Dr. Annegret Kindler
Contact
Dr. Annegret Kindler
Senior Scientist
Department Urban & Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research – UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: ++49 341 235 1737
Fax: ++49 341 235 45 1737
Annegret Kindler
Working groups
Current projects
FUSE: Food – water – energy for Urban Sustainable Environments
FUSE: Food – water – energy for Urban Sustainable Environments (lead partner)
(2018-2021)
Integrated Project (IP) "Urban Transformations: sustainable urban development towards resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience"
WP1: Urban land-use changes and ecosystem services
WP2: Urban vulnerability and resilience to environmental risks
(POF 3, Topic 1, 2014-2020)
Completed projects
- Evaluating Environmental and Life Quality to analyse Urban Vulnerability in Santiago de Chile (2011-2013)
- Urban land use conflicts and options (2009-2013)
- Mega-Trend Urbanisation: Vulnerability and Environmental Risks (2009-2013)
- Project “Risk Habitat Megacity”, sub-project Land-Use Management (2007-2011)
- Monitoring of sustainability in shrinking cities (2006-2008)
- European Landscape Character Assessment Initiative (ELCAI) (2003-2005)
- Development of a Social and Environmental Atlas of Gran Concepción, Chile (2001-2005)
- Sustainable water resource management and land use in the catchment area of the river Elbe (1997-2001)
- "Shrinking Cities – Leipzig " (1996-2000)
- Concepts of environmentally compatible and socially acceptable development of urban regions (1996-2000)
- Landscape development, landscape balance and multiple use in the landscape of the Bitterfeld-Dessau-Wittenberg region (1995-2000)
- Development of the Social Atlas of Leipzig (1994-1997)
- Development of a Socio-economic Atlas of Gran Mendoza, Argentina (1994-1998)
- Urban ecological structural change in the urban region of Leipzig and its importance for the urban development (1992-1995)
Professional and Academic Career
2003 - 2016
Equal Opportunity Commissioner of the UFZ
since 1992
Senior scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
1990
PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Cartography, Academy of Sciences of the GDR
1980 - 1991
Scientist at the Institute for Geography and Geoecology at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
1975 - 1980
1975-1980 Studies in Cartography (degree „diploma“ – equivalent to M.Sc.), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Areas of expertise and research
- Investigation of urban development processes under the conditions of growth, shrinkage and demographic change
- Monitoring of land-use changes and socio-spatial differentiation processes
- Investigation of the environmental quality and quality of life in urban areas
- Environmental justice
- Methods: quantitative methods, GIS, cartographic modelling
Publications
2022 (1)
- Karutz, R., Omann, I., Gorelick, S.M., Klassert, C.J.A., Zozmann, H., Zhu, Y., Kabisch, S., Kindler, A., Figueroa, A.J., Wang, A., Küblböck, K., Grohs, H., Burek, P., Smilovic, M., Klauer, B. (2022):
Capturing stakeholders’ challenges of the food-water-energy nexus - A participatory approach for Pune and the Bhima Basin, India
Sustainability 14 (9), art. 5323 10.3390/su14095323
2020 (1)
- Banzhaf, E., Kollai, H., Kindler, A. (2020):
Mapping urban grey and green structures for liveable cities using a 3D enhanced OBIA approach and vital statistics
Geocarto Int. 35 (6), 623 - 640 10.1080/10106049.2018.1524514
2019 (1)
- Wang, J., Xu, C., Pauleit, S., Kindler, A., Banzhaf, E. (2019):
Spatial patterns of urban green infrastructure for equity: A novel exploration
J. Clean Prod. 238 , art. 117858 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117858
2018 (4)
- Kabisch, S., Kindler, A., Kirschner, H., Söding, M. (2018):
Leipzigs kleinere Großwohnsiedlungen im Blick : Straße des 18. Oktober, Marienbrunn, Lößnig, Dölitz, Großzschocher, Möckern, Gohlis-Nord, Mockau-West, Mockau-Ost, Thekla, Schönefeld, Sellerhausen, Paunsdorf/Kiebitzmark
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 63 S. - Kabisch, S., Kindler, A., Zerjeski, H., Söding, M. (2018):
Leipzigs kleinere Großwohnsiedlungen - Merkmale und Potenziale
Statistischer Quartalsbericht/ Stadt Leipzig 3/2018
Stadt Leipzig, Amt für Statistik und Wahlen, Leipzig, S. 23 - 31 - Kindler, A., Klimeczek, H.-J., Franck, U. (2018):
Socio-spatial distribution of airborne outdoor exposures – An indicator for environmental quality, quality of life, and environmental justice: The case study of Berlin
In: Kabisch, S., Koch, F., Gawel, E., Haase, A., Knapp, S., Krellenberg, K., Nivala, J., Zehnsdorf, A. (eds.)
Urban transformations - Sustainable urban development through resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience
Future City 10
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 257 - 279 10.1007/978-3-319-59324-1_14 - Otto, P., Kellner, R., Kindler, A., Zehnsdorf, A. (2018):
Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung, Ökologie und Morphologie der Elodea- und Myriophyllum-Arten der Leipziger Region
Berichte der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sächsischer Botaniker Neue Folge 23 , 33 - 69
2017 (1)
- Banzhaf, E., Kabisch, S., Knapp, S., Rink, D., Wolff, M., Kindler, A. (2017):
Integrated research on land-use changes in the face of urban transformations – an analytic framework for further studies
Land Use Pol. 60 , 403 - 407 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.11.012
2016 (1)
- Kindler, A., Banzhaf, E., Reyes-Paecke, S., Weiland, U., Müller, A. (2016):
Escenarios para ordenamiento territorial y gestión del riesgo por inundación
In: Barton, J.R., Kopfmüller, J. (eds.)
Santiago 2030 : escenarios para la planificacion estrategica
RiL Editores, Santiago, p. 131 - 160
2015 (1)
- Kindler, A. (2015):
Internationale Stadtforschung
Leipzigs Wandel im Spiegel der Stadtforschung am UFZ
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, S. 36 - 37
2014 (4)
- Banzhaf, E., de la Barrera, F., Kindler, A., Reyes-Paecke, S., Schlink, U., Welz, J., Kabisch, S. (2014):
A conceptual framework for integrated analysis of environmental quality and quality of life
Ecol. Indic. 45 , 664 - 668 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.06.002 - Franck, U., Klimeczek, H.-J., Kindler, A. (2014):
Social indicators are predictors of airborne outdoor exposures in Berlin
Ecol. Indic. 36 , 582 - 593 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.08.023 - Franck, U., Klimeczek, H.-J., Kindler, A. (2014):
Airborne exposure related health effects in urban environments are socio-spatially distributed
In: Oliveira, S., Nunes, R., Carvailhais, S., Freitas, R. (eds.)
Proceedings book 3rd International Congress on Environmental Health 2014 (ICEH 2014), Porto, Portugal, 24th to 26th September 2014. Emerging risks and challanges on environment, heath and safety
Allied Health Sciences School of Polytechnic Institute, Porto, p. 106 - 107 - Schlink, U., Kindler, A., Großmann, K., Schwarz, N., Franck, U. (2014):
The temperature recorded by simulated mobile receptors is an indicator for the thermal exposure of the urban inhabitants
Ecol. Indic. 36 , 607 - 616 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.09.017