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Building knowledge on water governance

The global water crisis is a crisis of governance. Starting from this premise, researchers at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) analyse water governance problems within multiple political contexts to understand conditions for equitable and ecologically sustainable water access, use, and management, keeping a particular eye on the role of development cooperation.

Water research at IDOS spans various scales, from global and international dimensions to national and local dynamics, for example surrounding the implementation of policy instruments (such as Payments for Ecosystem Services and Nature-based Solutions, governance paradigms (such as Integrated Water Resources Management and the Water-Energy-Food-nexus) and international agreements (such as the 2030 Agenda), but also local political economies of water. Our work investigates the allocation and sharing of benefits and costs from water use, the recognition of use rights, and institutional arrangements that support coordination across sectors and governance levels and that mitigate trade-offs.

We collaborate closely with partner organizations in multiple countries and are engaged in international networks and local initiatives, such as the Bonn Water Network. In addition, we provide policy advice to the German government, e.g. through reports or by commenting on strategy papers and guidelines.

Publications

Current challenges in Central Asian water governance and their implications for research, higher education, and science-policy interaction
Abdullaev, Iskandar / Aliya Assubayeva / Ihtiyor Bobojonov / Nodir Djanibekov / Ines Dombrowsky / [...] / Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle et al. (2025)
in: Central Asian Journal of Water Research 11 (1), 47-58

Why we need to fight right-wing populism to save our glaciers!
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2025)
The Current Column of 19 March 2025

Outlook for the new legislature: Energy transition at sea
Ittner, Irit (2025)
The Current Column of 10 February 2025

Empowering global water governance: taking the 2023 UN Water Conference outcomes forward to address the current water crises
Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky / Johannes Cullmann / Aditi Mukherji / Olcay Unver / Robert Varady (2025)
in: Water International, first published 27 January 2025

Time in and for nature-based solutions: no quick fix solutions for complex ecological and social processes
Lehmann, Ina / Julia Grosinger / Steffen Bauer / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco / Katarzyna Negacz / Jonas Hein (2025)
in: Nature-Based Solutions, first published 26 January 2025

Seven strategies to leverage water for peace and foster sustainable and just water management for all
Krause, Stefan / Iseult Lynch / Ankit Agarwal / Adenike Akinsemolu / Berit Arheimer / Wouter Buytaert / Rita Floyd / Annabelle Houdret / Elizabeth Saccoccia / Uwe Schneidewind / Klement Tockner / Tahmina Yasmin / David M. Hannah (2024)
in: Nature Water, first published 29 November 2024

Responsible governance of water tenure for achieving the 2030 Agenda: challenges in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia
Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Waltina Scheumann / Tena Alamirew (2024)
in: Hodgson, S./ Gillet, V./ Espinosa Flor, S./ Ramirez Fionda, S./ Kiersch, B./ Vallée, D (Hrsg.), Water tenure perspectives – Proceedings of the Water Tenure Mondays webinar series, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 37-54

Wasser in einer aufgeheizten Welt
Bassen, Alexander / Jörg E. Drewes / Markus Fischer / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Karen Pittel / Hans-Otto Pörtner / Sabine Schlacke / Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann / Anke Weidenkaff (2024)
Berlin: WBGU – Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung (Vorläufige Fassung)

The dichotomous world of sanitation management: ‘Matter out of place’ in urban India
Subramanian, Saravanan (2024)
in: Applied Geography 165, article 103228

Water for peace? Peace for water in Gaza!
Houdret, Annabelle / Ines Dombrowsky (2024)
The Current Column of 20 March 2024

Sanitation in a changing world: the need for a paradigm shift in the mindset of development agencies
Subramanian, Saravanan (2024)
in: Water International 49 (1), 23-31

Pathways towards enhanced capacity in water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Pahl-Wostl, Claudia / Ines Dombrowsky / Andreas Lenschow / Andreas Thiel (2023)
in: Environmental Science & Policy, 146, article 103556 (Editorial)

Water crises – water opportunities promoting water cooperation in the Middle East
Houdret, Annabelle / Tobias von Lossow (2023)
Den Haag: Clingendael/IDOS

A game changer for UN 2023 Water Conference: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Water Sustainability (ISPWAS)
Varady, Robert G. / Annabelle Houdret / Wouter Buytaert / Anil Mishra / Abou Amani / Anik Bhaduri / Olcay Unver (2023)
Paris: UNESCO

Why focusing on individual action alone is not enough
Schoderer, Mirja / Jean-Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco
The Current Column of 22 March 2023

