Dr. Niko Schäpke

Dr. Niko Schäpke

University of Freiburg
Sustainability Sciences

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2024 – September 2027

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E-Mail: Niko.schaepke@ifp.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Niko Schäpke received a combined BSc and MSc in environmental sciences as well as a combined BA and MA in economics from Leuphana University Lüneburg, before graduating with a PhD in philosophy at the same university in 2018. He was Post-Doc at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and fellow at MISTRA sustainable consumption program. Since 2020 assistant professor (German: akad. Rat) at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and from 2023-2024 additionally senior research associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability, Potsdam, Germany. In his research, Niko combines the experimental and the relational turn in sustainability science. His research interests are principles, settings and methods of transdisciplinary research, including real-world labs and transition management, as well as understanding and catalyzing human agency and inner-outer transformations for sustainability. Niko teaches in the areas of research design, methods of social sustainability science and global environmental politics and enjoys projects based and learner centered teaching. He is member of the coordination circle of the Network ´Reallabore der Nachhaltigkeit´, institutional representative of Freiburg University in the German Society for Participatory and Transdisciplinary Research, and member of the Transformations Community and Sustainability Transitions Research Network.

Selected Publications

N Schäpke, R Beecroft, M Wanner, F Wagner, R Rhodius, P Laborgne, O Parodi (2024): Gaining deep leverage? Reflecting and shaping impacts of real-world labs through leverage points. GAIA 33/S1: 116 – 124. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.S1.17
C Ives, N Schäpke, C Woiwode, C Wamsler (2023): IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice. In: Sustainability Science, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01368-3
K Mar, N Schäpke, C Fraude, T Bruhn, C Wamsler, D Stasiak, H Schröder, M Lawrence (2023): Learning and community building in support of collective action: towards a new climate of communication at the COP. In: WIRES Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.832
M Bergmann, N Schäpke, O Marg, F Stelzer, DJ Lang, et al. (2021): Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Real-World Labs – Success Factors and Methods for Change. In: Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00886-8
I Fazey, N Schäpke, C Caniglia, J Patterson, J Hultman, …, Wyborn, C. (2018): Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research. In: Energy Research and Social Science (40): 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.026.

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