Dr. Elisa Kochskämper is an external postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Lüneburg in 2020 and has been working as a research associate (post-doc) at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space since the end of 2019. Since April 2023, she has also been working as a research associate for the EU Horizon Project "Decarb City Pipes 2050" at the Institute of Municipal Sciences at the University of Potsdam. From 2013, she worked as a research assistant at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in the research group Governance, Participation and Sustainability. In 2011/ 2012 she worked as a scholarship holder of the German Corporation for International Cooperation in the National Water Agency at the Mexican Ministry of Environment in Mexico City. She graduated in political science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.

Her research focuses on urban climate change adaptation and sustainable and resilient transformation pathways. She has published in internationally recognized journals and was first editor of the monograph "Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation" (Routledge, 2018).

Monograph

Kochskämper, E., Jager, N. W., Challies, E., & Newig, J. (Eds.) (2018). Participation for Effective Environmental Governance? Evidence from Implementing the European Water Framework Directive. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resources Management). Routledge.

Kochskämper, E. (2012). Hacia un posicionamiento de gobernanza del agua en México.

Journal Issue / Special Issue

Challies, E., Newig, J., Kochskämper, E., Thaler, T., & Levin-Keitel, M. (Eds.) (2016). Contributions of Participatory and Collaborative Governance to Sustainable Flood Risk Management.

Journal Article

Newig, J., Jager, N. W., Challies, E., & Kochskämper, E. (2023). Does Stakeholder Participation Improve Environmental Governance? Evidence from a Meta-analysis of 305 Case Studies. Global Environmental Change, 82, [102705]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102705

Jager, N. W., Newig, J., Challies, E., Kochskämper, E., & von Wehrden, H. (2022). Case Study Meta-analysis in the Social Sciences: Insights on Data Quality and Reliability from a Large-N Case Survey. Research Synthesis Methods, 13(1), 12-27. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1514

Kochskämper, E., Koontz, T. M., & Newig, J. (2021). Systematic Learning in Water Governance: Insights from Five Local Adaptive Management Projects for Water Quality Innovation. Ecology and Society, 26(1), [22]. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12080-260122

Witting, A., Brandenstein, F., & Kochskämper, E. (2021). Evaluating Learning Spaces in Flood Risk Management in Germany: Lessons for Governance Research. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 14(2), [e12682]. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12682

Gollata, J., Kochskämper, E., Jager, N. W., & Newig, J. (2021). Participation in Multi-Level Policy Implementation: Exploring the Influence of Governance Culture. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(14), 2593-2617. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.1876002

Jager, N. W., Newig, J., Challies, E., & Kochskämper, E. (2020). Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 30(3), 383-399. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muz034

Rimmert, M., Baudoin, L., Cotta, B., Kochskämper, E., & Newig, J. (2020). Participation in River Basin Planning Under the Water Framework Directive – Has it Benefitted Good Water Status? Water Alternatives, 13(3), 484-512. http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol13/v13issue3/589-a13-3-7/file

Newig, J., Jager, N. W., Kochskämper, E., & Challies, E. (2019). Learning in participatory environmental governance – its antecedents and effects: Findings from a case survey meta-analysis . Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 21(3), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623663

Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W., Kochskämper, E., & Adzersen, A. (2018). The Environmental Performance of Participatory and Collaborative Governance: A Framework of Causal Mechanisms. Policy Studies Journal, 46(2), 269 - 297. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12209

Challies, E., Newig, J., Kochskämper, E., & Jager, N. W. (2017). Governance Change and Governance Learning in Europe: Stakeholder participation in environmental policy implementation. Policy and Society , 36(2), 288 - 303. https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2017.1320854

Challies, E., Newig, J., Thaler, T., Kochskämper, E., & Levin-Keitel, M. (2016). Participatory and collaborative governance for sustainable flood risk management: An emerging research agenda. Environmental Science and Policy, 55(2), 275 - 280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.09.012

Jager, N. W., Challies, E., Kochskämper, E., Newig, J., Benson, D., Blackstock, K., Collins, K., Ernst, A., Evers, M., Feichtinger, J., Fritsch, O., Gooch, G., Grund, W., Hedelin, B., Hernández-Mora, N., Hüesker, F., Huitema, D., Irvine, K., Klinke, A., ... von Korff, Y. (2016). Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States. Water, 8(4), [156]. https://doi.org/10.3390/w8040156

Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., Newig, J., & Jager, N. W. (2016). Participation for effective environmental governance? Evidence from Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. . Journal of Environmental Management, 181, 737 - 748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.007

Newig, J., Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., & Jager, N. W. (2016). Exploring governance learning: How policymakers draw on evidence, experience and intuition in designing participatory flood risk planning. Environmental Science and Policy, 55, 353 - 360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.07.020

Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W., & Kochskämper, E. (2014). What role for public participation in implementing the EU Floods Directive? A comparison with the Water Framework Directive, early evidence from Germany and a research agenda. . Environmental Policy and Governance, 24(4), 275 - 288. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1650

Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W., & Kochskämper, E. (2014). Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung und EU Hochwasserrisikomanagement-Richtlinie. Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung, 58(6), 275 - 288.

Contribution to Anthology

Kochskämper, E., & Newig, J. (2021). Water Policy and Governance in Transition: The EU Water Framework Directive. In J. Baird, & R. Plummer (Eds.), Water Resilience: Management and Governance in Times of Change (pp. 23-40). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48110-0

Newig, J., Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., & Jager, N. W. (2018). Researching participation in environmental governance through the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. In Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation. (pp. 3 - 10). Routledge.

Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W., & Kochskämper, E. (2018). Concepts: How participation leads to effective environmental governance. In E. Kochskämper, E. Challies, N. W. Jager, & J. Newig (Eds.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation Routledge.

Jager, N. W., Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., & Newig, J. (2018). Paired case research design and mixed-methods approach. In E. Kochskämper, E. Challies, N. W. Jager, & J. Newig (Eds.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation. (pp. 28 - 36). Routledge.

Schütze, N., & Kochskämper, E. (2018). Stakeholder involvement for Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany: Three case studies from Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. In E. Kochskämper, E. Challies, N. W. Jager, & J. Newig (Eds.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation. (pp. 39 - 63). Routledge.

Kochskämper, E., & Ballester, A. (2018). Stakeholder and citizen involvement for Water Framework Directive implementation in Spain: Three case studies from Andalusia, Cantabria and Catalonia. In E. Kochskämper, E. Challies, N. W. Jager, & J. Newig (Eds.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation (pp. 64 - 89). Routledge.

Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., Jager, N. W., & Newig, J. (2018). Impact of participation on sustainable water management planning: Comparative analysis of eight cases. In E. Kochskämper, E. Challies, N. W. Jager, & J. Newig (Eds.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation (pp. 117 - 148). Routledge.

Kochskämper, E., Jager, N. W., Newig, J., & Challies, E. (2018). Participation and Effective Environmental Governance: Causal mechanisms, and beyond. In E. Kochskämper, E. Challies, N. W. Jager, & J. Newig (Eds.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation (pp. 149 -159). Routledge.

Press release

Maihold, G., Müller, S., & Kochskämper, E. (2010). Brasilien und Mexiko als "emerging donors" in Haiti. https://www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/emerging-donors-brasilien-und-mexiko/