Bernd Siebenhüner
Biographic Data
| ID | 6276296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernd Siebenhüner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernd |
| FAMILY NAME | Siebenhüner |
| SIGNATURE | SIEBENHÜNER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0444-5889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unpacking adaptation lock-ins: Explaining the persistence of the adaptation gap
Climate change adaptation is increasingly outpaced by accelerating climate risks, resulting in a persistent and widening adaptation gap. Many current interventions remain incremental and insufficient, failing to address the scale of transformation required. We argue that this shortfall is best understood through the concept of adaptation lock-ins—systemic constraints that both cause and result from maladaptation. These lock-ins generate self-rein…
Opening up and closing down citizen participation in the development of a sustainable neighborhood energy system
Advancing Sustainable Development: Sustainability Science Summit 2025
Against the backdrop of populist attacks on science and sustainable development, the Sustainability Science Summit 2025 focused on advancing sustainability transformations. With over 30 sessions structured around three high-level panel discussions, it addressed global challenges in sustainability science, the transformation of research practices, and the science-policy interface
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
Harvesting the fruits of transdisciplinary knowledge integration: The Egon project on commons-based organic fruit breeding
Evaluations on transdisciplinary research suggest that co-creation should place greater emphasis on the first steps of co-design. This report provides insights and reflections on a sustainable fruit breeding project initiated by practitioners.The research project EGON explored a new organizational approach in the fruit sector that builds upon common ownership and collective management: commons-based organic fruit breeding. As agricultural and bre…
Groundwater salinization in northwestern Germany: A case of anticipatory governance in the field of climate adaptation
Groundwater salinization due to sea-level rise is a problem that governance actors in coastal areas of the North Sea region have overseen for a long period. As an ecological problem associated with climate change, it can be severely exacerbated by careless water management. This paper studies governance processes, actor perspectives and responses to groundwater salinization and sea-level rise in the East Frisian and Frisian regions of the German …
Success factors of citizen energy cooperatives in north western Germany: A conceptual and empirical review
Integrating knowledge within and between knowledge types in transdisciplinary sustainability research: Seven case studies and an indicator framework
Transdisciplinary knowledge management: A key but underdeveloped skill in EBM decision-making
The ecosystem-based management (EBM) philosophy draws upon the principle that holistic understanding of the system to be governed needs to guide the decision-making process. However, empirical evidence is growing that knowledge integration is still a main bottleneck for EBM decision-makers. This paper argues that transdisciplinary knowledge management (TKM) is a key competence in achieving knowledge integration, while simultaneously it represents…
Conflicts in Transdisciplinary Research: Reviewing Literature and Analysing a Case of Climate Adaptation in Northwestern Germany
Social learning research in ecological economics: A survey
Can Politics Solve It? Consumers as Political Actors Kann die Politik es richten? Konsument(inn)en als politische Akteure
Navigating the anthropocene: The Earth System Governance Project strategy paper
Earth system governance: A research framework
The Earth System Science Partnership, which unites all major global change research programmes, declared in 2001 an urgent need to develop “strategies for Earth System management”. Yet what such strategies might be, how they could be developed, and how effective, efficient and equitable such strategies would be, remains unspecified. It is apparent that the institutions, organizations and mechanisms by which humans currently govern their relations…
The role of social learning in adaptiveness: Insights from water management
Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies
An examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. International bureaucracies—highly visible, far-reaching actors of global governance in areas that range from finance to the environment—are often derided as ineffective, inefficient, and unresponsive. Yet despite their prominence in many debates on world politics, little scholarly attention has been given to their actual influence in recen…
Research for Sustainability
Learning in International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance
In global environmental governance, numerous new international organizations have emerged from dozens of multilateral treaties signed over the last 30 years. This paper focuses on intergovernmental organizations in an organizational theory perspective with a particular focus on organizational learning processes. It explores where and when international organizations exhibit organizational learning with significant effects on the organizations' in…
The role of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice to the Convention on Biological Diversity as science–policy interface
Socio-Ecological Transformation of Economics – Problems, Potentials, and Perspectives Sozial-ökologische Transformation der Ökonomik – Probleme, Potentiale und Perspektiven
Mainstream economics has not yet fully responded to the challenges of sustainable development. The interactions between socio-economic and ecological systems require a transdisciplinary and solutionoriented approach, which is significantly different practice for most economists. We introduce the concept of "socio-ecological transformations" and investigate 1. how socio-ecological transformations can be described and analysed in economic terms, 2.…
Transdisciplinarity for social learning? The contribution of the German socio-ecological research initiative to sustainability governance
Innovationen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
Umfassende Innovationen sind Voraussetzung fÃ1⁄4r eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Hierzu zählen technische Innovationen zur ökologischen Optimierung von Prozessen und Produkten ebenso wie Dienstleistungsinnovationen und organisationale Innovationen zur Veränderung von Strukturen und Abläufen. Hinzu kommen institutionelle Innovationen zur Neugestaltung gesellschaftlicher Entscheidungsprozesse und zur Generierung zukunftsfähiger Märkte. Die Schaffung…
Implementing the access and benefit-sharing provisions of the CBD: A case for institutional learning
Introduction and overview to the special issue on biodiversity conservation, access and benefit-sharing and traditional knowledge
