Christine Polzin

Themenbereich Umwelt und Gesellschaft
Department Umweltpolitik
Arbeitsgruppe Governance & Institutionen

Helmholtz-Zentrum
für Umweltforschung − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig

Tel.: 0341 - 6025 1793

christine.polzin@ufz.de

C. Polzin

Forschungsgebiete & Arbeitsschwerpunkte

  • Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen
  • Umweltpolitik & Verhaltenswandel
  • Biodiversität & Handel, Biodiversitätsrisiken
  • Biobasierte Negativ-Emissions-Technologien

Beruflicher Werdegang

seit 01/2014

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am UFZ, Department Umweltpolitik

11/2008 - 12/2013

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am SERI, Wien, Forschungsgruppen „Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung“ und „Sozial-ökologisches Wirtschaften“ 

09/2007 - 07/2008

Research Officer am Department of International Development, University of Oxford, interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt über Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien für ländliche Entwicklung (Untersuchung anhand einer Fallstudie in Indien)

2005 - 2007

Studium: Master of Philosophy in Development Studies, University of Oxford Studienschwerpunkte: Theories and Problems of Economic Development; Political Economy of India; Thema der Abschlussarbeit: Institutioneller Wandel des ländlichen Kreditwesens in Südindien

2003 - 2005

Praktika in verschiedenen Institutionen der Außenpolitik und internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Auswärtiges Amt, GIZ, KfW Entwicklungsbank, Weltfriedensdienst)

10/2000 - 07/2004

Studium: Internationale BWL, Europa-Universität Viadrina & Reims Management School (dt.-frz. Doppeldiplom)

Aktuelle Projekte

BioNET – Multi-level Assessment of Bio-based Negative Emission Technologies

Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GoST)

Abgeschlossene Projekte

GLAMURS − Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability

VOODOO - Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change

Publikationen

Polzin, C. (2024) The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany. Global Environmental Change 84, 102800.

Beck, S., Jasanoff, S., Stirling, A., Polzin, C., 2021. The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49, 143-152.

Proesmans, W., Albrecht, M., Gajda, A., Neumann, P., Paxton, R.J., Pioz, M., ... Vanbergen, A.J., 2021. Pathways for Novel Epidemiology: Plant–Pollinator–Pathogen Networks and Global Change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.03.006

Mock, M., Omann, I., Polzin, C., Spekkink, W., Schuler, J., Pandur, V., Brizi, A., Panno, A., 2019. “Something inside me has been set in motion”: Exploring the psychological wellbeing of people engaged in sustainability initiatives. Ecological Economics 160, 1-11, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.002.

Fischer, A., Spekkink, W., Polzin, C., Díaz-Ayude, A., Brizi, A., Macsinga, I., 2018. Social representations of governance for change towards sustainability: perspectives of sustainability advocates. Environmental Politics, 1-23, doi: 10.1080/09644016.2018.1448559.

Rauschmayer, F., Polzin, C., Mock, M., Omann, I., 2017. Examining Collective Action Through the Capability Approach: The Example of Community Currencies. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 1-20.

Weiland, S., Bleicher, A., Polzin, C., Rauschmayer, F., Rode, J., 2017. The nature of experiments for sustainability transformations: A search for common ground. Journal of Cleaner Production 169, 30-38.

Polzin, C., Rauschmayer, F., Lilley, R., Whitehead, M., 2015. What could ‘mindful capabilities’ be? A comment on Mabsout's ‘mindful capability’. In: Ecol. Econ. 120, 355-357.

Polzin, C., 2015. Institutional Change in Informal Credit: Through the Urban-Rural Lens, in: Harriss-White, B. (Ed.), Middle India and its Dynamism: Four Decades of Rural-Urban Development in Tamil Nadu. Springer New Delhi, pp. 229-250.

Dittrich, M., Giljum, S., Lutter, S., Polzin, C., 2012. Green economies around the world? Implications of resource use for development and the environment.

Wiebe, K. S., Bruckner, M., Giljum, S., Lutz, C., Polzin, C., 2012. Carbon and Materials Embodied in the International Trade of Emerging Economies. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 16, 636–646.

Giljum, S., Lutz, C., Polzin, C., 2011. Global Economic and Environmental Impacts of an ETR in Europe. In: Ekins, P., Speck, S. (Hg.): Environmental Tax Reform (ETR). A Policy for Green Growth. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Polzin, C., Giljum, S., 2010. Globale Effekte einer ökologischen Steuerreform in Europa. In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften 1/2010, 35-38.

Giljum, S., Polzin, C., 2009. Zahnlose Strategien. Die Ansätze in der EU-Ressourcenpolitik reichen bei Weitem nicht aus. In: DNR-Themenheft II/2009, 8-9.

Fu, X., Polzin, C., 2010. Sustainability of Technology-intensive Social Innovation in India: The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Complementary Assets. In: Fu, X., Soete, L. (Hg.): The Rise of Technological Power in the South, Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Kostka, G., Polzin, C., Scharrer, J. 2009., The future of sugar cane in China and India − Supply constraints and expansion potential. In: Applied Energy 86 (Supplement 1), 100-107.