Miranda Schreurs

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Miranda Alice Schreurs (born July 29, 1963 in Corning , New York ) is an American political scientist and professor at the Munich School of Politics (HfP), which is sponsored by the Technical University of Munich. At the HfP, she holds the Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy.

Life

From 1981 to 1985 she studied agriculture and life sciences at Cornell University ; In 1986 she received a Bachelor of Arts in General Studies (not studium generale ) at the University of Washington ; In 1987 she also completed a Master of Arts in International Studies there. In 1996 she received her PhD in Comparative Political Science ( Ph.D. ) from the University of Michigan .

From 1994 to 2007 Miranda Schreurs was a professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland . She has also researched and taught at Harvard , Utrecht , Keiō (Japan) , Chūō (Tokyo) and Rikkyō (Tokyo) Universities . From 2012 to 2015 she was Professor II at the University of Oslo in the Department of Political Science.

In 2007 she was appointed professor for comparative political science at the Free University of Berlin . There she headed the Research Center for Environmental Policy (FFU) until she moved to the University of Politics, Technical University of Munich, in 2016.

From 2008 to 2016 she was a member of the Advisory Council for Environmental Issues (SRU) of the Federal Environment Ministry . Since 2015 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the European Network of Environment and Sustainability Councils (EEAC). From 2011 to 2015 she chaired the network to which she has been a member since 2008. She has been a member of the Catalan Council for Sustainable Development since 2016. Appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, she was a member of the ethics committee for a secure energy supply in 2011 .

Miranda Schreurs works in the areas of environmental governance , climate change policy and politics , energy policy , social movements and environmental policy in Germany, the EU, the USA and East Asia. She leads research projects on the topics of low-carbon energy policy in Southeast Asia, the energy transition in Germany, Europe, Japan and the USA, international and comparative climate policy in multi-level systems and the final storage of highly radioactive waste in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Miranda Schreurs was born in the USA and speaks German, Dutch and Japanese in addition to her native English.

Fonts

  • Miranda Schreurs: The German Energiewende in a European Context . In: Carol Hager and Christoph Stepfes (eds.): Energy Transition in Comparative Perspective: Germany's Path to a Sustainable Future . Palgrave, 2016, doi : 10.1057 / 978-1-137-44288-8_4 .
  • A. Brunnengräber , M. Di Nucci, A. Losada, L. Mez and M. Schreurs (eds.): Nuclear Waste Governance: An International Comparison . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015.
  • M. Schreurs and S. Steuwer: The need for coordination between the federal and state governments in the implementation of the energy transition from a political science perspective . In: Thorsten Müller and Hartmut Kahl (eds.): Energy transition in federalism . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015.
  • M. Schreurs and D. Ohlhorst: NIMBY and YIMBY: Movements For and Against Renewable Energy in Germany and the United States . In: C. Hager and MA Haddad (eds.): NIMBY is Beautiful: Local Activism and Environmental Activism in Germany and Beyond . Berghahn Books, 2015, p. 60-86 .
  • AT Gullberg, D. Ohlhorst, and M. Schreurs: Towards a Low Carbon Energy Future — Renewable Energy Cooperation between Germany and Norway . In: Renewable Energy Journal . tape 68 , 2014, p. 216-222 .
  • Miranda Schreurs: The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Germany's Energy Politics after Fukushima . In: The Journal of Social Science . tape 77 , 2014, p. 9-29 .
  • JB Skjaerseth, G. Bang and M. Schreurs: Explaining Growing Climate Policy Differences in the European Union and the United States . In: Global Environmental Politics . tape 13 , no. 4 , 2013, p. 61-80 .
  • Miranda Schreurs: Orchestrating a Low-Carbon Energy Revolution Without Nuclear: Germany's Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis . In: Theoretical Inquiries in Law . tape 14 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 83-104 .
  • Miranda Schreurs: Breaking the Impasse in the International Climate Negotiations: The Potential of Green Technologies . In: Energy Policy . tape 48 , 2012, p. 5-12 .
  • Miranda Schreurs, Nichi Bei Doitsu no Kankyou Seisaku no Hikaku, (Tokyo: Iwanami Press, 2007) (updated translation of Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002. Translation ed. Shinichi Nagao.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs. University of Politics, Technical University of Munich, accessed on November 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Miranda A. Schreurs, Free University of Berlin, Research Center for Environmental Policy. Entria, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Miranda Schreurs from the Free University of Berlin is the new chairwoman of the EEAC The head of the Research Center for Environmental Policy is at the head of the European Environment and Sustainability Councils , in: Online magazine campus.leben of the Free University of Berlin , January 11, 2011
  4. ↑ Braingain: US researcher moves to Berlin ( Memento from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Berliner Tagesspiegel from December 22, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Schreurs, Miranda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreurs, Miranda Alice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Corning , New York