The role of computer modelling in participatory integrated assessments
Earth system governance: A research framework
The Earth System Science Partnership, which unites all major global change research programmes, declared in 2001 an urgent need to develop “strategies for Earth System management”. Yet what such strategies might be, how they could be developed, and how effective, efficient and equitable such strategies would be, remains unspecified. It is apparent that the institutions, organizations and mechanisms by which humans currently govern their relations…
The changing role of nation states in international environmental assessments—the case of the IPCC
The role of social learning in adaptiveness: Insights from water management
Navigating the anthropocene: The Earth System Governance Project strategy paper
Learning in International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance
In global environmental governance, numerous new international organizations have emerged from dozens of multilateral treaties signed over the last 30 years. This paper focuses on intergovernmental organizations in an organizational theory perspective with a particular focus on organizational learning processes. It explores where and when international organizations exhibit organizational learning with significant effects on the organizations' in…
The role of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice to the Convention on Biological Diversity as science–policy interface
How do scientific assessments learn
How do scientific assessments learn
Integrating knowledge within and between knowledge types in transdisciplinary sustainability research: Seven case studies and an indicator framework
Social learning research in ecological economics: A survey
The role of computer modelling in participatory integrated assessments
Learning to manage global environmental risks: A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion and acid rain
Debating concepts of human actors in ecological economics—a comment on Faber/Petersen/Schiller
How do scientific assessments learn
How do scientific assessments learn
The changing role of nation states in international environmental assessments—the case of the IPCC
Implementing the access and benefit-sharing provisions of the CBD: A case for institutional learning
Introduction and overview to the special issue on biodiversity conservation, access and benefit-sharing and traditional knowledge
The role of computer modelling in participatory integrated assessments
Innovationen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
Umfassende Innovationen sind Voraussetzung fÃ1⁄4r eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Hierzu zählen technische Innovationen zur ökologischen Optimierung von Prozessen und Produkten ebenso wie Dienstleistungsinnovationen und organisationale Innovationen zur Veränderung von Strukturen und Abläufen. Hinzu kommen institutionelle Innovationen zur Neugestaltung gesellschaftlicher Entscheidungsprozesse und zur Generierung zukunftsfähiger Märkte. Die Schaffung…
Socio-Ecological Transformation of Economics – Problems, Potentials, and Perspectives Sozial-ökologische Transformation der Ökonomik – Probleme, Potentiale und Perspektiven
Mainstream economics has not yet fully responded to the challenges of sustainable development. The interactions between socio-economic and ecological systems require a transdisciplinary and solutionoriented approach, which is significantly different practice for most economists. We introduce the concept of "socio-ecological transformations" and investigate 1. how socio-ecological transformations can be described and analysed in economic terms, 2.…
Transdisciplinarity for social learning? The contribution of the German socio-ecological research initiative to sustainability governance
Research for Sustainability
Learning in International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance
In global environmental governance, numerous new international organizations have emerged from dozens of multilateral treaties signed over the last 30 years. This paper focuses on intergovernmental organizations in an organizational theory perspective with a particular focus on organizational learning processes. It explores where and when international organizations exhibit organizational learning with significant effects on the organizations' in…
The role of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice to the Convention on Biological Diversity as science–policy interface
Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies
An examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. International bureaucracies—highly visible, far-reaching actors of global governance in areas that range from finance to the environment—are often derided as ineffective, inefficient, and unresponsive. Yet despite their prominence in many debates on world politics, little scholarly attention has been given to their actual influence in recen…
Navigating the anthropocene: The Earth System Governance Project strategy paper
Earth system governance: A research framework
The Earth System Science Partnership, which unites all major global change research programmes, declared in 2001 an urgent need to develop “strategies for Earth System management”. Yet what such strategies might be, how they could be developed, and how effective, efficient and equitable such strategies would be, remains unspecified. It is apparent that the institutions, organizations and mechanisms by which humans currently govern their relations…
The role of social learning in adaptiveness: Insights from water management
Can Politics Solve It? Consumers as Political Actors Kann die Politik es richten? Konsument(inn)en als politische Akteure
Social learning research in ecological economics: A survey
Conflicts in Transdisciplinary Research: Reviewing Literature and Analysing a Case of Climate Adaptation in Northwestern Germany
Transdisciplinary knowledge management: A key but underdeveloped skill in EBM decision-making
The ecosystem-based management (EBM) philosophy draws upon the principle that holistic understanding of the system to be governed needs to guide the decision-making process. However, empirical evidence is growing that knowledge integration is still a main bottleneck for EBM decision-makers. This paper argues that transdisciplinary knowledge management (TKM) is a key competence in achieving knowledge integration, while simultaneously it represents…
Success factors of citizen energy cooperatives in north western Germany: A conceptual and empirical review
Integrating knowledge within and between knowledge types in transdisciplinary sustainability research: Seven case studies and an indicator framework
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
Political science (22 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (19 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Knowledge management (10 works)