MOE-Fellowship: Sara Xhaka

Adapting Germany’s Flood Management Strategies for Kosovo: Behavioral and Policy Solutions for Community Resilience.

Short summary of topic: 

The project aims to investigate how integrated flood risk management approaches developed in Germany can be adapted to strengthen community-based flood resilience, environmental governance, and behavioral adaptation mechanisms in Kosovo.

The research seeks to move beyond infrastructure-centered flood protection by examining how spatial vulnerability, governance structures, environmental degradation, and human behavior interact in shaping adaptive capacity within flood-prone communities.

AZ: 30026/026

Zeitraum

16.08.2026 - 15.02.2027

Land

Balkan

Institut

Universität Potsdam
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie

Betreuer

Prof. Dr. Annegret Thieken