Research Departments
ZEF A: Department of Political and Cultural Change
Research Groups:
- Culture Knowledge and Development
- Governance and Conflict
- Natural Resources and Social Dynamics
Research Projects:
- Knowledge Governance (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ghana, South Africa)
- Local Governance and Fragile Statehood in the Amu Darya Borderlands (Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)
- Program for Development Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon
- Re-thinking water storage for climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa
- WISDOM - Water Related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong (Vietnam)
ZEF B: Department of Economic and Technological Change
Research Groups and Projects:
- BIOTA East Africa - Socio-economic Analysis of Maintaining and Utilizing Biodiversity in East African Rainforest Systems (Kenya, Uganda)
- Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Pilot project for Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa with technology transfer through a franchise concept (South Africa)
ZEF C: Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management
Research Groups and Projects:
- BIOTA West Africa - Assessment of Africa's biodiversity and development of sustainable conservation strategies considering climate and land cover changes (Burkina Faso, Benin, Ivory Coast)
- CoCE - Conservation and use of wild populations of Coffea arabica in the montane rainforests of Ethiopia
- Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land- and Water Use in the Region Khorezm (Uzbekistan)
- GLOWA-Volta - Sustainable Water Use under Changing Land Use, Rainfall Reliability, and Water Demands in the Volta Basin (Ghana, Burkina Faso)
