Streun, Leander - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

M. Sc. Leander Streun

Data Manager for the Research Unit Environment and Society

Contact

leander.streun@ufz.de

Departement of Urban and Environmental Sociology

Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig I Germany

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Societal Transformations
towards Sustainability

News

On the path to the resilient city

In August 2025, the preparatory phase of the project “Urban Resilience in Practice” started. The aim is to systematically combine existing knowledge and proven measures relating to urban resilience to develop possible solutions in collaboration with experts. The implementation project will start in spring 2026.

Mariana Madruga de Brito receives Arne Richter Award 2025

Mariana Madruga de Brito has received the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists. With it, the European Geosciences Union honours scientists for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The awards were celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2025, which was held from 27 April – 2 May.

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Publications

Fully revised new edition:
Groß, M.; McGoey, L.: Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. 2nd edition 2023 (Paperback 2024).

The REGREEN NBS Handbook (2024) "From concept to action for ecosystem restoration & urban resilience" provides a comprehensive overview of the REGREEN project‘s key findings and outcomes, focusing on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for urban sustainability in Europe and China. The handbook addresses crucial aspects of NbS design, implementation and governance.

Resilience is the concept of the moment. The coronavirus crisis, the flood disaster in the Ahr valley and the energy shortage have put resilience at the top of the political agenda, including in local authorities. The articles in the book "Die Resiliente Stadt. Konzepte, Konflikte, Lösungen" (ed. S. Kabisch, D. Rink, E. Banzhaf 2024) analyse how existing insights lead to action and how knowledge is used. A deeper understanding of the resilient city is developed by analysing different municipal fields of action.

The new Handbook of Environmental Sociology (ed. M. Sonnberger, A. Bleicher, M. Groß) offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the broad research field of nature-society relations. It introduces theoretical and methodological approaches in a national and international context and presents the state of research in various fields of environmental sociology. It also highlights the challenges and opportunities of environmental sociological research in co-operation with other disciplines.

New article online:

Sonnberger, M.; M. Pfeiffer, A. Bleicher, M. Gross (2024): Wake Effects and Temperature Plumes: Coping with Non-Knowledge in the Expansion of Wind and Geothermal Energy. Social Studies of Science 54 (6): 859-882. DOI: 10.1177/03063127241246551.

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