Rist Stephan

Academic Degree: PD Dr. phil.

Organisation: Centre for Development and Environment

Address: CDE-GIUB, Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern / Switzerland
Tel. +41 31 631 54 98 (office); +41 31 631 88 22 (secretariat)
Fax: +41 31 631 85 44

E-mail: stephan.rist@cde.unibe.ch

Position at CDE: Programme staff/TP coordinator

Projects: Scientific coordinator of the Transversal Package NCCR North-South; Social learning for Sustainability (SOLES); Autodidactic Learning for Sustainability (ALS); Sustainable Land Management Manadate of SDC; BioAndes: Regional Program on Biocultural Diversity and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources; COST (Coopération européenne dans le domaine de la recherche scientifique et technique)on 'Social Learning Processes in Soil and Water Conservation in Switzerland'.

Areas of professional focus: Agroecology; rural sociology; sustainable rural development; culture and sustainability; transdisciplinarity, indigenous knowledge, globalization; organic agriculture and sustainable development

Further professional interests: Organic agriculture (Swiss and international); philosophy and ethics of development; integration of social and natural sciences.

Field experience: Bolivia; Peru; Ecuador; Honduras; El Salvador; Nicaragua; Chile; Brasil; Argentina; Mali; Cameroon; India

Network affiliations and memberships: COMPAS (Platform for intercultural dialogue on cosmovision and agri-culture); European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS). Member of the “Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) of “Theme on Conservation and Culture (TCC)” of the International Union of Nature Conservation (IUCN).

Languages: German; Spanish; English; French

Publications
Year	Title
2009	Call for PhD Applications
2009	Call for PhD Applications
2009	Decentralisation meets local complexity - Conceptual entry points, field-level findings and insights gained.
2009	Decentralisation Meets Local Complexity: Local Struggles, State Decentralisation and Access to Natural Resources in South Asia and Latin America.
2009	Maintaining Bio-Cultural Diversity in the Andes
2009	Presentatión
2008	Das Projekt „Von Bauern – für Bauern“ aus transdisziplinärer Sicht
2008	From Transfer to Co-production of Knowledge - New Challenges for Research and Extension
2008	Protection: A Means for Sustainable Development? The Case of the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn World Heritage Site in Switzerland
2008	Struggling “Ontological Communities”: The Transformation of Conservationists’ and Peasants’ Discourses in the Tunari National Park in Bolivia
2007	Context, Conceptual Framework and Sustainability Indicators
2007	Einführung zu aktueller Situation in Bolivien
2007	From scientific monoculture to intra- and intercultural dialogue – endogenous development in a North-South perspective. In: Moving Worldviews - reshaping sciences, policies and practices for endogenous sustainable development
2007	Introduction
2007	Introduction
2007	Learning Endogenous Development – Building on Bio-cultural Diversity
2007	Natural Resources, Sustainability and Social Learning Processes - Pathways towards Co-Production of Knowledge for Sutainable Development
2007	Presentación del libro “No somos juguete de nadie…” Análisis de la relación de movimientos sociales, recursos naturales, Estado y descentralización.
2007	Promoting the diversity of worldviews: An ontological approach to bio-cultural diversity
2007	Promoting the diversity of worldviews: An ontological approach to biocultural diversity
2007	The importance of bio-cultural diversity for endogenous development
2006	Enfoques teórico metodológicos para el acompañamiento y estudio de Movimientos Sociales campesinos y su efecto en la construcción de espacios de ciudadanía en la región andina de Cochabamba. Experiencias del Centro Universitario AGRUCO
2006	Incorporating Gender in Research on Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in the Tunari National Park in the Bolivian Andes
2006	Native trees and shrubs for the revitalization of sustainbale land use in rural communities in the Tunari National Park, Bolivia
2005	AIL - Apoyando Innovaciones Locales. Un instrumento para el fortalecimiento de innovaciones locales y la promoción del desarollo rural sostenibile
2005	Ciencia, transdisciplinariedad y saber de los Pueblos Indígenas
2005	Desafíos para la gestión sostenible de la Biodiversidad en el mundo y en los países andinos.
2005	Desarollo endógeno como un proceso social
2004	Endogenous development as social learning process
2003	Mythos, Lebensalltag und Wissenschaft im Berggebiet
2003	Organic Agriculture as a Social Movement. Re-thinking sustainable agriculture in developing countries
2003	The Role of Social Learning Processes in the Emergence and Development of Aymara Land Use Systems
2001	"Eigentlich lebte ich immer auf mich selbst gestellt..." - Biographie und Lernprozesse zwischen Autonomie und Fremdbestimmung

Functions within the NCCR North-South
Context		Function
WP:	TP	Coordinator of TP
WP:	WP4	Academic North
Programme:		Academic North
JACS:	South America	Scientific Collaborator
JACS:	Swiss Alps	Academic North