CV

• since 09/2017: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Geography, Kiel University, “Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas”
• 08/2019-09/2019: Guest Lecturer at the Center for Agrarian Studies (PSA) and at the Department of Communication Science and Community Development, at IPB University (former Agricultural University of Bogor), Bogor, Indonesia.
• 10/2016-09/2017: Teaching assignment at the Department of Human Geography, University of Göttingen
• 03/2012-09/2017: Researcher at German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Department for “Environmental Policy and Management of Natural Resources”
• 2016: Doctorate in Human Geography, doctoral student at the Gauss School of Science, University of Goettingen and within DFG CRC 990, title of thesis: “Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia”
• 07/2011-02/2012: Researcher at Research Center for Sustainability Studies (artec) University of Bremen, Germany and Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT)
• 09/2010-05/2011: Postgraduate Training Program on Development Cooperation at German Development Institute (DIE), Germany and Peru
• 05/2010-07/2010: Intern at AGEG International Consulting Services, Germany: Department Natural Resource Management, Preparation of technical and financial proposals for development projects and recruitment of experts
• 10/2008-06/2009: Research Assistant at University of Göttingen and Universitas Tadulako (Palu), Collaborative Research "Center Stability of Rainforests Margins in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia" sub-project A5: "Welfare economic assessments of forest encroachment and ENSO effects in the face of personal capital and social capital dynamics"
• 10/2004-12/2009: Studies of Geography, Cultural Anthropology and Political Science at University of Göttingen, Germany and University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France

Publications

Journal articles

• Otten, F., Hein, J., Bondy, H. and Faust, H. (2020): Deconstructing sustainable rubber production: contesting narratives in rural Sumatra. Journal of Land Use Science. DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2019.1709225

• Hein, J., Faust, H. and Kunz, Y. (2018). Sozialökologische Folgen von Ölpalmboom und Naturschutzpolitik in Indonesien: Die doppelte Exklusion lokaler Bevölkerungsgruppen in Jambi, Sumatra. Geographische Rundschau 70(4), 26-31.

• Hein, J., Guarin, A., Frommé, E. and Pauw, P. (2018). Deforestation and the Paris climate agreement: An assessment of REDD + in the national climate action plans. In: Forest Policy and Economics 90, 7-11.

• Hein, J., Faust, H., Kunz, Y. and Mardiana, R. (2018) The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects: Carbon Offsetting and Development in Sumatra's Coastal Peat Swamps. Antipode 50(4), 953-975.

• Hein, J. (2017) Klimaschutz durch Waldschutz? Eine kritische Bilanz nach zehn Jahren REDD+. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 67 (49-50), 33-38.

• Hein, J., Adiwibowo, S., Dittrich, C., Rosyani, Soetarto, E. and Faust, H. (2016) Rescaling of access and property relations in a frontier landscape: insights from Jambi, Indonesia. In: The Professional Geographer 68(3), 380-389.

• Kunz, Y., Hein, J., Mardiana, R., and Faust, H. (2016) Mimicry of the legal: translating de jure land formalization processes into de facto local action in Jambi province, Sumatra. In: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS) 9(1), 127-146.

• Merten, J., Röll, A., Guillaume, T., Meijide, A., Tarigan, A., Agusta, H., Dislich, C., Dittrich, C., Faust, H., Gunawan, D., Hein, J., Hendrayanto, Knohl, A., Kuzyakov, Y., Wiegand, K. and Hölscher, D. (2016) Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes. In: Ecology and Society 21 (2).

• Hein, J. (2014) Politiken zur Reduktion von Emissionen aus Entwaldung und Schädigung von Wäldern (REDD+). In: Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt 136, 508-511.

• Hein, J. and Faust, H. (2014) Conservation, REDD+ and the struggle for land in Jambi, Indonesia. In: Pacific Geograhies 41, 20-25.

Books

• Hein, J. (2019) Political Ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia - Agrarian conflicts and forest carbon. Routledge Series: Routledge Studies in Political Ecology. Abingdon/ New York. Routledge.

• Horstmann, B. and Hein, J. (2017): Aligning Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development Under the UNFCCC: A Critical Assessment of the Clean Development Mechanism, the Green Climate Fund and REDD+. Bonn. Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

• Hein, J. (2016) Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia. Göttingen. Georg-August-Univ. eDiss.

