Maja Göpel

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Maja Göpel (2019)

Maja Göpel (* 1976 in Bielefeld ) is a German political economist , transformation researcher , expert in sustainability science and the Secretary General of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). She is also a university lecturer, most recently as an honorary professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

Career

Maja Göpel graduated in 2001 as a media economist from the University of Siegen and received her doctorate in political economy ( Dr. rer. Pol. ) From the Universities of Hamburg and Kassel in 2007 . In her work, which was reviewed by Christoph Scherrer and Ulrich Brand , she dealt with institutionalist theories and hegemonic practices of global policy making and the premises of liberal democratic nation-state orders. She worked on the topics of globalization and sustainability , sustainable development and intergenerational justice , and a. honorary in the international working group of the Federal Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND). From 2006 to 2012 she worked for the World Future Council as Campaign Manager Climate Energy in Hamburg and as Director Future Justice of the Brussels office. The Future Policy Award and the work on governance innovations for the interests of future generations, which was discontinued in 2018, were also created during this time . From February 2013 to September 2017 she was the head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and focused her work on the field of sustainability transformations. During this time she also worked as a visiting scholar at Leuphana .

She is a member of the Club of Rome , the World Future Council and the Balaton Group founded by Donella Meadows and Dennis Meadows in 1982 as well as the Scientific Advisory Board of the Development and Peace Foundation and a fellow at the Progressive Center .

2016 she published the book The Great Mindshift that on research on system transformations , political economy and change management is based, and in the center of proposals to change the mindsets ( mentality ) and competencies are, shape the technical, economic and social institutions. These ideas have been converted into training courses in various projects.

Detlev Ganten , Eckart von Hirschhausen , Maja Göpel, Gregor Hagedorn , Karen Helen Wiltshire and Volker Quaschning (from left to right) at the presentation of the # Scientists4Future statement on March 12, 2019 in Berlin before the federal press conference

On September 1, 2017, she became Secretary General of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). As a result, she is a member of the Science Committee of the German UNESCO Commission .

On March 6, 2019, she held her inaugural lecture as an honorary professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

Together with other scientists, she presented the Scientists for Future campaign, which was founded to support the Fridays for Future student protests, at the federal press conference in March 2019 . For 2019, Göpel was awarded the Adam Smith Prize for market-based environmental policy and the environmental and sustainability prize of the Federal German Working Group for Environmentally Conscious Management (BAUM).

For the transformation to a sustainable society, Göpel suggests rethinking, measuring and organizing value creation, productivity and economics in such a way that planetary boundaries and ecosystem services are taken seriously and individual and social well-being become an explicit goal. Their model of sustainable management and the fair distribution of wealth envisages: growth not as an absolute end, but as a means; strategic handling of natural and finite resources; stricter taxation of high incomes.

In addition, a corresponding understanding of innovation is crucial and future education (transformative literacy), which turns those affected into actors in change processes.

Private life

Maja Göpel has two daughters.

Fonts

  • 2020: Rethinking our world: An invitation. Ullstein, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-550-20079-3 .
  • 2019: Guest contribution with Antje Boetius: Smart environmental policy: The climate is tipping over, and the social balance is tipping too. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 28, 2019 ( online behind a paywall ).
  • 2016: The Great Mindshift: How a New Economic Paradigm and Sustainability Transformations Go Hand in Hand. Springer International, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-43765-1 (English; doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-319-43766-8 ).
  • 2014: One voice for the descendants: Ombudspersons for the rights of future generations. In: Political Ecology . Volume 32, No. 136, 2014, pp. 91-94.
  • 2014: together with Moritz Remig: Pioneer of a sustainable society: Karl Polanyi and the "Great Transformation". In: Gaia . Volume 23, number 1, 2014, pp. 70-72 ( doi: 10.14512 / gaia.23.1.19 ).
  • 2011: The Tragedy of our Growth Saga. In: F. Hinterberger, E. Pirgmaier u. a. (Ed.): Growth in Transition. Earthscan, London 2011, pp. 147-153, ISBN 978-1-84971-395-5 (English).
  • 2010: Formulating Future Just Policies: Applying the Delhi Sustainable Development Law Principles. In: Sustainability. Volume 2, number 6, 2010, pp. 1694-1718 (English; doi: 10.3390 / su2061694 ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Maja Göpel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maja Göpel, interviewed by Jan Draeger: Maja Göpel on the world and the future. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . June 21, 2020, accessed August 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ Dr. Maja Göpel: A Passion for Sustainability and Justice , Alumni Portraits, University of Siegen, accessed on March 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Maja Göpel: Institutionalism theories and hegemonic practices in global polity formation: reassessing premises of liberal democratic nation state orders. Dissertation, Social Sciences Department, University of Kassel, January 2007, DNB 992342473 , urn : nbn: de: hebis: 34-2008110325017 .
  4. ↑ Website futurejustice.org the World Future Council
  5. ↑ a b Dr. Maja Göpel becomes the new General Secretary of the WBGU. (No longer available online.) German Advisory Council on Global Change , July 4, 2017, archived from the original on March 28, 2019 ; accessed on March 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Dr. Maja Göpel is the new head of the Berlin office In: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft , February 7, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2020.
  7. ↑ Message: Dr. Maja Göpel changes to WBGU: The previous head of the Berlin office is now the new Secretary General. In: WupperInst.org . September 6, 2017, accessed April 4, 2020.
  8. ^ Membership entry on the Club of Rome website. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Prof. Dr Maja Göpel. World Future Council , accessed March 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Balatongroup
  11. ↑ The Fellows. The Progressive Center e. V., accessed on March 6, 2020 .
  12. ↑ The Great Mindshift: How a New Economic Paradigm and Sustainability Transformations Go Hand in Hand and a summary of the book . List of publications of the Wuppertal Institute , accessed on March 18, 2019.
  13. ↑ In conversation: Maja Göpel . In: 3sat , nano , August 17, 2018.
  14. ↑ Scientific Committee , German UNESCO Commission , accessed on March 13, 2019.
  15. ↑ Maja Göpel, Inaugural Lecture: Education and the Great Transformation - challenges and opportunities. In: Leuphana.de . March 6, 2019, accessed August 11, 2020 (reference only).
  16. ↑ Scientists for Future press release of March 12, 2019 , accessed March 14, 2019.
  17. ↑ Amy Walker: Scientists for Future: "There are no more excuses". In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 12, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020.
  18. ↑ Climate strategy: “Rethinking the whole thing”. In: 3sat . June 28, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Robert Probst: Where the paradoxes work. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Researcher Maja Göpel on the climate crisis: “Now the window of possibilities is here!” In: t3n . August 29, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Maja Göpel, interviewed by Peter Unfried and Harald Welzer : Bans can set people free. In: Taz.FUTURZWEI . No. 10, 2019, pp. 36–41 ( online at taz.de).
  22. ↑ Germanwatch.org : The Great Transformation needs transformative education. In: Vision. March 22, 2018, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  23. ↑ https://issuu.com/wbgu/docs/wbgu_hg2019?fr=sM2JiOTEyNzMy WBGU main report on digitization, see Chap. 5.3.4
  24. ^ Maja Göpel: Transformative Literacy - Competencies for System Innovations. In: The Great Mindshift. Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy , accessed on March 6, 2020 (English).
  25. ^ Henning Zühlsdorff: Utopia Conference 2018, guests: Maja Göpel. Leuphana University of Lüneburg , December 3, 2018, accessed on July 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Göpel, Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld