Governance of Natural Resources for the Common Good

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The cluster investigates resource use conflicts and place-based socio-ecological transformations, e.g. in river basins or coastal regions. It aims at informing more socially just and ecologically sustainable governance of related processes. Central research questions include: What drives socio-ecological transformations and resource conflicts? How context factors, institutions and power dynamics shape these processes and affect vulnerable groups and the environment? How do different ontologies and epistemologies influence resource use and policymaking? How can governance promote inclusive, equitable and sustainable resource use and better account for interlinkages between different policy fields, for instance related to the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus, one health and nature-based solutions? The cluster’s research fields include water governance, the protection and restoration of ecosystems, ocean and coastal governance, as well as the governance of energy and health systems.

Central research questions include:

  • What drives socio-ecological transformations and resource conflicts?
  • How do context factors, institutions and power dynamics shape these processes and affect vulnerable groups and the environment?
  • How do different ontologies and epistemologies influence resource use and policymaking?
  • How can governance promote inclusive, equitable and sustainable resource use and better account for interlinkages between different policy fields, for instance related to the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus, one health and nature-based solutions?

The cluster’s research fields include water governance, the protection and restoration of ecosystems, ocean and coastal governance, as well as the governance of energy and health systems.

Publications

Institution-based access implications faced by traditional communities in Amazônia: towards co-managing protected areas and Terms of Compromise for socio-biodiversity
Inacio da Cunha, Marcelo (2024)
in: Sustainability in Debate 15 (2), 243-262

What is at stake: the ontological dimension of environmental conflicts
Flemmer, Riccarda / Verena Gresz / Jonas Hein (2024)
in: Society and Natural Resources, 37 (5), 608-622

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

The Port of Hamburg under pressure to grow: the port expansion area as a territory of (in)justice?
Hilder, Nils / Jonas Hein (2023)
in: Silja Klepp / Jonas Hein (eds.), Environmental justice and socio-ecological transformation - conflicts over sustainability in German-speaking countries, Bielefeld: Transkript, 207 – 233

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 (2023)
in: Sustainability Science 18, 235–249

Water crises – water opportunities promoting water cooperation in the Middle East
Houdret, Annabelle / Tobias von Lossow (2023)
Den Haag/Bonn: Clingendael/German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Groundwater governance through institutional bricolage? Participation in Morocco's Chtouka aquifer contract
Houdret, Annabelle (2022)
in: Water International 47 (4), 565-582

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

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

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

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

Post-conflict transition and REDD+ in Colombia: Challenges to reducing deforestation in the Amazon
Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Jean Carlo / Carlos del Cairo / Daniel Ortiz-Gallego / Juan Sebastian Velez-Triana / Tomás Vergara-Gutiérrez / Jonas Hein (2021)
in: Forest Policy and Economics 127, article 102450

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

A political ecology of green territorialization: frontier expansion and conservation in the Colombian Amazon
Hein, Jonas / Carlos Del Cairo / Daniel Ortiz Gallego / Tomás Vergara Gutiérrez / Juan Sebastian Velez / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2020)
in: Die Erde - Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 151 (1), 37-57

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

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)

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

Events

Hybrid Event
The land-water nexus: improving science-policy interfaces to strengthen resilience
Online, 22 March 2024

Panel discussion
Adapting Governance and Infrastructure for Water Resilience
Bonn, 23 May 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 - 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

Highlight

Cover: Society and Natural Resources

What is at stake: the ontological dimension of environmental conflicts
Flemmer, Riccarda / Verena Gresz / Jonas Hein (2024)
in: Society and Natural Resources, 37 (5), 608-622

Highlight

Cover: The Current Column of 20 March 2024 "Water for peace? Peace for water in Gaza!" by Annabelle Houdret and Ines Dombrowsky.

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