Science, Environment and Development Group

Dr. Juergen Weichselgartner
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
503 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-384-5737
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: juergen_weichselgartner "at" ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Juergen Weichselgartner is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development. His current research on social vulnerability to natural hazards is integrated in the “Vulnerability and Resilience in Practice” project (VARIP), led by Roger Kasperson at Clark University. As part of the larger project “Sustainability Science and Technology,” is work focuses on gaps and bridges in the science-practice interface in the area of coupled human-environment systems and the roles of vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity. Weichselgartner studied geography, political science, and ethnology in Heidelberg, Malta, Santander and Bonn (MS 1997) and completed his Ph.D. research (2001) at Bonn University with a system-theoretical analysis of the social discussion of natural risks. He has worked at Tokyo University (NENV), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the University of Bonn (GERG), and the University of Cantabria (CITIMAC). He conducted research on risk perception, disaster management, social vulnerability, and systems theory in various European and Asian countries and published several articles, book chapters, and books, most recently Der unruhige Planet: Der Mensch und die Naturgewalten (WBG). Weichselgartner is a recipient of the PhD Prize of the Franzke’sche Foundation Berlin, a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), two research fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and an ERASMUS and two Marie Curie Fellowships from the European Commission.