Dr. Laura Mae Jacqueline Herzog
Research Associate
Member of the working group Resources Management
Research interests: The governance of landscapes, water resources and open space, transformation pathways and transformative capacities, as well as participatory processes and the co-creation of knowledge. The methods I use range from participatory modelling to comparative case study analysis to Social Network Analysis.
Illustration of my research by Cristian Olmos Herrera
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I'm a postdoctoral researcher interested in the question of how transformation processes in so-called social-ecological systems come about. I conduct research on digitalization in the water sector of Lower Saxony as part of the Zukunftslabor Wasser. Here, I am particularly interested in how digital applications can make our use of water more sustainable. Moreover, I study transformation processes regarding the use and protection of peatlands in the collaborative project MOOSland. In our work packages, my team and I a) investigate the transformation process towards rewetted peatlands together with regional stakeholders and b) ensure the knowledge transfer of the project results. Previously, I assessed future scenarios of lake management at lake Dümmer within the LimnoScenES project. To this end, I conducted a participatory process with regional stakeholders.
As a researcher interested in societal transformation and transdisciplinary research methods, I was member of the 3rd cohort of the PostDoc Academy for Transformational Leadership of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (2020-2022). Moreover, I am founding member of the Working Group on Governance of Social-Ecological Systems of the Earth System Governance network.
At Osnabrück University, I am representative of the mid-level faculty staff in the faculty council of Fachbereich 1 Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften for the term 2024-2026.
I received my PhD from the University of Bern where I was a research assistant at the Chair of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance. During this time, I worked in an interdisciplinary research project ( CrossWater) together with researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). The project focused on the regulation and the extent of micro-pollutants in the river Rhine, combining concepts from policy analysis with mass flow analysis and perspectives from economic geography.
In my PhD research, I investigated cooperation among actors involved in the cause and the regulation of the common-pool resource (CPR) problem of micro-pollutants in the surface water of the river Rhine. I gained my diploma in political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut (OSI), Freie Universität Berlin. In my diploma's thesis, I analyzed the local mobilization of social movements at two Peruvian mining sites, applying social movement theory.
I signed the statement concerning the protests for more climate protection.
Dr. Laura Herzog
Institut für Geographie
Universität Osnabrück
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück
Raum: 66/E22
Barbarastraße 12
49076 Osnabrück
Tel.: +49 541 969-3122
laura.herzog@uni-osnabrueck.de
Sprechstunde
Fr 11 - 12 Uhr u.n.V.
Herzog, Laura, Lenschow, Andrea, and Jan Pollex. 2023. "Between Science, Movement, and Democracy: Scientists for Future in the Politics-Society Interface." Politische Vierteljahresschrift https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00464-4 & https://www.dvpw.de/blog/klimakrise-und-wissenschaft-die-bewegung-scientists-for-future-im-spannungsfeld-von-expertise-und-aktivismus-ein-beitrag-von-laura-herzog-andrea-lenschow-und-jan-pollex
Tanguay, Louis, Herzog, Laura M., Audet, René, Beisner, Beatrix E., Martin, Romina, and Claudia Pahl-Wostl. 2023. "Opportunities for and barriers to anticipatory governance of two lake social-ecological systems in Germany and Canada." People & Nature 00:1-18. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10464
Herzog, Laura M., Tanguay, Louis, Beisner, Beatrix E., Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, Audet, René, and Maja Schlüter. 2022. "Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework – how to move from empirical data to conceptual models.” Ecology & Society. 27(3): 7. https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss3/art7/
Przesdzink, Felix, Herzog, Laura Mae, and Florian Fiebelkorn. 2021. "Combining Stakeholder and Social Network Analysis to Improve Regional Nature Conservation: A Case Study from Osnabrück, Germany." Environmental Management 69: 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01564-w
Herzog, Laura, Ingold, Karin and Schlager, Edella. 2021. "Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks." Policy Studies Journal 00: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12448
Knispel de Acosta, Saskia, Laura Herzog, and Volker Stelzer. 2021. "Mit Fakten die Welt verändern - Scientists for Future und die neue Rolle der Wissenschaft?" In Unterwegs zur neuen Mobilität. Perspektiven für Verkehr, Umwelt und Arbeit, Ed. Manfred Flore, Uwe Kröcher, and Claudia Czycholl, 277-292. München: oekom Verlag.
