Uta Eser

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Uta Eser (born April 20, 1964 in Eltville am Rhein ) is a German biologist and environmental ethicist .

Life

Uta Eser studied biochemistry, biology, sociology and philosophy in Tübingen . She then did her doctorate at the International Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) in Tübingen and wrote her dissertation on value judgments in nature conservation using the example of the neophyte problem . She moved to the Institute for Science and Technology Research (IWT) at Bielefeld University as a post-doc and did research with Jim Griesemer, History and Philosophy of Biology Program at UC Davis (USA).

In her research, she is primarily interested in theory and ethics in interdisciplinary environmental science using the example of biodiversity . Uta Eser researched, taught and trained at the "Coordination Office for Economy and Environment" at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences (FH Nürtingen) until 2015. Today she works as a freelancer on this topic and in general on the fields of environmental ethics and environmental communication .

Commitment and memberships

Eser is an associated member of the International Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) of the University of Tübingen, the Advisory Board of the Sustainability Faculty of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, the project-accompanying working group for the nature awareness studies of BfN & BMUB and the Project Advisory Board of Natural Capital Germany (TEEB-DE) .

Publications (selection)

  • U. Eser: And yet they count! Why ethical arguments are indispensable for nature conservation. A reply to Wolfgang Haber . In: Nature and Landscape . tape 89 , no. 7 , 2013, p. 317-320 .
  • Kurt Jax u. a .: Ecosystem services and ethics . In: Ecological Economics . tape 93 , 2013, p. 260-268 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ecolecon.2013.06.008 .
  • Wisdom, luck, justice. Why ethics are important for concrete nature conservation work . In: U. Eser, R. Wegener, H. Seyfang, A. Müller (Eds.): BfN -Skripten . tape 414 , 2015.
    • U. Eser, A. Neureuther, H. Seyfang, A. Müller: Prudence, Justice and the Good Life. A typology of ethical reasoning in selected European national biodiversity strategies . Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and IUCN, 2015.
  • U. Eser: Experience, experience and relationship with nature from the point of view of nature conservation ethics . In: N. Jung, H. Molitor, A. Schilling (Eds.): Nature, Emotion, Education - Forgotten Passion? On the tension between nature conservation and environmental education / Eberswalder contributions to education and sustainability . tape 4 , 2015, p. 33-52 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Umweltethikbuero.de Homepage of the "Office for Environmental Ethics"
personal data
SURNAME Eser, Uta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and environmental ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltville on the Rhine