Economic Geography
Tel.: 044 635 52 44Room number: Y25 L 50finn.mempel@geo.uzh.ch
Research Interests
I enjoy interdisciplinary research with a critical lens. Currently, I work on socio-metabolic networks of global food production and trade.
My PhD project focused on the historical transformations in the economic geography and social metabolism of soybean production and trade as well as the discursive elements in current deliberation processes on environmental governance of the global soybean complex.
Previously, I have worked on climate change impacts on global precipitation patterns and I have experience in remote sensing, GIS, statistical programming and text-mining.
Teaching
I am or have been involved in teaching the following courses:
University of Zurich:
- GEO122 - Human Geography II
- GEO364 - Economic Geographies of Globalization
- GEO299 - Geography Small Group Teaching
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona:
- Development, Environment and Natural Resources
Supervised Theses
Bachelor:
- Sofie Klaus - "Weizen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Spekulation und Ernährungskrisen"
- Andri Voser - "Auf der Suche nach einer sozial gerechten und nachhaltigen Gesellschaft: Ein Vergleich zwischen der Postwachstumstheorie und dem modernistisch geprägten Ökosozialismus"
- Thalia Siradakis - "Alternative Ökonomien für eine ökologische Perspektive: Eine Untersuchung anhand der Autonomen Administration in Nord-Ost-Syrien"