Dr. Laura Mae Jacqueline Herzog
Research Associate
Member of the working group Resources Management
Research interests: The governance of landscapes, water resources and open space, transformation pathways and transformative capacities, as well as participatory processes and the co-creation of knowledge. The methods I use range from participatory modeling to comparative case study analysis to Social Network Analysis.
Illustration of my research by Cristian Olmos Herrera
Profile
I'm a postdoctoral researcher interested in the question of how transformation processes in so-called social-ecological systems come about. I conduct research on digitalization in the water sector of Lower Saxony as part of the Zukunftslabor Wasser. Here, I am particularly interested in how digital applications can make our use of water more sustainable. Furthermore, I study transformation processes regarding the use and protection of peatlands in the collaborative project MOOSland. In our work packages, my team and I a) investigate the transformation process towards rewetted peatlands together with regional stakeholders and b) ensure the knowledge transfer of the project results. Previously, I assessed future scenarios of lake management at lake Dümmer within the LimnoScenES project. To this end, I conducted a participatory process with regional stakeholders.
As a researcher interested in societal transformation and transdisciplinary research methods, I was member of the 3rd cohort of the PostDoc Academy for Transformational Leadership of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (2020-2022). Furthermore, I am founding member of the Working Group on Governance of Social-Ecological Systems of the Earth System Governance network.
At Osnabrück University, I am representative of the mid-level faculty staff in the faculty council of School of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences 1 for the term 2024-2026.
I received my PhD from the University of Bern where I was a research assistant at the Chair of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance. During this time, I worked in an interdisciplinary research project (CrossWater) together with researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). The project focused on the regulation and the extent of micro-pollutants in the river Rhine, combining concepts from policy analysis with mass flow analysis and perspectives from economic geography.
In my PhD research, I investigated cooperation among actors involved in the cause and the regulation of the common-pool resource (CPR) problem of micro-pollutants in the surface water of the river Rhine. I gained my diploma in political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut (OSI), Freie Universität Berlin. In my diploma's thesis, I analyzed the local mobilization of social movements at two Peruvian mining sites, applying social movement theory.
I signed the statement concerning the protests for more climate protection.
Dr. Laura Herzog
Institute of Geography
Osnabrück University
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück
Room: 66/E22
Barbarastraße 12
49076 Osnabrück
Phone: +49 541 969-3122
laura.herzog@uni-osnabrueck.de
Consultation hours
Fri 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. and on request.
Herzog, Laura, Lenschow, Andrea, and Jan Pollex. 2023. "Between Science, Movement, and Democracy: Scientists for Future in the Politics-Society Interface." Political Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00464-4 & https://www.dvpw.de/blog/klimakrise-und-wissenschaft-die-bewegung-scientists-for-future-im-spannungsfeld-von-expertise-und-aktivismus-ein-beitrag-von-laura-herzog-andrea-lenschow-und-jan-pollex
Tanguay, Louis, Herzog, Laura M., Audet, René, Beisner, Beatrix E., Martin, Romina, and Claudia Pahl-Wostl. 2023. "Opportunities for and barriers to anticipatory governance of two lake social-ecological systems in Germany and Canada." People & Nature 00:1-18. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10464
Herzog, Laura M., Tanguay, Louis, Beisner, Beatrix E., Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, Audet, René, and Maja Schlüter. 2022. "Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework - how to move from empirical data to conceptual models." Ecology & Society. 27(3): 7. ecologyandsociety. org/vol27/iss3/art7/
Przesdzink, Felix, Herzog, Laura Mae, and Florian Fiebelkorn. 2021. "Combining Stakeholder and Social Network Analysis to Improve Regional Nature Conservation: A Case Study from Osnabrück, Germany." Environmental Management 69: 271-287. https://doi. org/10.1007/s00267-021-01564-w
Herzog, Laura, Ingold, Karin and Schlager, Edella. 2021. "Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks." Policy Studies Journal 00: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12448
Knispel de Acosta, Saskia, Laura Herzog, and Volker Stelzer. 2021. "Changing the World with Facts - Scientists for Future and the New Role of Science?" In On the way to new mobility. Perspectives for Transport, Environment and Labor, ed. Manfred Flore, Uwe Kröcher, and Claudia Czycholl, 277-292. Munich: oekom Verlag.
