Barbara Becker, Geschäftsführerin Nord-Süd Zentrum >

 

ETH-Klimablog

Wissenschaft aus erster Hand mit Stimmen aus der Gesellschaft. >zum Blog

 

ETH Sustainability Report 2011-2012

>here (pdf in Englisch)

 

seed sustainability

>Mehr Infos

Dr. Christine Bratrich

ETH Zürich Dr. Christine Bratrich ETH Sustainability SOI C 5 Sonneggstrasse 28 8092 Zuerich Phone: +41 44 632 02 51 E-Mail:

Dr. Christine Bratrich accepted the position as director of ETH Sustainability in October 2008. She reports directly to the ETH president. Interdisciplinary research and applied projects on the topic of sustainability as well as interactions with interest groups in business, politics, and NGOs have characterized her career:

As Head of the Danube/Freshwater Programme at WWF International from 2004-2008 Christine was responsible for coordinating more than 20 conservation and restoration projects in Central and Eastern Europe and managing a team of staff members based in Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine. She was also in charge of WWF's successful lobby work on integrated river basin management with the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), with national governments in the Danube river basin, as well as vis-à-vis EU institutions. Her team led activities for sustainable shipping, climate and flood protection, restoration of wetlands and sustainable agriculture.

In her Ph.D. thesis at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) from 2000-2004, she worked on key elements for successful river restoration projects in Europe and the USA. This research required a strong interplay between the natural and social sciences.

From 1997-2001, Christine was part of the project management of the Eawag project on «greenhydro». Together with an transdisciplinary research group, she took on the exciting task of developing green criteria for hydropower use. In close cooperation with hydropower operators, public authorities, and environmental alliances, this project lead to the development of the Swiss eco-labelling system for "green electricity" naturemade star.

As the only natural scientist at the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering in the University of Stuttgart, Christine worked in a group of engineers who developed simulation models for ecologically sound instream flow regimes from 1994-1997.