Johanna Kramm

Johanna Kramm
Institute for Social-Ecological Research | ISOE · Water Resources and Land Use

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April 2016 - present
Institute for Social-Ecological Research
Position
  • Group Leader
February 2014 - present
Institute for Social-Ecological Research
Position
  • Research Associate
October 2010 - December 2013
University of Bonn
Position
  • Research Associate
Education
October 2010 - December 2013
University of Bonn
Field of study
  • Geography

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Publications (42)
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Der Beitrag erörtert das Verständnis von gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnissen in einer doppelten Bestimmung: als relationaler Grundbegriff zum besseren Verständnis der Beziehungsmuster zwischen Gesellschaft und Natur sowie als transdisziplinärer Denkraum für die Gestaltung sozial-ökologischer Transformationen. Letztere lassen sich als Veränderunge...
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Globale Krisen wie der Klimawandel und die Corona-Pandemie machen die Politische Ökologie zu einem unverzichtbaren Forschungsfeld der Zukunft. Die Beiträger*innen des ersten deutschsprachigen Handbuchs zum Thema stellen die hierfür relevanten Theorien vor und zeigen anhand konkreter Konflikte und Kämpfe die Aktualität und den Mehrwert einer politis...
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Globale Krisen wie der Klimawandel und die Corona-Pandemie machen die Politische Ökologie zu einem unverzichtbaren Forschungsfeld der Zukunft. Die Beiträger*innen des ersten deutschsprachigen Handbuchs zum Thema stellen die hierfür relevanten Theorien vor und zeigen anhand konkreter Konflikte und Kämpfe die Aktualität und den Mehrwert einer politis...
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Vietnam is at the heart of the marine plastic pollution challenge, as a worldwide hotspot for post-consumption plastics leaking into the oceans. Plenty of global recommendations on how to combat land-based sources of plastic pollution exist, but how local actors experience, understand and respond to local actors has been studied surprisingly little...
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Plastic pollution through small particles, so-called microplastics, is acknowledged as an environmental problem of global dimension by both politicians, and the public. An increasing number of environmental studies investigate the exposure and effects of microplastics. Although there are many open questions, current scientific evidence does not con...
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Zusammenfassung Stellt Plastik ein Risiko für unsere Umwelt dar? Wie finden wir einen besseren Umgang mit einem Material, das so viele Bereiche unseres Alltags durchdrungen hat? Mit diesen und weiteren Fragen beschäftigt sich die inter- und transdisziplinär arbeitenden Nachwuchsgruppe „PlastX – Plastik in der Umwelt als systemisches Risiko“. Der Be...
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Microplastic pollution has sparked interest from researchers, public, industries and regulators, due to reports of extensive microplastics presence in the environment, household dust, drinking water, and food that indicate chronic exposure to organisms within ecosystems and in human living spaces. While exposure to microplastics is evident, negativ...
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Vietnam's most popular island, Phu Quoc, is undergoing rapid socio‐ecological change. Two crucial drivers of this are tourism development and plastic‐intensive everyday practices. The growing amount of wasted single‐use plastics is increasingly shaping the appearance of places on the island and challenging the creation of tourist imaginaries of a p...
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Seit 2016 untersucht die Forschungsgruppe PlastX unter der Leitung des ISOE – Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung die gesellschaftliche Rolle von Plastik und die damit verbundenen Umweltauswirkungen. Das vorliegende Dokument gibt einen Überblick über die Ergebnisse dieser Forschungsarbeiten und fasst sie in Form von Kernbotschaften zusam-men,...
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https://www.spektrum.de/inhaltsverzeichnis/deutschland-im-klimawandel-spektrum-der-wissenschaft-9-2020/1673312
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Der vorliegende Bericht dokumentiert die Ergebnisse einer sozial-ökologischen Exkursion nach Norddeutschland, die im Juni 2019 im Rahmen einer Lehrveranstaltung des ISOE - Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung mit Studierenden aus unterschiedlichen natur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen der Goethe Universität Frankfurt stattfand. Im Fo...
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PET‐Getränkeflaschen sind ein allgegenwärtiger Teil der modernen Alltagskultur. Sie haben die globale Trinkwasserversorgung verändert und das moderne Trinkverhalten geprägt. Gleichzeitig kommen Einwegflaschen aus Plastik durch die zunehmend sichtbaren Umweltfolgen auch immer stärker in Kritik. Der Artikel diskutiert den die komplexe Thematik der Wa...
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Von einem natürlichen Mittelgebirgsfluss über erste Nutzungen durch Mühlen über den kompletten technischen Umbau im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert bis zur langsamen Renaturierung in der Gegenwart – die Nidda ist ein Paradebeispiel für die Behandlung von Flüssen in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten und Jahrzehnten. Die Geschichte des Flusses reicht von der „Be...
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The public is concerned about plastic pollution, while clear‐cut scientific evidence for an environmental risk of microplastics is absent. This contrast between incomplete scientific knowledge and public risk perception is an interesting case for investigating how “environmental risk” is transformed in science communication. This study examines how...
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Transdisciplinary collaboration with societal actors is a major trend in sustainability research. However, looking at the concrete practice regarding scientific conferences and publications, the inclusion of non-scientific actors remains marginal. Going one step further, this paper provides reflections and results from a conference session which wa...