The UN Water conference – time to govern water as a global commons!
Dombrowsky, Ines / Annabelle Houdret / Olcay Ünver (2023)
The Current Column of 20 March 2023

Implementing the 2030 Agenda under resource scarcity: the case of WEF Nexus Governance in Azraq/Jordan
Dombrowsky, Ines (2023)
in: Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.), Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges, London: Routledge, 124-139

Governance towards coordination for water resources management: the effect of governance modes
Lukat Evelyn / Andrea Lenschow / Ines Dombrowsky / Franziska Meergans / Nora Schütze / Ulf Stein / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2023)
in: Environmental Science & Policy 141, 50-60

When International blueprints hit local realities: bricolage processes in implementing IWRM in South Africa, Mongolia and Peru
Lukat, Evelyn / Mirja Schoderer / Sofia Castro Salvador (2022)
in: Water Alternatives 15 (2), 473-500

Natural resource governance in light of the 2030 Agenda: the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, Jordan
Dombrowsky, Ines / Ramona Hägele / Lukas Behrenbeck / Thomas Bollwein / Mirjana Köder / Daniel Oberhauser / Ronja Schamberger / Majd Al-Naber / Marwan Al-Raggad / Elias Salameh (2022)
Studies 106 (2022)

Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany
Hein, Jonas / Jannes Thomsen (2022)
in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, first published 17.05.2022

Contested water- and miningscapes: explaining the high intensity of water and mining conflicts in a meta-study
Schoderer, Mirja / Marlen Ott (2022)
in: World Development (154), article 105888

How groundwater overexploitation relates to social contracts
Houdret, Annabelle / Birgit Kemmerling / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
The Current Column of 21 March 2022

Groundwater governance through institutional bricolage? Participation in Morocco’s Chtouka aquifer contract
Houdret, Annabelle (2022)
in: Water International, first published 11.03.2022

Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: Digging deeper into a network of action situations
Oberhauser, Daniel / Ramona Hägele / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
in: Sustainability Science (forthcoming)

Reclamation and expulsion. Frontiers of city expansion and the loss of public and communal space at Abidjan’s lagoonal waterfronts
Eguavoen, Irit (2022)
in: Urban Forum, first published 19.01.2022

Analysing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus from a polycentric governance perspective: Conceptual and methodological framework
Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
in: Frontiers in Environmental Science, 1-13

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

 

Water governance and policies
Pahl-Wostl, Claudia / Ines Dombrowsky / Naho Mirumachi (2021)
in: Bogardi / Gupta / Nadalal / Salamé / van Nooijen / Kumar / Tingsanchali / Bhaduri / Kolechkina, Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples, Cham: Springer, 253-272

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

Towards sustainable ocean governance: a call for blue climate action in international development
Lehmann, Ina / Michael Siebert / Nicola Hanke / Maximilian Högl / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2021)
Briefing Paper 22/2021

Mechanisms for governing the Water-Land-Food Nexus in the Lower Awash River Basin, Ethiopia: ensuring policy coherence in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Anita Breuer / Waltina Scheumann (2021)
Discussion Paper 26/2021

Why development cooperation needs to treat water as more than a commodity
Rodriguez de Francisco Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer
The Current Column of 22 March 2021

Wasser auf die Mühlen der Entwicklungsziele
Lossow, Tobias von / Annabelle Houdret  (2021)
in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (2021/12), 25-32

How can water sector cooperation support democratic governance? Insights from Morocco
Houdret, Annabelle (2021)
in: Middle East Law and Governance 13, 72-97

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

جاني دوباره براي زاينده‌رود كهن: واكاوي علل سیاسی کمبود آب در ايران (Farsi version of: Reviving the dying giant: addressing the political causes of water shortage in the Zayandeh Rud River, Iran)
Yousefi, Ali / Christian Knieper / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2021)
Briefing Paper 9/2021

Dernier refuge ou presqu'île d'opportunités? Démographie et conditions de vie à Adjahui-Coubé, un habitat spontané à Abidjan
Eguavoen, Irit / Pauline Attemene / Fulgence Kouame / Eugène Kouadio Konan / Chérif Aidara, Madhy / Katrin Gleisberg-Gerber (2020)
ZEF Working Paper Series (187)

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

Lösung komplexer Wasserprobleme durch Koordination jenseits des Staates – Erkenntnisse aus Südafrika
Stuart-Hill, Sabine / Evelyn Lukat / Catherine Pringle / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 20/2020

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)

