Dr. Katrin Beer

Resumé

Dr. Katrin Beer worked as a project assistant in the Power2U project (interdisciplinary joint project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)) at the Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at HfP/TUM from January 2022 to January 2025. Her research focused on energy policy, bioeconomy, circular economy and sustainability transformation.

In the Power2U project, she worked on the influence of political framework conditions on the scope for action of private households in rural areas and on their opportunities to participate in the energy transition. The focus was on investments in the areas of heating (efficiency measures and conversion of heating technology on heat pumps in single-family homes/existing buildings by owners) and mobility (purchase of an e-car as an alternative to a combustion car).

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Publications

5 Key Publications

Beer, K., Böcher, M., Ganzer, C., Blöbaum, A., Engel, L., Paula Sieverding, T. de, Sundmacher, K., & Matthies, E. (2024). Forest-Based Bioeconomy and Bio-Based Chemical Production in the European Union. How Defossilization Changes Policy Issues, Institutions, Actors, and Instruments in a Forest Policy Subsystem. preprint article. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4904040 

Matthies, E., Beer, K., Böcher, M., Sundmacher, K., König-Mattern, L., Arlinghaus, J., Blöbaum, A., Jaeger-Erben, M., & Schmidt, K. (2024). Framework conditions for the transformation toward a sustainable carbon-based chemical industry – A critical review of existing and potential contributions from the social sciences. Journal of Cleaner Production, 470, 143279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143279 

Haefner, G., Kastner, I., Deuß, A., Meier, J.-N., Beer, K., Schmidt, K., Lehmann, P., & Matthies, E. (2024). How can energy-relevant investment decisions be boosted? The role of events as initiators and drivers of the decision process. Energy Research & Social Science, 117, 103710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103710 

Svitnič, T., Beer, K., Sundmacher, K., & Böcher, M. (2024). Optimal design of a sector-coupled renewable methanol production amid political goals and expected conflicts: Costs vs. land use. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 44, 123–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2023.12.003 

Blöbaum, A., Engel, L., Beer, K., Böcher, M., & Matthies, E. (2023). Nature Conservation versus Climate Protection: A Basic Conflict of Goals Regarding the Acceptance of Climate Protection Measures? Frontiers in Psychology - Environmental Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1114677 

All publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=lbQBJBQAAAAJ

Research Projects

Power2U