Jürgen P. Kropp

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Jürgen Peter Kropp (born July 27, 1959 in Freren ; Lower Saxony ) is a German climate researcher and head of the “Climate Change & Sustainability” research group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Life

From 1976 to 1988 Kropp initially worked as a police officer and administrative clerk in Oldenburg . After a part-time high school diploma at the evening grammar school in Oldenburg (1986), he studied chemistry and physics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg from 1986 to 1992 . After working as a research assistant at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), he completed his doctorate in the subject of theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam in 1999 . From 1998 to 2001 he headed a research group at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea at the University of Oldenburg . From 2002 to 2004 he worked at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and for the German Government's Scientific Advisory Board on Global Change . After returning to PIK (2004), he set up the Climate Change and Development Research Group. From 2005 to 2010 it was a visiting lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin and lectured as a visiting professor at the Mahidol University in Bangkok (2008–2009) and in 2010 he was offered a professorship at Griffith University / Brisbane, Australia, which he did not accept . Since 2010 he has been Professor of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Potsdam at the Institute for Environmental Sciences and Geography. Based on the knowledge that target group and problem-oriented communication as well as helping people to help themselves are central basic elements for successful social transformations, he is one of the co-initiators of a newly founded university in Berlin, which combines the central topics of sustainability, digitization and cultural transformations. At the Berlin School for Sustainable Futures / University of Applied Sciences , which he is currently establishing, he is also the founding dean for the field of environmental management and sustainability. Since 2018 he has also been a member of the Board of Governors of the International Center for Integrated Development in Mountain Regions ( ICIMOD ) in Kathmandu / Nepal , whose research focus is climate change and the consequences in mountain regions, nominated by the BMZ .

Kropp lives in Berlin .

Work and research focus

From 2009 to 2010, Kropp was responsible for a number of vulnerability studies on climate change, e.g. B. in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony-Anhalt , which formed a basis for adaptation strategies in these federal states. He advised various political institutions on climate issues. For example, he wrote a position paper on adaptation for the Council of Europe / Regional Chamber. At the Indian Forum of the Parlamentarians , he and Nitin Desai (former UN Secretary-General) discussed the Indian options in the area of ​​adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development amid worsening climate change. In autumn 2010 he was in Islamabad at the invitation of the Pakistani government and delivered the final statement for the first UN Conference on Climate Change and Development in the presence of President Asif Ali Zardari and Environment Minister Afridi.

Kropp's work focuses on environmental system and climate impact analysis. For this purpose, modern research methods such as neural networks , qualitative differential equations, viability analysis and fractal approaches are used and new system-oriented analysis concepts are developed. He has a strong focus on developing countries, with the focus on questions of socio-eco-technological transition paths, economic development, social integration, adaptation to the inevitable consequences of climate change and the harmonization of climate protection. In the debate about the transformability of societies, he criticizes the increasing focus of development cooperation on climate adaptation, whereby the actual cause of climate change, the development of greenhouse gases, is often ignored. He also emphasizes the importance of target group-specific communication in the climate debate and started a project on climate communication together with the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" . For this he was awarded the German Environment and Media Prize ( Greentec Awards ) in 2012. The "Climate Media Factory UG", which he co-founded, arose from this project and is active in the fields of scientific media production, "Climate Services", serious gaming and environmental education.

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Books

  • with HJ Schellnhuber (Ed.): In Extremis: Disruptive Events and Correlations in Hydrology and Climate. Springer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-14862-0 .
  • with J. Scheffran (Ed.): Advanced Methods for Decision Making and Risk Management in Sustainability Science. Nova Science Publishers, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-60021-427-1 .
  • with A. Bunde and HJ Schellnhuber (eds.): The Science of Disasters: Climate Disruptions, Heart Attacks, and Market Crashes. Springer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-540-41324-3 .

Policy papers & popular science articles

  • with L. Krummenauer: Limits of habitability in hot regions using the example of the Middle East In: Warning signal climate: Extreme events. Chapter 7.10, GEO Das Reportage Magazin, 2018
  • Changes need support In: Forum Sustainable Management, issue 1/2016, pp. 118ff
  • Refugee flows of the future. In: Bundeswehr Aktuell. 46 (38), 2010, p. 6.
  • with M. Scholze: Climate Change Information for Effective Adaptation: A practitioner's Manual. German Society for Technical Cooperation GTZ (German Technical Cooperation), Eschborn, KlarmannDruck GmbH, Kelkheim 2009. [in EN, ESP, FR, PT]
  • with A. Holsten and others: Climate change in North Rhine-Westphalia: Regional assessment of the vulnerability of selected sectors. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam 2009.
  • with A. Daschkeit: Adaptation and planning in the light of climate change. In: Information on spatial development. (6-7), 2008, pp. 353-361.
  • for the Council of Europe: Climate change: building adaptive capacity of local and regional authorities. Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, Approved on Malaga Session, March 2008.
  • Climate Change: Vulnerability, Impact Management and Adaptation. In: Spatial Development Strategies for Climate Change. Edited by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Regional Planning, Berlin 2007, pp. 20–25.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The floods in Pakistan show our vulnerability to climate chaos. In: The Guardian Online. November 10, 2010, The Poverty Matters Blog
  2. ↑ German Environment and Media Prize: Clean Tech Media Award
  3. ↑ Climate Media Factory UG

Web links


personal data
SURNAME Kropp, Jürgen P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kropp, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climate impact researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Freren