Overcoming coordination gaps between water, energy and agriculture: future paths to water protection in Weser-Ems
Meergans, Franziska / Christina Aue / Christian Knieper / Sascha Kochendörfer / Andrea Lenschow / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 25/2020

Cómo mejorar la coordinación en la gobernanza del agua en el sur de España: cooperación, incentivos y persuasión
Schütze, Nora / Andreas Thiel / Pilar Paneque / Jesús Vargas / Rodrigo Vidaurre (2020)
Briefing Paper 23/2020

Coordination and cooperation of water management, nature conservation and open space development in the Emscher restoration
Tröltzsch, Jenny / Nadine Gerner / Franziska Meergans / Ulf Stein / Robynne Sutcliffe (2020)
Briefing Paper 22/2020

Coordination beyond the state to solve complex water problems: insights from South Africa
Stuart-Hill, Sabine / Evelyn Lukat / Catherine Pringle / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 21/2020

Forums, fees and data flows: coordinating mining and water policy in Mongolia
Schoderer, Mirja / Ines Dombrowsky (2020)
Briefing Paper 20/2020

Reviving the dying giant: addressing the political causes of water shortage in the Zayandeh Rud River, Iran
Yousefi, Ali / Christian Knieper / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 19/2020

Strengthening coordination in river basin governance in southern Spain: cooperation, incentives and persuasion
Schütze, Nora / Andreas Thiel / Pilar Paneque / Jesús Vargas / Rodrigo Vidaurre (2020)
Briefing Paper 18/2020

Wiederbelebung eines sterbenden Riesen: Überwindung der politischen Ursachen von Wasserknappheit des Zayandeh Rud, Iran
Yousefi, Ali / Christian Knieper / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 18/2020

Why sustainable water governance for mining needs to acknowledge complexity
Schoderer, Mirja/ Ines Dombrowsky (2020)
The Current Column of 19 October 2020

Coordination beyond the state to solve complex water problems: insights from South Africa
Stuart-Hill, Sabine / Evelyn Lukat / Catherine Pringle / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 21/2020

Climate change impacts on human (im-)mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa: recent trends and options for policy responses
Schraven, Benjamin / Stephen Adaawen / Christina Rademacher-Schulz / Nadine Segadlo (2020)
Bonn/Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Forums, fees and data flows: coordinating mining and water policy in Mongolia
Schoderer, Mirja / Ines Dombrowsky (2020)
Briefing Paper 20/2020

Water plays a key role in the implementation of the Paris climate agreement
Scheumann, Waltina / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
The Current Column of 20 March 2020

Making a living from everyday contradictions: water management and cross-border trade in post-Soviet Central Asia
Alff, Henryk / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2019)
in: Julia Lossau / Daniel Schmidt-Brücken / Ingo H. Warnke, Spaces of dissention: towards a new perspective on contradiction, Wiesbaden: Springer VS

Reviving the dying giant: addressing the political causes of water shortage in the Zayandeh Rud River, Iran
Yousefi, Ali / Christian Knieper / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 19/2020

Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions
Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke / Maja Schlüter / Per Olsson / Carl Folke / Stefan Gelcich / Claudia Pahl-Wostl  (2020)
in: Global Environmental Change (63), article 102097, online

Strengthening coordination in river basin governance in southern Spain: cooperation, incentives and persuasion
Schütze, Nora / Andreas Thiel / Pilar Paneque / Jesús Vargas / Rodrigo Vidaurre (2020)
Briefing Paper 18/2020

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

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

Ferry transportation in Abidjan: establishment, operation and sustainability of a paratransit system
Gnankon Kabran, Estelle / Irit Eguavoen (2019)
ZEF Working Paper Series (179)

Conflict and cooperation in the Eastern Nile: the role of business
Tawfik, Rawia (2020)
Brooklyn, NY: African Peacebuilding Network (APN) (Working Paper 26)

Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India
Falk, Thomas / Shalander Kumar / Srinivasa Srigiri (2019)
in: Agricultural Water Management 221 (July), 260-269

Freshwater as a global commons: international governance and the role of Germany
Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke / Waltina Scheumann / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky (2019)
Discussion Paper 15/2019

Ecosystem-based adaptation projects: more than just adaptation: analysis of social benefits and costs in Colombia
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Felix Weinsheimer / Alessandro Döhnert / Lukas Kleiner / Marjam Mayer / Julia Morawietz / Eric Philipp (2019)
in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (21), 4248

Privatisation Risks Leaving People Behind
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer (2019)
The Current Column of 18 March 2019

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)
published in Water 11 (6) online

