Reusswig CV
Keynote Presentations from the 2nd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 1 - 13 September 2007
Speaker: Fritz Reusswig
Fritz.Reusswig -at- pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Title of the talk: Biodiversity conflicts: Perspectives from the social sciences (pdf: 2MB)
Biosketch
Dr. Fritz Reusswig is sociologist and deputy department head of the Global Change and Social Systems Department 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 attracted his attention.
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.
Fritz is currently teaching sociology at Potsdam
University, at the Brandenburgische
Technische University (BTU), see in Cottbus and at the Hochschule
für Gestaltung (get
slides) in Offenbach.
