Dr. Judith Nora Hardt | Forscherin
Mutterinstitut
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Centre Marc Bloch und Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik
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Position
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Fachbereich
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Politikwissenschaft
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Biographie
Academic Qualifications
Dr. phil. (PhD) International Relations
DEA (equivalent M.A.) International Relations, International Law and History of Law
B. Sc. International Forest Ecosystem Management
Professional experience and research activities
08.2019-present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Group "The State, Political Norms and Political Conflicts", Centre Marc Bloch (An-Institute Humboldt University)
12.2020-present
Non-resident Fellow, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
09.2019-08.2020
Postdoctoral Researcher and project leader “The role of climate change at the in security United Nations Security Council", Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
07.2017-present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Group “Climate Change and Security,” Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CliSAP), Hamburg Universität, Germany
05.2016-06.2018
Research Fellow, German-French network “Changing Societies: The World We Live In,” Berlin Social Science Center & Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH)
03.2016–06.2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for International Cooperation and Development Studies, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
09.2015–02.2016
Lecturer for Nature Conservation, Socioeconomics and International Relations, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany
05.2015–09.2015
Research Fellow, Geography Department, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
02.2009–09.2014
Dr. phil. (PhD) International Relations, Grade: Summa cum laude, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain. Funded by 4-year grant from the Ministry of Science and Education, Basque Government
10.2007–10.2009
Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA as equivalent M.A.) “Cooperation, Integration and Conflicts in Contemporary International Society,” University of the Basque Country, Spain
09.2002–09.2005
Bachelor of Science “International Forest Ecosystem Management,” Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany
Study and research stays abroad
03.2018-04.2018
Research stay, Collège d’Études Mondiales, FMSH, Paris, France
09.2005–09.2013
Master and Doctoral Study Program, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
10.2012–11.2012
Research stay, Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), Regional Office of the United Nations Environmental Program Europe, Geneva, Switzerland Brussels, Belgium
08.2011–11.2011
Research stay, Research Center for Environmental Politics, Free University Berlin, Germany
10.2010–12.2010
Research stay, Adelphi Research Institute, Berlin, Germany
05.2004–06.2004
Study semester, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
10.2003–01.2004
Internship and research project for the Bachelors degree, Universidad Técnica Particular Loja, Ecuador
Forschungsthema
Research Fields & Expertise
International Relations and Political Theory; Security Studies; Peace & Conflict Studies; Global Governance; Climate Politics and Climate Security
Judith Nora Hardt works as a postdoctoral researcher with the Franco-German research centre for social sciences Centre Marc Bloch. In 2014, Judith received her PhD (Dr. Phil) in International Relations from the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She worked as a lecturer for International Relations, nature conservation and socioeconomics at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Germany) and is part of the research group “Climate Change and Security” at the University of Hamburg since 2017. She has carried out several research stays abroad and is active in the Network of Scientists For Future. Her book Environment and Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice was published with Routledge in 2018.
Her research is based on a critical-normative approach and aims to develop the conceptualizations of security, conflict, human well-being and justice via the new readings of human-nature relations. The forms and roles of agency, expertise, power and normative foundations within global governance are further constitutive elements of her research. The emerging Anthropocene Studies and the question of the changing critical theories in this context are also part of her research.
With association to the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy of the University of Hamburg (IFSH), she led the project “Climate change in security perceptions, conceptions and practice at the United Nations Security Council” (2019-2020), which was funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. One of the central aims of her research is to overcome the several challenges of the climate security field and to thereby advance the development of the climate security agenda with the joined forces of the triangulation of theory and practice, developing new policy approaches and recommendations.
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, she is currently developing a project titled "Multiple Crises: Entanglements of Public Health, Ecology and Security in Europe."
