ISOE Policy Brief
Groundwater in Europe: Cornerstone for Resilience
Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky et al.
2025
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David is a research scientist at ISOE since 2020, specialising in social-ecological conflicts and water infrastructure. As a PhD candidate in the junior research group regulate, he investigates how long-distance water transfers shape groundwater conflicts in Germany and Spain. After obtaining his B.A. in Political Science at Free University of Berlin (Germany), David completed the interdisciplinary M.Sc. programme Sustainable Development at Utrecht University (Netherlands). In his work, David combines approaches from political ecology, conflict studies and more-than-human geographies. He is an affiliated researcher at the Governance and Sustainability Lab, Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Sciences, Trier University (Germany).
Focus of research
- Social-ecological conflicts
- Water infrastructure
- Political ecology
- Human geography
Publications
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- Frick-Trzebitzky, Fanny, Robert Lütkemeier, Dženeta Hodžić, David Kuhn, Linda Söller, Anne Jäger (2025): Groundwater in Europe: Cornerstone for Resilience. ISOE Policy Brief, 12. Frankfurt am Main. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15166166
- Frick-Trzebitzky, Fanny, Robert Lütkemeier, Iordanka Guenova Dountcheva-Robles, David Sanz, Dženeta Hodžić, David Kuhn, Amit Kumar Srivastwa, Christina Walter, Linda Söller, Jakob Kramer (2025): Groundwater urgencies: what can geography offer?. Geographica Helvetica 80 (2), 135–144. DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-135-2025
- Lütkemeier, Robert, David Kuhn (2025): Grundwasserstress in Deutschland. Überblicksstudie: Struktureller und akuter Grundwasserstress durch öffentliche und nichtöffentliche Entnahmen auf Ebene der Landkreise. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung (ISOE)
- Rauchecker, Markus, David Kuhn, Diana Hummel, Thomas Fickel, Thomas Friedrich, Katja Brinkmann, Stefanie Burkhart, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Luca Nitschke (2025): Social-ecological conflicts: An emancipatory conceptual approach by bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, DOI: 10.1177/25148486251384764
- Kuhn, David, Robert Lütkemeier, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Linda Söller, Kristiane Fehrs (2024): Infrastructural lock-ins in the temporal and spatial development of a long-distance water transfer in Germany. Journal of Hydrology 634 (131070), DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131070
- Söller, Linda, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Robert Lütkemeier, David Kuhn, Anne Jäger, Jörg Beyme, Maria Diebes, Jan Donner, Armin Hoch, Steffen Hooper, Toni Meier, Jutta Parnieske-Pasterkamp, Laura Ritter, Martin Schneppmüller, Torsten Wagner (2024): Leitbild 2040 Grundwasser - Ziele und Maβnahmen für ein nachhaltiges Grundwassermanagement im Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz. Frankfurt am Main: ISOE - Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11370519
- Kuhn, David, Dženeta Hodžić, Linda Söller (2024): Water infrastructures as mediators between nature and society on the Croatian island of Veliki Brijun
- Kuhn, David, Luca Nitschke, Thomas Fickel (2023): Lützerath und Fechenheimer Wald: Gegenwärtige Nachhaltigkeitskonflikte und ihre Herausforderungen für transdisziplinäre Forschung
- Kuhn, David, Thomas Fickel, Markus Rauchecker, Diana Hummel, Katja Brinkmann, Stefanie Burkhart, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Thomas Friedrich, Luca Nitschke (2023): Natur im Konflikt. Konzeptualisierungen des Nichtmenschlichen in der Forschung zu Umweltkonflikten. ISOE-Diskussionspapiere, 48. Frankfurt am Main: ISOE - Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung
- Kuhn, Michael, Leon Immerz, David Kuhn (2021): Die Teilstromentnahme nach DIN 19569-13 zur Ermittlung des Abscheidegrades bei Sandfängen kommunaler Kläranlagen. KA Korrespondenz Abwasser, Abfall 68 (11), 913–917
- Lütkemeier, Robert, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Dženeta Hodžić, Anne Jäger, David Kuhn, Linda Söller (2021): Telecoupled Groundwaters: New Ways to Investigate Increasingly De-Localized Resources. Sustainability 13 (20), 2906. DOI: 10.3390/w13202906
- Schön, Susanne, Christian Eismann, Heike Wendt-Schwarzburg, David Kuhn (2020): Transdisziplinäres Innovationsmanagement. Nachhaltigkeitsprojekte wirksam umsetzen. Bielefeld: wbv Media. DOI: 10.3278/6004698w
Current Publications
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Groundwater urgencies: what can geography offer? Geographica HelveticaGroundwater urgencies: what can geography offer?
Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky et al.
2025Available online
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Grundwasserstress in Deutschland Grundwasserstress in Deutschland
Robert Lütkemeier, David Kuhn
2025Available online
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Social-ecological conflicts: An emancipatory conceptual approach by bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis Environment and Planning E: Nature and SpaceSocial-ecological conflicts: An emancipatory conceptual approach by bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis
Markus Rauchecker et al.
2025Available online
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Infrastructural lock-ins in the temporal and spatial development of a long-distance water transfer in Germany Journal of HydrologyInfrastructural lock-ins in the temporal and spatial development of a long-distance water transfer in Germany
David Kuhn et al.
2024Available online
