Research topics 

• Politics of water and chemicals
• Legitimacy and efficiency of global and European environmental governance
• Sustainable urban infrastructures and municipal utilities
• Energy transition and sector integration (e.g. nexus to wastewater sector)

Current Projects

RECONECT − Regenarating ECOsystems with Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk rEduCTion

Former Projects

River Basin Governance (RiBaGo) Research Network: The European Union and China, CO-REACH ERA grant, 2009−2011

Rescaling Environmental Governance in Europe – The EU Water Framework Directive and the scalar reconfiguration of resource regulation, German Research Foundation (DFG), 2010−2013

Existing Wastewater Treatment Plant´s potentials to provide ancillary services for energy grids (arrivee), German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2014−2017

Publications & Presentations

Recent Publications:

Hendlin, Y., Arcuri, A., Lepenies, R., & Hüesker, F. (2020). Like Oil and Water: The Politics of (Not) Assessing Glyphosate Concentrations in Aquatic Ecosystems. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 11(3), 539-564. doi:10.1017/err.2020.65.

Zingraff-Hamed, A., Schröter, B., Schaub, S., Lepenies, R., Stein, U., Hüesker, F., Meyer, C., Schleyer, C., Schmeier, S. and Pusch, M.T., (2020). Perception of Bottlenecks in the Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. Water Alternatives, 13(3), p.3.

Moss, T.; Hüesker, F. (print version 2019): Politicised nexus thinking in practice: Integrating urban wastewater utilities into regional energy markets. Special issue article: Interfacing infrastructure in cities: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus. In: Urban Studies, 1-17, (Online first version: DOI: 10.1177/0042098017735229).

Lepenies, R., Hüesker, F., Beck, S., Brugnach, M. (2018): Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water Governance. In: Water 10 (10), 1475.

Hüesker, F.; Moss T. (2018): Kommunale (Abwasser-)Unternehmen als ein Standbein der dezentralen Energiewende. In: Radtke, Jörg; Kersting, Norbert (Hrsg.): Energiewende. Politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, Springer, 289-312.

Gretzschel, O.; Hüesker, F.; Schmitt, T. G.; Kolisch, G.; Salomon, D.; Zdrallek, M.; Schiebold, D.; Hanke, B. (2018): Flexibilitätsbeiträge von Kläranlagen zur Energiewende – Handlungsempfehlungen und Forderungen an Gesetzgeber und Politik. In: Korrespondenz Abwasser, Abfall, 65. Jg., vol. 3, 217ff.