Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya

lt;b>Judith Müller studied Geography, Communication Studies and Political Sciences at Mainz University in Germany and Umeå University in Sweden. She received the M.A. degree from Mainz University in 2014 and a Ph.D. degree in Geography from Heidelberg University, Germany, in 2021. She conducted her Ph.D. research as a member of the Junior Research Group "Environment and Health in Arid Regions: Dynamics of Urbanisation, Challenges of Water Resource Management and New Risks for Human Well-Being". Institutionally, she was affiliated with the Heidelberg Center for the Environment and the South Asia Institute, Department of Geography. Her dissertation deals with hydro-social transformations and water governance challenges in the Indian town Leh in Ladakh. Judith Müller is a spokesperson of the South Asia Working Group in the German Geographical Society, where she serves as the editor of the annual conference proceedings. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Humans and Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), Germany. Her current research interests are sustainability issues, interdisciplinarity, urban development and real-world lab methodology. Moreover, she focuses on science communication activities, such as editing a research blog.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Perspectives on Hydro-Social Relations in Urban Mountain Contexts. Chapter 3. Research Design.- Chapter 4. Socio-Environmental Context of Urban Waterscapes in Leh.- Chapter 5. Urbanisation and the Impact on Water Use in Leh.- Chapter 6. Discussion: The Uneven Waterscape of Leh.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.