Anita Engels

Anita Engels (* 1969 ) is a German sociologist and climate researcher . She is full professor for sociology , in particular globalization , environment and society , at the University of Hamburg , department of social sciences, as well as deputy spokeswoman for the cluster of excellence "Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction" ( CliSAP ). She is also the managing director of the Center for Globalization and Governance (CGG) and on the board of the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) (both at the University of Hamburg).

Career

Engels studied sociology at Bielefeld University , where she obtained her doctorate in 1999 with a dissertation at the interface between development , environmental and scientific sociology . 1999 to 2001 followed by an eighteen-month postdoc stay at the Institute for International Studies, Stanford University . Afterwards collaboration in various DFG- funded projects at the Institute for World Society at Bielefeld University. From 2005 to 2009 she was junior professor for sociology at the University of Hamburg, from 2009 W3 professor. In autumn 2010 she was offered a W3 professorship for the Sociology of Science at Bielefeld University, which she declined. In the summer semester 2011 she was a visiting scholar at the School of Education, Stanford University for one semester, and in the 2016 summer semester she was a visiting scholar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales for one semester . Engels' research focuses on sociological climate research , social scientific theories of globalization and world society , economic sociology , the emergence of "green" markets , emissions trading and science research . She is currently researching u. a. the development of the CO ₂ emissions trading system in the People's Republic of China .

Publications (selection)

• Engels, Anita 2016: "Anthropogenic climate change: how to understand the weak links between scientific evidence, public perception, and low-carbon practices." Energy and Emission Control Technologies 2016: 4 17–26.
• Engels, Anita, Otto Hüther, Mike Schäfer, Hermann Held 2013: "Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation", Global Environmental Change, Vol. 23, Issue 5, 1018-1027. doi : 10.1016 / j.gloenvcha.2013.05.008
• Engels, Anita, Beaufaÿs, Sandra, Kegen, Nadine V., Zuber, Stephanie 2015: Best selection and inequality. A sociological study on scientists in the Excellence Initiative. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.
• Beaufaÿs, Sandra, Engels, Anita, Kahlert, Heike (Eds.) 2012: Simply great? New gender perspectives on careers in science, Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.
• Engels, Anita, Knoll, Lisa (Ed.) 2012: Economic Rationality. Sociological Perspectives, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Weingart, Peter, Engels, Anita, Pansegrau, Petra 2007: From hypothesis to catastrophe. The anthropogenic climate change in the discourse between science, politics and the mass media, Opladen, Barbara Budrich (2nd edition with a new foreword; 1st edition published in 2002 by Leske + Budrich).
• Engels, Anita 2003: The divided environment. Inequality, Conflict and Ecological Self-Endangerment in World Society, Weilerswist, Velbrück Wissenschaft.
• Breit, Heiko, Engels, Anita, Moss, Timothy, Troja, Markus (eds.) 2003: How Institutions Change. Perspectives on Social Learning in Global and Local Environmental Contexts, Opladen, Leske + Budrich.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Engel's page on the CliSAP
2. ↑ Members: Center for Globalization and Governance, University of Hamburg
3. ^ Directorate of the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability
4. ↑ Academic career of Anita Engels on the website of the University of Hamburg
5. ^ Authority for Science, Research and Equality: Anita Engels - Professor of Sociology, Climate Researcher. Retrieved December 1, 2016 . 

Web links

Homepage at the University of Hamburg