Professional memberships
International Studies Association; International Political Science Association; European Consortium of Political Research; German Political Science Association; Federation of German Scientists; Advisory Board Scientists for Future
Titel der Dissertation
Environmental Security in the Anthropocene
Institution der Dissertation
University of the Basque Country
Betreuer
Dr. Karlos Pérez de Armiño
Projekte
Coordination of other projects
Coordination with David Fopp of the “Statement of the Scientists for Future on the current draft for a European climate regulation“ (https://www.scientists4future.org/statement-scientists-for-future-current-draft-for-a-european-climate-regulation/; 13.10.2020)
Coordination and production with the team of Bernhard Steinberger, Patrick Bürger and Sebastian Rau. September 2019. Youtube-Video “A call to politics” Scientist for Future
The video is based on statements from 133 German speaking scientists addressed to the governments of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and transports the S4F-Statement, which was signed in May 2019 by more than 26.000 scientist and includes the contribution from Greta Thunberg. It was released on Youtube and in several cinemas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZYh0aTSvBA
https://www.scientists4future.org/
The short version has more than 210.000 clicks on twitter: https://twitter.com/sciforfuture
Climate Change as a Challenge to Security and Multiple Crises
Judith Hardt’s research is based on a critical-normative approach and aims to develop the conceptualizations of security, conflict, human well-being and justice via the new readings of human-nature relations. The forms and roles of agency, expertise, power and normative foundations within global governance are further constitutive elements of her research. The emerging Anthropocene Studies and the question of the changing critical theories in this context are also part of her research.
A main task at the Centre Marc Bloch consists in developing and establishing future research projects in relation to the broad theme of “challenges of globalisation for Europe”.
In the context of the project „Climate change in security perceptions, conceptions and practice at the United Nations Security Council”, that Judith leads, she follows the aim to develop new policy recommendations in order to address the several challenges of the climate security field with the joined forces of the triangulation of theory and practice.
Statement by Scientists 4 Future (S4F) regarding the "Demands of Fridays for Future Germany to the German Representatives in the EU
01.Oktober 2020Judith Nora Hardt , Baumann et al.
Berlin, 02.10.2020 | Die Scientists for Future (S4F) belegen, dass die Forderungen der Fridays for Future (FFF) an die EU-Politik sachlich erforderlich und wissenschaftlich begründet sind. Nach Berechnungen des IPCC ergibt sich ein Restbudget für Emissionen der EU27 von 20 Gt CO2 ab 2021, um die Erderwärmung auf maximal 1,5 Grad zu begrenzen. Eine Reduktion der Emissionen von 80 % bis 2030 entspricht einem Pfad in diesem Budgetrahmen. Die EU müsste spätestens im Jahre 2035 CO2-neutral sein. Die Forderungen von FFF sind mit dem 1,5-Grad-Ziel konsistent. Sie sind klimawissenschaftlich begründet und liegen politisch wie ökonomisch im Bereich des Notwendigen und Machbaren.
A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus. Policy Brief 05|20
22.Juni 2020Judith Nora Hardt
Deutsch
Neuer IFSH Policy Brief: A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus
22.06.2020
Inwieweit nehmen die 15 derzeitigen Mitgliedstaaten des UN-Sicherheitsrates den Klimawandel als Bedrohung für ihre eigene und die internationale Sicherheit war? Inwiefern integrieren sie den Klimawandel-Sicherheits-Nexus, also die vielfältigen Sicherheitsbedrohungen, die vom Klimawandel ausgehen, in ihre Innen- und Außenpolitik sowie in ihre Position, die sie in den Vereinten Nationen vertreten? Im neuen IFSH Research Report stellen Dr. Judith Nora Hardt und Alina Viehoff bedeutende Forschungsergebnisse zu diesen Fragen vor. Die Analyse wurde mit Unterstützung eines großen internationalen und interdisziplinären Wissenschaftsnetzwerkes in dem Zeitraum von Dezember 2019 bis April 2020 erarbeitet und legt den Fokus auf traditionelle Sicherheitsakteure, aber auch auf andere staatliche Akteure und schließt ein breites Sicherheitsverständnis ein.
Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht von Dr. Judith Nora Hardt und Alina Viehoff ist der erste, der sich systematisch mit oben genannten Fragen auseinandersetzt. Dabei legt er einen besonderen Schwerpunkt auf die Beziehungen zwischen nationaler und internationaler Sicherheit, indem der Bericht die nationalen Politiken der 15 Mitgliedstaaten des UN-Sicherheitsrat – dem einzigen internationalen Organ mit einem Mandat zur Aufrechterhaltung des Weltfriedens und der internationalen Sicherheit – ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit rückt. Die Studie enthält die detaillierten Forschungsergebnisse, die bereits als Grundlage für den IFSH Policy Brief #5 „A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus“ dienten, der kurz zuvor erschienen ist.
