Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Udo Ernst Simonis
Research fields
CV
2020 Honorary Member of the Oeko-Institute Freiburg, Berlin, Darmstadt
2017 Federal Order of Merit
2016 Honorary Chairman of the Society of Friends and Promoters of PIK
2011 "UmweltMedienpreis" lifetime achievement award
2004-2007 Co-Chairman of the Task Force on Environmental Governance for China
2002-2016 Chairman of the Society of Friends and Promoters of PIK
2003 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) of the Leuphana University Lüneburg
2002 Honorary Member of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
2000-2002 President of the World Society for EKISTICS (WSE)
1999-2006 Member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nations
1993-2002 Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee; and Member, Board of Trustees of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
1992-1996 Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
1991-2016 Chief editor, „Jahrbuch Ökologie“ (German Ecology Yearbook)
1988-2003 Research Professor of Environmental Policy, WZB
1981-1987 Director of the International Institute for Environment and Society, WZB
1973 Professor of Economics, Technical University of Berlin
1970-1972 Research Associate at the University of Tokyo
1967-1969 Personal Advisor of the President of Zambia, Dr. Kenneth D. Kaunda
1967 Doctor of Economics - best dissertation of the year - at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Kiel
1959-1963 Study of economics and social sciences at the universities of Mainz, Vienna, and Freiburg
Selected Publications
Die Entwicklungsstrategie der Volksrepublik China 1949 bis 1962, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1968, 201 pages.
Ökonomie und Ökologie (Hg.). Auswege aus einem Konflikt, Karlsruhe, C. F. Müller 1980, 7. Auflage 1994, 232 pages.
Basiswissen Umweltpolitik. Ursachen, Wirkungen und Bekämpfung von Umweltproblemen, Berlin: edition sigma 1990, 2. Auflage 1990, 246 pages.
Beyond Growth. Elements of Sustainable Development, Berlin: edition sigma 1990, 153 pages.
Industrial Metabolism. Restructuring for Sustainable Develoment (with Robert U. Ayres), Tokyo, New York, Paris: UN-University Press 1994, 390 pages.
Weltumweltpolitik. Grundriß und Bausteine eines neuen Politikfeldes (Hg.), Berlin: edition sigma 1996, 2. Auflage 1999, 325 pages.
Die Rousseau-Frage ökologisch definiert (Hg.), Berlin: edition sigma 2002, 316 pages.
Zehn Jahre Japan-Literatur. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit 177 deutschsprachigen Buchveröffentlichungen (mit Ulrich Teichler und Yoko Teichler-Urata), in: Internationales Asienforum, Vol. 9, 3/4, 1978, p. 295-388.
Ecology and Economic Policy, in: Universitas. A Quaterly German Review of the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 29, 2, 1987, pp. 81-90.
Environmental Damage – Environmental Expenditures, Evidence on the Federal Republic of Germany (with Christian Leipert), in: International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 15, 7, 1988, pp. 37-52.
Structural Change and Environmental Impact. Empirical Evidence on 31 Countries in East and West, in: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 24, 1, 1989,
pp. 24-36.
The Multilateral Ozone Fund. A Case Study on Institutional Learning. (= Essays in Honour of Clement Allen Tisdell) (with Frank Biermann), in: International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 26, 1/3, 1999, pp. 239-273.
Institutionelle Reform der Weltumweltpolitik. Zur Debatte um die Gründung einer „Weltumweltorganisation“ (mit Frank Biermann), in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 7. Jg., 1, 2000, p. 163-183.
Environmental Governance for China. Major Recommendations of a Task Force
(with Xue Lan and Daniel J. Dudek), in: Environmental Politics, Vol. 16, 4, 2007,
pp. 293-304.
GNP and Beyond. Searching for New Development Indicators, in: International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 38, 12, 2011, pp. 953-961.
Energieoption plus Waldoption, Plädoyer für eine Doppelstrategie der Klimapolitik,in: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht, 42. Jg., 3, 2019,
p. 358-367.
Klaus, das PIK und ich. Begegnungen mit Klaus Hasselmann, dem Nobelpreisträger der Physik 2021, in: Universitas, 76. Jg., 11, 2021, p. 68-72.
„Grenzen des Wachstums“. Über ein Buch, das die Welt bewegte, aber nicht verbessern konnte, in: Universitas, 77. Jg., 3, 2022, p. 30-38.
Book Review of Jeffrey D. Sachs: The Age of Sustainable Development, New York 2015, in: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht, Vol. 9, 4, 2016, pp. 378-381: meanwhile more than 50.000 reads have been recorded.
Selected Working Papers
„Von A bis Z“ – 100 wichtige Umweltbücher / „From A to Z“ – 100 Important Environment Books,
WZB Discussion Paper EME 2019-00.
„De-Karbonisierung“ plus „Re-Naturierung“. Argumente für eine Doppelstrategie der Klimapolitik,
WZB Discussion Paper EME 2019-004.
Vom „Green New Deal“ zum „European Green Deal“.
WZB Discussion Paper EME 2020-002.
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