• Zelli, F., Erler, D., Frank, S., Hein, J., Hotz, H. and Santa Cruz Melgarejo, A.-M. (2014): Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Peru: a challenge to social inclusion and multi-level governance. Bonn. Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Book chapters and other publications

• Brad, A. and Hein. J. (2019): Die Transnationalisierung von Agrarkonflikten? Globale NGOs, transnationales Kapital und lokaler Widerstand in Sumatra. In: Miessner, M. and M. Naumann (eds.): Kritische Geographien ländlicher Entwicklung. Globale Transformationen und lokale Herausforderungen. Münster. Westfälisches Dampfboot. 116-130.

• Hein, J. and Kunz, Y. (2018): Adapting in a carbon pool? Politicising climate change at Sumatra's palm oil frontier. In: Klepp, S. and L. Chavez-Rodriguez (eds.): A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Discourses, Policies, and Practices. Routledge Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research. London/ New York.115-167.

• Hein, W., Betz, J.,  Eucker, D., Hein, J., Holstenkamp, L. and Never, B. (2017): Klimapolitik und Entwicklung. In: Simonis, G. (eds.): Handbuch globale Klimapolitik. Paderborn. UTB Schöningh. 397-448.

• Merten, J., Röll, A., Tarigan, S. Hölscher, D and Hein, J. (2017): Ölpalmenanbau in Indonesien verändert Wasserkreisläufe: mehr Dürren und Überflutungen. Briefing Paper 1. Bonn. Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

• Pauw, W.P, Cassanmagnano, D., Mbeva, K., Hein, J., Guarin, A., Brandi, C., Bock, T., Helms, J., Zalewski, A., Frommé. E., Lindener, A. and Muhammad, D. (2016): NDC Explorer. Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). und African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). DOI: 10.23661/ndc_explorer_2016_1.0

• Schwarze, S., Euler, M., Gatto, M., Hein, J., Hettig, E., Holtkamp, A. M., Izhar, L., Kunz, Y., Lay, J., Merten, J., Moser, S., Mußhoff, O., Otten, F., Qaim, M., Soetarto, E., Steinebach, S., Trapp, K., Vorlaufer, M. and Faust, H. (2015): Rubber vs. oil palm: an analysis of factors influencing smallholders’ crop choice in Jambi, Indonesia. EFForTS Discussion Paper 11.

• Hein, J., Meijer, K. and Rodríguez de Francisco, J. C. (2015): What is the potential for a climate, forest and community friendly REDD+ in Paris? Briefing Paper 3. Bonn. Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

• Hein, J. and Garrelts, H. (2014): Ambiguous involvement: civil-society actors in forest carbon offsets: the case of the climate community and biodiversity standards (CCB). In: Dietz, M. und Garrelts, H. (eds.): Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement. London/New York. Routledge. 319-333.

• Hein, J. and Garrelts, H. (2013): Verstrickung und Korrektiv: zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure und marktbasierte Klimaschutzinstrumente - das Beispiel der Forest Carbon Offsets. In: Dietz, M. und Garrelts, H. (eds.): Die internationale Klimabewegung. Wiesbaden. Springer VS. 429-448.

• Hein, J. (2013): Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), transnational conservation and access to land in Jambi, Indonesia. EFForTS Discussion Paper Series 2.

• Hein, J. (2013): Climate change mitigation in emerging economies: the case of Indonesia: hot air or leadership? Briefing Paper 8. Bonn. Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

• Erler, D., Frank, S., Hein, J., Hotz, H., Santacruz Melgarejo, A.-M. and Zelli, F. (2011): Inclusión social en el proceso REDD en el Perú: una perspectiva de gobernanza en múltiples niveles. Lima. Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

• Hein, J. and Faust, H. (2010): Frontier migration as response to environmental change: a case study from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. STORMA Discussion Paper Series 31.

• Eucker, D. and Hein, J. (2010): Klimawandel in Südostasien: die ASEAN als Wegbereiter einer regionalen Klimapolitik? GIGA Focus Asien 4.

Selected Talks

Memberships

• Collaborative Research Center 990, „Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia), Associated Researcher
• Associated Researcher at German Development Institute (DIE)