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Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs

Director

Ihnestraße 22 — Room 3.16
D-14195 Berlin

Phone: (+)49 - 30 - 838 56654
Fax: (+)49 - 30 - 838 56685

E-mail: Miranda.Schreurs@fu-berlin.de

Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs is the director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to this she was Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. Schreurs’ work focuses on comparative environmental politics and policy in Europe, the US, and East Asia. She was born and raised in the United States and has also lived for extended periods in Japan and Germany and briefly in the Netherlands. Her PhD is from the University of Michingan and her MA and BA from the University of Washington. She has also spent time researching or teaching at Harvard University, Utrecht University, the Freie Universität Berlin, Keio University, Chuo University, and Rikkyo University and has held fellowships from the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security Affairs, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
In July 2008 Miranda Schreurs was appointed to the German Advisory Council on the Environment.
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Key research areas

Environmental governance, climate change policy and politics, energy policy, German, EU, US and East Asian environmental policy

Courses Summer Term 2012

• HS Rollenspiel Klimapolitik
• Pk Vergleichende Energie- und Umweltpolitik (Teil I & II)
• Pk Comparative Social Movements (Teil I & II)
• V Comparative Politics: Local, National and International Perspectives
• C Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics
• C PhD Colloquium

 

Courses Summer Term 2011

• HS Rollenspiel Klimapolitik
• HS Environment and Energy Politics in East Asia
• Pk Comparative Social Movements (Teil 2)
• C International and Comparative Environment and Energy Politics
• C Environment and Climate Politics

 

Courses Winter Term 2010/11

• VL Introduction to Comparative Politics
• HS Rollenspiel Klimapolitik
• PK Comparative Social Movements
• PK International and Comparative Environmental Climate Policy
• C Colloquium für international vergleichende Energie- und Umweltpolitik

 

 

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Projects

Ongoing Projects

• RenErGo - Renewable Energy Governance in China and the EU

  Duration: 08/01/2009 - 07/31/2011

• EU-Canada Programme for Co-ooperation in Higher Education, Training and Youth: Civil Society Educational Network

  Duration: 10/01/2008 - 09/30/2012

• Transfer von Politikinstrumenten zur Stromeinsparung (TRANSPOSE)

  Duration: 04/01/2008 - 08/31/2011

• Confronting Social and Environmental Sustainability with Economic Pressure: Balancing Trade-offs by Policy Dismantling? (CONSENSUS)

  Duration: 03/01/2008 - 02/28/2011

Completed Projects

• Hindernisse und Potenziale einer Ressourceneffizienz-Strategie in russischen Regionen - Das Beispiel Energieversorgung in der Region Murmansk – Phase 1

  Duration: 04/20/2009 - 09/30/2009

• Cities, Climate Change, and Multilevel Governance

  Duration: 01/01/2009 - 12/31/2009

• Fulbright New Century Scholars Program „The Role of the University as Knowledge Center and Innovation Driver"

  Duration: 09/30/2008 - 06/30/2010

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Publications

2012

• 20th Anniversary of the Rio Summit: Taking a Look Back and at the Road Ahead

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2012

• Balancing Renewable Electricity: Energy Storage, Demand Side Management and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

  Droste-Franke, Bert / Paal, Boris / Rehtanz, Christian / Sauer, Dirk Uwe / Schneider, Jens-Peter / Schreurs, Miranda A. / Ziesemerm, Thomas - 2012

• Rio +20: Assessing Progress to Date and Future Challenges

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2012

• Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (review).

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2012

2011

• A Green New Deal: framing US climate leadership

  Schreurs, Miranda / Bang, Guri - 2011

• Climate Change Politics in an Authoritarian State: The Ambivalent Case of China

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2011

• Deutschland kann Vorreiter sein

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2011

• Doitsu ha Datsu Genpatsu wo Eranda

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2011

• Europas Rolle in der Welt - Der Weltgemeinschaft ein Beispiel geben

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2011

• Improving Governance Structures for Natural Disaster Management: Lessons from the Indian Ocean Tsunami

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2011

• Transboundary Cooperation to Address Acid Rain

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2011

• Transboundary Cooperation to Address Acid Rain Europe, North America, and East Asia Compared

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2011

2010

• Asia kara Kikohendo Mondai ni Tachimukao (Asia Facing Up to Climate Change)

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

• Climate Change Politics in the United States: Melting of the Ice

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

• Climate Change Politics under Barack Obama

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

• Climate Leadership, Japanese Style: Embedded Symbolism and Post-2001 Kyoto Protocol Politics

  Schreurs, Miranda A. / Tiberghien, Yves - 2010

• Environmental Policy Making in the European Union

  Axelrod, Regina / Schreurs, Miranda A. / Vig, Norman - 2010

• European Union Leadership in Climate Change: Mitigation through Multilevel Reinforcement

  Schreurs, Miranda A. / Tiberghien, Yves - 2010

• German Perspectives on Ecological Modernization, Technology Transfer, and Intellectual Property Rights in the Case of Climate Change

  Percival, Robert V. / Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

• GERMAN PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE CASE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

• Intellectual Property Rights and Green Technology Transfer German and US Perspectives

