Karthe, Daniel
Head of Research Programme – Resource Nexus for Regions in Transformation
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-FLORES
- OFFICE:
- UNU-FLORES, Ammonstrasse 74, Dresden, 01067, Germany
- E-MAIL:
- karthe@unu.edu
- PHONE:
- +49 351 8921 9374
- NATIONALITY:
- German
Research Interests
- Aquatic Resources Management
- Central Asia
- Environmental Change & Sustainable Development
- Science, Technology and Sustainable Society
Education
- Habilitation, Geography, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany (2017)
- Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.), Geography, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany (2010)
- First and Second State Examination (equivalent to Master’s degree), Geography and English, Mannheim University, Germany (2002/2004)
Appointments
- Head of Research Programme – Resource Nexus for Regions in Transformation, UNU-FLORES
- Associate Professor and Vice Rector for Research, German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology (GMIT), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Scientific Coordinator, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany
Biographical Statement
Prof Daniel Karthe currently heads UNU-FLORES’s research programme on the ‘Resource Nexus for Sustainability Transformations” (NEXtra)’. He has over 20 years of research and teaching experience related to hydrology, water quality, and aquatic resources management, including projects in Germany, Central Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining UNU-FLORES, Daniel served as an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering and Vice Rector for Research at the German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology, in Nalaikh, Mongolia and a research fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Magdeburg, Germany. His research interests include the Resource Nexus with a particular focus on science-based management concepts for environmental resources, including water, soil, and air. Daniel currently works on the sustainability of transformation processes in (post-)coal mining regions. He co-chairs the Commission for Hydrology in the German Geographical Society and serves as Vice Chair of the Commission for Water Sustainability in the International Geographical Union.
Further Information
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Articles
- Matveeva, Vera A., Alekseenko, Alexey, Karthe, Daniel and Puzanov, Alexander V. (2022). Manganese Pollution in Mining-Influenced Rivers and Lakes: Current State and Forecast under Climate Change in the Russian Arctic. Water, 14(7), 1-22
- Kolli, Meena Kumari, Opp, Christian, Karthe, Daniel and Pradhan, Biswajeet (2022). Automatic extraction of large-scale aquaculture encroachment areas using Canny Edge Otsu algorithm in Google earth engine – the case study of Kolleru Lake, South India. Geocarto International, 1-17
- Kolli, Meena Kumari, Opp, Christian, Karthe, Daniel and Kumar, Nallapaneni Manoj (2022). Web-Based Decision Support System for Managing the Food–Water–Soil–Ecosystem Nexus in the Kolleru Freshwater Lake of Andhra Pradesh in South India. Sustainability, 14(4), 1-13
- Ma, Weijing, Wei, Feili, Zhang, Jianpeng, Karthe, Daniel and Opp, Christian (2022). Green water appropriation of the cropland ecosystem in China. Science of the Total Environment, 806, 1-12
- Schoderer, Mirja, Karthe, Daniel, Dombrowsky, Ines and dell',Angelo, Jampel (2021). Hydro-social dynamics of miningscapes: Obstacles to implementing water protection legislation in Mongolia. Journal of Environmental Management, 292, 1-12
- Karthe, Daniel, Reeh, Tobias, Kempf, Felix, Lee, Halim and Guenther, Edeltraud (2021). Sustainable recovery of tourism in the post-COVID-19 world: Advocacy for a Resource Nexus perspective. Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, 13(3), 324-332
- Pfeiffer, Martin, Gunsmaa Batbayar, Jügen Hofmann, Konrad Siegfried, Daniel Karthe, and Sonja Hahn-Tomer. 2015. “Investigating arsenic (As) occurrence and sources in ground, surface, waste and drinking water in northern Mongolia.” Environmental Earth Sciences 73, no. 2, 649-662. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s12665-013-3029-0
- Karthe, Daniel, Sergey Chalov, and Dietrich Borchardt. 2015. “Water Resources and Their Management in Central Asia in the Early 21st Century: Status, Challenges and Future Prospects.” Environmental Earth Sciences 73, no. 2:487-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-3789-1
Book Chapters
- Karthe, Daniel, Lee, Halim and Ganbat, Gantuya, “Fragmented Infrastructure Systems in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Assessment from an Environmental Resource Nexus and Public Health Perspective” in Urban Infrastructuring, ed. Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022), 15-34.
- Karthe, Daniel, Bogardi, Janos J. and Borchardt, Dietrich, “Water Resources Management: Integrated and Adaptive Decision Making” in Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples, ed. Bogardi, Janos J., Gupta, Joyeeta, Nandalal, K.D.W., Salamé, Léna, van Nooijen, Ronald R. P., Kumar, Navneet, Tingsanchali, Tawatchai, Bhaduri, Anik and Kolechkina, Alla G. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021), 365-381.
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- Global Water and Climate Adaptation Center – Aachen, Bangkok, Chennai, Dresden
- Sustainable Transformation in Coal Regions of the Global South: Challenges from a Resource Nexus Perspective (NEXtra Core)
- Resource Nexus for Sustainability Transformations (NEXtra)
- Managing a Just Transition to Electric Mobility – A Resource Nexus Approach to End-of-Life Vehicles in the Global South
- Lusatian Resources – Sustainable Development of Coal Mining Areas through Adaptation of the Resource Nexus and Considering Social Change (LuReNex)
- Environmental Assessment of Vertical Farming from a Resource Nexus Perspective
- Vertical Farming for Urban Food Security: Social Acceptance and Policy Recommendations for Building Communities (VerFarming Social)
- NASCENT – Nexus Approaches to Address Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation
- Urban Water Security Assessment in Korea Under Climate Change: Case Studies of Seoul, Busan, and Jeju City from a Resource Nexus Perspective