Cologne University of Applied Sciences Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, MEXICO ITT - Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics Programa Multidisciplinario de Posgrado en Ciencias Ambientales - Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Master Thesis Topics

Supervisor ITT

Supervisor PMPCA

Adaptation processes of farming systems

- Interacción de los sistemas de producción e impacto ambiental - Sabine Schlüter
- Juan Carlos Torrico
Juan M. Pinos Rodríguez - Juan Carlos García López Gregorio Álvarez Fuentes
- Etnobotánica y agroecología en milpas y solares indígenas - Juan Carlos Torrico Javier Fortanelli

Agricultural economics

Supply chain analysis of agricultural, forest and organic products - Sabine Schlüter
- Juan Carlos Torrico
Laura Yáñez Espinosa
Juan Rogelio Aguirre Rivera

- Income generation strategies for local comunities
- Potential for the cultivation of medicinal plants.

- Sabine Schlüter Erika García Chávez
Juan Rogelio Aguirre Rivera 

Agricultural systems and animal production

Evaluation and design of different farming systems: organic, silvopastoral and agroforestal systems - Juan Carlos Torrico Juan M. Pinos Rodríguez
- Juan Carlos García López
Gregorio Álvarez Fuentes
- Production, evaluation, and optimization of biomass processes.
- Energy in natural and agricultural systems 
- Juan Carlos Torrico Bertha Irene Juárez Flores
Sustainability analysis
Environmental degradation of agricultural and livestock systems
- Juan Carlos Torrico Bertha Irene Juárez Flores

- Producción de cosechas en el altiplano potosino
- Producción de cosechas en la zona media. 

- Juan Carlos Torrico Héctor Martín Durán García
Analysis of infrastructure to management run-off systems on alluvial fans
- Juan Carlos Torrico J. Antonio Reyes A.

Biodiversity and biogeography 

Biodiversity assessment and conservation in the Huasteca based (Tools: GIS and species distribution modelling) - Claudia Raedig Laura Yáñez Espinosa 
ENVI-based analysis of vegetation cover changes in the Huasteca and their impacts on biodiversity - Claudia Raedig Laura Yáñez Espinosa 
Plagas, actividades agropecuarias, uso y cambios de suelo, Propuesta para el establecimiento de corredores biológicos, aéreas naturales protegidas, UMAS, etc. - Juan Carlos Torrico Carlos Contreras Servín
- Diagnostic spatial modeling and prediction of distribution of pests and diseases in plants and animals worldwide.(MaxEnt, Multicriteria).
- Rates of loss of biodiversity, land use change on the growth of the agricultural frontier with application of GIS and RS.
- Indices of biodiversity loss, land use change on the growth of the agricultural frontier with application of GIS and RS.
- Construction of inventories of natural resources according to rules and applying geo (GIS and RS)
- Juan Carlos Torrico Ma. Guadalupe Galindo Mendoza
Distribution patterns and richness of agrobiodiversity in México  - Hartmut Gaese J. Antonio Reyes A.

Ecology of populations and communities

Modelos de distribución y disperción de especies (plantas y animales) para su conservación apoydados en SIG y PR - Claudia Raedig Ma. Guadalupe Galindo Mendoza
Demography of Agave lechuguilla. Population analysis of Euphorbia antisyphylitica - Claudia Raedig J. Antonio Reyes A.

Ecosystem services

Evaluation of the contribution of water and soil nutrients from arid and zemiarid lands  - Lars Ribbe J. Antonio Reyes A.

Energy systems and technologies

El potencial de la biomasa en San Luis Potosí, México. - Johannes Hamhaber Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Local governance options to promote decentralized (urban) renewable energy systems - Johannes Hamhaber Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Rural energy systems analysis in SLP - Johannes Hamhaber Hector Martin Duran Garcia
(Low-Cost) Renewable energy technology and local knowledge in SLP/ Solar and hydraulic energy - Johannes Hamhaber Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Energy-efficient (low-cost) housing in urban SLP - Johannes Hamhaber Hector Martin Duran Garcia

Energía solar
Energía eólica
Energía hidraúlica.  

