Malte Möck

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Agricultural and Food Policy Group

Wolves (Canis lupus) are recolonizing Germany and confront pastoral farmers with the potential threat of livestock depredation. Protection measures such as wolf-deterring fences are considered indispensable for preventing carnivore attacks on livestock but require pro-active implementation by farmers. Drivers of farmers’ intention to adopt protecti...

Permanent grassland is a key component of agricultural land worldwide. To make pasture management more cost-efficient and sustainable, digitalization and modern sensor technology need to be integrated ( MacPhersonet al, 2022). Special software tools are necessary to effectively incorporate the data from modern sensors into operational processes. We...

Recent research has pointed to the need to investigate policy learning under conditions of contingency and ambiguity. The Multiple Streams Framework seems particularly suited to addressing policy-making in such a context, but also appears to be at odds with policy learning approaches. Against the background of the literature, and the framework’s as...

After a series of COVID‐19 outbreaks among employees in the German meat‐processing industry, the Work Safety Control Act protecting these workers made it on the government's agenda in July 2020. From a Multiple Streams perspective, local corona hotspots may be understood as policy windows for introducing respective measures. However, this alone is...

Antimicrobial resistances (AMR) present an emerging concern in human and animal health policy, as well as in water policy as a consequence of the pollution of water resources by antibiotic substances stemming from manure and sewage treatment plants. In 2017, the European Commission passed an AMR Action Plan and urged member states to develop nation...

In face of the interdependencies between policy areas in the management of common pool resources, studying nexus challenges is insightful for the exploration of new governance strategies. This includes the co-occurrence of and the interaction between different governance modes. We put forward the argument that a promising approach to explore these...

Research on policy network formation has contributed to an understanding of the patterns of interaction among political actors. Belief homophily, power seeking, and opportunity structures provide explanations studied for specific policy areas. This study tests these established theories in a different environment by asking: What drives policy netwo...

This paper contributes to the integration of the study of multiple (i) spatial scales, (ii) resource systems, and (iii) points in time in natural resource governance by introducing a strategy of layering action situations. In the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework, action situations can be studied singularly, in comparison, or as netw...

Policymaking in the water–energy–food nexus is characterized by complex ecological, social, and economic interdependencies. Nexus research assumes these interactions to be overseen in the respective resource governance resulting in sectoral perspectives contributing to unsustainable outcomes. In Germany, the political priority given to the formatio...

Polycentricity describes a certain region by the relationship of a selection of its most central spatial entities. We identify two sources of shortcomings in measures of polycentricity: the delineation of the region under study and the number of units considered within it. Both bear the risk of manufacturing polycentricity before measuring it, the...

Impervious surface is an important factor for the ecological performance of the built environment, in particular for the water balance. Therefore, the rainwater drainage infrastructure of new housing developments is planned according to the expected amount of impervious surface and the resulting surface runoff. Drainage infrastructure could be over...

Der Beitrag ist im Schwerpunktheft "Regieren in Niedersachsen" 67. Jg. Nr. 2 des "Neues Archiv für Niedersachsen", ISSN 0342-1511, erschienen. Das Schwerpunktheft wurde von Roland Czada und Dietrich Fürst herausgegeben. Der Aufsatz untersucht Formen und Erfolg der Governance von Stadt-Umland-Beziehungen in Niedersachsen. Dazu werden konventionelle...