Dr. Christine Polzin
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel.: ++49 - 341 - 235 1793
Fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 45 1726
christine.polzin@ufz.de

Areas of Expertise & Research
- Sustainability transformations
- Behavioural environmental governance
- Biodiversity & Trade, biodiversity risks
- Bio-based negative emissions technologies
Curriculum Vitae
since 01/2014
Senior researcher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) at Research Center for Sustainability Studies (artec), University of Bremen
11/2008 - 12/2013
Researcher at SERI, Vienna, research units Sustainable Resource use and Socio-Ecological Economics, lead & management of 4 research projects, substantial support to 15 other projects
09/2007 - 07/2008
Research Officer at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, interdisciplinary research project “Rural e-services: Participatory co-design of Sustainable Software and Business Systems in Rural Co-operatives” (case study: India)
2005 - 2007
M.Phil. in Development Studies, University of Oxford; Specialisation: Theories and Problems of Economic Development; Political Economy of India; Thesis: Institutioneller Wandel des ländlichen Kreditwesens in Südindien
2003 - 2005
Internships in various foreign policy and international development cooperation institutions (Federal Foreign Office, GIZ, KfW Development Bank, Weltfriedensdienst)
10/2000 - 07/2004
German French Double-Diploma Programme in International Business Studies and Economics, European University Viadrina & Reims Management School
Publications
Beck, S., Jasanoff, S., Stirling, A., Polzin, C., 2021. The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49, 143-152.
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., 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.
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. (Eds.): 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. (Eds.): 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.