Affiliation
Global Climate Forum, Germany
Title
Professor,Chairman of the Global Climate Forum
Education
1.1992, Habilitation, ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 2.1979, Ph.D., Economics, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany 3.1972, Diploma (M.A.), Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Work Experience
1.Since 2000 Professor, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany 2.Since 2001 Chair and Co-Founder – Global Climate Forum (GCF) 3.Since 2006 Co-Chair – IRG-Project (Integrated Risk Governance Project), one of the global projects of Future Earth, the international platform for sustainability research 4.Since 2009 Visiting Professor – Beijing Normal University, School of Resources and the Environment, PR China 5.Since 2015 Adjunct Professor – Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ, USA
Achievement
1.2009 Gerald L. Young Book Award in Human Ecology, 2009, for the book Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability, MIT Press (with E.A. Rosa, A. Diekmann, and T. Dietz) 2.2003 Outstanding Publication Award 2000 – 2002, Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, for the book Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action, Earthscan (with O. Renn, E.A. Rosa, and T. Webler)
Resources Type
Self-built
