Kristian Krieger

Kristian Krieger was born in Bremen, Germany. He studied Politics, Economics and Law at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and was awarded a first class Diploma degree (combined BA and MA). Following his first degree in Germany, he graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc (Econ) in Politics of the World Economy. 
Kristian’s research interests can broadly be summarised as:

• cross-country comparisons of governance regimes for environmental risks, in particular climate change related risks,
• the emergence of new forms of non-state governance;
• cross-country variations in the risk and nature of risk-based governance

In line with these interests, he co-organised and chaired the panel “Governing Different ‘Risk Societies’: Comparing Risk Regulation Regimes across Countries” at the 2nd Graduate Conference, European Consortium for Political research, 25-27 August 2008, Barcelona.
In June 2009, he co-organised the international workshop King's Risk Research Symposium 'Varieties of Risk Research, which attracted 60 scholars from eight different countries and included high-profile keynote speeches from leading academics and practitioners of risk management. In February 2010, he organised a workshop on “New partnerships on the horizon? Governing uncertainty, accountability and public participation” at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), jointly hosted by the NIHR King’s Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre, the Public Policy Research Group at ULB, the Hazard & Risk Group from KCL, and the journal of ‘Global Policy’ from the London School of Economics.

In the academic year 2008-2009, he was also responsible for the interdisciplinary Risk Research Seminar of the Hazard & Risk Group of the Department of Geography.
 
During his field work in Germany in spring 2008, he joined the
Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin, for three months as a visiting researcher.

Before taking up his Ph.D. at the King’s Centre for Risk Management/Department of Geography at King’s College London, he worked for almost two years as a research analyst for a London-based financial services consultancy. Other professional experience includes the European Parliament, Chatham House/RIIA, World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED), as well as the German development co-operation agency GTZ.

Kristian is a member of the Political Studies Association (PSA) and recently and has recently joined the Earth System Governance Network as a research fellow. 
 
 

Converging responses to flooding? A comparative analysis of the evolution of flood risk regimes in Britain and Germany in the 1990s and 2000s

Supervisors:
Dr Henry Rothsteinand
Professor David Demeritt
 
My thesis investigates how and why the emerging flood management regimes in Germany and Britain differ even though both countries formally subscribe to the new paradigm of ‘Making Space for Water’ after major floods in the 1990s and 2000s. Through the analysis of policy documents and more than 60 semi-structured expert interviews, I have found that in Britain, the adoption of the new paradigm led to a shift of power from the predominantly local flood management actors to central government. In contrast, Germany’s reform efforts took the shape of a patchwork of initiatives that were loosely co-ordinated on sub-national level. This is best understood by considering the particular institutional context in which flood managers make policy choices. Britain has seen the emergence of a unique, ‘hyper-modern’ regulatory state conducive the centralisation and accountability to the centre, whilst Germany’s semi-sovereign polity ensures the continuing influence of multiple centres of power and policy initiative.
 
 

KRIEGER K & Rogers M B (forthcoming)“Green Partnerships in Britain’s Energy Sector – Classifying NGOs and Exploring Their Varying Potential to Co-operate with Energy Companies” Environmental Politics
 
KRIEGER K & Rogers M B. (forthcoming)“Participation Beyond the State: Why some NGOs Partner with the Energy Industry and Others Do Not”. In Arnold, M, Siebenhuehner, B, Jacob, K (eds): Long-Term Policies – Governing Social-Ecological Change; MIT Press
 
KRIEGER K (2010) “Climate Change Action Network”; "World-Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund”. In Anheier, H and Toepler, S (eds): International Encyclopaedia of Civil Society;
 
Rogers B, Amlôt F, Rubin G J, Wessely S, and KRIEGER, Kristian. (2007) 'Mediating the social and psychological impacts of terrorist attacks: The role of risk perception and risk communication', International Review of Psychiatry, 19:3, 279 - 288

2008 “Maps, Markets, and the Management of Risk: The Production of Flood Risk Maps in England and Wales” (jointly with James Porter),
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 27-29 August, London
 
2008 “Converging responses to flooding? A comparative analysis of the evolution of flood risk regimes in Britain and Germany in the 1990s and 2000s” 2nd Graduate Conference, European Consortium for Political research, 25-27 August , Barcelona
 
2008 “NGO-Business-Partnerships – Exploring and comparing the potential of British non-governmental organisations to partner with businesses of the energy sector” (jointly with Brooke Rogers) 58th Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 1-3 April 2008, Swansea
 
2009 “Rational adaptation to increasing barriers to risk-based flood management European Consortium for Political 10-12 September, Potsdam
 
2009 “Rational adaptation to increasing flood risk? Institutional drivers and barriers to risk-based flood management in Germany and Britain”,
2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 2-4 December & 2010 ECPR Joint Sessions, 22-27 March, Munster
 

Researcher in the industry-funded project “The Future of Nuclear Power in Europe”, February 2005-September 2006 (jointly with Brooke Rogers, Frederic Bouder and Ragnar Lofstedt)

Researcher in the industry-funded project “Green Partnerships in Britain’s Energy Sector – Why Some NGOs partner with Business and others do not”, September 2006-September 2007 (jointly with Brooke Rogers)

ESRC studentship linked to ESRC funded research grant: '
Europeanizing Flood Forecasting and the Geographies of Risk and Trust in the EU'