Homepage of Dr. Fritz Reusswig
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
P.O. Box 601203 Tel.: +49 331 288 2576 Email: fritz@pik-potsdam.de |
Current activities:
Dr. Fritz Reusswig is sociologist in Research Domain IV - "Transdicisplinary Concepts and Methods" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
He is working mainly on lifestyle and consumption issues as drivers for global environmental change, especially climate change. In addition, he is interested in the role of lifestyle and consumption changes for a system wide sustainability transition. The sometimes paradoxical emergence of a global society-including new forms of inequality, power, influence and voice-is a further point of reference for his work. From an environmental sociology point of view, Fritz looks also at the social construction of nature, and the public imagery related to nature, including the way biodiversity is perceived by societies. More recently, the possible role of cities for sustainable lifestyle and climate policy has has become a research focus.
Fritz joined PIK in 1995, coming from Frankfurt University, where he wrote a diploma thesis on Th.W. Adorno and a Ph.D. thesis on G.W.F. Hegel. His first PIK years were dedicated to the interdisciplinary endeavor of recognizing typical patterns of non-sustainable human-nature interactions (Syndrome approach, see Matthias K.B. Lüdeke's Homepage). Besides, the differential vulnerability of societies to natural (or, as in the case of climate change, 'hybrid') disasters has been a constant area of interest.
In November 2008, Fritz completed his habilitation at the Wiso Faculty at Potsdam University and has been granted the right to teach sociology at universities. His habilitation thesis "Consuming Nature. Modern Lifestyles and Their Environment" is prepared for publication.
Fritz is currently teaching sociology at Potsdam University, at the Brandenburgische Technische University (BTU) in Cottbus and at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach.
