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Heike Schroeder is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a focus on intersections between sustainability and societal transformations.

Their work concentrates on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Building and Construction. This diverse disciplinary base supports investigations into the complex dynamics of environmental governance and societal responses to climate change.

Key topics in their research include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Policy Transfer and Learning, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Mining and Resource Management, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Global Environmental Change
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Energy Sustainability and Society

Heike Schroeder has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, notably Carolin Fraude, Christine Wamsler, Niko Schäpke, Dorota Stasiak, and Thomas Bruhn.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Environmental Justice and Transformations to Sustainability" (2020) in Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
  • "Enabling new mindsets and transformative skills for negotiating and activating climate action: Lessons from UNFCCC conferences of the parties" (2020) in Environmental Science & Policy
  • "How to avoid unjust energy transitions: insights from the Ruhr region" (2022) in Energy Sustainability and Society
  • "Building authority and legitimacy in transnational climate change governance: Evidence from the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force" (2020) in Global Environmental Change
  • "Creating space for reflection and dialogue: Examples of new modes of communication for empowering climate action" (2021) in GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

Best Publications

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Methodology and applications of city level CO2 emission accounts in China

    Yuli Shan;Dabo Guan;Jianghua Liu;Zhifu Mi

  • Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond the International Regime

    Chukwumerije Okereke;Harriet Bulkeley;Heike Schroeder

  • Governing and implementing REDD

    Esteve Corbera;Esteve Corbera;Heike Schroeder

  • Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers

    Oran R. Young;Leslie A. King;Heike Schroeder

  • Earth system governance: A research framework

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Michele M. Betsill;Joyeeta Gupta;Joyeeta Gupta;Norichika Kanie

  • City-level climate change mitigation in China

    Yuli Shan;Yuli Shan;Dabo Guan;Dabo Guan;Klaus Hubacek;Klaus Hubacek;Bo Zheng;Bo Zheng

  • Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet. Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project.

    F. Biermann;M. Betsill;J. Gupta;N. Kani

  • Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research

    Sonja Klinsky;J. Timmons Roberts;Saleemul Huq;Chukwumerije Okereke

  • Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet

    Frank Biermann;Michele M. Betsill;Joyeeta Gupta

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Multiactor Governance and the Environment

    Peter Newell;Philipp Pattberg;Heike Schroeder

  • Agency in international climate negotiations: the case of indigenous peoples and avoided deforestation

    Heike Schroeder

  • A portfolio approach to analyzing complex human-environment interactions:Institutions and land change

    Oran R. Young;Eric F. Lambin;Frank Alcock;Helmut Haberl

  • Operationalizing social safeguards in REDD+: actors, interests and ideas

    Constance L. McDermott;Lauren Coad;Ariella Helfgott;Heike Schroeder

  • Global land governance: from territory to flow?

    Thomas Sikor;Graeme Auld;Anthony J. Bebbington;Tor A. Benjaminsen

  • Beyond state/non-state divides: Global cities and the governing of climate change

    Harriet Bulkeley;Heike Schroeder

  • Non-state actors in hybrid global climate governance: justice, legitimacy, and effectiveness in a post-Paris era

    Jonathan William Kuyper;Björn‐Ola Linnér;Heike Schroeder

  • The role of non-nation-state actors and side events in the international climate negotiations

    Heike Schroeder;Heather Lovell

  • Cities and Climate Change: The role of institutions, governance and urban planning

    Harriet Bulkeley;Heike Schroeder;Kathryn B. Janda;Jimin Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Louis Lebel
Louis Lebel Chiang Mai University
Zhifu Mi
Zhifu Mi University College London
Zhu Liu
Zhu Liu Tsinghua University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Jing Meng
Jing Meng University College London

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