Environment, climate, energy: Societies and their ecological challenges

Responsible: Benjamin Beuerle, Isabelle Desportes, Judith Nora Hardt

Co-organization: Bastien Fond, Frédéric Graber

The research focus (Pol 5) deals with socio-ecological transformation processes from a transdisciplinary perspective. The project focuses on the actors, objects and dynamics of environmental policy and climate governance; the analysis, discussion and elaboration of future scenarios; and on the construction of environmental and climate issues as socio-political problems.

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The “Environment, Climate, Energy” research unit gathers researchers whose work focuses on ecological issues. It offers an intellectual cluster where various perspectives from the humanities and social sciences are brought together, as well as interacting with natural sciences. In so doing, it both aims at developing new interdisciplinary approaches to environmental questions, and at providing innovative insights to the actors involved in green initiatives.

The topics and subjects considered range from climate policy and environmental justice to socio-ecological transformations and sociotechnical matters related to energy transition and climate change mitigation. We thus address concerns like the geopolitical consequences of global warming and competition for natural resources, which imbalance political relations and impact war and peace, as well as philosophical and literary perspectives on the environment, and debates surrounding the definition of our time as a new geological era called the “Anthropocene” for instance.

The research unit does not approach environmental and climate challenges as technical issues having only to do with natural sciences. On the contrary, we promote a holistic approach where all aspects of our societies are analysed in order to provide a better understanding of the consequences of human activities on the environment. In so doing, our aim is to examine past and present relations to nature, so as to comprehend how various communities and cultures have been dealing with all kinds of environmental problems over time. Amongst other issues, we study: climate policy actors, knowledge production and decision-making; the scenarization of energy futures; the dynamics of ecological movements; the entanglement of power and security policies with environmental policy; and the history of environmental thought.

 

 

[Translate to English:] Exkursion Stadtnaturausflug

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Exkursion mit Séverine Marguin/ Jamie-Scott Baxter (TU Berlin) : ”Refiguring Botanical Gardens in the Anthropocene” Ort: Botanischer Garten (Berlin)

[Translate to English:] Sovereignty and Resilience: The Politics of Climate Change in the South Pacific

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22. Januar 2025 - Forschungsseminar

Eric Wittersheim (CMB / CNRS)

[Translate to English:] Social-ecological transformation conflicts and the importance of economic growth

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16. Dezember 2024 - Sommerschule

Matthias Schmelzer (Europa universität Flensburg)

[Translate to English:] Nuclear heritage: Uranbergbau in Australien, Afrika und Ostdeutschland

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04. Dezember 2024 - Vortrag

Astrid Kirchhof (CMB / Leopold-Franzens-Universität)

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[Translate to English:] Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East

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28. November 2024 - Buchvorstellung

Samuel Dolbee
In Kooperation mit III. Schwerpunkte

[Translate to English:] Sensibiliser par les ateliers. Regard sur différents dispositifs d'éducation au climat

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15. November 2024

Vortrag und Diskussion mit Coline Ruwet (Brüssel / Louvain)

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[Translate to English:] Konsum und Habitus - zur Genealogie eines Konsumtionsmodells bürgerlicher Freiheit im 19. Jahrhundert

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26. Juni 2024 - Vortrag

Dirk Schuck (CMB / Uni. Erfurt)

[Translate to English:] Towards a Commons of Urban Microclimates: Thermal Communities in Berlin

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19. Juni 2024 - Vortrag

Noa Levin (CMB / Università della Svizzera italiana)

[Translate to English:] Bevölkerung, Natur, Kapital: Zu den Theorien von T. R. Malthus, K. Marx und ihren Epigonen

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05. Juni 2024 - Vortrag

Marius Birckhardt (CMB / Science Po)

In Kooperation mit IV. Schwerpunkt

[Translate to English:] Building Support for Climate Policy

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08. Mai 2024 - Vortrag

Linus Mattauch (technische Universität Berlin)

[Translate to English:] Inutilité publique. Histoire d ́une culture politique française (éditions Amsterdam, 2022)

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17. April 2024 - Buchvorstellung

Frédéric Graber - (CMB / CNRS)

[Translate to English:] Multiple Crises. Covid-19 and the Entanglements of Public Health, Security and Ecology in Europe

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12. April 2024 - Abschlusskonferenz

Gabriel Bartl (CMB)
Judith Nora-Hardt (CMB)

[Translate to English:] Das Verbotstabu - Hindernis für eine Nachhaltigkeitstransformation

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07. Februar 2024 - Forschungsseminar