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While transdisciplinarity offers a way to tackle complex social-ecological challenges, transdisciplinary research is a challenging task in itself. The integration of research methods across academic disciplines, the collaboration between researchers and practitioners, and the need to balance societal and disciplinary academic impacts pose many diff...
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Water scarcity is an essential threat to the sustainable development pathways of countries in the Global South. In southern Africa for instance, hydro-climatic conditions are already critical but are likely to become worse as climate change projections indicating more severe droughts, un-certain rainfall conditions and a likely temperature increase...
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We are living in a plastic age. For most of us, life without polymers and plastics is unthinkable. However, in recent years the littering of plastics and the problems related to their persistence in the environment have become a major focus in both research and the news. Biodegradable polymers like poly(lactic acid) are seen as a suitable alternati...
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We are living in a plastic age. For most of us, life without polymers and plastics is unthinkable. However, in recent years the littering of plastics and the problems related to their persistence in the environment have become a major focus in both research and the news. Biodegradable polymers like poly(lactic acid) are seen as a suitable alternati...
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The book consolidates the transdisciplinary research of the project “CuveWaters: Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Northern Namibia (Cuvelai Basin) in the SADC-Region”, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and undertaken from 2004 to 2015 in Namibia. In these eleven years it was possible to accompli...
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The diagnosis that we are living in a world risk society formulated by Ulrich Beck 20 years ago (Beck, Kölner Z Soziol Sozialpsychol 36:119–147, 1996) has lost nothing of its power, especially against the background of the Anthropocene debate. “Global risks” have been identified which are caused by human activities, technology, and modernization pr...
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Der nordpazifische „Müllstrudel“ aus Plastikpartikeln gilt als eines der drängendsten Umweltprobleme. Auch wenn noch nicht gesichert ist, wie schädlich Mikroplastik für den Menschen ist, gibt es ausreichend Argumente, etwas gegen die Vermüllung der Ozeane zu tun.
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Over the last decades, social ecology has made important contributions to interdisciplinary sustainability studies. Established in the late 1980s, social ecology was developed as a deliberate provocation to the more ‘disciplined’ natural and social science environmental research. With its focus on the specific interrelations between societies and t...
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Risks have been classically understood as a probability of damage or a potential hazard resulting in appropriate management strategies. However, current research on environmental issues such as pollutants in the aquatic environment or the impacts of climate change have shown that classical management approaches do not sufficiently cover these inter...
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During the second half of the 20th century, the crisis of societal relations to nature emerged as the subject of an international scientific, political, and popular debate. Anthropogenic climate change, loss of biodiversity, resource peaks, or local air and water pollution are symptoms of this crisis. Social ecology provides an inter- and transdisc...
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Plastic is an ambivalent material. It has become the ubiquitous material with multiple functional properties and a broad variety of applications like in packaging – the largest application – , building and construction, automotive, electronics or in the agriculture sector. Plastic is considered the workhorse of modern economy (WEF 2016). Its produc...
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This paper explores how the concept of indigeneity is applied by groups to secure access to natural resources like land and gain political influence. The concept of indigeneity is discussed as an ambivalent one. The global discourse of indigeneity and the introduction of the concept to the African context are outlined. The case of the Il Chamus, a...
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»Bewässerung« - hinter diesem Begriff versteckt sich nicht nur der Transport von Wasser, sondern ein komplexes Gefüge von Steuerungsprozessen: Wie hat sich das Bewässerungsdispositiv in Kenia seit der Kolonialzeit verändert? Wie wirken sich Reformen im Zeichen von Partizipation und Dezentralisierung auf Steuerungs- und gesellschaftliche Aushandlung...
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This assessment concept paper provides a methodological approach for the formative assessment and summative assessment of GIZ’s International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP) and its component partnerships. IWaSP promotes partnerships between the private sector (corporations and SMEs), the public sector and the society to tackle shared water ris...
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Die Verfügbarkeit von Wasser in ausreichender Quantität und guter Qualität für Gesellschaften und Ökosysteme räumlich und zeitlich zu gewährleisten, ist eine der großen globalen Herausforderungen („great challenges“) der Gegenwart und Zukunft. Um die Wasserverfügbarkeit sicherzustellen, grei-fen Gesellschaften als gestaltende Akteure massiv in natü...
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This paper explores conflictive negotiation processes over access to water. It focuses on the ability of farmers to access water in an irrigation scheme in Tanzania. In the case of irrigation, management and governance of water resources is a result of self-organization embedded in a matrix of institutional arrangements which derive from local form...

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