Dr. Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle

Research programme: Environmental Governance

Function: Senior Researcher

Specialization: Economy

Work areas:

  • Environmental problems in Central Asian countries in transition
  • Adaptation of water management to climate change – Impacts of climate change on South Africa and Uzbekistan
  • Water governance
  • Transboundary groundwater management in Africa

Responsibilities in education and training:

  • Gender and development
  • Natural resource management and agricultural development
  • Water Governance


Vita

since 1/2018 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
(until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))
Researcher, Research Programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability"
2010 University Osnabrück
Dr. rer. nat. (Applied System Science)
Thesis on: ‘The transformation towards adaptive water governance regimes in the context of climate change’
2006-12/2017 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Researcher, department "Environmental Policy and Management of Natural Resources"
2003 - 2006 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Department III: Global environmental policy; transformation and stabilisation;
Region: South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Researcher: Transition and environmental problems in Central Asia
2002 - 2003 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Postgraduate Training Programme for Development Cooperation
Field Study: Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and the ACP Countries - Opportunities, Risks, and Negotiation Options for Tanzania
1997 - 2002 University of Trier
International and Development Economics, Social Anthropology (Dipl.-Volkswirtin)
1996 - 1997 Tashkent State Ecomomic University
International Economics, Russian
1993 - 1996 University of Passau
Economics

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