Maria Kondra

Maria Kondra is a researcher within the WaterPower project at the Governance and Sustainability Lab at  Trier University, Germany. Within the project she focuses on political ecology of urban wetlands in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. The main focus lies on analyzing value articulations of ecosystem services generated in urban wetlands (Sakumo wetland and Densu delta wetland) in Greater Accra. In her Master's thesis, Maria developed a list of socio-ecological indicators for the coastal region of Bangladesh in cooperation with United Nations University (UNU) in Bonn, Germany.

Research topic
Political Ecology of Urban Aquatic Ecosystems 

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Research Interests

Wetland degradation, analysis of socio-ecological systems and the role of conservation politics

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Short CV

Maria holds a post-gradute degree in Applied Environmental Sciences from Stockholm University, Sweden. Prior to this, she worked as a consultant for the United Nations University (UNU) in the KAZUZ project and was a visiting researcher in the DELTAS project. During her fieldwork in Bangladesh in 2014 she was a visiting researcher at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Dhaka. In 2009 Maria graduated with a bachelors degree in Geosciences from Potsdam University, Germany

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Publications

Kondra, M. (2019). Understanding the mechanisms that shape access to the fisheries ecosystem service in Tsokomey, Accra. WaterPower Working Paper, No. 17. Governance and Sustainability Lab. Trier University. Trier.

Kondra, M. (2016). The status of the wetlands in the Greater Accra Region. WaterPower Working Paper, No. 9. Governance and Sustainability Lab. Trier University. Trier.

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Contact

WaterPower
Governance & Sustainability Lab
Fachbereich VI - Raum- und Umweltwissenschaften
Universität Trier
54286 Trier

Email: kondra@uni-trier.de
Phone: +49 (0)651/201-4176

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