Herzog, Laura M. and Ingold, Karin. 2019. “Threats to Common-Pool Resources & the Importance of Forums: On the Emergence of Cooperation in CPR Problem Settings.” Policy Studies Journal 47(1): 77-113. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12308
Widmer, A., Herzog, L., Moser, A., and Ingold, Karin. 2019. “Multilevel water quality management in the international Rhine catchment area: how to establish social-ecological fit through collaborative governance.” Ecology & Society 24(3): 27. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art27/
Ingold, Karin, Moser, Andreas, Metz, Florence, Herzog, Laura M., Bader, Hans-Peter, Scheidegger, Ruth, and Stamm, Christian. 2017. “Misfit between physical affectedness and regulatory embeddedness: The case of drinking water supply along the Rhine River”. Global Environmental Change 48: 136-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.11.006
For the activities of Scientists4Future in Osnabrück, see our web page and our ongoing lecture series.
07/2024
Interview at OS Radio 104.8 about the MOOSland project, together with my colleagues Larissa Koch and Pia Müller: https://www.osradio.de/2024/07/23/moosland-projekt-im-os-radio-mittags-talk-am-17-07/?fbclid=PATXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYCOn9V-ezb0CTue1Hiz3zMwk3KEB4vuFgU-zyRk5UkeU4IXwjePTR53ds_aem_Ac4FWwzm78EvK1C3avGFbQ July 17, 2024.
04/2024
Co-lead of a one-day workshop at the BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany) Jugend Niedersachsen: "Moore der Zukunft" https://www.bundjugend-niedersachsen.de/termin/workshop-moore-der-zukunft/
11/2023
Panel discussant at the "Gewässerschutzforum der Umweltverbände 2023": https://www.nabu.de/imperia/md/content/nabude/veranstaltungen/20231025_programm_gew__sserschutzforum_am_17.11.2023
09/2023
"Hitze, Dürre, Waldbrände - Geht Deutschland bald das Wasser aus?" Discussant in the SWR2 Forum on September 14, 2023: https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/hitze-duerre-waldbraende-geht-deutschland-bald-das-wasser-aus-swr2-forum-2023-09-14-100.html
06/2023
PostDoc Academy for Transformationl Leadership Cohort 3 and Cristian Olmos Herrera. 2023. "Using artistic drawings as a tool for interdisciplinary exchange, team-building and transdisciplinary research." By Cohort 2020-2022 & Cristian Olmos Herrera
06/2023
"Swimming lakes and drought in Germany" Interview at Radio RST on June 21, 2023: https://www.radiorst.de/artikel/aufstehen-mit-soeren-und-kathleen-1686228.html (minutes 00:19-01:13 & 02:31-03:24)
12/2021
"The influence of identities on collective action" - challenge supervisor at the Climate Thinkathon organized by a student group of the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University in cooperation with Osnabrück University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
06/2021
„Kooperation für den Biodiversitätsschutz – Wer sollte dabei sein?“ Topical input and discussion as part of the lecture series "Gefährdung und Schutz der Biodiversität" by Osnabrücker Biodiversitätsgespräche (OSBG), together with Felix Przesdzink:
09/2020 - 02/2021
Supporting the organization and realization of the third "Climate Change and Climate Protection" lecture series by Scientists for Future Osnabrück: https://osnabrueck.scientists4future.org/klimawandel-und-klimaschutz/
11/2020 - 02/2021
Scientific consulting of and theatrical performance in the play “Denkraum der Utopien”, Grüneberg/Kerklau, performed at the Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster: scientific contribution to sustainability and climate politics and realization of a vision exercise and backcasting scenario planning. See also: Kuhn, Lilith. 2023. "Das Theater mit den Wissenschaften: Affektive Atmosphären einer künstlerisch-kollaborativen Bearbeitung der Klimakrise" Geographica Helvetica 78, 15-27: https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/78/15/2023/
06/2020
Two panels conducted at the Summer Congress 2020 of Scientists for Future Germany (on internal communication and on self-conception and strategy): https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wir-koennen-einiges-fuer-die-klimakrise-lernen-39401/
01/2020
„Regional, national, international und zurück: wie gestalten wir Klimaschutzpolitik?“ Lecture held at the Winteruni 2020 Campus für alle, Volkshochschule Unna Fröndenberg Holzwickede: https://vhs-zib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Winteruni.2020.pdf
09/2019
UN climate negotiations, workshop conducted with citizens of Osnabrück as part of the Climate Week 2019 (September 24, 2019)
08/2019
UN climate negotiations, workshop conducted with activists of the Fridays for Future movement at the Fridays for Future Germany Summer Congress 2019 in Dortmund (August 1, 2020): https://ze.tt/un-simulation-beim-fff-sommerkongress-koennen-die-jungen-aktivistinnen-die-welt-retten/