Dr. Danny Tröger

Scientific career

Since 2023 Research assistant, University of Kassel

2020 - 2022 Research Associate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Regional Science

Studies and doctorate

2024 PhD "Assessing Landscape Resilience: Biogeomorphic Interactions, Risk Perception and Planning Evaluation of Forest Plantations in Patagonia, Chile", University of Kassel

2020 Master of Science Regional Science / Spatial Planning at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

2020 Master of Science Geoecology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

2012 Bachelor of Science Geoecology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Professional experience

2019 - 2020 Project engineer, Arcadis Germany GmbH

2012 - 2019 Freelance work

NetVorPERU (BMBF)

Tröger, Danny; Braun, Andreas Christian (2024): "Industry impacts more than nature" - Risk perception of natural hazards in more-than-human worlds. In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, p. 104568. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104568.

Tröger, D., Araneda, A.A.B., Busnelli, R., Yajnes, M., Williams, F., Braun, A.C., 2023. Exploring eco-industrial development in the global south: recognizing informal waste-picking as urban-industrial symbiosis? In: Cleaner Waste Systems 5, 100096. DOI: 10.1016/j.clwas.2023.100096

Valdés Durán, Ana; Velásquez, Josefa; Neculqueo, Gloria; Deckart, Katja; Lillo, Dante Cáceres; Frez, Luis Navarro; Tröger, Danny; Quezada, Alejandra Canales; Buscaglia Solé, Marx; Escobar, Maria Eliana (2022): Extreme climatic events in northern Chile and their impact on the geochemical composition of the Huasco River. In: Journal of South American Earth Sciences 118, p. 103927. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103927

Tröger, Danny; Braun, Andreas C.; Eichel, Jana; Schmidtlein, Sebastian; Sandoval Estrada, Marco; Valdés Durán, Ana (2022): Pinus plantations impact hillslope stability and decrease landscape resilience by changing biogeomorphic feedbacks in Chile. In: CATENA 216, p. 106364. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106364.

Braun, Andreas Ch.; Tröger, Danny; Garcia, Rafael; Aguayo, Mauricio; Barra, Ricardo; Vogt, Joachim (2017): Assessing the impact of plantation forestry on plant biodiversity. In: Global Ecology and Conservation 10, pp. 159-172. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2017.03.006.

Book contributions:

Tröger, Danny (2025). Assessing Landscape Resilience. Biogeomorphic Interactions, Risk Perception, and Planning Evaluation of Forest Plantations in Patagonia, Chile. Springer . DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-47274-0 ISBN 978-3-65847273-3

Braun, A. C., Espinosa, G., Tröger, D., & Hirth, T. (Eds.). (2024). Eco-Industrial Development as an Industrial Strategy - Contributions from a German-Chilean Research Partnership. Springer Nature.

Tröger, D., Becerra Araneda, A. A., Busnelli, R., & Braun, A. C. (2024). Enhancement of the Urban Habitat through Novel Construction Products from Solid Industrial Residues: Opportunities and Challenges for Urban-Industrial Symbiosis by Including Informal Waste-Pickers. In A. C. Braun, G. Espinosa, D. Tröger, & T. Hirth (Eds.), Eco-Industrial Development as an Industrial Strategy - Contributions from a German-Chilean Research Partnership. Springer Nature.

Tröger, D., & Braun, A. C. (2024). Eco-Industrial Development: An Attempt to Define a Vague Concept. In A. C. Braun, G. Espinosa, D. Tröger, & T. Hirth (Eds.), Eco-Industrial Development as an Industrial Strategy - Contributions from a German-Chilean Research Partnership, Springer Nature.

Other publications:

• Braun, A.B.; Espinosa, G.; Tröger, D.; Instituto de Desarrollo Eco-Industrial (2021): "La Economia Circular y el Sector de la Construccion: una perspectiva desde Alemania sobre la Hoja de Ruta Chilena" In: Negocio y construcción 15 (3), 30-36(https://negocioyconstruccion.cl/wp-content/uploads/REVISTA-COMPLETA-Mar_2021.pdf)
• Multiple Environmental Impacts of Commercial Plantation Management in Central Chile - Interim Report of a German-Chilean Teaching and Research Cooperation Authors: Andreas Ch. Braun, Callum C. Banfield, Pablo Jaramillo, Iris Meyer, Claudia Schmidt-Cotta, Danny Tröger, Violeta Volceski, Gunhild Hansen-Rojas and Joachim Vogt. FORUM GEOÖKOL. 25 (3), 2014