Zora Marie Reckhaus
Research Unit Environment and Society
Environment and Society
Deparment Urban and Environmental Sociology
Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Tel.: 0341 - 6025 2443
zora.reckhaus@ufz.de
Working Groups
Working Group Environmental Risks and Extreme Events
Working Group “Social-Science Water Research”
UFZ Helmholtz - POF IV: Transformations towards resilient cities
Research Interests
- Hydrological extreme weather events and adaptation processes (socio-psychological factors as well as institutional, political-economic and cultural factors)
- Environmental risks, resilience and vulnerability
- Sustainable transformation processes and social justice
Beruflicher Werdegang
since 04/2022
Researcher at the UFZ in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
02/2020 – 03/2022
Research assistant at the UFZ in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
02/2018 – 08/2018
2018 – 2021
2018 – 2021
11/2016 – 12/2017
07/2016 – 10/2016
2014 – 2018
Semester abroad at the University of Basel, Switzerland
Master's programme in the Joint International Master of Sustainable Development (focus: Social Dimension of Sustainable Development) at the Universities of Leipzig and Basel, Switzerland. (“ Private adaption measures within Flood Risk Management - An Environmental justice perspective on individual capacities for flood risk mitigation”)
Working student AIRWIN GmbH Lüneburg, Technical Management Department in the Renewable Energy Division
Working student, Lufthansa Technik AG, Hamburg, Environmental Management Department
Intern Lufthansa Technik AG, Hamburg, Environmental Management Department
Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences and minor in Economics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Publications
Otto, D., Reckhaus, Z., Kuhlicke C. (2025): Caring, Coping and Rebuilding—The Role of Social Infrastructure During and After the 2021 Flood Event in Germany. Journal of Flood Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70007
Sodoge, J., Reckhaus, Z., Kuhlicke, C., de Brito, M.M. (2024): Unified in diversity: Unravelling emerging knowledge on drought impact cascades via participatory modeling. Clim. Risk Manag. 46 , art. 100652. doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2024.100652.
Kuhlicke, C.;. de Brito, M; Otto, D.; Reckhaus, Z. (2024): Resilienter wiederaufbauen? Erste Thesen zur Rekonfiguration hydrosozialer Territorien nach dem Hochwasser 2021. In: Kabisch, S., Rink, D., Banzhaf, E. (Hrsg.) Die resiliente Stadt: Konzepte, Konflikte, Lösungen Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, S. 145 - 164.
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