Senior Researcher

Simon Benedikter

 
 
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Department ZEF A: Department of Political and Cultural Change
Research areas - Institutions and Strategic Groups
- Natural Resource Management
- Water Security
Research countries - Vietnam
Research topic Political Economy of Water Resources Management, State-Society Relations, Water Resources Development and Engineering, Water Governance, State and Bureaucracy
Projects Water-Related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (WISDOM)
Partners Germany: DLR-DFD German Aerospace Center, German Remote Sensing Data Center GFZ GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam, UNU-EHS United Nations University - Environment and Human Security, INRES Institute for Plant Nutrition - University of Bonn IWG Institute for Water and River Basin Management - University of Karlsruhe, DHI Water and Environment, EOMAP Earth Observation and Mapping ec. GmbH & Co 2wcom Wireless-World Communication Vietnam: Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, Can Tho University, SISD Southern Institute of Sustainable Development, SIWRR Southern Institute of Water Resources Research
Funding institutions BMBF
Degrees Diploma in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Bonn
Publications

Waibel, G.; Benedikter, S. & Nguyen Duy Can. 2011. Dynamics at the Grassroots - Water Management in Rural Communities of the Mekong Delta. (forthcoming).

Waibel, G.; Benedikter, S.; Reis, N., Genschick, S.; Nguyen, L.; Pham, C.H.; Tran, T.B.. 2011. Water Governance under Renovation? - Concepts and Practices of IWRM in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (forthcoming).

Nguyen, L. & S. Benedikter. 2010. Problems and challenges of law enforcement in water resources protection in Can Tho City], Conference Proceedings, National Conference on Social Sciences and the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta, 25 October 2010, Can Tho City, (in Vietnamese).
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Evers, H.-D. & S. Benedikter. 2009. Hydraulic Bureaucracy in a Modern Hydraulic Society – Strategic Group Formation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Water Alternatives 2(3): 416 - 439.
Further Information: www.water-alternatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=1

Evers, H.-D. & S. Benedikter. 2009. Strategic Group Formation in the Mekong Delta - The Development of a Modern Hydraulic Society. Bonn: ZEF Working Paper Nr. 35.
Further Information: www.zef.de/fileadmin/webfiles/downloads/zef_wp/wp35.pdf

Herbst, S., Benedikter, S., Köster, U., Phan, N., Berger, C., Rechenburg, A. & T. Kistemann. 2009. Perceptions of Water, Sanitation and Health: A Case Study from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Water Science & Technology WST 60 (3): 699-707.

Benedikter, S. 2008. Dezentralisierung und Demokratisierungstendenzen in Vietnam. Eine kritische Bilanz seit Einleitung des Erneuerungsprozesses. VDM Verlag.

Additionals, Curriculum Vitae
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CV_sbene.pdf
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