Julia TeebkenPrinceton University | PU
Julia Teebken
Dr. phil Freie Universität Berlin
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Introduction
I am comparatively researching inequality in the context of climate change adaptation and how societies and governments (do not) adapt across different political systems. Aside from exploring dominant nature-society relations and political-economic processes, some of which co-create and maintain, or deteriorate vulnerability risk, I am interested in exploring social scientific responses of adaptation.
Additional affiliations
January 2019 - August 2022
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- I worked at the Environmental Policy Research Centre in Klaus Jacob's research group on policy impact assessment. The work of the research group combines both, basic research and applied policy consultancy for national (e.g. Federal Environmental Agency, Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and international clients (European Commission) in the fields of transformative approaches to environmental politics, strategies in sustainability policy and climate change adaptation.
Education
October 2015 - June 2020
August 2013 - May 2015
October 2009 - December 2012
Publications
Publications (29)
Climate change has far-reaching effects on human and ecological systems, requiring collaboration across sectors and disciplines to determine effective responses. To inform regional responses to climate change, decision-makers need credible and relevant information representing a wide swath of knowledge and perspectives. The southeastern U. S. State...
This book compares how the social consequences of climate change are similarly unevenly distributed within China and the United States, despite different political systems. Focusing on the cases of Atlanta, USA, and Jinhua, China, this book explores a set of path-dependent factors (lock-ins), which hamper the pursuit of climate adaptation by local...
The state of Georgia is known for its skepticism toward climate policy. Yet, some local policy practitioners have adjusted their practices to accommodate its adversarial political environment. The chapter examines the coping strategies they developed. It builds upon 31 qualitative interviews and participant observation during the first two Georgia...
In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction were adopted, linked by a common emphasis on reducing vulnerabilities. This report on the concept of Sustainable Adaptation Pathways (SAPs) is intended to support stakeholders involved in the implementation processes to...
Climate change adaptation planning and implementation have proliferated over the past years. However, we still lack an understanding of how society adapts itself outside of policy sectors and as part of what some refer to as “autonomous adaptation”. The way people respond to risk without deliberate interventions of public actors is not well-underst...
To date, processes to implement the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international climate change mitigation and adaptation obligations are largely disconnected in most countries. This creates administrative overlaps, costs and hampers the development of effective problem solutions.
Against this background, the report presents the st...
The UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, three international and ‘transformative’ agendas adopted in 2015, have some overlap and interdependencies. How can their implementation at domestic level be integrated, so as to tap synergies and prevent trad...
Because the empirical cases both identified lock-ins at the interface of knowledge and political institutions, this chapter discusses the findings in the newly emerging field of research on political epistemology. First, vulnerability as an inherent characteristic of two different political systems is presented. The findings demonstrate the deeply...
This chapter goes back to the main research question which guided the study: What lock-ins can explain adaptation deficits that are particularly apparent in high uneven vulnerability to climate change? What factors can explain why vulnerability is such a deeply rooted phenomenon across two different political systems and adaptation occurring only i...
This chapter provides some background information on the evolution of adaptation and vulnerability planning in China and the United States. The chapter examines how climate adaptation planning has unfolded in both countries and how this corresponds with the current state of adaptation governance more broadly. It considers problems of low local capa...
This chapter provides the theoretical underpinnings of adaptation research, adaptation areas and the main analytical framework. Various explanatory attempts exist for assessing adaptation deficits. Reasons why there may be adaptation deficits are considered, including various barriers: structural, social, natural, human and informational. A critiqu...
This chapter revisits some of the central concepts related to vulnerability thinking. It provides a brief background on the evolution of vulnerability conceptualizations and presents social vulnerability as a bottom-up perspective that is regaining traction as of late. The different understandings of vulnerability often correspond with different pr...
This chapter provides background information on the broader developments of the political economy in both countries and local sociopolitical factors. It examines the high degrees of inequality in China (despite improvements in poverty reduction) and persistent and rising inequality in the United States. It also begins the discussion of infrastructu...
This chapter discusses some of the theoretical implications for discourses on transformative adaptation. Before it does so, the chapter first presents why adaptation is an inherently political concept. This section also reflects upon the need for self-critical adaptation studies. Because the empirical cases reveal the significance of education and...
This chapter examines how local decision-makers in Atlanta and Jinhua perceive of vulnerable populations to climate change, and whether they are generally aware that climate impacts are unevenly distributed. In both countries, sociodemographic and economic factors (percentage of minorities, occupation, lower economic prosperity and educational atta...
At international climate conferences, the European Union (EU) and its member states both are negotiating partners. The EU signs the treaties to protect the climate, the member states ratify and translate them into national policy. Based on the literature on actorness, we identify different dimensions in which the EU’s actor quality is articulated....
