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Teaching
  • Winter term 2010/2011: Characteristic and Design of sustainable Transition Pathways for Developing Countries, University of Berlin.
  • Summer term 2009: Methoden der regionalen Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften, Humboldt University of Berlin.
  • Summer term 2008: Klimawandel in Deutschland: Chancen & Risiken (with S. Stoll-Kleemann), University of Greifswald.
  • Summer term 2007: Methods in Sustainability Science with special emphasis on protected area management. Humboldt University Berlin (32177)
  • Winter term 2006/2007: Systematics of Man-Environment Interactions: Theory and Practice. Humboldt-University Berlin
  • Winter term 2005/2006: Neural networks in environmental reasearch, University of Potsdam
  • Winter term 2000/2001: Environmental Systems Analysis (Lecture; Methods and Paradigma, Process Oriented vs. Entities, Reduced Form Models, Neural Simulators, Viability Theory, Optimization and Control, Qualitative Differential Equations), University of Oldenburg.
  • Winter term 2000/2001: Decision Support Systems (Seminar/Training Course; State of the Art of DSS, Techniques and Applications in Medicine and Environmental Sciences), University of Oldenburg
  • Winter term 1999/2000 (co-teaching with W. Ebenhöh): Dynamical Systems Modeling (Lecture; Techniques: Deterministic, Probabilistic, Static, Optimization and Control Theory, Problems of Integration), University of Oldenburg.
  • Summer 1999: Qualitative Differential Equations (Seminar/Tutorial; Introduction into Strategic Dynamic Modeling Approaches usable under Uncertainty) , University of Oldenburg.
  • Winter term 1998/1999: Methods of Environmental Systems Analysis II (Seminar; Fuzzy Analysis, Decision Trees, Audits, Objective and Subjective Environmental Targets), University of Oldenburg.
  • Summer 1998: Methods of Environmental Systems Analysis I (Seminar, Environmental Management, Ecological and Economic Assessment, Development of Solution Strategies), University of Oldenburg.
  • Summer 1998 (co-teaching with T. Klenke): Cellular Automaton Models for the Analysis of Complex Geosystems (Training Course for specific Modeling Techniques, University of Oldenburg.
  • Summer 1997 (co-teaching with HJ Schellnhuber): Global and Regional Environmental Management (Seminar; Terraforming, Carbon Sequestration, Iron Fertilization of Oceans, Montreal Protocol, Carbon Fund, Large Dams and the Water Crisis, Marine Resources), University of Potsdam.
  • Winter term 1994/1995 (co-teaching with HJ Schellnhuber): Introduction to Climate Impact Research (Lecture; Model Concepts, Climate Modeling, Coupled Model Approaches, Global and Regional Assessment Modeling), University of Potsdam.
  • Summer 1995 (co-teaching with HJ Schellnhuber): Global Environmental Change (Seminar; Coevolution of Bio- and Atmosphere, Loss of Biodiversity, Collision of Celestial Bodies, Fluctuations of Solar Activity and Orbital Parameters, Urbanism, Anthropogenic for of Greenhouse Effect, Depletion of the Ozone Layer, Contamination of the Troposphere, Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift, Volcanism, Global Population Growth, Carbonate-Silicate Cycle), University of Potsdam.

Invited Lectures
  • KROPP JP (2010) Bridging Scales: The sustainability challenge needs reconciliation of Geographical, Global Change Research and Systems Theory. Geomatic Kolloqium Humboldt University, Geography, 28.6.10
  • KROPP JP (2010) From barriers to bridges: how systematic analysis of transition pathways can support climate related decision analysis. International Conference on Climate Change and Developing Countries, Kottayam, India, 19-21.2.10
  • KROPP JP (2010) The conclusions drawn from Copenhagen: The need for Local solutions and sound information. Climate Change Conference Kalundborg, DK, 26.1.10
  • KROPP JP (2010) Old Objectives – New Ways: Tackling the Climate Climate Change Challenge is also a Media Challenge. Hochschule Film & Fernsehen Konrad Wolff, 12.1.10
  • KROPP JP (2009) Climate impacts and other environmental stressors in megacities. University of Bielefeld, Institute for Public Health Medicine, 8.9.2009
  • KROPP JP (2009) Climate Change: challenges for regioal and local authorities Invited Lecture, Nordeuropa Institut, Philiosoph. Fak. II Humboldt Universität Berlin. 9.9.2009
  • KROPP, JP. (2009) From Barriers to Bridges: Climate Impacts: Global & Regional Adaptation Support Platform Adaptation 2009 Conference, Berlin, 28.30. May
    2009
  • KROPP JP. (2009) Climate Change Adaptation: Challenges and Options. Unversity of Oldenburg, Institute of Economics, 5.5.2009
  • KROPP JP (2009):  The 2+1 challenges of Climate Change: is it possible to reconcile climate protection, adaptation, and development? Keynote lecture, International Conference on Sustainability Science 2009, 5.2.2009, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • KROPP JP (2009): Estado das artes: Experiêncas práticas e pesquisa sobre vulnerabilidade e adaptação aos impactos da mudança climatica em nivel mundial. Diálogo de Expertos Adaptação às Mudanças Climáticas e Combate à Desertificação no Semiárido, 13.03. de 2009 – Recife; Cooperação Republica do Brasil e Republica Federal da Alemanha.
