Global Affiliates

Dr. Barbara Janusz-Pawletta is vice-rector on International Cooperation at the Kazakh-German University (DKU), a member at the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership (GWP), a member of the International Law Association Committee “Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development”, Legal Research Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and UNESCO Chairholder for water management in Central Asia. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Central Asian Journal of Water Research (CAJWR), which is an open-access, peer-reviewed e-Journal dedicated to all aspects of water management in Central Asia. Since 2004, Dr. Janusz-Pawletta has written more than 35 research publications:

• The Principle of No Significant Harm In Central      Asian Context, Int Environ Agreements, Springer Nature. Together with      Ziganshina D., 2020 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-020-09509-0

• Legal framework for the interstate cooperation on      development and transport of fossil natural resources of the Caspian Sea,      Journal of World Energy law and business, Special Issue, Volume 13, Issue      2, Pages 169–184, 2020 https://academic.oup.com/jwelb/article/13/2/169/5861495?guestAccessKey=42f13dc0-0b4d-4e80-9642-e84729f487e6

• The Aral Sea Basin. Water for Sustainable      Development in Central Asia, 1st Edition. Edited together with Stefanos      Xenarios, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Manzoor Qadir, Iskandar Abdullaev.      Routledge, 2020

• Universities’ Partnership: The Role of Academic      Institutions in Water Cooperation and Diplomacy. International Journal of      Water Resources Development (CIJW), 2019 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07900627.2019.1657002

• Chapter on Water law and policy in IWRM Toolbox      Teaching Manual, together with Thalmeinerova D., & R. Fábrega D., José      & Guan Y., & Kileshye O., Jean-Marie & Saito C., 2017

• Legal challenges to the management of      transboundary watercourses in Central Asia in the conditions of Eurasian      Economic Integration, Environmental Earth Sciences: Volume 76, Issue 12,      2017 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-017-6741-3

• Current legal challenges to institutional      governance of transboundary water resources in Central Asia and joint      management arrangement, Environmental Earth Sciences: Volume 73, Issue 2,      Page 887-896, 2015 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-014-3471-7

• Legal status of the Caspian Sea – current      challenges and possible solutions, Monograph, Springer Publisher, 2015

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Dr. Janusz-Pawletta obtained her LL.M at the Jagiellonen University in Poland in 2003. She obtained her doctorate in law at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Her teaching and research fields cover legal frameworks and institutional interstate cooperation including the water and energy nexus. Dr. Janusz-Pawletta has been dealing with global and best regional practices facilitating sustainable interstate related to production and maintenance of renewable energies by using water potential.