Prof. Dr. Jochen Hack

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences - Chair of Climate-Resilient Urban Water Management

Professor for Climate-Resilient Urban Water Management

My Profile

About

Jochen Hack is Professor for Climate-Resilient Urban Water Management at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Formerly, he was Professor for Digital Environmental Palling at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, and Professor for Ecological Engineering at University of Technology Darmstadt. He is an expert in planning, designing, and modelling of Nature-based Solutions, Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services. Jochen Hack holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering and a Diploma in Civil Engineering. His current research is in the field of socio-ecology and sustainable transition sciences.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

- Green and blue infrastructure - Nature-based Solutions - Ecosystem Services - Urban Hydrology and Ecology - Integrated Water Resources Management - Latin America - Inter- and transdisciplinary research

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Working Group on Nature Based Solutions
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Urban Drainage
Committee on Ecohydraulics
Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Water Resources Management
Committee on Education and Professional Development
Working Group on Drones in Hydraulics
Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Working Group on Nature Based Solutions	Member	2021-12-07	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Integrated Development of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for Tropical Urban Watershed Restoration	2023
A combined legal-hydrological evaluation method for Green Infrastructure in urban Costa Rica	2022
Advances in implementing and promoting Nature-based Solutions in urban areas – A real-world lab experience from Costa Rica	2022
Nature-based Solutions and Ecohydraulics	2022
A Methodology to Quantify the Potential of Urban Rivers to Provide Ecosystem Services Based on Remote Sensing and Field Indicators – the Pochote River, Nicaragua	2019

My Videos

Title	Year
Jochen Hack - Nature-based Solutions in the urban realm - Striving for multi-functionality and co-design	2021

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date