Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs
Academic Career and Research Areas
Professor Schreurs conducts research on climate and environmental governance, including the low-carbon transformation of energy and transport systems, national and urban sustainability, and plastic waste and pollution reduction. She examines how governments, industries, and civil society balance competing interests, power, and resources at global, national, and local scales to address pressing problems of the global commons.
Professor Miranda Schreurs (PhD, University of Michigan) has held the Chair of Climate and Environmental Policy at the Technical University of Munich since 2016. From 2007 to 2016, she was Director of the Environmental Policy Research Center and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Free University of Berlin, and prior to that, she was Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Maryland. She also spent three years at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Awards
- Honorary Doctorate für contributions to global environmental protection, Tel Aviv Univ. (Mai 2025)
- TUM Sustainability Award (2023)
- Co-Chair, Citizen’s Oversight Committee Accompanying the Search for a High-level Radioactive Waste Repository (2016-2025)
- China Council for International Environment and Development, Task Forces (2006-7, 2014, 2020-21, 2025-)
- Elected Chair of German Representation to the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (2025)
Key Publications
Thomas Sattich, Espen Moe, Marco Grasso, Schreurs, M. and Shaohua Yan Eds. 2025 De Gruyter Handbook of Ocean Governance and Maritime Affairs. De Gruyter.
AbstractSchreurs, M. 2024. “Jockeying for Climate Leadership Amidst Rising Global Tensions: China, the United States, and the European Union,” in Sebastian Biba, Europe in an Era of US-China Strategic Rivalry: Challenges and Opportunities from an Outside-in Perspective, Springer, pp. 243-264.
AbstractJens Marquardt and Schreurs, M. 2023. “Governing the Climate Crisis: Three Challenges for SDG 13,” in Lena Partzsch, ed. The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance: Perceptions, Actors, Innovations, Bristol Univ. Press, pp. 21-46.
AbstractSchreurs, M. 2023. “Implications of the Russian War on Ukraine for Climate Policy and the Geopolitics of Energy,” Canadian Journal of Russian and European Studies, 162: 90-113. doi.org/10.22215/cjers.v16i2.2765.
AbstractSchreurs, M. 2002. Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
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