Water Governance
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.
Team
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo
Scheumann, Waltina (associate)
Tawfik, Rawia (associate)
Publications
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
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)
Zweiseiter
Koordinierung der Agrar- mit der Wasserwirtschaftsplanung: Sambia
Scheumann, Waltina (2016)
Zweiseiter
Zahlungen für Ökosystemleistungen und der Wasser-, Energie- und Ernährungssicherheit Nexus
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2016)
Zweiseiter
Trinkwasserkooperationen mit der Landwirtschaft
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
Zweiseiter
Abwassersysteme und Energie: Fokus auf dem urbanen Indien
Never, Babette (2016)
Zweiseiter
Governance des Nexus Wasser-Energie-Ernährung: Instrumente, Anreize, Mechanismen
Dombrowsky, Ines / Waltina Scheumann / Babette Never (2016)
Zweiseiter
Projects
Concepts for Reducing the Effects of Anthropogenic pressures and uses on marine Ecosystems and on Biodiversity (CREATE)
Natural resource governance in light of the 2030 Agenda - The case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, Jordan
Implementing the 2030 Agenda: Integrating Growth, Environment, Equality and Governance
Stability and Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Increasing Good Governance to Achieve the Objective of Integrated Water Resource Management
Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia – Model Region Mongolia (MoMo III)
Implementing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Incentive structures and policy instruments
Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia – Model Region Mongolia (MoMo)
Cooperation on hydropower projects on international rivers – The Ruzizi cascade and Rusumo Falls projects
Anwendung von Umwelt- und Sozialstandards bei Wasser- und Wasserkraftprojekten in der Türkei
European Report on Development (2012): Confronting Scarcity: Managing water, energy and land for inclusive and sustainable growth
BIOdiversity and ecosystem protection driven by Environmental JUSTice (BIO-JUST)
Events
Workshop
Water and state governance: India, Kenya, Germany
ZEF and Online, 19.07.2024
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
Bonn Water Network
Highlight
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)
Reportage
In den Medien
„Il faudrait lutter contre les pertes“
Interview mit Annabelle Houdret
dw.com, 22.03.2023
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