, China).
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Assistant professor at the Institute of Forest Management and Economics in Freiburg; establishment of a teaching and research unit on Socio-Economics of Forestry in the Tropics; field research in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay (1990 – 1992)
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Specialisation in the field of development policy and international forest policy, socio-economics of forestry, application of FSA/FSR on forestry systems, forest extension, social forestry and joint forest management
Memberships and tasks
Dept. Head and Vice Dean Forestry; Faculty Council of TUD, 2002-2009
Member of ATSAF, 1992-present
Board of the BFH Hamburg, 2000-2008
Member of the Curriculum Committee of the International Postgraduate Program on Environmental Management for Developing and Emerging Countries (UNEP, UNESCO, BMU), 1995-present
Chairman of the Association of Development Oriented Academic Post-Graduate Courses in Germany, 2009-2017
Selected publications
Auch, E.; Pretzsch, J. (2020) Participative Innovation Platforms (PIP) for Upgrading NTFP Value Chains in East Africa. Small-scale Forestry. DOI: 10.1007/s11842-020-09442-9.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11842-020-09442-9
Tham, L. T.; Pretzsch, J.; Darr, D. (2020). Asian timber value chains- a systematic review and research agenda. In Forest Policy and Economics 112, p. 102116. DOI:
10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102116.
Astutik, S.; Pretzsch, J.; Kimengsi, J.N. (2019). Asian medicinal plants’ production and utilization potentials: A review, Sustainability, 11(19), 5483; https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/19/5483
Domke, M., Pretzsch, J., Kimengsi, J. N., Aung, P.S., Moyo, F. (2019). Balancing Conservation and Livelihood for Rural Stabilization: Challenges and Potentials based on cases from the Global South, International Expert Workshop on "Natural Resource Sector Reform and Human Security" 18 -19 July 2019, Universität Koblenz-Landau, https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/en
Kimengsi, J. N.; Aung, P. S.; Pretzsch, J.; Haller, T.; Auch, E. (2019). Constitutionality and the Co-Management of Protected Areas: Reflections from Cameroon and Myanmar. International Journal of the Commons, 13 (2), 1003–1020. http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.934
Kimengsi, J. N., Ngefor, B. M., Domke, M., Balgah, R. A., Pretzsch, J. (2019). Institutional arrangements, conflict and sustainable transboundary natural resource management regimes in Central Africa, International Expert Workshop on "Natural Resource Sector Reform and Human Security" 18-19 July 2019, Universität Koblenz-Landau. https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/en
Kimengsi, J. N., Mukong, A. K., Balgah, R. A.., Pretzsch, J., Kwei, J. (2019) Households’ Assets Dynamics and Ecotourism Choices in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. Sustainability 2019, 11(7),1844;1-16.
Domke, M; Aung, P. S.; Kimengsi, J. N.; Moyo, F.; Hintz, K. S.; Pretzsch, J. (2019) Tropical forestry and rural stabilization: Conceptual insights based on case studies from the Global South. Contribution in: Conference Environmental Non-Migration: Framework, Methods and Cases. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 19-21 June 2019.
Aung, P. S.; Pretzsch, J.; von Oheimb, G. (2019) Conservation, livelihood, and rural migration: The role of forest income in mitigating poverty and inequality in Natma Taung National Park, Myanmar. Contribution in: Conference Environmental Non-Migration: Framework, Methods and Cases. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 19-21 June 2019.
Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon; Pretzsch, Jürgen; Auch, Eckhard; Azibo, Balgah Roland (2019). WWF’s Green Business Model in Protected Area Conservation and Livelihoods Sustenance in Cameroon: The Need for a Shift in Approach? Environment & Natural Resources Research 9 (1), 9–24.
Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon; Pretzsch, Jürgen; Mukong Alfred Kechia and Symphorien Ongolo (2019) Measuring Livelihood Diversification and Forest Conservation Choices: Insights from Rural Cameroon. Forests 2019, 10(2), 81; https://doi.org/10.3390/f10020081
Eshetu, Shibire; Pretzsch, Jürgen; Mekonnen, Tsegaye Bekele (2018) Financial Analysis of Smallholder Farmers Woodlot and Homestead Agroforestry Systems and its Implications for Household Income Improvement, the Case of Hawassa Zuria District, Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Agricultural Science and Food Research, 2018 Vol. 9, Iss. 3
Moyo, Francis; Funk, Sharissa; Pretzsch, Jürgen (2017) Between Policy Intent and Practice: Negotiating Access to Land and other Resources in Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas. In: Tropical Conservation Science, Vol. 10: 1-17, DOI: 10.1177/1940082917744167
Aung, P. S.; Pretzsch, J. (2017) Changes in Local Land Tenure System in Response to Swidden Transformation in Southern Chin State, Myanmar. In Tropentag 2017, Bonn, Germany September 20-22, 2017. Permanent link at http://www.tropentag.de/abstracts/full/457.pdf
Lindner, André; Jost, Francois; Vidal Merino, Mariana; Reategui, Natalia; Berger, Uta; Pretzsch, Jürgen (2017) Aligning Socio-economic Field Laboratories and Agent Based Models assessing local climate change adaptation measures of Andean farmers. In: Journal of Forest and Landscape Research 1(2017): 7-17, DOI: 10.13141/jflr.v2i1.77
Mahmoud, Tarig E.; Pretzsch, Jürgen; Mofadel, Hassan I. A.; Abtew, Asmamaw A.; Auch, Eckhard (2017) Implications of Consecutive Policy Interventions and Measure on Comparative Advantage and Export of Gum Arabic from Sudan. In: American Journal of Agricultural Science (http://www.aascit.org/journal/ajas)
Domke, M.; Pretzsch, J. (2016) Knowledge Management on Climate Change Adaptation. Analysis of Information Exchange Processes and Collaboration Networks in Rural Ethiopia. In: Climatic and Environmental Challenges: Learning from the Horn of Africa, S. 104-122
Pretzsch, J. (2016) Governance in Urban Forestry. In: Urban Tree Management: For the Sustainable Development of Green Cities, S. 221–235
Khalifa, A. E.; Pretzsch, J.; Alemu Abtew, A.; Sanjak, E. (2015) Local Perceptions and Adaptation to Climate Change in North Kordofan State, Sudan. In: Book of Abstracts, Tropentag 2015
Auch, E.; Alemu Abtew, A.; Pretzsch, J. (2015) Chances in Sustainability - Promoting Product Chains of Natural Products in Eastern Africa (poster presented in Tropentag 2015 conference). In: Book of Abstract: Tropentag 2015-International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development
Neubert, F. P.; Pretzsch, J.; Becker, G. (2015) Socio-economic sustainability criteria for bioenergy villages incorporating short rotation coppice in their energy supply. In: Bioenergy from dendromass for the sustainable development of rural areas, S. 303–316
Aung, P. S.; Omar Adam, Y.; Pretzsch, J.; Peters, R. (2015) Distribution of forest income among rural households: a case study from Natma Taung national park, Myanmar. In: Forests, Trees and Livelihood 24 (2015), Nr. 3, S. 190–201
Omar Adam, Y.; Pretzsch, J.; Darr, D. (2015) Land use conflicts in central Sudan: Perception and local coping mechanisms. In: Land Use Policy 42 (2015), Nr. 6, S. 1–6
Pretzsch, J.; Darr, D.; Uibrig, H.; Auch, E. (2014): Forests and Rural Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Domke, M.; Pretzsch, J. (Hg.) (2014): Scientific Cooperation Network on Climate Change Adaptation. DAAD Program "Welcome to Africa"; Proceedings of the Summer-School Workshop 2013. Institut für Internationale Forst- und Holzwirtschaft. Tharandt: Technische Universität Dresden Faculty of Environment Sciences Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products Professorship for Tropical Forestry.