  • KROPP JP (2008): Dimensionen des Klimawandels: Welche Handlungsoptionen haben wir? University of Würzburg, Biozentrum, 16. Juni.
  • KROPP JP (2008): Klimawandel und Verletzlichkeit der Gesellschaft, DECHEMA Sonderkolloquium: Klimawandel - Fluch oder Segen? Frankfurt, 21. Februar
  • KROPP J (2007): Measureing Vulnerability to Climate Change: Strength and Weakness of a concept. Expert Workshop EWG IV, United Nations University EHS, Bonn, 20-22. November
  • KROPP J (2007): Climate Change and Tourism. Conference Business Case for Sustainability, Leuphania University Lueneburg. 16-17. November.
  • KROPP J (2007): Qualitative Physics as a concept for Earh System Analysis. Invited Speaker of the British Antarctic Survey, Complexity 2007, Cambridge, August 13rd-15th, Clare College.
  • KROPP J (2007): United Nations University Bonn, Expert Panel on Human Security in the Face of a Rapidly Changing Climate. April 17th.
  • KROPP J (2007): The pattern approach as a key concept for analyzing human-environment interactions. University of Zurich/EAWAG Dübendorf, Switzerland, March 8th.
  • KROPP J. (2006): Regional Assessment of sealevel rise and river floods by using computer-based expert systems, Regional Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Flood Risks in Coastal Areas, October 26-28th, Gdansk, Polish Geological Institute, Poland.
  • KROPP J. & Eisenack K. (2006): Perceived climate change impacts and exposure units. Results from a screening study in the Baltic Sea Region. May 18-19th, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
  • KROPP J. (2006). Climate Inpact Research in the Baltic Sea Region: State of the Art, Needs and possible Improvements. May 18-19th, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
  • KROPP J. (2006): Risk and Vulnerability Assessments: Central Elements of a Systematic and Integrated Earth System Science. University of Oslo/CICERO, Fenruary 23rd, 2006.
  • KROPP J. (2005): Sustainable Utilization related to economic and nature conservation aspects - conflicts and common demands. Key note lecture on invitation of the German Scientific Commission on Marine Research on the DWK workshop Ecosystem approach to fisheries management, Hamburg, BFA, November 28th, 2005.
  • KROPP J. (2005): Health of our Entire Planet: Syndromes of Global Change. San Rossore Meeting 2005: `A New Global Vision: Health a Universial Right?' San Rossore Park Pisa, Italy, 14-15th July, Regional Government of Tuscany. Programmed Intervention to the lectures of Carlos Corvalan (WHO, Climate Change and Health) Prabhu Pingali (FAO, Ecosystems -life forces of the Planet)
  • KROPP J. (2005): Understanding the Integrated Dynamics of the Earth System. Final SEAREG meeting, Tallinn, Estonia, March 2cd - 5 th.
  • KROPP J. (2004): Climate Change as Scientific and Social Challenge: Implications for Water Management [in german]. Expert Workshop on Scaling Analysis of Hydrometeorological Time Series Data, Bavarian Authority for Water Management, October 21th, Munich, Germany
  • KROPP J. (2004): 1st Joint Workshop of the ARMONIA network (Applied Multi-Risk Mapping of Natural Hazards for Impact Assessment), T6, Rome Italy
  • Eisenack K. & KROPP J. (2003): Qualitative Modelling and Phase Space Analysis, Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing Dept., Free University Berlin, February 7th.
  • KROPP J. - Convenor (2001): 1. Workshop on Scaling and Trend Analysis of Hydrometeorological Times Series, January 30th - February 1st, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
  • KROPP J. (2002): Global Change and the Transmission of Infectious Diseases, 12th ZUFO Environmental Symposium, University of Münster, November 25-26th.
