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.
Our regulate researcher Dženeta Hodžić was interviewed by igrac in light of world toilet day 2023. Read the full article entitled “Plitvice, natural treasure becomes victim of its own success”.
The “German Congress for Geography (DKG)” took place in Frankfurt am Main, September 19-23. Almost the entire regulate-team participated with various contributions. A particular highlight was the lightning session “Groundwater Geographies” chaired by the regulate-team.
Our colleagues David Kuhn, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky et al. recently published a new ISOE discussion paper on the conceptualisation of the non-human, for example animals, forests or water, in the context of environmental conflicts.
Drawing from research on municipal water supply in Accra (Ghana) and Mansfeld-Südharz (Germany),
Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky et al. demonstrate the usefulness of bricolage thinking for a more grounded and power-sensitive analysis of adaptive water governance.
We congratulate one of regulate’s master students, Sofia Redeker, for receiving the Frankfurt Prize for Environment and Sustainability 2023.
Next Monday, June 19, Robert will give the opening talk at the Summer Academy “Act Green – Water: Responsible use of a scarce resource”, organised by “Katholische Akademie die Wolfsburg”.
The regulate-team is going to chair a session on “Groundwater Geographies: (in)visible flows, (un)traceable past, (un)certain future” at Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023 in Frankfurt am Main. The session welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that explore the multiple dimensions of groundwater.
In the new ISOE Blog Post, Fanny and Robert reflect on the UN Groundwater Summit, which took place in Paris in December 2022, and provide a perspective on the Water Action Agenda, an outcome of the 2023 UN Water Conference.
