Dr. Benjamin Beuerle

Dr. Benjamin Beuerle

Forschende , Klimaschutzbeauftragte

Research Focus:

Umwelt Klima, Energie

E-Mail

benjamin.beuerle@cmb.hu-berlin.de

VITA

Benjamin Beuerle completed a Franco-German course of studies between Tübingen and Aix-en-Provence (Magister Artium/ Maîtrise) before doing his PhD in Modern and Contemporary History at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2017 to 2022 he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Moscow, where he was the scientific coordinator of the network project “Russia´s North Pacific”. Since March 2022 he has been a researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.

His research interests include environmental, climate and energy history and policies with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe as well as policy approaches for sustainable mobility in cities.

Benjamin Beuerle has been co-responsible for the research focus ‘Environment, Climate, Energy’ at the Centre Marc Bloch since its foundation in 2022 and is actively involved in the establishment of a Franco-German network for climate change research in the social sciences and humanities.

He is also the climate protection officer at the Centre Marc Bloch and coordinates the climate protection working group he initiated in 2022.

 

Mutterinstitut:

Centre Marc Bloch

Research

Publications

A. Books

  • Benjamin Beuerle/ Sandra Dahlke/ Anna Mazanik/ Andreas Renner (eds.), Environments, Resources, and Infrastructures between Russia and the Asia-Pacific, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press 2025, https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1589. 
  • Benjamin Beuerle/ Sandra Dahlke/ Andreas Renner (eds.), Russia’s North Pacific. Centres and Peripheries, Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing 2023, https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1114.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, Russlands Westen. Westorientierung und Reformgesetzgebung im ausgehenden Zarenreich, 1905-1917, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2016 (Forschungen zur Osteuropäischen Geschichte 82)

B. Peer-reviewed articles

  • Benjamin Beuerle, “A Dormant Giant: Renewable Energy in the Soviet Union and Russia (1970s – Present)”, in: Russian Review, Vol. 84, 2 (April 2025), 267-282, https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.70012. 
  • Benjamin Beuerle, „The Sakhalin Climate Experiment. Greenwashing or an actual chance to become a game changer for Russian climate policy?”, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-024-00606-x.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, “Urban Air Pollution and Environmental Engagement in the Russian Far East: Developments from Late-Soviet to Post-Soviet Times”, in: Benjamin Beuerle/ Sandra Dahlke/ Andreas Renner (eds.), Russia’s North Pacific. Centres and Peripheries, Heidelberg 2023, 65-88, https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1114.c16376.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, “From Continuity to Change. Soviet and Russian government attitudes on climate change”, in: Benjamin Beuerle/ Katja Doose/ Marianna Poberezhskaya (eds.), Climate Change in Russia – history, science and politics in global perspectives, topical collection in: Climatic Change 176, 36 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03488-2.

C. Other scientific articles

  • Benjamin Beuerle, “„Anthropozän oder Kapitalozän? Ein Debattenbeitrag aus der Perspektive eines Osteuropahistorikers“, in: À propos 2 (2026): Capitalisme et écologie, https://doi.org/10.57086/apropos.246. 
  • Benjamin Beuerle/ Anna Mazanik/ Andreas Renner, “Introduction“, in: Benjamin Beuerle/ Sandra Dahlke/ Anna Mazanik/ Andreas Renner (eds.), Environments, Resources, and Infrastructures between Russia and the Asia-Pacific, Heidelberg 2025, 1-16.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, “Natural Resources, Environmental Policies, and Climate Change”, in: Gilad Ben-Nun/ Katja Castryck-Naumann/ Lena Dallywater (eds.), Globalizing Eastern Europe. Politics, Culture and Economics from the 18th to the 21st Century, London, 43-70.
  • Benjamin Beuerle/ Sandra Dahlke/ Andreas Renner, „From the editors“, in: Benjamin Beuerle/ Sandra Dahlke/ Andreas Renner (eds.), Russia’s North Pacific. Centres and Peripheries, Heidelberg 2023, 1-6.
  • Beuerle, Benjamin/ Katja Doose/ Marianna Poberezhskaya, “Introduction from the editors”, in: Benjamin Beuerle/ Katja Doose/ Marianna Poberezhskaya (eds.), Climate Change in Russia – history, science and politics in global perspectives, topical collection in: Climatic Change 176, 47 (2023).
  • Benjamin Beuerle, “Climate Change in Russia’s Far East. Controversial Perspectives (mid 1990s-2010s)”, in: Marianna Poberezhskaya/ Teresa Ashe (eds.), Climate Change Discourse in Russia. Past and Present, London 2018, 80-96.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, “Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective. Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905-17)”, in: Jussi Kurunmäki/ Jeppe Nevers/ Henk te Velde (eds.), Democracy in Modern Europe. A Conceptual History, New York/ Oxford 2018, 113-134.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, „Westorientierung als Konsens. Zur Bedeutung des ‚Westens‘ in der russischen Reformpolitik zwischen erster Revolution und Erstem Weltkrieg (1905-1914/17)“, in: Riccardo Bavaj/ Martina Steber (eds.), Zivilisatorische Verortungen. Der „Westen“ an der Jahrhundertwende (1880-1930), Berlin/ Boston 2018 (= Zeitgeschichte im Gespräch, Bd. 26), 98-111.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, “A Step for the ‘Whole Civilized World’? The Debate over the Death Penalty in Russia, 1905-1917”, in: Stefan B. Kirmse (ed.), One Law for All? Western Models and Local Practices in (Post-)Imperial Contexts, Frankfurt a.M. 2012, 39–65.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, “Westernization as the Way to Modernity. Western Europe in Russian Reform Discussions of the Late Tsarist Empire, 1905-1917“, in: Comparativ, Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 22. Jg. (2012), Heft 6, 21-41.
  • Benjamin Beuerle, Zur Umsetzung der „Erklärung zu den Menschenrechtsverteidigern“ fünf Jahre nach ihrer Verabschiedung – eine Bestandsaufnahme, in: MenschenRechtsMagazin 2004, 47–52.

D. Blog and online articles