For the integrated realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals
Janetschek, Hannah / Ines Dombrowsky (2018)
The Current Column of 16 April 2018

Redrawing soil salinity innovation-focused stakeholder interaction for sustainable land management in Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan
Akramkhanov, Akmal / Muhammad Mehmood Ul Hassan / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2018)
in: Water 10 (2), 208-225

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

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
Briefing Paper 17/2018

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

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

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

Water Security and Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer / Carmen Richerzhagen (2018)
The Current Column of 22 March 2018

River Basin Authorities (RBAs) and institutional interactions
Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Ines Dombrowsky / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
in: Jürgen Hofmann / D. Battogtokh (eds.), Kharaa-Yeröö River Basin Atlas, 2nd ed., Ulaanbaatar, Berlin, 238-244

The Mongolian legal framework for water policy
Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Ines Dombrowsky / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
in: Jürgen Hofmann / D. Battogtokh (eds.), Kharaa-Yeröö River Basin Atlas, 2nd ed., Ulaanbaatar, Berlin, 232-236

Eastern Nile cooperation at a crossroads: the costs of missing another opportunity
Rawia Tawfik (2018)
published on Kujenga Amani March 14, 2018

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

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

Long-term effects of German development cooperation in soil improvement and sustainable land and water management in India
Reddy, V.R. / Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri / T. Chiranjeevi / S.K. Rout (2017)
Potsdam: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) (Country Report)

PES hydro-social territories: deterritorialization and repatterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands
Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2017)
in: Rutgerd Boelens / Ben Crow / Jaime Hoogesteger / Flora Lu / Erik Swyngedouw/ Jeroen Vos (eds.), Hydrosocial territories and water equity: theory, governance, and sites of struggle, London: Routledge

Wasser marsch!
Houdret, Annabelle / Hannah Janetschek / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
Published on: International Development Blog, 24.08.2017

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

Is the EU WFD suitable to support IWRM planning in non-European countries? Lessons learnt from the introduction of IWRM and River Basin Management in Mongolia
Heldt, Sonja / Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco / Ines Dombrowsky / Christian K. Feld / Daniel Karthe (2017)
in: Environmental Science & Policy 75 (September), 28–37

Water – the “blue” thread running through the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement
Janetschek, Hannah / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
The Current Column of 28 August 2017

Proceeding with River Basin Management: legal, financial and political dimensions in Mongolia
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
Briefing Paper 6/2017

PES hydrosocial territories: de-territorialization and re-patterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands
Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2016)
in: Water International 41 (1), 140-156

Pago por servicios ambientales, ambientalismo de mercado y la indiferencia hacia el mundo campesino 109-132
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2016)
in: Bibiana Duarte Abadía / Cristina Yacoub / Jaime Hoogesteger (eds), Gobernanza del agua: una mirada desde la ecologia politica y la justicia hidrica, Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala - Justicia Hidrica, 109-132

Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development in the Gambia: A Window of Opportunity for Transformative Processes?
Lauer, Hannes / Irit Eguavoen (2016)
in: Walter Leal Filho, Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation, Cham: Springer International Publishing,

Wastewater systems and energy saving in urban India: governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus series
Never, Babette (2016)
Discussion Paper 12/2016

Capacity development for integrated water resources management: lessons learned from applied research projects
Ibisch, Ralf B. / Marco Leidel / Steffen Niemann / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Ruth Goedert (2016)
in: Dietrich Borchardt / Janos Bogardi / Ralf Ibisch (eds.), Integrated water resources management: concept, research and implementation, Cham: Springer, 335-373

Urban sewage in Brazil: drivers of and obstacles to wastewater treatment and reuse; governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Series
Stepping, Katharina M. K. (2016)
Discussion Paper 26/2016

Reconceptualising water management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan: recommendations towards IWRM
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Lisa Oberkircher / Bernhard Tischbein / Gunther Schorcht / Anik Bhaduri / Usman K. Awan / Ahmad M. Manschadi (2016)
in: Dietrich Borchardt / Janos Bogardi / Ralf Ibisch (eds.), Integrated water resources management: concept, research and implementation, Cham: Springer, 569-602

Regionalorganisationen fördern Nexus-Governance bei Wasserkraft an internationalen Flüssen
Dombrowsky, Ines / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
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Koordinierung der Agrar- mit der Wasserwirtschaftsplanung: Sambia
Scheumann, Waltina (2016)
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Zahlungen für Ökosystemleistungen und der Wasser-, Energie- und Ernährungssicherheit Nexus
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2016)
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Trinkwasserkooperationen mit der Landwirtschaft
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
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Abwassersysteme und Energie: Fokus auf dem urbanen Indien
Never, Babette (2016)
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Governance des Nexus Wasser-Energie-Ernährung: Instrumente, Anreize, Mechanismen
Dombrowsky, Ines / Waltina Scheumann / Babette Never (2016)
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Events

