Bernd Siebenhüner

Bernd Siebenhüner is professor for ecological economics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. He held positions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Harvard University, and the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. As member of the Steering Committee of CERMESA, he contributed to the establishment of DIGIFACE. He has lead and co-lead numerous transdisciplinary research projects funded by the European Union, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Volkswagen-Foundation, or the German Academic Exchange Service. In his research, he focusses on social learning, international organizations, climate adaptation, and biodiversity governance, and the role of science in global environmental governance. Book publications include Adaptiveness – Changing Earth System Governance (Eds. With Riyanti Djalante, CUP, 2021), Long-Term Policies: Governing Socio-Ecological Change (Eds. With Marlen Arnold, Klaus Eisenack, Klaus Jacob, Routledge, 2013), Managers of Global Change. Explaining the Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies (Eds. With Frank Biermann, MIT Press, 2009).

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Current professional activity

• Professor of Ecological Economics – Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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Publications

Exploring faculty and student perspectives regarding training and research interventions on climate change and sustainability at Makerere University in Uganda

Introduction: Climate change concerns continue to exert significant impacts across various sectors globally (IPCC, 2022), posing challenges to the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in developing countries (Akinbami & Akinbami, 2017). These challenges extend beyond environmental...