Research Interests

• Social-ecological systems
• Political ecology
  
• Environmental change and human (im)mobility
  
• Resource use conflicts and governance
• Science communication
  

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022: Science manager at the Head Office of eLTER (Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research)

2017 - 2022:  PhD candidate at Computational Landscape Ecology, MigSoKo junior research group

• conducting meta-studies based on qualitative and quantitative data to analyse the dynamics between environmenta change, human migration and resource conflicts at the regional and global level
• participation in teaching activities at University Halle-Wittenberg (B.Sc. course "Sozial-ökologischer Systeme und natürliche Ressourcen", before M.Sc. course "Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen")
• event organisation and science communication activities
  

2014 - 2016:  M.Sc. in Sustainable Development, Utrecht University and Leipzig University (Joint Programme)

• focus on sustainability science, environmental governance, natural resource management
• qualitative fieldwork in the Zambezi Region and M.Sc. thesis  ("Sustainable Co-management of Freshwater Fisheries and Local Livelihoods: The case of Sikunga") in collaboration with ValuES , the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) and GIZ
  

2014:  Internship at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin (Team Political Dialogue and Analysis)

• supporting science-based political consulting
  

2013 - 2014:  Internship at GIZ Brazil in Brasília (Programme Novas Parcerias - Cooperation for Science and Research)

• supporting project communication and event management
  

2010 - 2013:  B.A. cum laude in European Studies, Maastricht University

• focus on international relations, European integration and EU policy
• exchange semester at the University of Porto

Publications

• Groth, J., Hermans, K., Wiederkehr, C., Kassa, E., Thober, J., (2021):
  Investigating environment-related migration processes in Ethiopia – A participatory Bayesian network
  Ecosyst. People 17 (1), 128 - 147
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• Hermans, K., Berger, E., Biber-Freudenberger, L., Bossenbroek, L., Ebeler, L., Groth, J., Hack, J., Hanspach, J., Hintz, K.S., Kimengsi, J.N., Kwong, Y.M.C., Oakes, R., Pagogna, R., Plieninger, T., Sterly, H., van der Geest, K., van Vliet, J., Wiederkehr, C., (2021):
  Crisis-induced disruptions in place-based social-ecological research – an opportunity for redirection
  GAIA 30 (2), 72 - 76
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• Wiederkehr, C., Beckmann, M., Hermans, K., (2018):
  Environmental change, adaptation strategies and the relevance of migration in Sub-Saharan drylands
  Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (11), art. 113003
  full text (doi)
• Wiederkehr, C., Berghöfer, A., Otsuki, K., (2019):
  Ostrom’s governance principles and sustainable financing of fish reserves
  Hum. Ecol. 47 (1), 13 - 25
  full text (doi)
• Wiederkehr, C., Ide, T., Seppelt, R., Hermans, K., (2022):
  It’s all about politics: Migration and resource conflicts in the global south
  World Dev. 157 , art. 105938
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• Wiederkehr, C., Schröter, M., Adams, H., Seppelt, R., Hermans, K., (2019):
  How does nature contribute to human mobility? A conceptual framework and qualitative analysis
  Ecol. Soc. 24 (4), art. 31
  full text (doi)

Conferences/Workshops

'Slow-Onset Climatic Change and Human Mobility' HABITABLE Scenario Planning Workshop, online (2022)

Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, online (2022)

Potsdam Summer School 'Connecting Science & Society - Communicating Research on Sustainability and Global Change' in Potsdam, Germany (2019)

'Environmental Non-Migration: Framework, Methods, and Cases' Conference in Dresden, Germany (2019)

'Research on climate change and migration: State of the art and future directions' Expert Workshop in Bonn, Germany (2019)

'Migrations, Climate and Environment: What risks Inequalities?' Conference in Paris, France (2018)

'Adaptation in Motion' TransRe Closing Conference in Bonn, Germany (2018)

Colloquium at the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany (2018)

'Impacts World 2017' Conference in Potsdam, Germany (2017)

'Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM)', Ljubljana, Slovenia (2017)

'Future Agriculture: Social-ecological transitions and bio-cultural shifts' Tropentag in Bonn, Germany (2017)