Andreas Klinke, MA (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Doctor Degree (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Professor & Director of EPI, Environmental Policy Institute (EPI) - Master of Arts in Environmental Policy
Email: aklinke@grenfell.mun.ca
Phone: 709-639-4307
Research interests/expertise
Social science risk research; Risk governance; Global governance; Cosmopolitanism; Philosophy and sociology of uncertainty; Democracy theory and practice.
Teaching
Environmental policy; Risk assessment and analysis; Global governance.
Representative scholarly contributions
Recent publications:
- Klinke, A. 2025. A Theory of Uncertainty. Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research. London and New York: Routledge.
- Klinke, A. 2022. New Enlightenment Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitan Democracy. In Peter A. Wilderer, et al., eds. Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 345–372.
- Klinke, A. 2021. Public Understanding of Risk and Risk Governance. Journal of Risk Research 24 (1), 2–13.
- Klinke, A., ed. 2021. Special Issue of Risk Analysis “40 Years of Social Sciences in Risk Research Reconsidered”. Vol. 41, No. 3.
- Klinke, A. and O. Renn. 2021. The Coming of Age of Risk Governance. Risk Analysis 41 (3), 544–557.
- Klinke, A., O. Renn and R. Goble. 2021. Prologue: The “Brave New World” of Social Sciences in Interdisciplinary Risk Research. Risk Analysis 41 (3), 407–413.
- Klinke, A. 2020. Cosmopolitan Governance for Sustainable Global Energy Transformation: Democratic, Participatory-Deliberative, Multilayered. In O. Renn, F. Ulmer and A. Deckert, eds. The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions. London: Elsevier, 105-119.
Current research projects and grants
- SSHRC Insight Grant: methodological Cosmopolitanism.
Awards and recognitions
- Member of the Center for International Development and Environmental Research, University of Giessen, Germany (since 2020)
- Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany (2017-2018)
Honours, graduate and post-graduate supervision
- Several master and PhD supervisions