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Maria Kondra

Maria Kondra is a PhD researcher in the WaterPower project at the Geography Institute at the University Trier, Germany. Within the project she focuses on political ecology of urban wetlands in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. The main focus lies on analyzing the effects of urban agriculture and water pollution on the wetlands. 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.

Doctoral Thesis
Political Ecology of Urban Aquatic Ecosystems 

Research Interests

Environmental pollution, analysis of socio-ecological systems and the role of environmental politics

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


Publications

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.

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

Contact Us
Governance & Sustainability Lab
Faculty VI - Regional and Environmental Sciences

Prof. Dr. Antje Bruns 
Trier University 
Phone: +49 (0)651/201-4550
Email: waterpower@uni-trier.de

Website ISSN 2509-8160



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