Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Prof. Dr. Martin Jänicke

Prof. Dr. Martin Jänicke

Affiliate Scholar

Prof. Dr. Martin Jänicke: married, two children. 40 years of experience as professor for comparative politics, scientific author and senior policy advisor. 1974-76 advisor of the planning staff of the Chancellor's Office. 1980- Member of the Berlin state parliament and member the German UNESCO Commission. 1986-2007 Director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin. 1999-2008 member and Vice President (2000-2004) of the government Expert Council on the Environment. Expert Reviewer / Review Editor of the IPCC (4th and 5th Assessment Report), member of the International Advisory Board of the Wuppertal Institute and of the Board of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt. 2004 and 2011-12 Advisor of the Chinese government. 2011 member of the Enquete Commission of the German Federal Parliament on "Growth, Wealth and Quality of Life". Since 2013 member of the Advisory group on Innovation and Technology Analysis of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Publications at the RIFS

Publications prior to joining the RIFS

Books:

  • Jänicke, Martin: Megatrend Umweltinnovation. Zur ökologischen Modernisierung von Wirtschaft und Staat, München: Oekom-Verlag 2008, 2. Ed. 2012.
  • Jänicke, Martin / Jacob, Klaus (Eds.): Environmental Governance in Global Perspective - New Approaches to Ecological and Political Modernisation: Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin 2006, 2. Ed. 2007. Chinese Translation 2012.
  • Jänicke, Martin / Kunig, Philip / Stitzel, Michael: Umweltpolitik. Politik, Recht und Management des Umweltschutzes in Staat und Unternehmen. Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz Nachf. 2003 (2. edition), 455 S.
  • Weidner, Helmut / Jänicke, Martin (eds.): Capacity Building in National Environmental Policy. A comparative Study of 17 Countries. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York u.a.: Springer Verlag 2002, 443 S.
  • Jänicke, Martin / Weidner, Helmut (eds.): National Environmental Policies. A Comparative Study of Capacity-Building. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York u.a.: Springer Verlag 1997, 320 S.
  • Jänicke, Martin / Weidner, Helmut (eds.): Succesful Environmental Policy. A Critical Evaluation of 24 cases. Berlin: Edition Sigma 1995, 411 S. [Translation: Japan (1998)] Jänicke, Martin: State-Failure. The Impotence of Politics in Industrial Society. Cambridge: Polity Press 1990, 171 S. [Original: Staatsversagen (1986), Translations: Japan (1992), Greece (1992)]
  • Jänicke, Martin: Preventive Environmental Policy as Ecological Modernisation and Structural Policy. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (IIUG dp 85-2), 1985.

Selected Articles:

  • Jänicke, Martin: "Green Growth": From a Growing Eco-Industry to Economic Sustainability, Energy Policy 48 (2012), 13-21.
  • Jänicke, Martin: Dynamic Governance of Clean-Energy Markets: How Technical Inno-vation Could Accelerate Climate Policies, Journal of Cleaner Production 22 (2012), 50-59. Jänicke, Martin / Lindeman, Stefan: Governing Environmental Innovations. In: Environmental Politics, 19 (2010): 1, 127-141.
  • Jänicke, Martin: Ecological Modernisation: New Perspectives, In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 (2007), 5, 557-64.
  • Jänicke, Martin: Trend Setters in Environmental Policy: The Character and Role of Pioneer Countries. In: Europe
  • Jänicke, Martin / Jörgens, Helge: National Environmental Policy Planning in OECD Countries: Preliminary Lessons from Cross-National Comparisons. In: Environmental Politics, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1998, S. 27-54.
  • Jänicke, Martin /. Mönch, Harald / Ranneberg, Thomas: Structural Change and Environmental Impact. In: Intereconomics, Vol. 24 (1989), No. 1, 24-35.

2017 (1. H.)

  • 27. 1. „Think Tanks in der Politikberatung (Einführung)", Stiftung Mercator, Workshop T20: Die wachsende Bedeutung von Think Tanks in G20.
  • 2. 2. „Zeitenwende in China: Ressourcen, Umwelt und Klima", Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing , Tagung: Gesellschaftliche Umbrüche.
  • 9.2. „Multi-level Global Climate Governance: The Model and its Present Reality", Conferencia em Politicas Publicas, Sociologia e Servico Social, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.
  • 10.5. "Frugale Technik: Kannibalisierung oder Koexistenz?" Fraunhofer IMV, Leipzig.
  • 15.6. „Multi-level Global Climate Governance: The Model and its Present Reality", FU-Berlin.
  • 30.6. "Germany and China: Two Drivers of the 'Green Industrial Revolution'", Xining, China.

  • Visiting Professsor of the Qinghai Normal University 2017
  • Prize of the Naturschutzstiftung Berlin 1998
  • Urban Mining Award 2013