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

Engagement, Functions, Scholarships

• as of 01/2021: "Denkraum, Urban Design" fellow, CAU Kiel
• 2019-2021: Co-Leader of the working group Social and Political Dimensions of Environmental Justice, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
• 2019: Co-founder of the EnJust Network for Environmental Justice
• 2010-2011: Participant of the postgraduate program of the German Development Institute, a program preparing for challenging tasks and responsibilities in international development cooperation
• 2007: ERASMUS Scholarship
• 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)
• Reviewer for: Global Environmental Change, Geoforum, Conservation and Society, Journal of Environment and Development, International Forestry Review, Forest, Land, Sustainability, Geographica Helvetica, Routledge Earthscan, Springer Books, BASE (Biotechnologie Agronomie Société Environnement), Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika

Publications

Editorship

• Bercht, A. L., Hein, J. and Klepp, S. (eds.) (2020). Climate and marine justice - debates and critical perspectives (Special Issue). Geographica Helvetica 75/76.
• Hein, J. and Dünckmann, F. (eds.) (2020):  Narratives and practices of environmental justice. (Special Issue). DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 151(2-3).

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).

• 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).

Journal articles

• Klepp, S. and Hein, J.  (2021): Wissen in der Klimapolitik: Ermöglichen Perspektiven der Umweltgerechtigkeit faire Klimamaßnahmen? Geographische Rundschau 73(6), 22-27.

• Rodríguez-de-Francisco, J.C., del Cairo, C., Ortiz-Gallego, D. [...] Hein, J. (2021):  Post-conflict transition and REDD+ in Colombia: Challenges to reducing deforestation in the Amazon. Forest Policy and Economics 127, 102450.

• Hein, J. and Dünckmann, F. (2020): Editorial - Narratives and practices of environmental justice . DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 151(2-3), 59-66. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2020-524

• Franke, A., Blenckner, T., Duarte, C.C.[....] Hein, J. et al. (2020): Operationalizing Ocean Health: Toward Integrated Research on Ocean Health and Recovery to Achieve Ocean Sustainability. One Earth 2(6), 557-565.

• Grass, I., Kubitza, C., Krishna, V.V. [....] Hein, J. et al. (2020): Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 11, 1186.

• Hein, J., Del Cairo, C., Gallego, D. O., Gutiérrez, T. V., Velez, J. S., and Rodríguez de Francisco, J. C. (2020): A political ecology of green territorialization: frontier expansion and conservation in the Colombian Amazon. DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 151(1), 37-57.

• Otten, F., Hein, J., Bondy, H. and Faust, H. (2020): Deconstructing sustainable rubber production: contesting narratives in rural Sumatra. Journal of Land Use Science 15(2-3), 306-326.

• 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. 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+. 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. 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. 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. Ecology and Society 21(2).

• Hein, J. (2014): Politiken zur Reduktion von Emissionen aus Entwaldung und Schädigung von Wäldern (REDD+). 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. Pacific Geograhies 41, 20-25.

Book chapters and other publications

• Brad, A, Flemmer, R. and Hein, J. (2021): Raum und Ressourcen – Die politics of scale von Landrechtskonflikte. In: Bank, A. et al. (eds.), Blogserie zum Themenschwerpunkt „Politics of Scale in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft“, DVPW Blog, February 2021.

• 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

• POLLEN (node)
• Enjust – Network for environmental justice