  • KROPP J. (2002): DFG Round Table `Global Change and Health', April 30th, University of Heidelberg
  • KROPP J. (2002): Workshop: Emerging Questions in the Climate-Health-Debate, October 16-17th, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
  • KROPP J. (2001): Methoden und Konzepte zur Beschreibung und Modellierung bio- und sozioökonomischer Prozesse. Workshop Industrielle Innovationszyklen und sozial-ökologische Problemlagen, Zentrum für Umweltsystemforschung, Universität Münster, Rheine 11/12. Juni 2001.
  • KROPP J. (2001): Klimaänderungen und Globaler Wandel: Impacts in Europa (Workshop). Bildungswerk Cloppenburg, 23. April 2001, Cloppenburg.
  • KROPP J. (2000): Prerequisites for and Difficulties in ICZM Tasks: The Integration of Hard and Soft Knowledge in Dynamical Model Approaches. The Example of sustainable fisheries. Canda-Germany Workshop: Towards the Development of Scientific Approaches in Integrated Coastal Zone Planning and Management, St. John, New Brunswick, September 16, 2000.
  • KROPP J. (2000): Integrierte Systemanalyse unter Unsicherheit: Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven. Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Institut für autonome intelligente Systems (AiS), 22. Februar 2000.
  • KROPP J. (2000): Klimänderung und Küste: Regionale Effekte potentieller Klimaänderungen im norddeutschen und europäischen Küstenraum. Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Natur & Umweltschutz (WAU e.V.), Jever, 18. Januar 2000.
  • KROPP J. (1999): Klimaänderung und Küste: Ergebnisse neuer Simulationen, Konsequenzen für den Küstenraum und die Forschung. Deichbau & Naturschutz, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung & Maritime Informationsgruppe, Wilhelmshaven FZ Terramare, 20. Januar 1999.
  • KROPP J. (1997): Global Environmental Change: Symptomes and Syndromes. ISWI'97 Workshop: 'Let's build our future', Technical University of Ilmenau, 5th - 9th May 1997, Ilmenau.
  • KROPP J. (1997): Using a neural network approach for non-linear data and qualitative systems analysis: an example from the German Wadden Sea. Workshop on Disturbances in Coastal Marine Ecosystems. 3rd - 6th February 1997, Research Centre Terramare, Wilhelmshaven.
  • KROPP J. (1996): Methoden zur Modellierung des Globalen Wandels. Universität Frankfurt/Institut für sozialökologische Forschung. Seminar: Begleitforschung wissenschaftlich-technischer Innovationen - Komplexe Systeme, 30. Januar 1996, Frankfurt.
  • KROPP J. (1996): Modellierung der Mensch-Naturschnittstelle: Leistungsfähigkeit verschiedener Methoden. Universität Kassel, Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Umweltsystemforschung. Workshop: Modellierung der Mensch-Naturschnittstelle, 5. Februar 1996, Kassel.

Congress Lectures
  • KROPP JP, Förster H, Sterzel T (2009) Climate Impacts: global and regional support platform: a joint project of climate impact science and development cooperation World Climate Conference 3, Geneva, Switzerland, 31.8.2009
  • KROPP JP. & D. Reckien (2009): Cities and Climate Change: which options do we have for a safe and sustainable future? 5th Urban Research Symposium, Marseille, 28.6.2009
  • KROPP JP (2007): Is climate change a well-known policy concept or an illusion?. Climate Change in South-Eastern Europe, Graz Joaneum, March 26th-27th, Graz, Austria.
  • KROPP JP (2006): Towards new ways in flood risk assessment: Coping with nonstationarity and correlations. Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union, December 11-16th, San Francisco, USA.
  • KROPP JP, Rust H. & Kallache M. (2006): Facing the limits: How to improve extreme value assessment Open Science Conference ``Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenge'', November 9-12th, Beijing, China.
  • Eisenack K. & KROPP J. (2006): Assessing Adaptation Needs in the Baltic Sea Region. Open Science Conference ``Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenge'', November 9-12th, Beijing, China.
  • KROPP J. & Eisenack K. (2006): Integrating transdisciplinary knowledge for designing sustainable management schemes for marine fisheries. Open Science Conference ``Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenge'', November 9-12th, Beijing, China.
  • KROPP J. (2005): Scaling analysis and extreme value analysis in hydrology. Workshop ``Risk Management of extreme Floodings''. 20-21st, GeoResearch Centre Potsdam, Germany.
  • Rust H., Maraun D. & KROPP J. (2005): Measuring and Modelling Long-Range Dependence. Meeting of the European Geophysical Society, Vienna, Austria.
  • Kallache M., Lange H., Rust H. & KROPP J. (2005): Assessment of Extremes in the presence of trend in hydrological time series Oslo. European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo, Norway.
  • Kallache M., Rust H. & KPOPP J. (2005): Stochastic Modelling and Trend Assessment of River Run-Off Data in Southern Germany. Meeting of the European Geophysical Society, Vienna, Austria.
