Dr. Thomas Krikser

Dr. Thomas Krikser is part of the department of Management in the international Food Industry since April 2020. He is responsible for statistical consultancy in social research methods at University of Kassel/Witzenhausen.

He holds a diploma in political science from the FU Berlin and worked for the UN-Decade Education for sustainable Development, for the Center of agricultural Landscape Research and was visiting scholar at The Gund-Institute of the University of Vermont and at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. From 2013 to 2020 has was part of the department for Agricultural and Food Marketing.

In 2016 he earns his doctoral degree at the Leuphana University Lüneburg in Sustainability Science.

• Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung (BA)
• Komplexe Methoden der Sozialforschung (MA)
• Research Methods (MA-IFBC)

• Social Research Methods
• Method development and optimization
• Measurement of attitudes and preferences
• Education for Sustainable Development
• Urbane Agriculture

Last 6 articles (peer-reviewed)

Krikser, T.; Profeta, A.; Grimm, S.; Huther, H. (2020):Willingness-to-Pay for District Heating from Renewables of Private Households in Germany. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4129.

Krikser, T.; Zasada, I.; Piorr, A. (2019): Socio-Economic Viability of Urban Agriculture—A Comparative Analysis of Success Factors in Germany. Sustainability, 11, 1999. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11071999

Tran, L.H.; Freytag-Leyer, B.; Plöger, A. und Krikser, T. (2019): Driving and Deterrent Factors Affecting Organic Food Consumption in Vietnam. Journal of Economics, Business and Management, 7, 4. https://doi.org/10.18178/joebm.2019.7.4.596

Sanyé-Mengual E., Specht K., Krikser T., Vanni C., Pennisi G., Orsini F., et al. (2018): Social acceptance and perceived ecosystem services of urban agriculture in Southern Europe: The case of Bologna, Italy. PLoS ONE 13(9): e0200993. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200993

Krikser, Thomas; Piorr, Annette; Berges, Regina und Opitz, Ina (2016): Urban Agriculture Oriented towards Self-Supply, Social and Commercial Purpose: A Typology. In: Land, Vol. 5 (3) 28, S. 1-19, https://doi.org/10.3390/land5030028.

Opitz, Ina; Berges, Regine; Piorr, Annette; Krikser, Thomas (2015): Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North. In: Agric Hum Values. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9610-2.

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