Publications

Publication list

Altrock, U. (2009): Conceptualizing Informality: Some Thoughts on the Way Towards Generalization. In: Draft paper, Workshop: “Urban Development in a Globalising World - Overcoming the Formal-Informal Divide” Berlin, WZB, 12-13 June 2009 [online access]

Altrock, U. (2012): Conceptualizing Informality - some thoughts on the way towards generalization. In: MacFarlane, C., Waibel, M.(Eds.): Urban Informalities. Reflections on the Formal and Informal, pp. 171-193, Farnham/Burlington

Aßheuer, T., Braun, B., Schüttemeyer, A., Schüttemeyer, D., Simmer, C. (2009): Social and economic adaptation to climate change: brickfields and informality in the face of natural hazards in Dhaka. In: Fifth Urban Research Symposium. Marseille, France (conference proceedings) [online access]

Baumgart, S., Kreibich, V. (2011): Informal Urbanization - Historical and Geographical Perspectives. In: disP , 187 (4) [online access]

Bickenbach, ., Liu, . (2012): Firm characteristics and informal governance of business operations, [online access]

Bork, T., Gransow, B., Kraas, F., Yuan, Y. (2011): Marketization and Informalization of Health Care Services in Mega-urban China. In: Krämer, K., Kraas, .(Eds.): Health in Megacities and Urban Areas, pp. 173-188

Bork, T., Kilian, P., Sterly, H. (2009): Informalität in Megastädten. Das Beispiel der megaurbanen Region Perflussdelta, China. In: Praxis Geographie, 39 (7-8), pp. 28-32 [online access]

Burkart, K., Grübner, O., Khan, M., Staffeld, R. (2008): Megacity Dhaka - Informal Settlements, Urban Environment and Public Health. In: Geographische Rundschau, International Edition, 4 (1), pp. 4-11 [online access]

Changqing, Q., Kreibich, V., Baumgart, S. (2007): Informal Elements in Urban Growth Regulation in China - Urban Villages in Ningbo. In: Asien, 103, pp. 23-44 [online access]

Etzold, B., Bohle, H., Keck, M., Zingel, W. (2009): Informality as Agency – Negotiating Food Security in Dhaka. In: Die Erde, 2009 (140, 1), pp. 3-24 [online access]

Fokdal, J., Herrle, P. (2019): Guangzhou: less contestations, more negotiations. A multi-scalar understanding of the 'politics of informal urbanization' in southern China.. In: Rocco, R., van Ballegooijen, J.(Eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization, pp. 87-98, London, Routledge

Gransow, B. (2008): Zwischen Informalisierung und Formalisierung. Migration, Stadtentwicklung und Transformation im Perlflussdelta. In: China aktuell, 37 (1), pp. 67-99 [online access]

Gransow, B. (2012): Contested Urbanization in China: Exploring Informal Spaces of Migrants-in-the-City. In: Harvard Asia Quarterly, XIV, pp. 12-24

Gransow, B. (2013): Migrant Communities,Informality and the Challenge of Urban Redevelopment.. In: Catak, N., Duyan, E., Secer, S.(Eds.): Chinese Megacities, Rethinking the Urban, pp. 247-258, Istanbul, Dakam Publishing

Herrle, P., Fokdal, J. (2011): Urban Informality Discourse: Negotiating Power, Legitimacy and Resources. In: Geographische Zeitschrift , 90 (1), pp. 3-15

Hossain, S. (2010): Informal dynamics of a public utility: Rationality of the scene behind a screen. In: Habitat International, pp. 1-11 [online access]

Hossain, S. (2010): Dividing the ordinary: Negotiating water supply in an informal settlement of Dhaka. In: Rawani, A., Kettani, H.(Eds.): Proceeding of 2010 International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Science. World Academic Press, pp. 614-619 [online access]

Jahn, H., Ling, L., Han, L. (2010): Migration, informality and health - preliminary results from a public health survey in Guangzhou. In: Berliner China Heft, 38, pp. 52-71 [online access]

Keck, M., Staffeld, R. (2009): Formal and Informal Business Arrangements: Comparing food and plastic wholesale activities in the Megacity of Dhaka. In: Draft paper, Workshop: “Urban Development in a Globalising World - Overcoming the Formal-Informal Divide” Berlin, WZB, 12-13 June 2009 [online access]

Keck, M. (2012): Informality as borrowed security: Contested food markets in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Waibel, M., McFarlane, C.(Eds.): Urban Informalities. Reflections on the Formal and Informal, pp. 111-127, Ashgate, Farnham

