Former Team Members
Dr. Herwig Unnerstall
Deputy Head of the Department of Environmental and Planning Law
Division of Social Sciences
Department of Environmental and Planning Law
Working Group Social-science Water Research
Working Group Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Curriculum Vitae
2004 - 2010
Deputy Head of the Department Environmental and Planning Law
2002 - 2010
Senior Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ , Department of "Environmental and Planning Law"
1998 - 2002
Research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Environmental and Planning Law at the University of Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Martin Oldiges)
1998
Employee at the RWTH Aachen, Institute for Mining Engineering I, Unit for Mining and Environmental Law (Prof. Dr. Walter Frenz)
1995 - 1997
Junior Lawyer at the district court in Hechingen; Second State Examination
1997
Ph.D. in Law with the thesis: Rights of Future Generations ("Rechte zukünftiger Generationen")
1992 - 1995
Member of the Ph.D.-Programme: "Ethics in the sciences and the humanities" at the University of Tübingen (funded by the German Science Foundation; DFG)
1987 - 1995
Study of philosophy, main subjects: philosophy of science, logic and ethics; M.A. with Master thesis: The Foundation of Individual Rights by Alan Gewirth ("Die Begründung von subjektiven Rechten bei Alan Gewirth")
1985 - 1991
Study of Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and at the University of Leiden (NL); First State Examination
Current Projects
European Nature Conservation Legislation and its implementation in Germany
CapHaz-Net – Social Capacity Building for Natural Hazards: Toward More Resilient Societies
Options for Waste Disposal in Potash Mining - The Werra-River-Pipeline
International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS): Management of Water Resources in Hydrologically Sensitive Regions (BMBF, since 07/2008)