Engelbert Schramm (biologist)

Engelbert Schramm (2014)

Engelbert Schramm (* 1954 in Fulda ) is a German biologist and environmental scientist . He is co-founder of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt am Main and was a member of the institute's management between 2014 and 2018.

Life

Schramm studied biology , chemistry and education at the University of Frankfurt . During his studies, he was at various levels ( student council representative biology, student parliament , university Convention) university politically active and was editor and publisher of the student newspaper discus . After the state examination, he worked as a freelance science journalist. From 1984 he worked with Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich ( University of Essen ), then with Gernot Böhme ( TU Darmstadt ) and in the research group Social Ecology , from which the Institute for Social-Ecological Research emerged in 1989. In 1995 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the history of ideas of the ecological cycle at the TU Darmstadt. His main research areas at ISOE are sustainability-oriented resource management, accompanying research and regional sustainability. Until March 2014 he headed the ISOE research focus “Water Infrastructure and Risk Analysis ”. Schramm has published numerous essays and books on environmental research and environmental history (especially the history of drinking water ) and is active as an editor. He has written numerous works together with Thomas Kluge .

Books / monographs

• (Editor together with Thomas Kluge): Water 2050. More sustainability through system solutions. oekom Verlag: Munich 2016
• (Editor together with Johannes Pinnekamp, ​​Laurence Palmowski, Klaus Kümmerer): Wastewater from health care facilities - characterization, technologies, communication and concepts. Final report SAUBER +. Water Protection - Water - Wastewater 238 (2015).
• (Editors together with Matthias Bergmann, Thomas Jahn , Tobias Knobloch, Wolfgang Krohn , Christian Pohl): Methods of transdisciplinary research: an overview with application examples , Frankfurt, M., New York: Campus-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-593- 39197-7 (also in English, 2012)
• (Editor together with Matthias Bergmann): Transdisciplinary research. Understand and evaluate integrative research processes. Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38846-5
• Genesis and "Disappearance" of Cybernetics  : A Literature Review (Ed .: Institute for Social-Ecological Research) ISOE Discussion Papers No. 23, 2005
• (Editor together with Thomas Kluge): Activation through proximity: regionalization of sustainable business. Munich: Ökom Verlag, ISBN 978-3-936581-03-4
• (Editor together with Christoph Görg , Christine Hertler, Michael Weingarten ): Approaches to biodiversity. Marburg an der Lahn: Metropolis, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89518-269-3
• (together with Thomas Kluge and Aicha Vack): Wasserwende: how the water crisis in Germany can be overcome , Munich, Zurich: Piper 1995, ISBN 3-492-12059-8
• (Editor together with Johann-Peter Regelmann): Science of the turning point - system theory as an alternative . Frankfurt a. M., RG Fischer, 1988, ISBN 3-88323-764-7
• (together with Thomas Kluge): Water distress: Environmental and social history of drinking water . Aachen, Alano-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-924007-19-5 (second edition Cologne 1988)
• (Editor together with Gernot-Böhme): Social natural science: ways to an extension of the ecology . Frankfurt a. M., fischer alternative, 1985
• Plant protection in the organic garden . Frankfurt a. M., fischer alternative, 1985
• Ecology reading book. Selected texts on the development of ecological thinking . Frankfurt a. M., fischer alternative, 1984

Articles (selection)

• Thomas Jahn, Diana Hummel , Engelbert Schramm: Sustainable Science in the Anthropocene. In: GAIA 24 (2), 92–95 (2015)
• Thomas Kluge, Engelbert Schramm: History as a natural spectacle , In: Freibeuter No. 40 (1989)
• Engelbert Schramm, Thomas Kluge: Purity Laws. The water quality in the hydrotechnical cycle , In: Kursbuch 92, Elements I: Water (May 1988)
• Thomas Kluge, Engelbert Schramm: Supply - Disposal: Water Policy in the Crisis , In: Course Book 92, Elements I: Water (May 1988)
• Thomas Kluge, Engelbert Schramm, Vom Himmel hoch. A history of the TA Luft , Kursbuch 96, 91-109, 1989
• Martin Zimmermann, Engelbert Schramm, Björn Ebert (2020): Urban water management in the age of digitization . In: TATuP - Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice 29 (1), 37–43, 2020

Web links

• Literature by and about Engelbert Schramm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schramm's homepage at ISOE
• Extensive bibliography of Schramm's writings
• Article "Historical environmental research and history of the 19th and 20th centuries, online version from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (PDF; 5.1 MB)