Dr. Dörte Ohlhorst
Room: B.264
Phone: 089/ 907793 - 222
E-Mail: doerte.ohlhorst(at)hfp.tum.de
CV
Dr. Doerte Ohlhorst has been a lecturer and leader of several research projects at the Munich School of Public Policy since 2017. Before, she was Managing Director of the Environmental Policy Research Center at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. From 2012 to 2016, she led the project "ENERGY TRANS" at the Environmental Policy Research Center, which investigated different aspects of governance of the energy transition in Germany and Europe. From 2009 to 2012, she was a research associate at the German Advisory Council for the Environment and Head of the Climate and Energy Department of the Centre for Technology and Society of the Technical University of Berlin. In 2011, she founded the Institute for Sustainable Use of Energy and Resources (iner e.V.) together with colleagues. She completed her dissertation at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science at Freie Universitaet Berlin on "Wind Energy in Germany" in 2008.
Her research focuses on energy, environmental and innovation policy, governance in the multilevel system, sustainability and participative decision-making processes as well as methods of interdisciplinary research.
5 Key Publications
Ohlhorst, Dörte; Schreurs, Miranda A. (2023): Global Sustainable Cities: Berlin Aims at Climate Neutrality. In: Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Katrina Miriam Wyman, and John J. Coughlin, Global Sustainable Cities: City Governments and Our Environmental Future. New York: New York University Press. Chapter 13. Pp 234-258.
Reitz, Sybille; Goshen, Lauren; Ohlhorst, Dörte (2022): Trade-Offs in German Wind Energy Expansion: Building Bridges Between Different Interests, Values and Priorities. In: Energy, Sustainability and Society (2022) 12:39.
Ohlhorst, Dörte (2020): Germany: from feed-in-tariffs to auctions and the question of diverse actors. In: Burger, C., Froggatt, A., Mitchell, C. and Weinmann, J. (eds.) Decentralised Energy — a Global Game Changer. Pp. 82–100. London: Ubiquity Press.
Hübner, Gundula; Pohl, Johannes; Warode, Jan; Gotchev, Boris; Nanz, Patrizia; Ohlhorst, Dörte; Krug, Michael; Salecki, Steven und Wolfgang Peters (2020): Akzeptanzfördernde Faktoren erneuerbarer Energien. Bonn/ Bad Godesberg: Bundesamt für Naturschutz. BfN Skripten 551.
Ohlhorst, Dörte (2019): Energiewende im Wärmesektor – noch ein langer Weg. In: Canzler, Weert; Radke, Jörg (Hrsg.): Energiewende. Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Einführung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. S. 171-192.