Keck, M., Bohle, H., Zingel, W. (2012): Dealing with Insecurity. Informal Business Relations and Risk Governance among Food Wholesalers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie , 56 (1+2), pp. 43-57

Kraas, F., Mertins, G. (2008): Megastädte in Entwicklungsländern. Vulnerabilität, Informalität, Regier- und Steuerbarkeit. In: Geographische Rundschau, 60 (11), pp. 4-10 [online access]

Kraas, F. (2011): Editorial: Megacities in China – Informal Dynamics of Global Change. In: Geographische Zeitschrift , 99 (1), pp. 1-2

Kraas, F., Sterly, H., Bork-Hüffer, T. (2012): Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change. In: The Parliament Magazine, 94 (360)

Kraas, F., Hackenbroch, K., Sterly, H., Heintzenberg, J., Herrle, P., Kreibich, V. (2019): Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Pearl River Delta, China, Stuttgart, Borntraeger Science Publishers

Kreibich, V. (2010): The invisible hand - Informal urbanisation in major cities in Tanzania. In: Geographische Rundschau International Edition, 6 (2), pp. 38-43 [online access]

Kreibich, V. (2010): The mode of informal urbanisation - Reconciling social and statutory regulation in urban land management. In: McFarlane, C., Waibel, M.(Eds.): Urban informality in a globalising world: Reflections on the formal and informal, Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell (IJURR, Studies in Urban and Social Change) (forthcoming)

Kulke, E., Staffeld, R. (2009): Informal Production Systems – the Role of the Informal Economy in the Plastic Recycling and Processing Industry in Dhaka. In: Die Erde, 2009 (140, 1), pp. 25-46 [online access]

McFarlane, C., Waibel, M. (2012): The informal-formal divide in context. In: McFarlane, C., W.(Eds.): Urban Informalities: Reflections on the formal and informal.

Meyer, S. (2011): Informal Modes of Governance in Customer Producer Relations: The Electronics Industry in the Greater Pearl River Delta (China), Steiner Verlag Stuttgart

Meyer, S. (2012): The world's factory and informal ties - organisation of firm networks in the electronics industry in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie , 56 (1-2), pp. 9-24 [online access]

Schiller, D. (2012): Informal dynamics of economic processes. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 56 (1-2: Megacities in China – Informal Dynamics of Global Change), pp. 1-8 [online access]

Schröder, F., Waibel, M. (2012): Urban Governance and Informality in China: Investigating Economic Restructuring in Guangzhou. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 56, pp. 97-112

Schroeder, ., Waibel, . (2012): Urban governance and informality in Chinas Pearl River Delta. In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 146-147, Stuttgart, Borntraeger Science Publishers [online access]

Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Post, C. (2010): The effects of formal and informal mega-urban development processes on water resources - case study area megacity Guangzhou, China. In: Zereini, F., Hashwa, F.(Eds.): Proceedings of the 5th environmental symposium of German-Arab scientific forum for environmental studies. Impact of global warming on water resources in the Middle East and North Africa, pp. 32f.

Strohschön, R., Wiethoff, K., Baier, K., Azzam, R. (2019): Urban (infra-) structures and informal groundwater uses. . In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Mega Cities Mega Challenges. Informal dynamics of global change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 113-116, Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers

Suda, K. (2012): Yizu – „Das Ameisenvolk“. Zur urbanen Informalität und sozialen Mobilität von Hochschulabsolventen in prekären Lebensverhältnissen . In: Adolphi, W.(Eds.): Schönes Neues China, Das Argument, 296, pp. 167-179

Waibel, M. (2008): Mega-Urban Growth, Informality and the Issue of Governability: Towards Theorising Specific Informal Dynamics in a Wider Context. In: Reviewed essay of a essay competition in the context of the conference: “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities”, Urban Planet Conference Series organized by the Irmgard-Coninx-Foundation in cooperation with the Humboldt-University and the WZB, 11 – 16 June 2008, Berlin [online access]

Xue, D., Lin, T., Kraas, F., Kilian, P. (2010): Informal job-seeking agencies and their role in 'World Factory' of the Pearl River Delta: A case study in Tangxia Township, Dongguan City, Guangdong. In: Geographical Research, 29 (19), pp. 1793-1801

Yuan-Ihle, Y. (2017): Health-Seeking Behavior of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Women Regarding Sexual Health in Pearl River Delta, China: Linkages between Individual Behavior, Formal and Informal Institutions and Policy Change. In: Dissertation, Otto-Suhr-Institut, FU Berlin