Prof. Dr. Sigrun Kabisch

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Prof. Dr. Sigrun Kabisch

  • Head of Department until 31.03.2022
  • Guest Scientist from 01.04.2022

Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Prof. Dr. Sigrun Kabisch

Prof. Dr. Sigrun Kabisch


Main research interests

  • Interdependencies between natural, social and built environment
  • Spatial consequences of demographic change
  • Urban vulnerability and resilience
  • Potentials and challenges of large housing estates
  • International comparative case studies about urban landuse change and socio-spatial differentiation

Current Projects

Heat Stress: Planetary Health Model for the Reduction of Heat Stress on the Neighbourhood Level (2022 − 2023)

uVITAL "User-Valued Innovations for Social Housing Upgrading through Trans-Atlantic Living Labs"
(2020 − 2022)

Interval Study „Housing and Living in Leipzig-Grünau 2020“ (2020 − 2022)


Publications (since 2010)

2026 (3)

2025 (2)

2024 (11)

2023 (7)

2022 (9)

2021 (6)

2020 (5)

2019 (6)

2018 (16)

2017 (7)

2016 (6)

2015 (10)

2014 (9)

2013 (4)

2012 (7)

2011 (6)

2010 (9)


Activities in the Scientific Community

  • Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board: Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) URBAN EUROPE, 2012 - 2022
  • Member of EU High Level Expert Group for the new Horizon 2020 Program on “Innovating Cities”

Curriculum Vitae

2009

Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Leipzig

2006-2008

Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University Leipzig

since 06/2004

Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology

2000-2004

Deputy Head of the Department of Economics, Sociology and Law

1997-1999

Head of the Department of Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology

1994-1996

Deputy Head of the Department of Landscape Ecology

since 1992

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ

1982-1991

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute for Sociology, University Leipzig, Germany

1982

PhD in Urban Sociology, University Leipzig, Germany

1979-1982

Research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, University Leipzig, Germany

1974-1978

Diploma in Economics/Sociology at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany


Completed external funding projects

Socio-demographic change in neighbourhoods of post-socialist European cities

Evaluating Environmental and Life Quality to analyse Urban Vulnerability in Santiago de Chile

CLUVA − Climate Change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa

Polish and German large housing estates yesterday, today and tomorrow

Risk Habitat Megacity, Research subject "Socio-spatial differentiation"

Housing and living conditions in the large housing estate Leipzig-Grünau" − 9. Survey within the long-term study, started in 1979

Social and spatial consequences of demographic change for East-Central European cities

Peri-urban land use relationships – Strategies for urban-rural linkages (PLUREL)

Monitoring of sustainability in shrinking cities

Urban Restructuring and Reduction of Land Consumption

Social Atlas of the City of Leipzig (UFZ/HGF)

Reduction of Housing Vacancy and Improvement of the Quality of Life − Sociological Investigations in the City of Weißwasser and in Leipzig-Grünau

Re Urban Mobil; Reurbanisation on Condition of Demographic Change

Social- and Environmental Atlas of the Region of Gran Concepcion, Chile

Images of the City of Johanngeorgenstadt from inside and outside

Characteristics and Perception of Urban Quality − Examples from Argentina and Germany (The Rising Number of Barrios Cerrados in Gran Mendoza)

Chances for Sustainable Development of the Housing Stock in big and smaller Cities in Saxony; Future Scenarios for Selected Residential Areas

Interdependencies between Social, Built and Natural Factors in Residential Areas

Revitalisation Strategies for Declined Communities adjacent the Open Mining Pit Espenhain

"Why and where residents move" − Housing survey in Leipzig, in cooperation with the City of Leipzig, 2013-2014 


Selected pdf-publications