Michael Eichholz
Research Associate - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Postal address:
Department of Geography
University of Bonn
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Room:
Meckenheimer Allee 176, 1. Stock, Raum 1.017
Consultation hours:
On appointment
Tel.: (+49) 228-73-4005
Email:
eichholz@uni-bonn.de
Research Foci
Geographical Development Studies, Interdisciplinary Water Research, Sustainable Resource Use Systems, Cultural Diversity, Social Theory
My main research focus is the sustainable management and social negotiations of access to resources, especially water. Water issues in development contexts form the empirical starting point for studies on resource governance theories that seek to integrate people and structure centered social theory as well as biophysical and cultural systems. The aim is to identify and promote alternative, community-oriented forms of resource governance that link ecological, economical and social justice criteria of the sustainability concept.
Theme of PhD Thesis
Water Governance in urban Latin America
Teaching
Winter term 2011/12:
Summer term 2011:
Methoden sozial-ökologischer Forschung - Methodenseminar für Bachelor, Master o Diplom-Studierende
Winter term 2010/11:
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Since Oct. 2010: University of Bonn, Germany. PhD-Studies in Development Geography
- 2004 - 2010: University of Bonn, Germany. Studies (Diplom) in Geography, Geology, Soil Sciences and Ethnology
Work
History
- Since Oct. 2010: Lecturer /Research Associate. Geography Department at the University of Bonn, Working Group `Development Geography´
- July 2010 - March 2011: Research Assistant. Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department of Political and Cultural Change. Bonn. Project: Water management in Khorezm (Uzbekistan)
- July 2008 – July 2009: Student Assistant at the Climate Change Unit. German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn.
- August 2008 – October 2008: Internship. Federal Ministry of the Environment (BMU), Department of Water- and Groundwater Protection, Bonn
- April 2007 – July 2008: Part-time work. Cochet Consult- Environmental Planning, Bonn.
- September-December 2006: Internship at the Fundación MEDMIN, Environmental consultant for mining industry, La Paz, Bolivia
Publications
2012
- Eichholz, M. (2012): Regimes and niches of the water supply governance in La Paz, Bolivia. In: Kieler Geographische Schriften (accepted)
Conference Presentations / Vorträge
2012
- Gobernanza del suministro de agua en ciudades bolivianas - perspectivas de la geografía social. Vortrag auf dem Forschungskolloquium "LVII Aniversario de la Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas", Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, 23.04.2012.
2011
- Fragmentierte Trinkwasserversorgung in Boliviens Städten als
soziale Praxis gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse. Vortrag auf dem
Workshop "Geographien der (feinen) Unterschiede.
Bourdieus Beitrag für eine relationale Humangeographie", Geographisches Institut, Universität Bonn, 04.11.2011. - Alternative water governance in peri-urban Bolivian quarters – Post-modern and Post- colonial?, paper presented at the conference "Geographies of inequality in Latin America – Socio-economic, cultural, political and environmental dimensions" of the DGfG Arbeitskreis "Lateinamerika", Geographisches Insitut, Universität Kiel, 29.04.2011
2010
- Regulation und Krise der Wasserversorgung in La Paz - Zur Rolle dezentraler Wasserkooperativen. Vortrag auf der Tagung "Stadt und die Veränderung sozialer und physischer Umwelten“ des Arbeitskreises „Geographische Stadtforschung im Entwicklungskontext“, Geographisches Insitut, Universität Erlangen, 12.11.2010.
- Unequal Access to water as a facet of the social gap : The Laderas
of La Paz - Socio-ecological niche for subversive water supply
institutions. Paper presented at the 2nd Cologne Latin America
Symposium "Energy, Identity and Social Cohesion: Prospects and
Challenges
of Sustainable Development in Latin America", Universität Köln, 04.10.2010 .
Research Grants
- (2009) Research grand for final theses abroad from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a three month research period in La Paz, Bolivia
Memberships
- Bundesverband Deutscher Geowissenschaftler e.V.