Lindner, A.; Pretzsch, J. (Hg.) (2013): Understanding adaptation and mitigation strategies of Andean people. International Network on Climate Change; Project Results & Rroceedings of Summer-School 2012. Institut für Internationale Forst- und Holzwirtschaft. Tharandt: Technische Universität Dresden Faculty of Environment Sciences Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products Professorship for Tropical Forestry.
Abtew, A. A., Pretzsch, J., Mohmoud, T. E. and Adam, Y. O. (2012): Commodity Chain Analysis of Frankincense in Dry Woodlands of Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan State, Sudan. Small-scale Forestry. Doi: 10.1007/s11842-011-9189-4.
Adam, Y. O. Pretzsch, J. (2011): Contribution of local trade in ziziphus spina-christi L. fruits to rural household’s economy in Rashad locality, Sudan. In: Forestry Ideas, 2010, vol. 16 No. 1 (39): 19-27
Adam, Y. O. Pretzsch, J., Daldoum, M. A. D. and Abtew, A. A. (submitted) (2011): Political Ecology of Conflicts over Natural resources in Sudan. Journal of Political Geography. Publisher: Elsevier.
Pretzsch, J.; Pohris, H. (2011): Perspektiven der tropenforstlichen Ausbildung und Forschung an der Technischen Universität Dresden. In: Bonn, St.; Erler, J.; Herzog, S. (Hrsg.): Tharandt 2011-200 Jahre Ideen für die Zukunft. Selbstverlag der Fachrichtung Forstwissenschaften der TU Dresden, Tharandt
Skodawessely, C., Pretzsch, J.; Bemmann, A. (2010): Beratungshandbuch zu Kurzumtriebsplantagen: Entscheidungsgrundlagen zur Etablierung von Kurzumtriebsplantagen in Deutschland. Eigenverlag TU Dresden
Wang, Y.; Pretzsch, J.; Li, Z. (2010): (Forthcoming) Social impact assessment in forestry field: Case studies of the Natural Forestry Protection Program impacting on local communities and households in Western China. Paper has been accepted by Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, and is currently under revision. Print ISSN: 1464-3332, online ISSN: 1757-5605.
Wang, Y.; Pretzsch, J.; Li, Z. (2010): (Forthcoming) Conflicts and interrelations between the local traditional use rights to forests by local households and governmental forest project in China. Paper has been accepted by Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, and is currently under revision. ISSN: 13899341.
Abtew, A. A., Pretzsch, J., Mohmoud, T. E. and Adam, Y. O. (2010): Population Structure, Density and Natural regeneration of Boswellia papyrifera (Del.) Hochst in Dry Woodlands of Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan State. Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, 54(1-4): 40-50.
Skodawessely, C.; Pretzsch, J. (2009): Akzeptanz des Energieholzanbaus bei Landwirten. S. 217 – 226, in: Reeg et al (Hrsg.): Anbau und Nutzung von Bäumen auf landwirtschaftlichen Flächen. Weinheim (reviewed)
Darr B.; Pretzsch J. (Hrsg.) (2009): Development of innovative teaching modules for higher education in tropical forestry in Ethiopia, Germany, Kenya and Sudan, Tharandt
Pretzsch, J. (2009): Forest Organisations in Change: Examples from the Tropics and Subtropics. In: Spathelf, P. (ed.): Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing World: A European Perspective. Springer, Berlin. p.
Pretzsch, J.; Skodawessely, C. (2009): Sozio-ökonomische und ethische Aspekte der Kurzumtriebswirtschaft. In: Bemmann, A.; Knust, C. (Hrsg.): AGROWOOD – Kurzumtriebsplantagen in Deutschland und europäische Perspektiven. Weißensee Verlag. Berlin
Darr , B.; Pretzsch J. (2008): Influence of culture on forest perception and use among the Okiek in Kenya. Poster presentation. Tropentag 7.-9.10.2008, Hohenheim
Skodawessely, C.; Pretzsch, J. (2008): Beratungsinstrumentarium zur Etablierung von Kurzumtriebsplantagen. Cottbuser Schriften zur Ökosystemgenese und Landschaftsentwicklung, Band 6, Großräschen: 1-14.