- Johannes Hamhaber Héctor Martín Durán García

Environmental history and historical geography

Transformación del paisaje, historia del clima - Udo Nehren Carlos Contreras Servín
Cambio climático y participación social
Cambio climático e historia ambiental
- Udo Nehren
- Johannes Hamhaber
Miguel Aguilar Robledo
Pedro Medellín Milán
Deforestación y cambio climático - Udo Nehren Miguel Aguilar Robledo
Humberto Reyes Hernández
Ecología del paisaje e historia ambiental: Utilizar las unidades del paisaje como referente espacio-temporal en el conocimiento de la historia ambiental regional - Udo Nehren Alvaro Gerardo Palacio Aponte

Environmental policies

Policy analysis of natural agricultural resources management Sabine Schlüter
- Juan Carlos Torrico
Juan Manuel Pinos Rodriguez
- Impact of Free Trade Agreement with the United States and European Union agricultural areas in Mexico.
- Environmental policies in the neoliberal model.
- Environmental ecopolitics. 
- Juan Carlos Torrico Ma. Guadalupe Galindo Mendoza
REDD Potentials in rural areas:
Strategies for forest conservation and land use system adaptations.
- Sabine Schlüter  Juan Manuel Pinos Rodriguez
Evaluation and quantification of ecosystem services - Sabine Schlüter  Juan Manuel Pinos Rodriguez
Clean development mechanism, carbon trading, air carbon stocks calculations. - Sabine Schlüter  Juan Manuel Pinos Rodriguez

Ethnobiology

Morphological analysis of domestification process of mexican vegetables - Juan Carlos Torrico J. Antonio Reyes A.
La palma (Brahea spp.), utilización e importancia etnobotánica. *El sistema alimentario de los indígenas xi'uy. *Recursos forestales maderables de la Sierra Madre Oriental de S.L.P.Validación fama-toxicológica de plantas de uso medicinal. Exploración y valoración nutricional de plantas de uso alimentario.  - Juan Carlos Torrico Javier Fortanelli

Food security

Project development and food security assessment  - Juan Carlos Torrico Ana Cristina Cubillas 
Poverty analysis and design of development strategies - Juan Carlos Torrico Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Ana Cristina Cubillas
Antonio Cardona Benavides 
International agriculture, food security and technologies required, technology assessment - Hartmut Gaese Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Ana Cristina Cubillas
Antonio Cardona Benavides 

Impact of climate change and climate history

Archivos ambientales útiles en el trazado de los eventos climáticos (dendrocronología, monitores acuáticos). Dentro de los proyectos macro, me gustaría incluir en el proyecto de agua el tema de biomonitores  - Lars Ribbe Ma Catalina Alfaro de la Torre

Management of soil resources

Evaluación de la degradación física del suelo mediante percepción remota. Incorporar la degredación física, química y biológica del suelo en el diganóstico ambiental por unidades del terreno - Udo Nehren Alvaro Gerardo Palacio Aponte
Classification of landscape and soil degradation patterns (field studies, GIS mapping)  - Udo Nehren  

Roberto Briones Gallardo

Natural hazards and risk management

*Caracterización del agua subterránea en zonas costeras de acuíferos cársticos. *Evaluación de la contaminación difusa del agua subterránea. - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides
Elsa Cervantes González
Amenazas naturales y Cambio Climático en el estado de SLP - Lars Ribbe Patricia Julio Miranda

Participatory Research

Cartografía participativa-Participatory Planning - Johannes Hamhaber Miguel Aguilar Robledo

