Diana Hummel

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Diana Hummel (* 1963 in Gelnhausen ) is a German political and environmental scientist . She is a research assistant at the Frankfurt Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) and has been a member of the institute's management since April 2014.

Career

Hummel studied educational sciences , psychology and social sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate in 1999 in the department of social sciences with the thesis The Population Discourse. Demographic knowledge and political power. Since 2002, Hummel has been a research assistant at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), where she headed the research focus “ Biodiversity and Population ” until 2014 . Before that she was heavily involved in the institute's demons research group . At the same time, she works as a private lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , where she completed her habilitation in 2009 with the work Supplying the Population: Studies on Population Dynamics and the Transformation of Supply Systems.

Hummel's current research focuses on climate change, migration, gender problems , urbanization processes , food supply and concepts of social-ecological systems. Here she made several contributions to the programmatic work of ISOE Social Ecology published in 2006 . Basic features of a science of the social relations of nature. at. Her empirical research focuses on developing countries , especially in West Africa.

Fonts (selection)

  • The population discourse. Demographic knowledge and political power. Opladen 2000 ISBN 3810029637
  • Resources and population dynamics. Frankfurt am Main 2006
  • Population Dynamics and Supply Systems. A Transdisciplinary Approach. Frankfurt am Main 2008 ISBN 9783593385457
  • Supplying the Population: Studies on Population Dynamics and Transformation of Supply Systems. Frankfurt am Main 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Hummel, Diana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political and environmental scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen