Bleta Arifi
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Chair of Environmental Governance Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography |
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Professional Experience | Education | Projects | Conferences | Publications
Professional Experience
06/2014 - 09/2014
- Junior researcher at the Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg
04/2013 - 05/2014
- Junior researcher and module coordinator for the Master of Environmental Governance at the Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Albert-Ludwigs University Freibur
2010 - 2013
- Freelance consultant for the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Kosovo. Topics: Vocational Education and Training and Waste Management/Local Governance, focusing on gender mainstreaming and monitoring at the municipal level
03/2010 - 10/2010
- Local expert at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Kosovo. Project: Promotion of Centres of Competence in the Frame of the Vocational Education and Training Reform in Kosovo
08/2007 - 02/2010
- Project assistant at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Kosovo. Project: Reform of the Vocational Education and Training System in Kosovo
07/2007
- Freelance consultant at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Kosovo. Project: Reform of the Vocational Education and Training System in Kosovo
Education
Since 11/2014
- Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Centre for Renewable Energy
- PhD candidate at the graduate school "Decentral sustainable energy systems". Doctoral fellowship funded by the Landesgraduiertenförderung.
09/2010 - 12/2012
- Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg
- MSc in Environmental Governance (DAAD scholarship holder)
10/2007 - 10/2009
- Riinvest College
- Master studies in General Management
10/2003 - 03/2007
- University Pristina, Kosovo
- BA degree in German Language and Literature Studies
10/2005 - 03/2006
- University of Rostock
- Semester abroad (DAAD scholarship holder)
Further professional engagements and internships
11/2013 - 12/2013
- Teaching assistant for the Joint-Module "Human-Environment Interactions"
11/2011 - 12/2011
- Student tutor for the Module "Research Skills"
08/2011 - 11/2011
- Intern at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Kosovo. Project: Modernisation of Municipal Services in Kosovo
Projects
- BiodivERsA joint project "INVALUABLE: integrating valuations, markets and policies for biodiversity and ecosystems services"
Conferences
- 10th International Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference (Lille, France, 8-10/7/2015)
- 4S EASST Conference, Science and Technology by Other Means. Exploring collectives, spaces and futures (Barcelona, Spanien, 31/8-3/9/2016).
- Presentation: “The contestation of wind energy in Germany and the discursive construction of a 'people's movement': Analysing local conflicts about wind energy use”
- International Conference on Cross-Movement Mobilization (Bochum, Germany, 5-7/4/2017).
- Presentation: “Wind energy counter-conducts in the context of the German energy transition: The rise of a new environmental grassroots protest movement?
Publications
- Arifi et al. (in press). Landscape stewardship in wind energy conflicts: Between cultural myths and interests, in: Bieling, C., Plieninger, T. (Eds.), The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship. Cambridge University Press.
- Arifi et al. (in press). The Simmern Solidarity Pact – Reconciling income imbalances between villages, in: Bieling, C., Plieninger, T. (Eds.), The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship. Cambridge University Press.