  • KROPP J. & Eisenack (2005): Generating policy relevant knowledge: How and Why? 6th Open Meeting of the International Human Dimension Programme of Global Environmental Change. University of Bonn, 9th-13rd October, Bonn Germany.
  • Rust H., Maraun D. KROPP J., Timmer J. (2004): DFA and the detection of long-range correlations. 1st General Assembly EGS, 28th April, Nice, France
  • Rebetez M., Mayer H., Dupont O., Schindler D., Gartner K., KROPP J. & Menzel A. (2004): Heat and drought: a climate analysis. Int. Conf. on Impacts of the Drought and Heat in 2003 on Forests. University of Freiburg, Germany.
  • KROPP J., Eisenack K. & Scheffran J. (2004): Sustainable Marine Resource Management: Lessons from Viability Analysis Biennal Meeting of the Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Osnabrück
  • KROPP J., Eisenack K., Scheffran J. (2004): Model Strategies for an ex-ante Assessment of Multi-Criteria Decisions in Marine Fisheries. 4th World Fisheries Congress, May 2cd--5th, Vancouver, Canada.
  • KROPP J., Eisenack J. & Scheffran J. (2003): Conflict Resolution, Management and Decision-Making for Sustainable Fisheries: A Qualitative Multi-Agent Approach for Viable Control. Annual Congress of the German Physical Soc., Working Group Sociophysics, Dresden, Germany.
  • Eisenack K. & KROPP J. (2001): Qualitative Reasoning in Bioeconomic Systems. Fifteenth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, San Antonio, Texas, May 17 - 19, 2001.
  • KROPP J. & Eisenack K. (2000): Assessment of Coastal Zone Management Options by Qualitative Modelling: Strategies for a Sustainable Fisheries. Fourth Int. Marine Einvironmental Modeling Seminar, Athens, October 3 - 7, 2000.
  • KROPP J. (2000): Decision Support under Uncertainty: The Syndrome Approach. Systems 2000: International Conference on Integrative Approaches to Natural and Social Dynamics. Osnbrück, 20. - 22. March 2000.
  • KROPP J. (1999): A Neural Solution: A Data Driven Assessment of a Global Climate Classification. 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Perth, Australia.
  • KROPP J. (1999): Konzept eines wissensbasierten Systems zur Diagnostik und Analyse des Globalen Wandels. GEOöKon '99, TU Braunschweig, 14. - 16. Oktober 1999.
  • KROPP J. (1999): Automatisierte Darstellung einer nicht-objektbezogenen Klima-Klassifikation durch künstliche neuronale Netzwerke. GEOöKon '99, TU Braunschweig, 14. - 16. Oktober 1999.
  • KROPP J. (1998): Dynamics of functional patterns in coastal ecocsystems: assessment and modelling based on self-organizing feature maps and qualitative differential equations. GeoComputation '98, University of Bristol 17th - 19th Sept. 1998, Bristol.
  • Klenke Th. & KROPP J. (1997): Untersuchung der qualitativen Eigenschaften von rezenten Wattsedimenten mit Hilfe neuronaler Netzwerke. Sediment '97 - Universität Köln 21.- 24.05.1997, Köln.
  • KROPP J. & Schweitzer F. (1996): Simple rules versus complex data in megacity growth: (i) Generic data structures of cities obtained by neural networks. (ii) Estimation of megacity growth by means of self-organization theory. 28th International Geographical Congress, Study Group of Disaster Vulnerability of Megacities 4th - 10th April 1996, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • KROPP J. & Petschel - Held G. (1995): Topological Analysis of Microstatistical Data Sets of German Cities. International Conference on Self-Organization of Complex Structures: From Individual to Collective Dynamics, 24th - 28th September 1995, Berlin.
  • KROPP J., von Bloh W., Klenke Th. (1995): Dynamical Modelling of Calcite formation in sedimentary structures. 2nd International Symposium on Fractals and Dynamic Systems in Geoscience, University of Franfurt, 4th - 7th April 1995, Gelnhausen.
  • Klenke, T., KROPP, J. Block, A. & von Bloh, W. (1994): SEM/EDX imaging of elements and identification of their distribution processes by multifractal techniques. 13th International Symposium on Microchemical Techniques, Montreaux 15.-19. May 1994.
  • KROPP J., von Bloh W., Block A., Klenke T. & Schellnhuber H. J. (1993): Characteristic multifractal element distributions in recent bioactive marine sediments. International Symposium on Fractals and Dynamic Systems in Geoscience, University of Franfurt, 1st - 3rd April 1993, Gelnhausen.


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