Achim Schlüter

Professor Dr Achim Schlüter

Programme Area Lead (PA 1), Working Group Leader, Professor for Institutional Economics and Ocean Governance (University of Bremen)

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Room: 3104 (1st floor)

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Curriculum Vitae: Professor Dr Achim Schlüter


Research interests

I am an interdisciplinary institutional economist who wants to understand how we can build a governance structure in the tropical marine realm that helps us produce socially, economically, and ecologically sustainable outcomes. I mainly focus on fisheries and aquaculture. However, I am also generally interested in changes in property rights in the marine realm due to shifts in the blue economy. The methods I use range from qualitative case studies to experiments and participatory modelling. Exchange and collaboration with societal actors are particularly important to me, as I want to support society's transition to a more sustainable state.


 


Selected Recent Publications (google scholar)

Granados, J., & Schlüter, A. (2023). Blockchain and Payments for Environmental Services: Tools and opportunities for environmental protection. In: Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research.

Jennerjahn, T. C., Bleischwitz, R., Reise, J., & Schlüter, A. (2026). Protecting Major Ocean Carbon Sinks:

Blue Carbon and Beyond. In S. Coffen-Smout, P. Galvao, M. L. McConnell, & S. L. Seck (Eds.), Ocean Yearbook (Vol. 40). Brill.

Kluger, L. C., Schlüter, A., Garteizgogeascoa, M., & Damonte, G. (2022). Materialities, discourses and governance: scallop culture in Sechura, Peru. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2047620

Kriegl, M., Kochalski, S., Straka, T. M., Gorris, P., Schlüter, A., & Kluger, L. C. (2024). Our Blue Planet: Connecting Humans and the Ocean. Frontiers for Young Minds, 11.

Makris, J., Kriegl, M., Nagel, B., & Schlüter, A. (2024). Participatory modelling of institutional dynamics: Navigating epistemological challenges in fuzzy cognitive mapping. In F. Nunan (Ed.), Researching Institutions in Natural Resource Governance: Methods and Frameworks. Routledge. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032624679

Manlosa, A. O., Hornidge, A.-K., & Schlüter, A. (2021). Institutions and institutional changes: aquatic food production in Central Luzon, Philippines. Regional Environmental Change, 21(4), 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01853-4

Moser, D., Vance, C., Collard, J., Rieger, M., Anggraini, E., Merico, A., & Schlüter, A. (2026). Barrier or enabler? Cross‐cultural evidence on cognitive biases in climate protection. Earth's Future, 14(8), e2025EF007697.

Nagel, B., Anggraini, E., Buhari, N., Gray, S., Partelow, S., & Schlüter, A. (2024). Mental models of aquaculture governance in Indonesia. Sustainability Science, 19(6), 1825–1845. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01545-y

Octa Paramita, A., Partelow, S., & Schlüter, A. (2024). Bagaimana memperkuat Gotong-Royong untuk merehabilitasi saluran irigasi antar petambak budidaya tradisional tanpa insentif moneter? ZMT Policy Brief Series. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21244/zmt.2024.004

Paramita, A. O., Partelow, S., Schlüter, A., & Buhari, N. (2023). Can the Indonesian collective action norm of Gotong-Royong be strengthened with economic incentives? Comparing the implementation of an aquaculture irrigation policy program. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1), 462–480.

Partelow, S., Asif, F., Béné, C., Bush, S., Manlosa, A. O., Nagel, B., Schlüter, A., Chadag, V. M., Choudhury, A., & Cole, S. M. (2023). Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 65, 101379. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101379

Partelow, S., Hornidge, A.-K., Senff, P., Stäbler, M., & Schlüter, A. (2020). Tropical marine sciences: Knowledge production in a web of path dependencies. PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0228613. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228613

Partelow, S., Schlüter, A., Armitage, D., Bavinck, M., Carlisle, K., Gruby, R. L., Hornidge, A.-K., Le Tissier, M., Pittman, J. B., Song, A. M., Sousa, L. P., idianu, N., & Van Assche, K. (2020). Environmental governance theories: a review and application to coastal systems. Ecology and Society, 25(4), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12067-250419

Partelow, S., Schlüter, A., Ban, N. C., Batterbury, S., Bavinck, M., Bennett, N. J., Bleischwitz, R., Blythe, J., Bogusz, T., Breckwoldt, A., Cinner, J. E., Glaser, M., Govan, H., Gruby, R., Hatje, V., Hornidge, A.-K., Hovelsrud, G. K., Kittinger, J. N., Kluger, L. C.,…Villasante, S. (2023). Five social science intervention areas for ocean sustainability initiatives. npj Ocean Sustainability, 2(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00032-8

Partelow, S., Schlüter, A., O. Manlosa, A., Nagel, B., & Octa Paramita, A. (2022). Governing aquaculture commons. Reviews in Aquaculture, 14(2), 729–750. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12622

Schlüter, A., & Bavinck, M. (2026). Ocean privatisation: the ‘processes of property’ occurring in the world’s maritime domains. Maritime Studies, 25(4), 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-026-00515-7

Schlüter, A., Bavinck, M., Hadjimichael, M., Partelow, S., Said, A., & Ertör, I. (2020). Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations: an interdisciplinary social science enquiry. Ecology and Society, 25(3), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11772-250320

Schlüter, A., Kluger, L. C., Garteizgogeascoa, M., & Damonte, G. (2023). Resource Grabbing and the Blue Commons: The Evolution of Institutions in Scallop Production in Sechura Bay, Peru. In C. N. Andreas Neef, Tsegaye Moreda, Sharlene Mollett (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing (1st ed., pp. 18). Routledge. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003080916

Schlüter, A., Núñez Beingolea, C., & Nagel, B. (2025). Recomiendaciones políticas: de los modelos mentales a seis puntos de intervención en el sistema de recursos marinos de Sechura. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.21244/zmt.2026.003

Schlüter, A., van Assche, K., Fall, S., Senghor, K., Banikoi, H., & Kane, E. (2025). Theories of institutional change and marine privatisation. Maritime Studies, 24(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-025-00406-3

Senghor, K., & Schlüter, A. (2026). Unpacking power dynamics and actor interactions across fisheries and marine protected areas governance: a comparative study of Saint Louis and Sangomar, Senegal. Maritime Studies, 25(3). https://doi.org/ARTN 44

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Spranz, R., & Schlüter, A. (2023). The Plastic Bag Habit and the Ocean Bali: From Banana Leaf Wrappings to Reusable Bags. In S. Partelow, M. Hadjimichael, & A.-K. Hornidge (Eds.), Ocean Governance: Knowledge Systems, Policy Foundations and Thematic Analyses (pp. 319–335). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20740-2_14

Van Assche, K., Hornidge, A.-K., Schlüter, A., & Vaidianu, N. (2020). Governance and the coastal condition: Towards new modes of observation, adaptation and integration. Marine Policy, 112, 103413. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.01.002