Max Krott

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Max Krott (born January 25, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian forest scientist and political scientist .

Since 1995 he has headed the Department of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy and Forest History at the Burckhardt Institute of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Life

education

Max Krott was born in Vienna on January 25, 1955. From 1974 he studied forestry at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and graduated in 1979 as a graduate engineer . He stayed as a university assistant at BOKU, which he received in 1982 with the dissertation The regional economic importance of the wood industry in Austria. Space efficiency - determinants - Opportunities also to Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (nat Dr. techn..) Received his doctorate . The habilitation followed in 1988 with the writing of forest spatial planning policy . Practice and future of the Austrian forest development plan . In addition, Krott completed a degree in political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, which he completed in 1983 with the award of a master's degree (Mag. Phil.).

Start of academic career

In 1986, Max Krott received the major license to teach forest and timber management policy as well as forest spatial planning and was appointed assistant professor for these subjects, which he read at BOKU until 1994. He also took over the lecture "Politics of Natural Resources" for students of landscape planning in Vienna.

During these years Krott appeared intensively as a consultant for forestry practice. Among other things, he participated in the ministerial working group on forest spatial planning and headed the “Forests, Wildlife, Pasture” working group within the International Alpine Protection Commission (CIPRA) Austria . Krott reacted to the upheavals in Eastern Europe from 1989 by founding the Europaforum Forstverwaltung, at which representatives of the forest administrations of European countries have met with scientists every year since 1991 to look for solutions to administrative problems.

Krott headed the environmental council of BOKU and advised the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management on questions of environmental and nature conservation policy.

Move to Germany

With the representation of teaching in forest policy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1994, Max Krott finally turned more to German forestry. In 1995 he accepted the call of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen to take over the chair for forest and nature conservation policy and political science at the forestry faculty, in connection with the management of the institute for forest policy, forest history and nature conservation. Since then he has been teaching and researching there as a full university professor. In 2007, as part of a restructuring of the faculty, the institute became the department of forest and nature conservation policy and forest history within the Burckhardt Institute.

Activities at national and international level

During his time in Vienna as an assistant professor, Krott had increasingly expanded his activities to the international level. He did various research and teaching stays in the USA (1988, 1990 and 1992), Finland (1989), Russia (1996 and 2000) and Japan (1995).

Between 1980 and 2000 Max Krott worked in a number of institutions involved in research self-administration. Since 1996 he has been a member of the management team of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and since 1998 also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Forest Institute . In addition, from 2001 to 2010 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Forest Research and Research Institute in Baden-Württemberg .

In addition to numerous publications in specialist journals and several of his own book publications, Max Krott also worked extensively as an editor of scientific compilations - especially on IUFRO conferences - and has been editor-in-chief of the international journal Forest Policy and Economics since 1999 .

Krott lives in Göttingen . There he is socially involved as a Rotarian and was president of the Rotary Club Göttingen in 2008/2009.

Research priorities

Krott's research interests include policy field analyzes in forestry and nature conservation . This describes the various actors involved in forest and nature, analyzes their conflicts and shows possible solutions. Krott has presented several scientific analyzes of related case studies, such as forest road construction in eco times. Case study on a citizens' protest in Klosterneuburg (1991, together with Rüdiger Maier) and management of networked environmental research. Science-political lesson forest dieback (1994). He is internationally known not least for his textbook Policy Field Analysis Forestry. An introduction to study and practice (2001), which was also published in an English translation in 2005 ( Forest Policy Analysis ).

Krott also works on national and international forest policy and analyzes nature conservation policy nationally and internationally in relation to biodiversity . Another field of work is science policy and the question of how findings from science are transferred into social contexts (knowledge transfer).