Online debate
Addressing the global water crisis in a challenging political environment
Online, 10 March 2025

Workshop
Water and state governance: India, Kenya, Germany
ZEF and Online, 19 July 2024

World Water Day Event list
Water for Peace – IDOS contributions to this year's United Nations World Water Day
Bonn and Online, 19 March 2024 until 8 April 2024

Virtual Event
The land-water nexus: improving science-policy interfaces to strengthen resilience
Online, 22.03.2024

Online debate
The Urban Water Challenge: How can flood modelling and citizen mobilization support urban resilience?
Online, 24. January 2024

Panel discussion
Adapting Governance and Infrastructure for Water Resilience
Bonn, 23.05.2023

Integrity Talk
Bringing integrity in the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus
Online, 12.04.2023

UN 2023 Water Conference Off-site Side Event
Turning the tide on the freshwater biodiversity crisis
New York, 22 March 2023

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, 19.10.2021 until 21.10.2021

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

Virtual Event
Filling and Operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – A Way Out
Online, 4 May 2021

Virtual book launch and round table discussion
World Water Day 2021
Recording of the event
Online, 23 March 2021

Virtual event
Addressing water as a crosscutting element of the Sustainable Development Goals
Recording of the event
Online, 16.12.2020

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

Fachtagung
Nexus-Forschung trifft Nexus-Praxis
Bonn, 21 November 2016

Wasserwerkstatt / Dialogue on Water

Tenth International Dialogue on Water in Agriculture
Governing water sustainably in mining and post-mining landscapes
Online, 8-9 October 2020

Ninth International Dialogue on Water in Agriculture 2016
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in irrigation: models, experiences, benefits and risks
1-2 June 2016

Eighth Dialogue on Water and Land 2015
The Water-Land Nexus
Bonn, 19-20 March 2015

Seventh Dialogue on Water 2012
Do we need a global water regime?

Sixth Dialogue on Water 2009
Evolution of dam policies: evidence from the big hydropower states
Scheumann, W. / O. Hensengerth (eds.) (2014)
Springer Berlin

Fifth Dialogue on Water 2005
Water politics and development cooperation. Local power plays and global governanceScheumann W. / S. Neubert / M. Kipping (eds.) (2008)
Springer Berlin

Fourth Dialogue on Water 2003
Integriertes Wasserressourcen-Management – ein Konzept in die Praxis überführen
Neubert, S. / W. Scheumann / A. van Edig / W. Huppert (Hrsg.) (2005)
Nomos Baden-Baden

Third Dialogue on Water 2001
Reforming institutions for sustainable water management
Neubert, S. / W. Scheumann / A. van Edig (eds.) (2002)
Reports and Working Papers No. 6, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Bonn

Second Dialogue on Water 1996
Water in the Middle East – Potential for conflict and prospects for cooperation
Scheumann, W. / M. Schiffler (eds.) (1998) 
Springer Berlin

First Dialogue on Water 1995
Wasserkonflikte und Wassermanagement im Jordanbecken
Libiszewki, S. / M. Schiffler (Hrsg.) (1996)
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Berlin

Bonn Water Lectures

Building Better Dams: the Past, Present and Future of Dams
Bonn, 4 February 2020

Wasser als Waffe des IS
Bonn, 2 March 2016
Guest: Tobias von Lossow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Privatising water services? Pros and Cons from the real world
Bonn, 3 December 2015
Guest: Manuel Schiffler, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau

Changing water politics in the Nile basin
Bonn, 17 June 2015
Guests: Rawia Tafik, Guest researcher DIE, Tobias von Lossow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Privatization of Turkey’s rivers? The rise of water struggles and AKP government’s responses
Bonn, 12 March 2014
Guest: Mine Islar, Lund University, Sweden

Averting Water Wars in Asia
Bonn, 25 June 2014
Guest: Brahma Chellaney, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Benefit, cost and risk sharing in hydropower projects on international rivers
Bonn, 25 September 2013
Guest: Ines Dombrowsky, DIE

Grabbing water? Large-scale investments in agriculture and perspectives for regulation
Bonn, 21 November 2012
Guests: Franziska Hollmann, DEG; Waltina Scheumann / Michael Brüntrup, DIE