Lisa Murken

Lisa studied International Relations at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis (BA) and holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining PIK she worked as a consultant for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

• Land tenure and local commons
• Resilience of socio-ecological systems to climate change
• Agricultural economics and development economics
• Evaluation of adaptation strategies

Work in progress (selected):

Murken, L., Mager, G., Laudien, R., Kraehnert, K. & Gornott, C. The impact of weather risk on tenure security – Evidence from smallholder farmers in Tanzania (under review)

Murken, L., Kraehnert, K. & Gornott, C. Is this land for sale? The effects of drought on land ownership in Uganda (under review)

Murken, L., van den Broek, K., Adriko, J., Kraehnert K. & Gornott, C. The role of tenure security in farmers’ decision-making on improved seeds use: Insights from mental models (submitted)

Peer-reviewed publications:

Murken, L. & Gornott, C  (2022). The importance of different land tenure systems for farmers' response to climate change: a systematic review. Climate Risk Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100419

von Loeben, S., Murken, L., Lombardi, N. & Baas, S. (2021): Evaluating Costs and Benefits of Farm-Level Disaster and Climate Risk Management Good Practices. - In:Leal Filho, W., Luetz, J., Ayal, D. (Eds.), Handbook of Climate Change Management, Cham : Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3299-1

Siderius, C., Conway, D., Yassine, M., Murken, L., Lostis, P., & Dalin, C. (2020). Multi-scale analysis of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Arabian Gulf region. Environmental Research Letters 15, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8a86

Policy reports and working papers:

AGRICA Climate Risk Analyses:

• Ghana (2019): https://doi.org/10.2312/pik.2020.001 (as lead author)
• Ethiopia (2020): https://doi.org/10.2312/pik.2020.003 (as lead author)
• Ghana sub-national (2021): https://doi.org/10.48485/pik.2021.001 (as co-author)
• Burkina Faso (2021): https://doi.org/10.48485/pik.2022.001 (as co-author)
• Niger (2021):  https://doi.org/10.48485/pik.2022.002 (as co-author)

Siderius, C., Conway, D., Yassine, M., Murken, L. & Lostis, P., 2019. Characterising the water-energy-food nexus in Kuwait and the Gulf region. LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series (28). Middle East Centre, LSE, London, UK. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/102852/

FAO, 2019. Disaster risk reduction at farm level: Multiple benefits, no regrets. Rome.160 pp. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, (Lombardi, N., Murken, L., von Loeben, S. & Baas, S.)

DecLaRe: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/projects/all/949

AGRICA: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/research/projects/imported/745

• Agrica_21: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/projects/all/892
• Agrica_Madagascar: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/projects/all/898

ClimSec Sahel: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/research/projects/imported/628

• ClimSec Sahel 2.0: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/projects/all/848

• PhD Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation, 08/2020 - 12/2022
• Carlo-Schmid Fellowship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 09/2017 - 03/2018
• MSc Environment and Development Best Overall Performance Prize (awarded by the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Geography & Environment), 11/2017
• Study scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation, 07/2013 - 08/2017