Knowledge for Governance

Johannes Glückler is Professor of Economic and Social Geography and Fellow of the Marsilius Center for Advanced Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany. His research follows a relational perspective and builds on theories of organization, networks, and institutions in the study of the geography of knowledge and regional development. He is founding board member of the German Society for Social Network Research DGNet and co-founder of the M.Sc. Governance of Risks and Resources at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile.

Michael Handke is a research fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany and head of the M.Sc. Governance of Risk and Resources at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile. His research interests include economic geography, risk research, financial geography, and development research. His empirical work focuses on the management of risks in economic relationships, with a particular interest in the dealing with risks under conditions of limited risk knowledge from a spatial perspective.