Die beiden Autorinnen sehen es als essentiell an, dass der Sicherheitsrat die wechselseitigen Beziehungen von Klimawandel und Sicherheit und die unterschiedlichen Auswirkungen, die sich aus diesen Zusammenhang ergeben, anerkennt. Dabei wird die Notwendigkeit eines institutionellen Wandels des Sicherheitsrates hervorgehoben, der insbesondere durch den Einbezug von wissenschaftlicher Expertise fundiert und multilateral gestützt sein sollte. Zudem empfehlen sie, die traditionelle Sicherheitspolitik, die sich zumeist auf Sicherheit im engeren und traditionellen Sinne bezieht, um sozio-ökologische Aspekte, wie z.B. extreme Wettereignisse und existentielle Bedrohungen für Inselstaaten und zukünftige Generationen, zu erweitern.
Der Research Report entstand im Rahmen des Projektes „The role of climate change in security conceptions and perceptions of the UNSC member states“, das durch das Auswärtige Amt gefördert wurde. Das Projekt war eine Kooperation zwischen dem Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH) und der Forschungsgruppe Klimawandel und
Englisch
New IFSH Policy Brief: A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus
22.06.2020
Dr. Judith Nora Hardt
Traditional security actors and institutions facing complex socio-ecological dynamics stand on the brink of change. How do the 15 current UN Security Council member states approach the connections between climate change and security? In the new IFSH Policy Brief, Dr. Judith Nora Hardt presents the research results of the project "Climate Change and Security in the UN Security Council" [v2] (CLSEC UNSC) on this question. The results illustrate how essential it is for the Security Council to recognize the interrelations of climate and security and their multiple effects. The policy brief emphasizes the urgent need for institutional, multilateral and scientifically-informed change to ensure international peace and security.
The detailed research results will be published in the upcoming IFSH Research Report #5 "A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States' Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus"
[v1]Link zur Homepage: https://ifsh.de/forschung/klimaforschung/klimawandel-und-sicherheit-im-un-sicherheitsrat
[v2]Link zur Homepage: https://ifsh.de/en/research/climate-research/climate-change-and-security-in-the-un-security-council
Publikationen
Book
Hardt, Judith Nora (2018) Environmental Security in the Anthropocene. Assessing Theory and Practice, London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-Security-in-the-Anthropocene-Assessing-Theory-and-Practice/Hardt/p/book/9781138704893.
Book Chapters
Hardt, Judith Nora (2021) “Encounters between Security and the Earth System Sciences: Planetary Boundaries and Hothouse Earth”, in Chandler, David, Rothe, Delf and Mueller, Franziska (eds.) International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Actors, new Agencies and new approaches, Palgrave. At: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030530136
Hardt, Judith Nora (2020) “Critical evaluation of the environmental security concept implementation: the case study of the Environment and Security Initiative”, in Brzoska, Michael and Scheffran, Jürgen(eds.) Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg, Hamburg: Hamburg University Press: 265-288. Available online: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/purl/HamburgUP_Brzoska_Scheffran_Climate
Hardt, Judith Nora and Scheffran, Jürgen (2019) “Environmental peacebuilding and climate change”, in Pérez de Armiño, Karlos and Zirion, Iker (eds.) Critical visions of peacebuilding (original title: Visiones críticas de la construcción de la paz), Madrid: Technos.
Hardt, Judith Nora (2018) “Security Studies and the Discourse on the Anthropocene: Shortcomings, Challenges and Opportunities”, in Hickmann, Thomas; Partzsch, Lena; Pattberg, Philipp and Weiland, Sabine (eds.) The Anthropocene Debate and Political Sciences, London: Routledge, pp. 85-102.
