Dr. Konrad Hentze
Research Associate
Room 342
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
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Phone: (+49)228/73-7383
Research Interests
- Land tenure and management
- Human-Environment Interactions
- Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC)
- Conservation and Conflicts
- Food-Water-Energy-Nexus
- Southern Africa & the Global South
Current Project
(Copernicus-based Detection and Monitoring of Tropical Wetlands):
Background
Education
- 2017: PhD thesis: "Suitability Analysis of Remote Sensing Methods to Map Agricultural Land Use Change after Zimbabwe’s ‘Fast Track Land Reform Programme'"
- 2012-2016: PhD Student at RSRG, funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation
- 2011: Diplom thesis: "The importance of land use strategies within Community Based Natural Resource Management - a socio-ecological analysis in the Kavango Region, Namibia"
- 2009-2011: Studies of Geography, Anthropology and Soil Sciences, University of Bonn and University of Cologne
- 2008: Additional Minor Subject "Agriculture of Tropics and Subtropics", University of Hohenheim
- 2007-2008: Studies of Geography, Anthropology and Resource Management, University of KwaZulu-Natal
- 2004-2007: Studies of Geography, Anthropology and Soil Sciences; University of Tübingen and University of Hohenheim
Professional Experience
- since 2017: PostDoc and Project Coordinator
- since 2011: GIS specialist at the Land Portal and a green investment company
- 2011: Scientific assistant at the University of Bonn (Prof. Dr. Menz)
- 2001, 2009: Consultant for Relief Mapping
- Student assistant at the Universities of Tübingen (2005-2007, Prof. Dr. Hochschild), Durban (2008, Dr. Brooks) and Bonn (2010-2011, Prof. Dr. Menz)
- Internships at: DED Lesotho (2005), DED Namibia (2007,2009), CartONG (2008), WFP (2009), City of Bonn (2009), DED Germany (2009), GIZ Vietnam (2011)
- 2005-2009: Tour Guide in Southern Africa
Teaching
- Vegetation geography (SoSe 2021)
- Introduction to time series analysis in remote sensing (WiSe 2020)
- Räumliche Methoden in der Humangeographie (SoSe 2020, WiSe 2020, SoSe 2021)
- Methods for sustainable land management (WiSe 2019)
- Student excursion to Namibia, preparatory seminar (2011, 2016, 2019)
Awards
- University of Bonn: Argelander Grant (10,000 €) for a project proposal on remote sensing of land tenure
- The Land Portal: 1st price of data visualization contest
- Heinrich Böll Foundation: Full PhD scholarship and field trips to Zimbabwe
- DAAD: Scholarship for field trip, Diploma thesis
- DAAD: Full 1 year scholarship for studies in South Africa
Reviewing Activities
Academic Editor
- PLOS ONE
Reviewer
- European Journal of Remote Sensing
- PLOS ONE
- Journal of Mountain Science
- Science of the Total Environment
- Land
Publications
Peer-reviewed:
- (Forthc.) Steinbach, S., Cornish, N., Franke, J., Hentze, K., Strauch, A., Thonfeld, F., Zwart, S., and Nelson, A.: A new conceptual framework for integrating earth observation in large-scale wetland management in East-Africa. In: Wetlands, Springer.
- (Forthc.) Strauch, A., Bunting, P., Campbell, J., Cornish, N., Eberle, J., Fatoyinbo, T., Franke, J., Hentze, K., Lagomasino, D., Lucas, R., Paganini, M., Rebelo, L., Riffler, M., Rosenqvist, A., Steinbach, S., Thonfeld, F., and Tottrup, C. : The fate of wetlands – Can the view from space help us to stop and reverse their global decline? In: AGU Monography: Earth Observation Applications and Global Policy Frameworks. Wiley&Sons.
- Thonfeld, F., Steinbach, S., Muro, J., Hentze, K., Games, I., Näschen, K., Kauzeni, P.F. (2020): The impact of anthropogenic land use change on the protected areas of the Kilombero catchment, Tanzania. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 168, 41-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.019.
- Hentze, K., Thonfeld, F. & G. Menz (2017): Beyond trend analysis: How a modified breakpoint analysis enhances knowledge of agricultural production after Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 62, 78–87. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.007.
- Hentze, K., F. Thonfeld & G. Menz (2016): Evaluating Crop Area Mapping from MODIS Time-Series as an Assessment Tool for Zimbabwe’s “Fast Track Land Reform Programme”. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0156630. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156630.
- Hentze, K. & G. Menz (2015): “Bring Back the Land”—A Call to Refocus on the Spatial Dimension of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform. Land 4(2), 355-377; doi:10.3390/land4020355.
Storylines:
- How Satellites can locate potential land grabs in Africa: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=5f39e46767754625854b32005651ca17
- Does South African law engender women’s land rights?: https://landportal.org/blog-post/2020/03/southafrica-genderdata
- South Africa's Move Towards Spatial Transformation: A Look Into Trends in Land Market Data: https://landportal.org/blog-post/2020/08/south-africas-move-towards-spatial-transformation-look-trends-land-market-data
- Urban land reform: rethinking informal settlements in pre-apartheid, apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa: https://landportal.org/blog-post/2020/01/urban-land-reform-rethinking-informal-settlements-pre-apartheid-apartheid-and-post