Philipp Lepenies (FU - Berlin)

[Translate to English:] Moving Offshore: discussing French wind power acceleration policy

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24. Januar 2024 - Vortrag

Olivier Labussière (CNRS)
Alain Nadaï (CNRS / CIRED)

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The Wars of the Colorado Potato Beetle in 20th Century Europe

13 Dezember 2023 - Conférence

Depuis la découverte des premiers foyers de doryphores près de Bordeaux en 1922 jusqu’à leur dispersion à travers l’Union soviétique à la fin de la guerre froide, le ravageur le plus célèbre du XXe siècle a suscité un grand nombre de réactions, d'enquêtes scientifiques et de mesures de lutte de la part des sociétés européennes. La guerre occupe une place importante dans l'histoire du doryphore en Europe. Elle a créé les conditions environnementales nécessaires à une circulation rapide du doryphore et a déterminé la manière dont les États et les sociétés ont lutté contre le ravageur. De la France à l'Allemagne, de la Pologne à l'Ukraine, le doryphore de la pomme de terre a mobilisé l'attention d'un large éventail d'acteurs, des gardes-frontières aux diplomates et agents des services secrets, des experts agricoles et scientifiques militaires aux agriculteurs et population civile générale. Sur la base d'un large éventail d'archives provenant de France, d'Allemagne, d'Ukraine et de Russie, Marin Coudreau et Margot Lyautey analysent l'histoire de la circulation du doryphore de la pomme de terre à travers l'Europe, d'ouest en est, dans le contexte des mobilisations de la guerre totale, de la planification de la guerre environnementale et des activités scientifiques top secrètes de la guerre froide.

[Translate to English:] Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

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11. Dezember 2023 - Buchvorstellung

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (College University of Chicago)

[Translate to English:] Ideas and Prospects for Cooperation: Towards a French-German climate change research network in social sciences and humanities

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4 - 5 Dezember 2023 - Perpektivworkshop II

Programme of the workshop

Organized by the Centre Marc Bloch and the Climate Change Center Berlin-Brandenburg

[Translate to English:] Ideas and Prospects for Cooperation: Towards a French-German climate change research network in social sciences and humanities

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04. Dezember 2023 - Workshop

David Fopp (CMB / Humboldt Uiniversität Berlin)
Antonin Pottier (EHESS)

Mit der Unterstützung von :

  • Benjamin Beuerle (CMB)
  • Léna Berteau (CMB)

[Translate to English:] Climate politics and activism - ways to a just zero-emission-society in Berlin, Paris and Kyiv

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24 November - Workshop

The current wars and conflicts are justifiably attracting a lot of attention, but threaten to push the climate crisis into the background. How can science and climate activism in the three metropolitan regions mutually support each other in order to move politics towards compliance with the Paris Agreement in the current very difficult political environment? The workshop explores different ideas how to think about transforming our three metropolitan-regions in a just way.

Inclusive transformation: How can inclusive just cooperations look like and how can they be organized in the future? 

Common ground: Is it possible for us to find a common ground and common principles for a set of values and action methods for the transformation needed so that there could be a European movement of researchers, activists and practitioners taking stance for a sustainable society against the status quo? 

Future collaboration: Looking back and forward - How could we work together in the future building one strong European force for change built upon the inclusive principles?

Organized by:
Dr. David Fopp

[Translate to English:] Sciences participatives - Histoires de nature - Natur der Dinge - Changing Natures

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08. November 2023 - Forschungsseminar

Aurélia Desplain (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle)
Elisabeth Heyne (Museum für Naturkunde)

[Translate to English:] Interne Werkstattsitzung

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06 November 2023

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[Translate to English:] Climate justice and the North-South divide: the impact of climate change on health in African countries

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03. Juli 2023 - Podiumsdiskussion

In Kooperation mit der französischen Botschaft
Ort : Auditorium der Botschaft

[Translate to English:] Climate Change & Security: From Multiple Practice(s) to Reconceptualising Paradigm(s)

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29. Juni 2023 - Workshop

Organisiert von :
- Judith Nora-Hardt (CMB)
- Dhanasree Jayaram (Manipal Academy of higher Education)

[Translate to English:] Climate Change & Security: Practices, Confrontations and Futures

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20. Juni 2023 - Podiumsdiskussion

In Kooperation mit der französischen Botschaft
Ort : Auditorium der Botschaft

[Translate to English:] Existential Threat and Democratic Time: ways to a just zero-emission-society in Berlin, Paris and Kyiv

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15.-16. Juni 2023 - Workshop

Organisiert von : David Fopp (CMB)

