Bernd Siebenhüner

Bernd Siebenhüner (born July 22, 1969 in Delmenhorst ) is a German economist and political scientist and has been a professor at the Chair of Ecological Economics at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg since 2007 . His research focuses on collective learning processes , ecological economics, environmental education , ecological ethics , German and international environmental policy and conceptual issues of sustainability .

Life

Siebenhüner received a diploma in economics in 1994 and a year later in political science at the Free University of Berlin and did his doctorate at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg under Hans-Ulrich Zabel at the economics faculty on the subject of "Action-Theoretical Approaches in Economics in Sustainability - Context". After a junior professorship at the University of Oldenburg and a year at the Radboud University Nijmegen , he was appointed to Oldenburg in 2007.

Since 2004 he has been chairman of the Association for Ecological Economics Research (VÖW) and in 2010 was chairman of the conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics on the topic of “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis”.

Homo sustinens

The image of man as homo sustinens was developed by Bernd Siebenhüner on the basis of the principle of sustainability.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Siebenhüner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal page at the University of Oldenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae (PDF file; 213 kB) on the University of Oldenburg's website, accessed on June 18, 2011
2. ↑ Personal page at the University of Oldenburg, accessed on June 18, 2011
3. ^ VÖW Board of Directors , accessed on June 18, 2011
4. ↑ conference website ISEE Conference ( Memento of 26 July 2011 at the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Bernd Siebenhüner: Homo sustinens - Towards a new conception of humans for the science of sustainability . In: Ecological Economics . tape 32 , no. 1 , January 2000, p. 15-25 , doi : 10.1016 / S0921-8009 (99) 00111-1 ( elsevier.com [accessed May 11, 2020]).