Urban management/Regional sustainable development

- Evolution and temporality of marginalized settlements/communities livelihoods - Johannes Hamhaber Luz María Nieto Caraveo
- Participatory planning and local knowledge systems - Johannes Hamhaber Luz María Nieto Caraveo
- Socio-economic impact of (RE) technology innovation on livelihoods in SLP - Johannes Hamhaber Ana Cristina Cubillas 
- Vulnerability and resilience of poor neighborhoods / related to GCC? - Johannes Hamhaber Ana Cristina Cubillas
Anuschka van ‘t Hooft
- Sustainable housing in isolated settlements of rural SLP  - Johannes Hamhaber Ana Cristina Cubillas 
- Governance of (low-cost) housing in SLP - Johannes Hamhaber Ana Cristina Cubillas 
- Desarrollo comunitario sostenible y participativo
- Ordenamiento territorial participativo
- Johannes Hamhaber Miguel Aguilar Robledo
- Ecotourism and Sustainable Development in rurban and rural communities in Mexico
- Potentials, implications and consequences at Sustainable Development
- Local Development, Renewal Natural Resources and Human Development
- Johannes Hamhaber
- Juan Carlos Torrico 
Hilario Charcas
Adrián Moreno Mata
Carlos Contreras

Water Management

- Rain water harvesting and artificial recharge in the context of the water balance of SLP - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides
Elsa Cervantes González
Hector Martin Duran Garcia
- Impacts of Climate Change and Land use change on river basin hydrology: Huasteca - Lars Ribbe  Luis Armando Bernal Jácome
- Disaster risk management in the state of SLP - Lars Ribbe Anuschka van ´t Hooft
- Strategies to cope with water scarcity in the altiplano de SLP - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides
- The Water Energy Nexus in SLP - Lars Ribbe Hector Martin Duran Garcia
- Developing State of the Basin Reports for Watershed Management in Chile - Lars Ribbe Hector Martin Duran Garcia

Water Quality

- Spacio temporal analysis of water quality indicators towards a water monitoring and management strategy in SLP”?  - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides
Catalina Alfaro 
- Water quality dynamics in a semi arid watershed in Chile (Rio Huasco): mining and agricultural impacts - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides
Catalina Alfaro 
- Water quality management in the context of River Basion Organisation in Brazil (DINARIO)  - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides
Catalina Alfaro
Luis Armando Bernal Jácome
- Surface water and shallow groundwater quality monitoring and management for SLP city following a River Basin Approach - Lars Ribbe Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Antonio Cardona Benavides 
- Water quality analysis in a karstic environment in Yucatan - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides
- Water quality Monitoring plan for the Domincian Republic - Lars Ribbe Antonio Cardona Benavides

Land use systems and irrigation

- Water management for irrigation regarding different scales (irrigation system, water shed, river basin, area, country, transboundary problems etc.) - Hartmut Gaese Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Antonio Cardona Benavides
- Water pricing in irrigation systems What can we learn from experiences in water use in different irrigation systems (regarding irrigation systems from sub humid to artid areas and climate zones - Hartmut Gaese Hector Martin Duran Garcia
Antonio Cardona Benavides

Water quality characterization, biomonitoring and management

- Comportamiento biogeoquímico de elementos y nutrientes en sistemas acuáticos naturales (humedales)
- Water quality management in rural communities
- Implementación de humedales con fines de tratamiento de agua contaminada con nutrientes y elementos traza.
 - Lars Ribbe Ma Catalina Alfaro de la Torre

Water Treatment

- Water and Wastewater Treatment with Constructed Wetlands  - Michael Sturm Catalina Alfaro
- Water and Wastewater Treatment with Adsorbents - Michael Sturm Paola E. Díaz Flores
Luis Armando Bernal Jácome
- Water and Wastewater Management in SLP - Michael Sturm Paola E. Díaz Flores
Luis Armando Bernal Jácome

Sustainable habitat, bioclimatic housing and alternative technologies

- Bioclimatic Analysis and Local Sustainable Development
- Human Development and housing
- Models of Housing and small design;
- Energetic integration of Water in Energetic Balance on Sustainable Buildings

- Johannes Hamhaber
- Juan Carlos Torrico
Adrián Moreno Mata

Urban Competitiveness, Metropolitan Change and New Demographic Regime

- Spatial and Demographic Dimensions Structuring Socio-residential Space
- Urban Change, Quality of Life and Growing Socio-Spatial Differentiation
- Johannes Hamhaber  Adrián Moreno Mata
Carlos Contreras

Urban management/Regional sustainable development

- Inventario de emisiones de GEI - Johannes Hamhaber  Pedro Medellín Milán