Short Bio Franz Gatzweiler
Franz Gatzweiler studied Agricultural Science at Bonn University and International Agricultural Economics
at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His doctoral research topic was on the “Nature of Economic Value”
with a case study on indigenous rubber forest gardens in West Kalimantan, Indonesia among indigenous
Dayak communities. Franz Gatzweiler received stipends from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and
the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) which enabled him to visit the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in 2003. He teaches a course on Biodiversity and
Conservation Management at the faculty of Life Sciences of the Humboldt University of Berlin and a course
in Institutions and Development at the University of Bonn. Franz Gatzweiler is the lead author on a chapter
about the “Socio-cultural context of Ecosystem and Biodiversity Valuation” to the 2010 published book
on the Ecological and Economic Foundations of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), coeditor of the 2014 published Book “Marginality – Addressing the Nexus between Poverty, Exclusion and
Ecology”, and editor of the 2013 published book on “Institutional and Livelihood Changes in East African
Forest Landscapes”. Franz Gatzweiler’s research interests lie at the intersection of ecological, economic
and social research disciplines and have covered problems of value in complex socio-ecological and living
systems, institutions and institutional change in polycentric organization, marginality and technology
innovations for productivity growth in rural development. His recent research interest is on the economics
of living systems.