Herzog, Laura M. and Ingold, Karin. 2019. "Threats to Common-Pool Resources & the Importance of Forums: On the Emergence of Cooperation in CPR Problem Settings." Policy Studies Journal 47(1): 77-113. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12308
Widmer, A., Herzog, L., Moser, A., and Ingold, Karin. 2019. "Multilevel water quality management in the international Rhine catchment area: how to establish social-ecological fit through collaborative governance." Ecology & Society 24(3): 27 [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art27/
Ingold, Karin, Moser, Andreas, Metz, Florence, Herzog, Laura M., Bader, Hans-Peter, Scheidegger, Ruth, and Stamm, Christian. 2017. "Misfit between physical affectedness and regulatory embeddedness: The case of drinking water supply along the Rhine River". Global Environmental Change 48: 136-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.11.006
Water laboratory of the future
For the activities of Scientists4Future in Osnabrück, see our web page and our ongoing lecture series.
07/2024
Interview at OS Radio 104.8 about the MOOSland project, together with my colleagues Larissa Koch and Pia Müller: https://www.osradio.de/2024/07/23/moosland-projekt-im-os-radio-mittags-talk-am-17-07/?fbclid=PATXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYCOn9V-ezb0CTue1Hiz3zMwk3KEB4vuFgU-zyRk5UkeU4IXwjePTR53ds_aem_Ac4FWwzm78EvK1C3avGFbQ July 17, 2024.
04/2024
Co-lead of a one-day workshop at the BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany) Jugend Niedersachsen: "Moore der Zukunft" https://www.bundjugend-niedersachsen.de/termin/workshop-moore-der-zukunft/
11/2023
Panel discussant at the "Gewässerschutzforum der Umweltverbände 2023": https://www.nabu.de/imperia/md/content/nabude/veranstaltungen/20231025_programm_gew__sserschutzforum_am_17.11.2023
09/2023
"Heat, drought, forest fires - Will Germany soon run out of water?" Discussant in the SWR2 Forum on September 14, 2023: https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/hitze-duerre-waldbraende-geht-deutschland-bald-das-wasser-aus-swr2-forum-2023-09-14-100.html
06/2023
PostDoc Academy for Transformational Leadership Cohort 3 and Cristian Olmos Herrera. 2023. "Using artistic drawings as a tool for interdisciplinary exchange, team-building and transdisciplinary research." By Cohort 2020-2022 & Cristian Olmos Herrera
06/2023
"Swimming lakes and drought in Germany" Interview at Radio RST on June 21, 2023: https://www.radiorst.de/artikel/aufstehen-mit-soeren-und-kathleen-1686228.html (minutes 00:19-01:13 & 02:31-03:24)
12/2021
"The influence of identities on collective action" - challenge supervisor at the Climate Thinkathon organized by a student group of the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University in cooperation with Osnabrück University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
06/2021
"Cooperation for Biodiversity Conservation - Who should be there?" Topical input and discussion as part of the lecture series "Gefährdung und Schutz der Biodiversität" by Osnabrücker Biodiversitätsgespräche (OSBG), together with Felix Przesdzink:
09/2020 - 02/2021
Supporting the organization and realization of the third "Climate Change and Climate Protection" lecture series by Scientists for Future Osnabrück: https://osnabrueck.scientists4future.org/klimawandel-und-klimaschutz/
11/2020 - 02/2021
Scientific consulting of and theatrical performance in the play "Denkraum der Utopien", Grüneberg/Kerklau, performed at the Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster: scientific contribution to sustainability and climate politics and realization of a vision exercise and backcasting scenario planning. See also: Kuhn, Lilith. 2023. "The theater with the sciences: Affective atmospheres of an artistic-collaborative treatment of the climate crisis" Geographica Helvetica 78, 15-27: https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/78/15/2023/
06/2020
Two panels conducted at the Summer Congress 2020 of Scientists for Future Germany (on internal communication and on self-conception and strategy): https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wir-koennen-einiges-fuer-die-klimakrise-lernen-39401/
01/2020
"Regional, national, international and back: how do we shape climate protection policy?" Lecture held at the Winteruni 2020 Campus für alle, Volkshochschule Unna Fröndenberg Holzwickede: https://vhs-zib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Winteruni.2020.pdf
09/2019
UN climate negotiations, workshop conducted with citizens of Osnabrück as part of the Climate Week 2019 (September 24, 2019)
08/2019
UN climate negotiations, workshop conducted with activists of the Fridays for Future movement at the Fridays for Future Germany Summer Congress 2019 in Dortmund (August 1, 2020): https://ze.tt/un-simulation-beim-fff-sommerkongress-koennen-die-jungen-aktivistinnen-die-welt-retten/