Thomas Saretzki
Thomas Saretzki (* 1955 in Bad Oldesloe ) is a German political scientist and professor of environmental policy at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .
Life
Saretzki graduated from high school in Bad Oldesloe in 1974. From 1974 to 1976 he did his community service. From 1976 he studied political science, biology, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg . In 1983 the first state examination for high school teaching followed.
From 1983 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg. His habilitation followed in Hamburg and in 2000 Saretzki was appointed to a professorship for environmental policy ( C 3 ) at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Lüneburg. There he is now chair of the independent chair for environmental policy .
Positions
Saretzki works on issues of environmental policy and nature conservation policy in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner . Nevertheless, in a 2010 interview published on the Goethe-Institut website, he called for disciplinary boundaries to be adhered to on global issues such as climate change :
“In public debates, academically trained scientists are always at risk of inappropriately exceeding the limits of their special scientific competence. In public controversies, there is a growing tendency to neglect the maxim of intellectual honesty presupposed in scientific discourse and to claim the authority of a scientific expert for one's own statements, even in questions where one's own answers are not covered by the respective subject-specific competence . "
literature
- Hans-Peter Vierhaus: Environmental awareness from above. On the constitutional requirement of democratic decision-making (= writings on environmental law. Vol. 48). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-08155-2 , p. 101 ff.
Web links
- Thomas Saretzki on the website of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Thomas Saretzki's curriculum vitae on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ “De-democratization is not a solution” - an interview with Thomas Saretzki. Goethe Institute website, April 2010, accessed on May 18, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saretzki, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist and professor for environmental policy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Oldesloe |