[Translate to English:] Changement climatique et droits de l’homme : Approche croisée de la jurisprudence nationale et internationale

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14. Juni 2023 - Vortrag

Emma Bolopion (CMB)

[Translate to English:] Geophysics as Politics: Water Development and the Science of Landscapes in the United States, 1945-1975

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31. Mai 2023 - Vortrag

Etienne Benson (Max Planck- Gesellschaft)

[Translate to English:] Locating Gender in Climate Diplomacy of India and the European Union: Evolution, Priorities and Challenges

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17. Mai 2023 - Forschungsseminar

Dhanasree Jayaram (CMB / Freie Universität Berlin)

[Translate to English:] Resilienz im interdisziplinären Dialog

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12. Mai 2023 - Workshop

Organisation : Gabriel Bartl, Anja Röcke, Sabine Riese, Elsa Tulmets

[Translate to English:] The Ecological Activism of the Younger Generation

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03. Mai 2023 - Podiumsdiskussion

In Kooperation mit der französischen Botschaft

[Translate to English:] La Civilisation du Charbon

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24. April 2023 - Buchpräsentation

Charles-François Mathis
In Kooperation mit :

  • dem Lehstuhl für Technigeschichte der TU (Heike Weber)
  • dem Berlin-Brandenburger Colloquium für Umweltgeschichte

[Translate to English:] Climate action plan's inventories: what do cities measure and how does it shape their priorities?

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24. April 2023 - Forschungskolloquium

Charlotte Halpern (Sciences Po)

[Translate to English:] Perspectives franco-allemandes sur l’écoféminisme

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19. April 2023 - Forschungsseminar

Catherine Larrère (Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Susanne Lettow (Freie Universität Berlin)
Organisation : Cornelia Möser (CMB / CNRS)
In Kooperation mit IV. Schwerpunkt

[Translate to English:] Accelerating the Transition to Renewables in the Context of Multiple Crises

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30. März 2023 - Verbundene Veranstalutng

Podiumsdiskussion

[Translate to English:] The Climatization of International Peace and Security – A Missed Opportunity?

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08. Februar 2023 - Forschungsseminar

Anne Dienelt (Universität Hamburg)

[Translate to English:] Glyphosate—A love story. Ordinary thoughtlessness and response-ability in industrial farming

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23. Januar 2023 - Vortrag

Birgit Müller (CMB / CNRS)

[Translate to English:] Envirohealth: Toxische Welt und ökologischer Körper in der späten Sowjetunion und im postsowjetischen Raum

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11. Januar 2023 - Forschungsseminar

Marc Elie (CNRS)
Klaus Gestwa (Universität Tübingen)

[Translate to English:] Ideas and perspectives for Cooperation: Franco-German Perspectives Workshop im Rahmen des CMB-CCC Projekts 2022

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29.-30. November 2022 - Workshop

[Translate to English:] Sensors versus Senses. Control and the Perception of Reality in Climate-Smart Farming

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24. November 2022 - Verbundene Veranstaltung

Berlin-Brandenburger Kolloquiums für Umweltgeschichte

[Translate to English:] 24. November 2022 - Verbundene Veranstaltung Berlin-Brandenburger Kolloquiums für Umweltgeschichte

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22. November 2022 - Podiumsdiskussion

In Kooperation mit dem Climate Change Center, Berlin Brandenburg (CCC)

[Translate to English:] Podiumsdiskussion In Kooperation mit dem Climate Change Center, Berlin Brandenburg (CCC)

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11.-12. November 2022 - Workshop

Gemeinsamer Workshop mit dem Forum Nachhaltigkeit am Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie der Universität Würzburg
Ort : Würzburg

[Translate to English:] Ausstellungsbesuch "Earth Indices. Die Verarbeiterung das Anthropozäns"

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14. Oktober 2022 - Forschungsseminar

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

[Translate to English:] JungesForum 2022: Das Imaginäre in Krisenzeiten

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12. Oktober 2022 - Verbundene Veranstaltung

[Translate to English:] Eine neue Welt - Widerstand (Filmpremiere)

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10. Oktober 2022 - Verbundete Veranstaltung

[Translate to English:] Multi-level governance and climate action : Unlocking the potential of local initiatives

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10. Oktober 2022 - Workshop 

Ulrike Zeigermann (CMB / Universität Würzburg)
Gilles Lepesant (CMB / CNRS, Géographie-cités, Paris)

[Translate to English:] Podcast on Climate Justice with Judith Hardt, Dhanasree Jayaram and Cecilia Oliveria

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