Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl is full professor for resources management and director of the Institute for Environmental Systems Research (USF) at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Her major research interest are adaptive governance and management of environmental resources, social and societal learning and their role in transformation processes towards sustainability, global water governance and multi-level governance systems and conceptual and methodological frameworks to analyse social-ecological systems.
Claudia Pahl-Wostl is co-chair of the scientific steering committee of the GWSP (and president of TIAS, The Integrated Assessment Society. She coordinated several European projects. The Integrated Project NeWater focused in particular on the transition from current regimes of water management in a river basin to more integrated, adaptive approaches. Twin2Go (Coordinating Twinning partnerships towards more adaptive governance in river basins) identified factors influencing performance of governance systems and assessed potential and limitations of transferability of insights among basins with different economic, environmental, social and political characteristics.
Claudia Pahl-Wostl has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 20 chapters in edited books and one monograph. Furthermore she has written numerous policy briefs and popular reports. Her emphasis on interdisciplinary and community-building work are reflected in her role as editor of three books and twelve special issues in peer reviewed journals.