  Percival, Robert V. / Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

• Multi-level Governance and Global Climate Change in East Asia

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

• Multi-level Governance the ASEAN Way

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2010

2009

• Clean change in a crisis

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2009

• Conflict and Cooperation in Transatlantic Climate Politics: Different Stories at Different Levels

  Schreurs, Miranda / Selin, Henrik / VanDeveer, Stacy D. - 2009

• Environmental Security in Northeast Asia

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2009

• Expanding Transatlantic Relations: Implications for Environment and Energy Politics

  Schreurs, Miranda / Selin, Henrik / van Deveer, Stacy D. - 2009

• Germany’s Environmental Transformation: From Pollution Haven to Environmental Leader

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2009

• Niemieckie doswiadczenia z odnawialnymi zrodlami energii [Deutsche Erfahrungen mit erneuerbaren Energien]

  Jankowska, Karolina / Schreurs, Miranda / Ciach, Ryszard - 2009

• Problems and Prospects for Regional Environment Cooperation in East Asia

  Curley, Melissa / Thomas, Nicholas / Schreurs, Miranda - 2009

• The A to Z of the Green Movement (A to Z Guides)

  Schreurs, Miranda / Papadakis, Elim - 2009

• Transatlantic Environmental Relations: Implications for the Global Community

  Schreurs, Miranda / Selin, Henrik / VanDeveer, Stacy D. - 2009

• Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives

  Schreurs, Miranda / Selin, Henrik / van Deveer, Stacy D. (eds.) - 2009

2008

• A Comparative History of US and Japanese Environmental Movements

  Forrest, Richard / Schreurs, Miranda / Penrod, Rachel - 2008

• A Review of International Policy

  Schreurs, Miranda (guest editor) - 2008

• Book review of: Robert Pekkanen: Japan’s Dual Civil Society

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2008

• Frei Atmen! Umweltschutz und Wirtschaftswachstum: Das große chinesische Paradoxon

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2008

• From the Bottom Up: Local and Subnational Climate Change Politics

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2008

• Japan

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2008

• Lessons for Poland? Germany’s Experiences with Renewable Electricity

  Jankowska, Karolina / Schreurs, Miranda / Ciach, Ryszard - 2008

• Was uns die bisherigen Erfahrungen lehren.

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2008

• Wie grün wird das Weiße Haus?

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2008

2007

• An Energy Hungry China Starts to Look at Renewables.

  Schreurs, Miranda A./Forrest, Richard - 2007

• Chikyu Kankyo Mondai no Hiko Seijigaku: Nihon, Doitsu, Amerika.

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Chikyu Kankyu Mondai no Hiko Seiji gaku: Nihon, Doitsu, Amerika

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• East Asias Environmental Challenges and their Implications for Security and Regional Cooperation.

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Energy Security and Regional Stability in Northeast Asia.

  Shim, Sangsun/Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Environmental Crisis Management: A Comparative Perspective. (In Chinese).

  Schreurs, Miranda A./Percival, Robert - 2007

• Environmental Federalism in the United States and the Swing of the Pendulum from the Federal to the State Level.

  Schreurs, Miranda A./Epstein, Max W. - 2007

• Environmental Policy in Japan

  Imura, Hidefumi / Schreurs, Miranda - 2007

• Frei Atmen! Umweltschutz und wirtschaftswachstum-das große chinesische Paradoxen

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• High Noon in Japan: Embedded Symoblism and Post-2001 Kyoto Protocol Politics.

  Tiberghien, Yves/Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement. Second Edition.

  Schreurs, Miranda A./Papadakis, Elim - 2007

• Multi-level Reinforcement: Explaining EU Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation.

  Schreurs, Miranda A./Tiberghien, Yves - 2007

• Perspectives on Environmental Governance. (In Chinese).

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Regional Security and Cooperation in the Protection of Marine Environments in Northeast Asia.

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Renewable Energy: A Future in China?

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Renewable Energy Politics in the United States.

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• Sub-national Environmental Governance and the Politics of Climate Change.

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

• The Environmental Dimension of Asian Security: Conflict and Cooperation in Energy, Resources, and Pollution.

  Hyun, In-taek/Schreurs, Miranda A. (eds.) - 2007

• The Politics of Acid Rain in Europe.

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2007

2006

• Environmental Crisis Management: A Comparative Perspective

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2006

• Japan and Global Environmental Agreements: The Cases of the Montreal Protocol, the Biodiversity Convention, and the Kyoto Protocol

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2006

• Perspectives on Environmental Governance

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2006

• Problems and Prospects for Regional Environmental Cooperation in East Asia

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2006

2005

• Civil Society, International Relations and the Promotion of Environmental Cooperation in East Asia

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2005

• Environmental Policy in Japan

  Imura, Hidefumi / Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2005

• Environmental Policy-making in the Advanced Industrialized Countries: Japan, the European Union and the United States of America Compared

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2005

• Extinderea UE şi protecţia mediului

  Schreurs, Miranda - 2005

• Global Environment Threats and a Divided Northern Community: Case Studies of the Montreal Protocol, the Biodiversity Convention, and the Kyoto Protocol

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2005

• Japan in the Greenhouse: the Challenge of Addressing Rising Emissions

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 2005

1997

• The Internationalization of Environmental Protection

  Schreurs, Miranda A. - 1997

 

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