February

Electric mobility - still a privilege? Electric mobility is not suitable for mass use yet. This can be partially attributed to the lack of public charging stations. The number of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations that are located in public parking lots within cities, is indeed modest, as a recent survey conducted among the ten largest cities in Switzerland by the Swiss Daily Newspaper Tages​​-Anzeiger indicates.

A new publication by ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer and Prof. Dr. Tobias Böhmelt from University of Essex on conflict and cooperation over transboundary freshwater resources was published in Nature Sustainability. This study documents the progress in understanding the drivers of water-​related cooperation and conflict and indicates that, thus far, the prevailing response is cooperation, albeit non-​violent conflict is quite frequent, too.