Bemmann, A.; Pretzsch, J.; Schulte, A. (2008): Baumplantagen weltweit – eine Übersicht, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 6(2008): 124-132 (reviewed)
Skodawessely, C.; Glaser, T.; Pretzsch, J.; Schmidt, P. A. (2008): Einstellungen von Landwirten und Naturschutzverbänden zu Kurzumtriebsplantagen, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 6 (2008): 158-164a (reviewed)
Weber, N.; Pretzsch, J. (2008): Zwischen Nord und Süd, heute und morgen: Welche Beiträge leistet das internationale Waldregime zum Abbau von Ungleichheiten? S. 91 – 96, in Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der TU Dresden 57, Heft 3 – 4
Darr, D.; Pretzsch, J. (2008): Mechanisms of Innovation Diffusion Under Information Abundance and Information Scarcity – On the Contribution of Social networks in Group Vs. Individual Extension Approaches in Semi-Arid Kenya. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, Vol. 14, No. 3, 231 – 248 (reviewed)
Wang, Y.; Pretzsch, J. (2008): Assessing the social impacts of the China’s ecological oriented forestry policy on local forest-dependent communities in Mountainous Regions: Comparative analysis of Case Studies in Western China. Paper presented to and published in the Annual International Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Natural Resource Management for Sustainability (Tropentag 2008) with subject of “Natural Resources Management in a Changing World”. Stuttgart (Hohenheim)/Germany 7-9 October 2008.
Taubert, B.; Pretzsch J. (2007): Cultural influence of forest perception and forest use among the Tiriki Community in West Kenya. Oral presentation. Tropentag 9.-11.10.2007, Witzenhausen
Darr, D.; Pretzsch, J. (2007): The influence of structural and functional network properties on the spread of agroforestry innovations within farmers’ groups – Evidence from Eastern Africa. Paper presented to the International SUNBELT Social Network Conference, May 1-6, 2007, Corfu/Greece.
Pretzsch, J. (2006): Methodological Aspects of Tropical Forest management Research. Contribution to the World Forest Congress, 9 p., http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/Article/WFC/XII/0791-C4.HTM
Darr, D.; Pretzsch, J. (2006): Participatory, Farmer-to-farmer and other contemporary extension approaches in Eastern Africa – Are there any lessons for forestry extension in Europe? Paper presented to the international conference Forest-X-Change, October 25th -27th, 2006, Freiburg/Br.
Darr, D.; Pretzsch, J. (2006): The Spread of Innovations Within Formal and Informal Farmers Groups: Evidence from Rural Communities of Semi-arid Eastern Africa. Paper presented to the Deutscher Tropentag, October 11th -13th, 2006, University of Bonn.
Frattini, M.; Uibrig, H.; dos Santos, W.; Pretzsch , J. (2006): Dauerhafte Naturwaldbewirtschaftung in Amazonien: Perspektive für Holz verarbeitende Unternehmen? Institut für Internationale Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, 251 p. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Internationale Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, Tharandt
Taubert, B.; Pretzsch J. (2006): Cultural aspects of stakeholder attitudes and acting - the case of forest management in Kenya. Poster presentation. Tropentag 11.-13.10.2006, Bonn
Tuan, D. A. ; Pretzsch, J.; Uibrig, H. (2005): Governance structures for managing community forests in Vietnam - an introduction and case study of Hoa Binh province.
