Peter Christian Frandsen

Capacity of governance systems to respond to early warning signals

Project affiliation:   C1

Since October 2024, Peter C. Frandsen is a Ph.D. student in the interdisciplinary research training group ECORISK and is further associated with the working group resource management at the institute of Geography. His dissertation project investigates early warning signals and governance responses in the context of drought.
He completed his bachelor's degree in geography at the University of Göttingen with a focus on natural hazards and risk. Afterwards he attended a one-year Master's program in Urban Geography at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. The master's thesis titled “Rethinking Rooftops - The culture-driven transformation of rooftops in Rotterdam”, investigated innovative approaches to urban land use on the rooftops of Rotterdam. This was followed by a Master's degree on Global Change Geography in Freiburg, this time with a focus on wetlands, land use and remote sensing. During his time in Freiburg, he completed internships and research stays at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Potsdam and the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS), among others. The second master's thesis “Post-aquaculture land use succession in coastal Bangladesh” investigated previously little-researched land use trends in a part of Bangladesh hitherto dominated by aquaculture, with the help of remote sensing methods.

In addition to his studies, he was a long-standing member of the European Geography Association (EGEA) and is currently member in the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) as a Young Professional.

Research interests

Land Use change, Integrated Drainage Basin Management, Risk and hazards, Global change, Wetlands and deltascapes, Social-ecological systems