Fonts

Own scientific books

  • The regional economic importance of the wood industry in Austria. Spatial effectiveness - determining factors - possible uses , dissertation, Vienna 1982 ( ISBN 3-85369-526-4 )
  • Forest spatial planning policy. Practice and future of the Austrian forest development plan , habilitation thesis 1988, forest series (volume 2), Vienna 1989 ( ISBN 3-900865-01-9 )
  • Public administration in environmental protection. Results of an agency-oriented policy analysis using the example of forest protection , study series on conflict research (Volume 5), Vienna 1990 ( ISBN 3-7003-0863-9 )
  • together with Rüdiger Maier: Forest road construction in eco times. Case study on a citizens' protest in Klosterneuburg , series of publications by the Institute for Forest Management and Forestry Policy (Volume 10), Vienna 1991
  • as co-author: Defensive costs in favor of the forest in Austria , research report, Vienna 1992
  • together with F. Traxler: Association organization in environmental protection, strategic development alternatives , Vienna 1993
  • Management of networked environmental research. Science- political lesson forest dieback , studies on politics and administration (Volume 49), Vienna, Cologne and Graz 1994 ( ISBN 3-205-98129-4 )
  • as co-author: Forest Organizations in Performance Comparison - Development Alternatives , Gotha 1997
  • as co-author: Policies for Sustainable Forestry in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine , European Forest Institute research report (No. 9), Leiden, Boston and Cologne 2000 ( ISBN 90-04-11639-7 )
  • Policy field analysis forestry. An introduction to study and practice , Berlin 2001 ( ISBN 3-8263-3274-1 ) - English translation by Renée von Paschen under the title Forest Policy Analysis , Dordrecht 2005, ISBN 1-4020-3478-4 , ISBN 978-1- 4020-3478-7 , ISBN 1-4020-3485-7 or ISBN 978-1-4020-3485-5 )
  • Controlling for program research, cultural landscape research program (No. 19), Vienna 2005 ( ISBN 3-85224-123-5 )
  • together with Michael Böcher: Implementation of the concept of modern departmental research in the business area of ​​the BMU , Dessau-Roßlau 2010

As editor

  • together with B. Illyés: Contributions to solutions and conditions for success of forest organizations. Comparison between Eastern and Western Europe , Sopron 1991
  • together with J. Matejicek: The importance of planning for the practice of state forest management. Comparison between Eastern and Western Europe , Prague 1992
  • together with J. Smykala: Relations between the State Forestry Administration and the Nature Conservation Administration. Comparison of European countries , Warsaw 1993
  • together with J. Tutka: Public Relations of the State Forest Administration. Comparison of European countries , Zvolen 1994 ( ISBN 80-967140-4-X )
  • together with Alexander Riedel: Financial support as an instrument of the state forest management. Comparison of European countries , Dresden 1995 (published 1996)
  • together with Gy. Marosi and János Gólya: Relations between the State Forestry Administration and private forest owners and their associations. Comparison of practice in Europe , Göttingen 1996 ( ISBN 963-7349-08-1 )
  • together with NA Moiseev and Klaus von Gadow: Planning and Decision-Making for Forest Management and the Market Economy , Göttingen 1997
  • together with G. Bloetzer: The role of the state forest management in forest-related planning , Göttingen 1998
  • together with K. Nilsson: Urban Forestry. Multiple-Use of Town Forests in International Comparison , Wuppertal 1998
  • together with A. Kermavnar and D. Matijasic: Reform of the state forest management - experiences and future concepts in a European comparison , Laibach 1998
  • together with W. Meyer: Staatsforstverwaltungen and European Union , Sopron 2000
  • together with Michael Suda: Survey as a method of social research in forest science , writings from the forestry faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Northwest German Forest Research Institute (Volume 132), Frankfurt am Main 2001 ( ISBN 3-7939-5132-4 )
  • National Forest Administration Strategies - Practical Experience in a European Comparison 1991-2000 , European Forest Institute Proceedings (No. 40), 2001
  • together with Michael Suda: Does science make politics? Experience of scientific advice in the policy field of forest and the environment , Wiesbaden 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-531-15369-8 or ISBN 3-531-15369-2 )
  • together with Michael Böcher and Sebastian Tränkner: Regional Governance and Integrated Rural Development. Results of the accompanying research for the model and demonstration project "Regions Active" , Wiesbaden 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-531-91100-7 )

literature

  • NN: Prof. Dr. Max Krott to Göttingen . In: AFZ / DerWald . 50th year, issue 8/1995, p. 446, ISSN  1430-2713

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ until 2007 Institute for Forest Policy, Forest History and Nature Conservation
  2. ↑ a b c d basic data on Max Krott based on an older profile ( memento from March 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) of the University of Göttingen; Retrieved January 9, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c d e f N.N .: Prof. Dr. Max Krott to Göttingen . In: AFZ / DerWald . 50th year, issue 8/1995, p. 446
  4. ↑ Krott as "IUFRO Officeholder" and coordinator of the working group "Forest Policy in Reform States" ; Retrieved January 9, 2011
  5. ↑ List of presidents of the Rotary Club Göttingen ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved January 9, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rotary1800.org
personal data
SURNAME Krott, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian forest scientist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna