Governance of Natural Resources for the Common Good

Nature and society are interconnected. Cluster 2 recognizes the profoundly social and political nature of access to, use of, and management of natural resources. With a focus on the Global South, researchers analyze resource conflicts and the social and environmental impacts of institutions and policies that regulate the use of natural resources in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems at multiple levels of governance. Normatively oriented toward (environmental) justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability, research activities combine institutionalist approaches and those that focus on power issues (e.g., political ecology, environmental justice, and critical institutionalism). Institutionalist-oriented research in the cluster examines conditions for coordination and cooperation with respect to sustainable resource use and the simultaneous implementation of related sustainable development goals (SDGs). Political ecology research addresses how natural resources and ecosystems are represented in institutions and how stakeholders, their perspectives, forms of knowledge, and ontologies enter or are influenced by the policy process. The cluster provides evidence-based recommendations for inclusive and sustainable, public good-oriented use of natural resources and the environment.

Team

Dombrowsky, Ines
Eguavoen, Irit
Faus Onbargi, Alexia
Hägele, Ramona
Hein, Jonas
Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke
Houdret, Annabelle
Rodriguez, Jean-Carlo
Schoderer, Mirja
Srigiri, Srinivasa R.
Subramanian, Saravanan

Publications

Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems
Ines Dombrowsky / Andrea Lenschow / Franziska Meergans / Nora Schütze / Evelyn Lukat / Ulf Steine / Ali Yousefi (2022)
in: Environmental Science & Policy (131), 118-127

Hydro-social dynamics of miningscapes: obstacles to implementing water protection legislation in Mongolia
Schoderer, Mirja / Daniel Karthe / Ines Dombrowsky / Jampel Dell'Angelo (2021)
in: Journal of Environmental Management (292), article 112767

To save biodiversity, transform the economy
Lehmann, Ina / Jean Carlo Rodríguez (2021)
The Current Column of 17 May 2021

Governance of the water-energy-food nexus for an integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Ines Dombrowsky (2021)
Discussion Paper 2/2021

Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: a framework of analysis
Pahl-Wostl, Claudia / Christian Knieper / Evelyn Lukat / Franziska Meergans / Mirja Schoderer / Nora Schütze / Daniel Schweigatz / Ines Dombrowsky / Andrea Lenschow / Ulf Stein / Andreas Thiel / Jenny Tröltzsche / Rodrigo Vidaurre (2020)
in: Environmental Science and Policy 107 (May), 23–35

The rural social contract in Morocco and Algeria: reshaping through economic liberalisation and new rules and practices
Houdret, Annabelle / Hichem Amichi (2020)
in: The Journal of North African Studies (Online first)

Water policy and mining: mainstreaming in international guidelines and certification schemes in environmental science and policy
Schoderer, Mirja / Jampel Dell'Angelo / Dave Huitema (2020)
in: Environmental Science and Policy (111), 42-54

Payment for ecosystem services and the water-energy-food nexus: securing resource flows for the affluent?
Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Jean Carlo / Bibiana Duarte-Abadía / Rutgerd Boelens (2019)
in: Water 11 (6), online

Human mobility intentions in response to heat in urban South East Asia
Zander, Kerstin K. / Carmen Richerzhagen / Stephen T. Garnett (2019)
in: Global Environmental Change 56 (May), 18-28

Translating Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) interdependencies into policy advice
Breuer, Anita / Hannah Janetschek / Daniele Malerba (2019)
published on Sustainability 11 (7) 8 April 2019

Climate migration: a strategy of adaptation or a refugee catastrophe?
Schraven, Benjamin (2018)
in: NG/FH International Quarterly - Journal of Social Democracy 3/2018, 5-8

Comparing urban wastewater systems in India and Brazil: options for energy efficiency and wastewater reuse
Never, Babette / Katharina Stepping (2018)
in: Water Policy 20/2018, 1129–1144

Coordination: the key to governing the water-land-food nexus in Zambia?
Scheumann, Waltina / George Phiri (2018)
Discussion Paper 20/2018

Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: is blended sustainability the way forward?
Mockshell, Jonathan / Josey Kamanda (2018)
published on International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 11 Mar 2018

Governing the water-energy-food nexus related to hydropower on shared rivers: the role of regional organizations
Ines Dombrowsky / Oliver Hensengerth (2018)
in: Frontiers in Environmental Science 6 (153), 1-16

GERD and hydro-politics in the Eastern Nile: from water to benefit-sharing?
Tawfik, Rawia / Ines Dombrowsky (2018)
in: Zeray Yihdego / Alistair Rieu-Clarke / Ana Cascao (eds.), The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin: implications for transboundary water cooperation, London: Routledge, 113-137

The devil is in the detail: administrative and fiscal challenges in implementing River Basin Management in Mongolia
Dombrowsky, Ines / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Mirja Schoderer / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
(Briefing Paper 17/2018)

Governing the transformations towards sustainability
Leininger, Julia / Ines Dombrowsky / Dirk Messner / Anita Breuer / Constantin Ruhe / Hannah Janetschek / Hermann Lotze-Campen (2018)
in: Elmar Kriegler / Dirk Messner / Nebojsa Nakicenovic / Keywan Riahi / Johan Rockström / Jeffrey Sachs / Sander van der Leeuw / Detlef van Vuuren (eds.), Transformations to achieve the sustainable development goals; Report prepared by The World in 2050 Initiative, Laxenburg: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 107-126

The Sustainable Development Goals viewed through a climate lens
Dzebo, Adis / Hannah Janetschek / Clara Brandi / Gabriela Iacobuta (2018)
Stockholm: Environment Institute Stockholm (SEI Policy Brief December 2018)

Access to environmental information: a driver of accountable governance in Morocco and Tunisia?
Houdret, Annabelle / Irene Pasqua / Saâd Filali Meknassi (2018)
Briefing Paper 10/2018

River basin management and fiscal decentralisation: mutually supportive or counterproductive? A case study of Mongolia
Dombrowsky, Ines / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj / Mirja Schoderer (2018)
Discussion Paper 10/2018

Introduction to "Sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus"
Bhaduri, Anik / Claudia Ringler / Ines Dombrowsky / Rabi Mohtar / Waltina Scheumann (2017)
in: Anik Bhaduri / Claudia Ringler / Ines Dombrowsky / Rabi Mohtar / Waltina Scheumann (eds.), Sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 1-10

A new rural social contract for the Maghreb? The political economy of access to water, land and rural development
Houdret, Annabelle / Zakaria Kadiri / Lisa Bossenbroek (2017)
in: Middle East Law and Governance 9 (1), 20-42

Projects

RethinkBlue (Rethinking the Blue Economy: Socio-Ecological Impacts and Opportunities)
Stability and Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ClimEQ
Towards Marine Carbon Observations 2.0: Socializing, COnnecting, Perfecting and Expanding (C-SCOPE)
Concepts for Reducing the Effects of Anthropogenic pressures and uses on marine Ecosystems and on Biodiversity (CREATE)

Events

Virtual Event
The Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus: how to improve governance and accountability
Online, 4 November 2022

Virtual Event
Digging Deeper: How to address groundwater challenges in the Middle East and North Africa?
Online, 23 March 2022

Virtual Event
Corruption in the water sector: how integrity management contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Online, 18 January 2022

Bonn Water Network events at the 4th Global WOPs Congress
Accelerate the Scaling up of effective peer-to-peer partnerships between Water Operators Worldwide
Online, 19 - 21 October 2021

Session at the Daring Cities Conference
It’s about water! Local water action for climate change adaptation in urban areas
Online, 7 October 2021

Virtual event
UNESCO Chair in Human-Water Systems
Online, 18 May 2021

Virtual book launch and round table discussion
Valuing Water: Bonn Water Network celebrates World Water Day 2021 with launch of Handbook of Water Resources Management and round table discussion
Online, 23 March 2021

Virtual Event
The Bonn Water Network – Addressing water as a crosscutting element of the Sustainable Development Goals
Online, 16 December 2020

Launch event: Bonn Water Network
Launch of the Bonn Water Network: connecting competences for sustainable water futures
Online, 17 November 2020

Links

Der Nexus Wasser - Energie - Land - Klima

Agenda 2030 für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Wissen zu Wasser-Governance schaffen

Bonn Water Network (Launch Event)