Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources

Chair of Environmental Planning and Transformation

At the Chair of Environmental Planning and Transformation, we work as an interdisciplinary team on the goals, content, concepts, and instruments of spatial and environmental planning in the context of sustainable development.

We understand sustainability as a dual imperative of justice (intra- and intergenerational justice) and integration, which seeks to consistently overcome disciplinary and sectoral boundaries.

We address socio-ecological crises that stand in the way of sustainable development as spatially effective crises of social relations with nature. We examine these theoretically and empirically in our research, publications, and qualification work, and bring them together in the research program on social spatial relations.

This includes research on theories and methods of spatial and environmental planning, ontological and epistemological questions on nature-society relations, and work on spatial transformations using the example of different policy and thematic areas. The category of gender is integrated into the research and teaching of the professorship as an analytical and creative perspective. Teaching at the Chair of Environmental Planning and Transformation is aimed at both the bachelor’s program in Environmental Sciences (integrated minor in Environmental Social Sciences) and the master’s programs in Environmental Governance (MEG) and Environmental Sciences (profile line Land Use and Nature Conservation). The Land Use and Nature Conservation profile line is headed by Prof. Dr. Tanja Mölders.