Werner Krauss (ethnologist)

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Werner Krauss (born December 31, 1957 ) is a German ethnologist and author.

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Krauss studied ethnology, folklore and social and economic history at the University of Hamburg , where he obtained his master's degree in ethnology in 1987. In 2000 he did his doctorate there in the subject of anthropology on environmental conflicts in southern Portugal. His doctoral thesis entitled “Hang the Greens!”: Environment, Sustainable Development and Ecological Discourse ”was published in 2001 by Reimer Verlag.

Since 1996 he has been teaching at the University of Hamburg. From 2001 to 2005 he worked there as a research assistant. From 2005 to 2010 he was a DAAD Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin , interrupted by a stay in 2008 as a visiting professor at the KlimaCampus in Hamburg. Since 2010 he has been a scientist at the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht - Center for Materials and Coastal Research , where he contributes as an author to the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Krauss' research focus is the anthropology of climate change , in particular the analysis of climate discourse, the role and self-image of climate science and the emergence of renewable energies.

Together with climate researcher Hans von Storch and others, he runs the climate blog “Die Klimazwiebel”.

In February 2013 the book "The Climate Trap: The Dangerous Proximity of Politics and Climate Research" was published, which he wrote together with climate researcher Hans von Storch. The authors argue that the climate trap consists on the one hand in the fact that the debate about climate policy has been shifted to science, and on the other hand in the fact that the climate debate is caught up in the dispute between warners and skeptics. They argue against the exclusive focus on global agreements and advocate a pragmatic and regionally anchored climate policy that focuses on the possibilities and conditions on site. The book received a largely positive response in the media and was received positively by several newspapers and blogs, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the press and the Badische Zeitung , as well as by Rupert Neudeck , who published the book on the Franz Alt's blog .

The Badische Zeitung wrote:

“So there is still a lot to do. 'You have to research further to gain more clarity,' says Hans von Storch. The chaotic system atmosphere is simply too complex to have already understood everything. Waging war against CO2 is a hopeless endeavor, with the result that people can no longer hear the topic - similar to the dying forest. 'The ways out of the climate trap', write by Storch and Krauss, 'lead to a new understanding of climate change that is no longer apocalyptic, but sees it as a challenge to redesign the world we inhabit.' "

Fonts

  • (with Hans von Storch ): The climate trap: The dangerous proximity of politics and climate research . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-43507-0
  • "Hang the Greens!" Environment, Sustainable Development and Ecological Discourse: An Ethnological Case Study (Portugal) . Reimer, Berlin 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c http://wkrauss.eu/html/cv01.html
  2. ↑ http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.de/
  3. ↑ Ulf von Rauchhaupt: Science is not a continuation of politics by other means. In: FAZ.net . March 6, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sven Titz: Two researchers complain about the politicization of climate research. In: nzz.ch. February 25, 2013, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ In the climate trap. In: DiePresse.com. February 15, 2013, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/nachrichten/panorama/sind-wir-noch-zu-retten--69347036.html Badische Zeitung: Can we still be saved? , as seen on February 26, 2013
  7. ↑ http://www.sonnseite.com/Buch-Tipps,Die+Klimafalle+,34,a24668.html
  8. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/nachrichten/panorama/sind-wir-noch-zu-retten--69347036.html Badische Zeitung: Can we still be saved? , as seen on February 26, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1957