New article: Anthropogenic Pressures on Groundwater
In the new article Fanny, Robert and Linda are exploring the various pressures humans put on groundwater and discussing how human-groundwater interactions could be shaped more sustainably.
World Water Day 2022
The United Nations has declared ‘Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible’ its theme for World Water Day on 22 March 2022. This is because policies and decision-makers have paid little attention to the global groundwater problem thus far. Read more about Groundwater as an invisible resource and (non-) visible problems
Exploratory trip to Spain
A brief overview of David’s various locations during his exploratory trip to Spain in November as well as his impressions of potential local conflicts around (ground) water.
A week of conferences
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.
ISOE – Blog Post: Groundwater: De-localized Resources in the Anthropocene
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.
ISOE – Blog Post: Renewable energy at any price? Research Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
Waterworlding at the University of Marburg
At the Waterworlding Conference, Dženeta presented on subterranean waterworlding in the border region of Croatia and Bosnia. Afterwards Fanny and Dženeta moderated sessions in the international symposium bringing together social and cultural water studies.
First in-person meeting of the regulate team
Last week, we could finally meet all together in person. We used this day to reflect on the first months of the project and to work on various team products.
ISOE Event ‘Meet the Scientist’
In the event ‘Meet the Scientist’ on June 23, 2021 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., ISOE scientists Robert and Stefan will present current results from water research in conversation with citizens.
BUND Webinar
Robert gave a talk on groundwater resources for BUND Saarland on April 13th 2021. The topic was, how climate change and societal demands potentially lead to conflict situations over groundwater resources among stakeholders.