As Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
and Adjunct Professor of German Studies, R. Andreas Kraemer teaches European integration,
environmental and water management policy in the Spree Program of Duke University, located in the Eno River basin on the Eastern Seaboard of the
United States.
From 1995 to 2015, he established and directed Ecologic Institute near an old shipyard on the Spree in the Elbe basin; the institute
has an office also on the Zenne in the Scheldt basin. In 2008, he initiated the foundation of the
legally and financially separate, independent Ecologic Institute US sitting on
high ground near the confluence of the Potomac and the Anacostia rivers in the
watershed of the Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern Seaboard.
Ecologic Institute's notable water policy &
management program covers resources, services, law & economics, governance,
harvesting of policy solutions & trans-national learning: ecologic.eu/water
Andreas' school years were spent on the banks of the Leine river in the Northern German plains, near the Mittelland Canal linking all German river basins from East to West. He also completed training in Administration and Management in Industry here. His studies of International Trade & Environmental Technology took him to the banks of rivers Medway (England), Spree and Havel (Germany) and Seine (France), before he took up employment within sight of the Rhine.
R. Andreas Kraemer was born near the source of the Emscher river in the Rhine basin, then heavily polluted and physically modified - a symbol of the highly industrialized 'Rhenish-Westphalian District' with its coal mines and steel mills. He was baptized with water from the Ruhr, the drinking water source for the region, and during his childhood he lived in various locations in the Emscher basin.
Andreas lives with his family near the 'Duck Pond', so
called by the American Forces during their time in the area, and likes to spend
his holidays on the frozen waters on the slopes around the Isère (France), in
the white-water of the Middle Fork of the Salmon (Idaho), in the tranquil Brede
River Valley (England) around Winchelsea (the 'wind-chilled sea') and the
shores of the Seven Seas of Rye in the English Channel.
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