Hardt, Judith Nora (2012) “Critical Deconstruction of Environmental Security and Human Security Concepts in the Anthropocene”, in Scheffran, Jürgen et al. (eds.) Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict–Challenges to Social Stability, Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. VIII, Berlin: Springer, pp. 207-221. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-28626-1_10
Journal Articles
Hagedorn, G, Loew, T., Seneviratne, S.I., Lucht, W., Beck, M.-L., Hesse, J., Knutti, R., Quaschning, V, Schleimer, J.-H., Mattauch, L., Breyer, C., Hübener, H., Kirchengast, G., Chodura, A., Clausen, J., Creutzig, F., Darbi, M., Daub, C.-H., Ekardt, F., Göpel, M., Hardt, J.N., Hertin, J., Hickler, T., Köhncke, A., Köster, S., Krohmer, J., Kromp-Kolb, H., Leinfelder, R., Mederake, L., Neuhaus, M., Rahmstorf, S., Schmidt, C., Schneider, C., Schneider, G., Seppelt, R., Spindler, U., Springmann, M.,Staab, K., Stocker, T., Steininger, K., Von Hirschhausen, E., Winter, S., Wittau, M. & Zens, J. (2019) “The concerns of the young protesters are justified. A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection”, GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Vol. 28/2: 79-87.
This publication was honoured with the GAIA Best Paper Award (2019) https://www.oekom.de/publikationen/zeitschriften/gaia/c-132
Hardt, Judith Nora (2009) “The environmental challenge and development: evolution of the theoretical concepts and the international institutional initiatives” (original title: La problemática medioambiental y el desarrollo: La evolución de los avances teóricos y de las iniciativas institucionales internacionales), in Revista Trabajos y Ensayos, 9, http://www.diprriihd.ehu.es/revistadoctorado/n9/Hardt09.pdf
Hardt, Judith Nora (2008) “Environmental Security in the Theory and Practice of International Relations” (original title: Seguridad medioambiental en la teoría y en la práctica de las Relaciones Internacionales), in Revista Trabajos y Ensayos, 7, http://www.diprriihd.ehu.es/revistadoctorado/n7/Hardt07.pdf
Other publications
Co-author of Skelton, A. et al. (2020) "10 myths about net zero targets and carbon offsetting, busted", December, https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/12/11/10-myths-net-zero-targets-carbon-offsetting-busted/
Hardt, Judith Nora and Viehoff, Alina (2020) "Sicherheit im Klimawandel. Die Rolle des UN-Sicherheitsrates", Wissenschaft & Frieden 2020-4: Umwelt, Klima, Konflikt – Krieg oder Frieden mit der Natur?, https://wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/seite.php?artikelID=2476
Hardt, Judith Nora and Viehoff, Alina (2020) "A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus", IFSH-Research Report, https://ifsh.de/en/publications/research-report/research-report-005
Hardt, Judith Nora (2020) "A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus", IFSH Policy Brief, https://ifsh.de/en/news-detail/new-ifsh-policy-brief-a-climate-for-change-in-the-unsc
Hardt, Judith Nora and Viehoff, Alina (2020) "Der UN-Sicherheitsrat im (Klima-)Wandel?", DGVN UN-Debattenblog, https://dgvn.de/meldung/der-un-sicherheitsrat-im-klima-wandel/
Hardt, Judith Nora (2020) "What crisis? Corona as a socio-ecological shock", CMB-Blog, https://cmb.hu-berlin.de/zentrum/neuigkeit/gesellschaft-im-krisenmodus-what-crisis-corona-as-a-socio-ecological-shock/
Hardt, Judith Nora and Scheffran, Jürgen (2019) "Environmental Peacebuilding and Climate Change: Peace and Conflict Studies at the Edge of Transformation". Policy Brief No. 68 (December), Toda Peace Institute. Online free access: https://toda.org/policy-briefs-and-resources/policy-briefs/environmental-peacebuilding-and-climate-change-peace-and-conflict-studies-at-the-edge-of-transformation.html
Mainberger, Christoph, Jürgen Scheffran, Judith Nora Hardt (2019) "Report of session 3 “Climate Extremes and Security”. In: Herrenhausen Conference October 9-11, 2019 Extreme Events – Building Climate Resilient Societies. DOI: 10.17871/HK-report-session-3.
