Frederic Hanusch

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen | JLU · Panel on Planetary Thinking

Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be at odds with the long-term nature of climate change, with its latency between cause and effect. However, it is clear that some de...

The Anthropocene as a new planetary epoch has brought to the foreground the deep-time interconnections of human agency with the earth system. Yet despite this recognition of strong temporal interdependencies, we still lack understanding of how societal and political organizations can manage interconnections that span several centuries and dozens of...

Planetar denken heißt, die Erde als Planeten ernst nehmen: vom Erdkern bis in den interplanetaren Raum, von der Nanosekunde bis zur Tiefenzeit, vom Elementarteilchen bis zur Erdmasse. Stehen Wechselwirkungen zwischen unserem Heimatplaneten und uns im Zentrum, nimmt ein planetares Wissensparadigma Gestalt an. Es geht einher mit der Relationierung me...

New laboratory formats worldwide, including policy labs, innovation labs, and living labs, invite political engagement of multiple stakeholders. Although this format shares the basic characteristics with democratic innovations such as citizens’ assemblies, it has yet to be acknowledged by this field of study. This article fills this gap. It finds t...

Hydrogen futures are in the making right in front of our eyes and will determine socio-ecological path dependencies for decades to come. However, expertise on the societal effects of the hydrogen transition is in its infancy. Future energy research needs to include the social sciences, humanities and interdisciplinary studies: energy cultures have...

In its report ‚Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities‘ (2016), the WBGU examines the transformation of cities towards sustainability. Research has a key role to play in this context, for urban transformation is a societal learning and search process. To give this societal process orientation, the WBGU has developed a ‘no...

How do time perceptions politicize contestation in the case of climate politics? We argue that across Western Europe and North America, contestation in the climate case and beyond forms along an emerging temporal dividing line. The climate movement’s reference to the scientific understanding of climate with its nonnegotiable timescales is at odds w...

Extracurricular studies are a way for universities to deal with issues that are relevant for students beyond their individual study programs, such as sustainability or digitization. While the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) provides profound advice for regular study programs on how to reach high levels of student engagement, similar rec...

Im Jahr 2015 gelang ein historischer Doppelerfolg für die Nachhaltigkeits-und Klimapolitik. Die Agenda 2030 für nachhaltige Entwicklung mit ihren Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) und das Überein-kommen von Paris zum Klimaschutz definieren ein ehrgeiziges globales Zielsystem. Die Gruppe der zwanzig wichtigsten Industrie-und Schwellenländer (G20)...

ECET – The European Community for Energy Transition is a Vision for an Energy Union which represents an approach directed at transforming Europe into a community that overcomes national borders and deepens democracy. With this new approach to an integrated energy policy we propose the vision of a new community in addition to already existing EU str...

This chapter analyses the role which domestic and international norms and their respective socialisation processes play in the determination of a state’s foreign policy. It therefore focuses on the empirical case of US foreign climate policy from its start in 1972 up until 2005. After developing a theoretical framework based on the concept of soci...

The 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it unmistakeably clear: unacceptable climatic consequences, which are likely to escalate beyond the 2°C guard rail, can only be avoided if further increases in greenhouse-gas concentrations are halted as soon as possible. The WBGU therefore recommends reducing C...

The year 2015 has special importance for the transformation towards sustainable ­development. New Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are then supposed to ­replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The aim is to offer a new orientation for political action in the coming decades. The WBGU recommends orienting the new catalogue of goals towar...

Die Entstehung der Kulturwissenschaften hat das Feld der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften in den letzten Jahren gehörig in Bewegung gebracht. Neue transdisziplinäre und zunehmend auch transkulturelle Wissensordnungen bilden sich heraus, eine Vielzahl neuer Studiengänge wurde ins Leben gerufen. Doch was ist eigentlich der Kern der »Kulturwissenscha...