Dr. Konrad Hentze
Research Associate
Room 342
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Email: k.hentze@geographie.uni-bonn.de
Phone: (+49)228/73-7383
Research Interests
- Land tenure and management
- Human-Environment Interactions
- Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC)
- Conservation and Conflicts
- Southern Africa
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 2011: GIS specialist at a green investment company
- 2011: Scientific assistant at the University of Bonn (Prof. Dr. Menz)
- 20011, 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
- 2016: Student excursion to Namibia, preparatory seminar
- 2011: Student excursion to Namibia, preparatory seminar
Publications
- 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.