Die Transformationswerkstatt ist ein Weiterbildungsformat für Mitarbeitende öffentlicher Verwaltungen. Es soll ihre Kompetenzen bei der Gestaltung gesellschaftlicher Transformationen stärken. Das Format wurde 2020/21 im Umweltressort erprobt. Es kombiniert praxisorientiert die Vermittlung von Grundlagenwissen und methodischen Fähigkeiten. Der vorli...
Zusammenfassung Diese Handreichung beschreibt den aktuellen Stand in der Entwicklung des Weiterbildungsformats "Transformationswerkstatt" (TrafoWerk). Ziel dieser Weiterbildung ist es, Mitarbeitende aller Hierarchieebenen und Verantwortungsbereiche öffentlicher Verwaltungen darin zu stärken, gesellschaftlichen Transformationen zu gestalten. Transfo...
Public administrations are designed towards efficient and effective problem solving. A division of work along the various issues of public policy-making is constitutive for most administrations. With the recent demands to develop comprehensive transformative environmental policies, new tasks and requirements arise, both for individual officers as w...
Although research on sustainability transitions has addressed transnational linkages, little attention has yet been paid to the international diffusion and transfer of public policies. Transitions studies and research on policy transfer have had sparse interaction thus far. This viewpoint argues that the two fields can enrich each other through new...
Climate change has far-reaching effects on human and ecological systems, requiring collaboration across sectors and disciplines to determine effective responses. To inform regional responses to climate change, decision-makers need credible and relevant information representing a wide swath of knowledge and perspectives. The southeastern U. S. State...
The future of the transatlantic relationship is rarely out of the headlines in Europe or North America. Despite the closeness, the relationship faces – as it has always done – new and familiar challenges.
This report offers views on the future of transatlantic relations from scholars who are at the start of their careers, with European and US pers...
Projects
Projects (6)
Five years after passing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the Sendai-Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, there is considerable space for disillusionment: the implementation proves challenging, and progress does not suffice for achieving the political goals within the determined period. Thus, the question emerges how an (ambitious) implementation can be fortified. One fundamental assumption supposes that synergies and co-benefits between policies can be utilized, and co-operation between processes can be intensified.
The consortium of Öko-Institut e.V., Freie Universität Berlin (Environmental Policy Research Centre, and Akademie der Katastrophenforschungsstelle), and Ecologic Institute works on the following aspects:
- identify synergies and challenges especially between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) process and Paris Agreement: that covers i.a. identifying (yet implemented or pledged) promising co-benefit approaches e.g. with respect to climate mitigation actions, climate adaptation strategies, or nexus-approaches in climate and resource policy
identify elements for "sustainable adaptation pathways" and transformative climate adaptation that promise useful for the joint implementation of SDGs and Paris Agreement and should be reinforced within international co-operation and SDG implementation
- strengthen promising approaches for the joint implementation of 2030 Agenda / SDGs and Paris Agreement
- support the professional debate with respect to the intended 2nd report about Germany's contribution to SDG implementation to be presented at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2021. Therefore, the federal government's opportunities for action and specific steps that can support the joint implementation of SDGs and climate goals (including climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction) and diminish conflicts in goals should be evinced and assessed
The project, commissioned by the German Federal Environment Agency, aims to improve environmental policy learning and transfer between states. The project team collates scientific and practical findings on factors influencing the success of international environmental policy transfer and prepares them in an application-oriented way. Apart from research literature on policy diffusion and transfer, it considers findings from research dealing with sustainability transitions, as well as transformations in post-socialist countries. The project is conducted by the Oeko-Institut and the Environmental Policy Research Centre at Freie Universität Berlin.
Mitarbeitende in Ministerien und Behörden tragen eine besondere Verantwortung bei der Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Zukunft. Große gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse, wie das Erreichen der Pariser Klimaziele oder der SDGs erfordern sowohl individuelle Kompetenzen als auch entsprechende organisationale Kapazitäten.
Wie werden soziale Innovationen gefördert? Relevante Zukunftstrends analysiert? Wirkmächtige Narrative entwickelt? Transformationsakteure gestärkt? Viele Mitarbeitende in politisch-administrativen Organisationen haben bereits Expertise zu solchen Fragen. Jedoch kann die Wirksamkeit verbessert werden, wenn das Wissen dazu referats-, abteilungs- oder organisationsübergreifend genutzt wird. Dafür wird ein Raum benötigt um diese Kompetenzen zu entdecken, zu fördern und Zusammenarbeit zu ermöglichen.
Im UFOPLAN-Projekt „Transformationen wagen“ erarbeitet das FFU gemeinsam mit Politics for Tomorrow und weiteren Partnern dafür wissenschaftlich fundiert und gemeinsam mit Praxispartner/innen ein Weiterbildungsprogramm als Lern- und Transformationslabor, das Mitarbeitene in ihren Organisationen stärkt, Wandelprozesse in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit zu gestalten.
