Environmental Law & Governance
Dirk Arne Heyen
Senior Researcher
Special Expertise
Research focus: Social, societal, and strategic questions of climate & environmental policy.
In more detail:
- Characteristics of sociotechnical transitions / structural change, and governance options towards sustainability;
- Social effects, social justice issues and socially just governance options of climate / environmental policy / transitions (“just transition”, “climate justice”, “environmental justice”);
- Sustainable consumption (policy), incl. eco-sufficiency (policy);
- Acceptance & acceptability (factors) of climate/environmental policy measures;
- Social and policy/regulatory innovations.
Key Projects
- Transformative reorientation of regional structural policy within the German national funding system
- Advising the GIZ on Just Transition
- Social aspects of environmental policy - Sub-project 1: Analysis and environmental policy implications
- Public acceptability and political feasibility of regulating consumption
- EU Service contract on future EU Environment Policy
- Developing core elements of a concept of transformative environmental policy
- Trafo 3.0: Model for governing social-ecological transformation processes in practice
- Strategies for ecologically-driven structural change towards a Green Economy
- Exnovation governance: Organizing the phase-out of non-sustainable patterns and policies
- Regulatory Experimental Spaces for the Reflective and Adaptive Governance of Innovations
- Sufficiency: concept, necessity, potentials and political steering opportunities
Professional Training and Career
- Since 09/2011: Research fellow at Öko-Institut (Senior Researcher since 07/2016)
- 2010-2011: Postgraduate studies ‘MSc Environmental Regulation‘ at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Master thesis: “The influence of the EU’s chemicals regulation on the US policy reform debate: ‘California effect’ or out of REACH?”
- 2010: Research fellow at the University of Potsdam
- 2004-2009: Studies of political science at the University of Potsdam (including an exchange year at the Université Montpellier I); Diploma (Master equivalent) with distinction; Diploma thesis: “Negotiations between government and business as a basis for policy termination: An analysis of political steering capacity with regard to the phasing-out of nuclear energy and black coal subsidies”
Dirk A. Heyen has published articles in several academic journals (e.g. ‘Climate Policy’, ‘Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions’ and ‘Transnational Environmental Law’).
Language Skills
German, English, French
Contact
Dirk Arne Heyen
- Environmental Law & Governance
- Senior Researcher
- Berlin
- Oeko-Institut e.V.
- +49 30 405085-356
