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Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Claudia Pahl-Wostl

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
88
Citations
31503
World Ranking
641
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Claudia Pahl-Wostl is affiliated with Osnabrück University in Germany and has a scholarly focus on Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change, ocean engineering, water science and technology, political science, and sociology. Their research primarily addresses complex issues surrounding water resources management and governance, sustainability, and climate change.

Their work involves multiple interconnected topics including:

  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Sustainability and climate change governance
  • Water governance and infrastructure
  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
  • Water-energy-food nexus studies
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Energy and environment impacts

Recent publications by Claudia Pahl-Wostl highlight various aspects of governance and sustainability in environmental contexts. Selected works include:

  • "Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions," 2020, published in Global Environmental Change
  • "Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: A framework of analysis," 2020, published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • "Scale-related governance challenges in the water-energy-food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach," 2020, published in Sustainability Science
  • "Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes," 2023, published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • "Adaptive and sustainable water management: from improved conceptual foundations to transformative change," 2020, published in International Journal of Water Resources Development

The scholar collaborates frequently with other researchers, including Evelyn Lukat, Andrea Lenschow, Christian Knieper, Philipp Gorris, and Larissa Koch, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement and partnership in their research efforts.

Claudia Pahl-Wostl publishes most often in the following venues:

  • Environmental Science & Policy (6 publications)
  • Global Environmental Change (3 publications)
  • Ecosystems and People (3 publications)
  • Ecology and Society (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)

The body of work by Claudia Pahl-Wostl contributes to understanding and addressing complex governance challenges related to environmental sustainability, particularly in water-related sectors, through both theoretical frameworks and applied case analyses.

Best Publications

  • A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • Social Learning and Water Resources Management

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Marc Craps;Art Dewulf;Erik Mostert

  • Adaptive water governance: assessing the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-)management from a governance perspective and defining a research agenda.

    Dave Huitema;Erik Mostert;Wouter Egas;Sabine Moellenkamp

  • Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

    Claudia R. Binder;Jochen Hinkel;Pieter W. G. Bots;Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • Nexus approaches to global sustainable development

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;H. Charles J. Godfray;David Tilman

  • Managing change toward adaptive water management through social learning

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Jan Sendzimir;Paul Jeffrey;Jeroen Aerts

  • Towards sustainability in the water sector – The importance of human actors and processes of social learning

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • The Importance of Social Learning in Restoring the Multifunctionality of Rivers and Floodplains

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • Social Learning in European River-Basin Management: Barriers and Fostering Mechanisms from 10 River Basins

    Erik Mostert;Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Yvonne Rees;Bradley Searle

  • Analyzing complex water governance regimes: the Management and Transition Framework

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Georg Holtz;Britta Kastens;Christian Knieper

  • From applying panaceas to mastering complexity: Toward adaptive water governance in river basins

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Louis Lebel;Christian Knieper;Elena Nikitina

  • Synapses in the Network: Learning in Governance Networks in the Context of Environmental Management

    Jens Newig;Dirk Günther;Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • The importance of social learning and culture for sustainable water management

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;David Tàbara;Rene Bouwen;Marc Craps

  • The Growing Importance of Social Learning in Water Resources Management and Sustainability Science

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Erik Mostert;David Tàbara

  • Governance of the water-energy-food security nexus: A multi-level coordination challenge

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • Water security for a planet under pressure: interconnected challenges of a changing world call for sustainable solutions

    Janos J Bogardi;David Dudgeon;Richard Lawford;Eva Flinkerbusch

  • Institutional design propositions for the governance of adaptation to climate change in the water sector

    Patrick Huntjens;Louis Lebel;Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Jeff Camkin

  • Participative and Stakeholder-Based Policy Design, Evaluation and Modeling Processes

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • The capacity of water governance to deal with the climate change adaptation challenge: Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to distinguish between polycentric, fragmented and centralized regimes

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Christian Knieper

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on Social Learning in Water Resources Management Social Learning in European River-Basin Management: Barriers and Fostering Mechanisms from 10 River Basins

    Erik Mostert;Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Yvonne Rees;Brad Searle

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on New Methods for Adaptive Water Management Adaptive Water Governance: Assessing the Institutional Prescriptions of Adaptive (Co-)Management from a Governance Perspective and Defining a Research Agenda

    Dave Huitema;Erik Mostert;Wouter Egas;Sabine Moellenkamp

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on New Methods for Adaptive Water Management Managing Change toward Adaptive Water Management through Social Learning

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Jan Sendzimir;Paul Jeffrey;Jeroen Aerts

Frequent Co-Authors

Art Dewulf
Art Dewulf Wageningen University & Research
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Jennie Barron
Jennie Barron Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre
Volkmar Wolters
Volkmar Wolters University of Giessen
Holger Hoff
Holger Hoff University of Graz
Charles J. Vörösmarty
Charles J. Vörösmarty City College of New York
Maja Schlüter
Maja Schlüter Stockholm University
Malin Falkenmark
Malin Falkenmark Stockholm University

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