Pretzsch, J. (2005): Forestry production systems in change: Myth and Realities, in: Tielkes, E.; Hülsebuch, C.; Häuser, I.; Deininger, A.; Becker Klaus (ed.) Tropentag 2005, Book of Abstracts, MDD Media Digitaldruck, Stuttgart
Pretzsch, J. (2005): Forest Related Rural Livelihood Strategies in National and Global Development. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, pages 115 - 127. Academic Publishers (reviewed)
Wang, Y.; Pretzsch, J. (2005): How much environmental costs the farmers bear? – Socioeconomic analysis of the Natural Forest Protection Program and its influences on local households in Xiaolongshan State-owned forest area in China. Paper presented to the Sino-German Forestry dialogue on Sustainable Forestry. Beijing 25-27 October 2005.
Pretzsch, J.; Uibrig, H.; Frattini, M.; Santos, W. N. M. dos; Sousa, R. J. (2004) Vergleichende Analyse von Waldnutzungssystemen in Amazonien – Waldnutzende Haushalte, konventionelle Holzbetriebe und zertifizierte Holzunternehmen. GTZ-Tropenökologisches Begleitprogramm, Eschborn.
Pretzsch, J. (2004) Forest related rural livelihood strategies in national and global development. Forests, trees and livelihoods, Great Britain, Vol. 15, pp. 115-117
Pretzsch, J.; Elsasser, P. (2004) A socio-political dialogue to promote sustainable forest management. Forests and forestry products. Brussels, COST Action E19, pp 113-126
Pretzsch, J. (2003) Cultural approaches to forestry: Germany and Europe. Contribution to the Conference “The nature and culture of forests: Implications of diversity for sustainability, trade and certification” from 10.-13.5.2001 in Vancouver/Canada, Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia
Pretzsch, J.; Hofmann, F.; Liss, B. (2001) Analyse und Bewertung: Der gesellschaftspolitische Dialog zur Erarbeitung eines nationalen Waldprogramms auf Bundesebene. AFZ/Der Wald 6, 287-290
Pretzsch, J.; Uibrig, H.; Frattini, M.; Sousa, R. de J.; Santos, W. N. M. dos; Thümmler, C.; Kretzschmer, M.; Geringer, U. (2001) Constraints and opportunities for the management of tropical rainforest in the Amazon. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der TU Dresden
Pretzsch, J. (2000) Forestry between participation and state management. Case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, India. Pleading for a change in paradigms. Proceedings Forum Forests and Society, 26-28. Nov. 1999, NNA Reports, Vol. 12, Special Issue 5
Pretzsch, J.; Aicher, C. (1999) Rahmenbedingungen von Waldschutz und Waldbewirtschaftung in den Tropen: Einflüsse und Rückkopplungen anderer Politikfelder. Eschborn/Tharandt
Pretzsch, J.; Brandl, H. (1998) Country Report Germany. In: Koch; Rasmussen Eds. Forestry in the context of rural development. Final report of COST Action E 3. Horsholm, Denmark
Pretzsch, J. (1998) Chances and limits of tropical forest management from socio-economic view: Status and perspectives. In: Plant research and development, Vol. 47/48, p. 88-97
Pretzsch, J. (1997) Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Bewirtschaftung von Tropenwald aus sozio-ökonomischer Sicht: Status quo und Perspektiven. In: Forstarchiv No. 68, p. 223-228
Pretzsch, J.; Uibrig, H.; Mies, E. (1996) Förderung der Forstwirtschaft in Laos. In: AFZ/Der Wald, 6
Pretzsch, J.; Herkendell, J. (1995) Die Wälder der Erde. Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven. Beck’sche Reihe No. 1127, München
Pretzsch, J.; Butter, M. (2001) Modelos de gestión forestal – base para la planificación forestal. In: Informe para la Conferencia de Participación en Coyhaique desde 28.03.2001 hasta 30.03.2001. Gobierno regional de Aysén/Chile y la Universidad Técnica de Berlin, Coyhaique
Pretzsch, J.; Tuan, Nguyen van (2000) Curriculum on forestry policy for Vietnam Forestry University. Xuan Mai/Tharandt
Pretzsch, J.; Uibrig, H. (1999) Vietnam Forestry University & National University of Laos. Curriculum development Forest Policy and Social Forestry. Report for the DSE, Tharandt