Hardt, Judith Nora (2017) "Society in times of (Climate) Change. A claim to the German ethic council to take action” (original title: Gesellschaft im (Klima)Wandel. Ein Aufruf an den Deutschen Ethikrat), http://www.klimaretter.info/meinungen/standpunkte/23959-ethikrat-soll-klimawandel-thematisieren
Scientist For Future projects
Hagedorn et al. (2020) Co-Author of the Statement "Scientists for Future recommends a representative climate citizens' meeting in 2021", https://zenodo.org/record/4311486
Baumann et al. (2020) Co-Author of the ”Statement by Scientists 4 Future (S4F) regarding the "Demands of Fridays for Future Germany to the German Representatives in the EU", https://www.scientists4future.org/statement-fff-demands-on-eu/
Hardt, Judith Nora & Fopp, David (2020) Coordination of the "Statement of the Scientists for Future on the current draft for a European climate regulation“
At: https://www.scientists4future.org/statement-scientists-for-future-current-draft-for-a-european-climate-regulation/
Hardt, Judith Nora, Steinberger, Bernhard, Bürger, Patrick & Rau, Sebastien (2019) Coordination of the Youtube-Video “A call to politics” Scientist for Future
At: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZYh0aTSvBA&pp=QADQAwE%3D
Selected conference, workshop and seminar presentations (2017- 2020)
09.2020
Paper "Climate change in security perceptions, conceptions and practice at the United Nations Security Council" presented at the Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) "Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration", Panel "Geopolitical Ecologies of Violence and Resistance
08.2020
Paper "A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Mapping the member state’s approaches to the climate-security nexus", presented at the 14th ECPR General Conference; Panel "Mapping and Explaining International Organizations in Global Climate Governance: Adaptation and Mitigation"
10.2019
Co-organizer of the Session “Climate Extremes and Security”, Herrenhausen Conference, Hannover https://climate-extremes-emergent-risks.org/hkextremes2019/hkextremes2019_sessions/
10.2019
Paper “Peace and Conflict Studies at the Edge of Transformation” & “The role of climate change in security conceptions at the UNSC”, Environmental Peacebuilding Conference, Irvine, USA.
09.2019
Invitation to the workshop “Including Future into Politics”, Paper “ZukunftsRunden. Proposal from the Scientists for Future”, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
09.2019
Paper “Governing climate security and socio-ecological transformation”, KOSMOS Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin
06.2019
Paper “Planetary security: between conceptual approaches, practice and expertise”, European Workshop in International Studies, Krakow, Poland
05.2019
Invitation to the expert workshop “Climate-related security risks”, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden
03.2019
Paper “From practice to theory: a critical cartography of institutional approaches to climate security”, International Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada
01.2019
Book presentation “Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice”, GLOBUS Project, Institute of Political Science, University Tübingen, Tübingen
12.2018
Paper ““Ethics of/for the future Viability of Society: a future vision for the German Ethics Council”, DAAD Conference: Envisioning the Future for Germany and Europe, Berlin
09.2018
Paper ”Between planetary boundaries and the SDGs” & Paper “Complementing Critique with Affirmation”, European International Studies Association, Prague, Czech Republic
09.2018
Invitation to the workshop “Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific”, University of Otago’s Auckland Centre, Toda Peace Institute, New Zealand
08.2018
Paper “Critical analysis of environmental security in the Planetary Security Initiative,” European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), Hamburg, Germany
06.2018
Paper “Environmental security in the Anthropocene: between boundaries and normative pathways”, Conference: The Right Use of the Earth, Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris, France
06.2018
Joined paper with Jürgen Scheffran, Rebecca Froese, Janpeter Schilling “Environmental Security, Resilience & Sustainable Peacebuilding”, 24th International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference, Messina, Italy
04.2018
Workshop of the German-French research network, Project “Changing Societies: New Frameworks for Modern Societies”, Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
04.2018
Book presentation “Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice”
Seminar at the Collège d’Études Mondiales, FMSH, Paris
02.2018
Berlin Workshops in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems, HU Berlin, Germany
12.2017
Workshop “International Relations in an age of critique”, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany
07.2017
Co-Workshop of the Research Group “Climate Change, Migration and Conflict” and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Hamburg, Germany
07. 2017
Workshop of the German-French research network, Project “Changing Societies: Some are more Equals than Others”, Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
04.2017
Paper on Anthropocene and Security, DVWP, University of Potsdam, Germany