Dr. Maria Proestou

email: maria.proestou(at)hu-berlin.de
phone: +49(0)30 2093 46313
fax : +49(0)30 2093 46321

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department für Agrarökonomie
Fachgebiet Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik
Philippstraße 13 – Haus 12 A
D-10115 Berlin

PhD in Institutional Economics (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), FNF Scholarship
MSc Integrated Natural Resource Management (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Visiting Student, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science (Freie Universität Berlin)
MSc Agricultural and Crop Sciences (Agricultural University of Athens)

Research Associate, Research Project: Policy Design for Resilient Bioeconomies (2019-2023)
Research Associate, Research Project: Institutional Implications of Bioeconomy Development (2017-2019)
Instructor at Berlin CIEE Global Institute, Global Environmental
Policy, The Politics of Building Sustainable Cities (2019-2023)
Lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) – Land & Water Management, Bioeconomy Governance (since 2017)
Coordinator of the Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (WINS), HU Berlin (2017-2019)
Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW), Environmental Politics and Economics (2015-2016)
Lecturer at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Sustainable Energy Transition (2012-2013)

Head of Junior Research Group BIOPOLISTA
College Member of the International Public Policy Association https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/college

Journal Articles (Peer reviewed)

Varanini, G., Proestou, M., Goritz, N., and Feindt, P. H. (2024). Explaining low salience of environmental resilience challenges in bioeconomy strategies: A cross-regional comparative analysis. Earth System Governance, 21, 100218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100218
Proestou, M., Schulz, N. and Feindt P.H.: A Global Analysis of Bioeconomy Visions in Governmental Bioeconomy Strategies, Ambio *53*, 376-388 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01958-6

Feindt P.H., Proestou, M. and Daedlow, K. (2020): Policy design for resilience in the emerging bioeconomy – the RPD framework and application to German bioenergy policy, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2020.1814130 .
Proestou, M., Crewett, W., Yu, L. and Zhang, X. (2018). The Future of Bioeconomy. Germany Contact: 1.
Proestou, M, Goritz, N. and Feindt, P.H. Assessing the Neoliberal State in the Bioeconomy – Analytical Framework and Evidence from Germany (under review).

Books

Proestou, M. (2016). Understanding Societies beyond Economics: Wind Energy Development on the Greek Island of Amorgos in Times of Neoliberalism, https://doi.org/10.18452/17481.

Other Publications

Daedlow, K., Proestou, M. and Feindt, P.H. (2019). Poster: Policy Designs for Resilient Bioeconomies – Towards an Analytical Framework”, 4. Bioeconomy Science Center Symposium, Köln, https://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/departments/daoe/apol/forschung/projekte/polderbio/findings/koeln-2019
Proestou, M. (2013). Windenergie am Beispiel der Insel Amorgos – Institutionen, Neigungen und Urteilsbildungsprozesse. In: Christ, T., Gellrich, A. and Die, T. (ed.): Zugänge zur Klimadebatte in Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Psychologie. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg, p. 309-329.
Crewett, W. and Proestou, M. (2019). Populism in bioeconomy-related policy. “Governance of Big Transformations”, German Political Science Association (DVPW), School of Governance, Technical University of Munich.
Proestou, M. and Crewett, W. (2018). Innovative institutions for the governance of biomass energy spaces. Inimbio Workshop, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.