Our team member Linda Söller has contributed to a recent study investigating how groundwater models are used in developing Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). The research highlights both the benefits and challenges of incorporating these models into stakeholder-driven planning processes.
Our colleague Dženeta, Ognjen Kojanić, Katarina Kušić welcome abstracts for their Special Issue “Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe: Legacies, Transformations, and Futures”, to be published in Southeastern Europe (Brill/Schöningh).
In this thesis, three moments of (drinking) water infrastructuring connected to the Elbaue-Ostharz long-distance water network are described.
This thesis examines the negotiation of groundwater futures in the Mansfeld-Südharz district in Germany, initiated by the junior research group regulate. As part of the research, qualitative, guideline based interviews were conducted with stakeholders in groundwater management in Mansfeld-Südharz and with researchers from regulate.
The research group has investigated how increasing water demand can be met with the help of sustainable water management strategy.
Dženeta will join the conference “Making and Doing Transformations” in Amsterdam from July 16th to July 19th, organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). She will present major findings of her PhD and ‘regulate’ project in two talks.
More transfers of water over long-distances are prepared across Germany to ensure drinking water supply security in times of droughts and peak drinking water demands on hot summer days. Originally, such transfers were meant as an exception for e.g. metropolitan areas with high industrial and public water demand and unfavourable local water resources. Today, already 20% of Germans are supplied with water imported from other administrative areas or hydrological basins.
During the week of September 6th-10th, regulate researchers will participate in several conferences on (ground) water. At these, they will present the regulate research approach.
On the ISOE-blog, Robert and Fanny provide an insight into the importance of the telecoupling concept in groundwater research. Additionally they present the research mode of the “regulate” project.
In the new ISOE blog called “Social Ecology. Crisis – Critique – Design”, Dženeta provides some research insights from her ethnographic fieldwork on renewable energy infrastructuring practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
