Dr. Simon Meisch works at the department »Ethics and Education« and is responsible for coordinating the interdisciplinary ethics teaching at the IZEW. He studied political science and modern German literature at the Universities of Tübingen and Edinburgh (Scotland) and wrote his doctorate in political science. After graduating, he worked at the IZEW, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS, Potsdam) and the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway) on ethical and epistemological research questions.
Approaches and methods of Application-oriented Ethics
Concepts and conceptions of sustainable development
Didactics of ethics, education for sustainable development, peace education
Post-normal Science
The role of the humanities in the discourse on sustainable development; environmental humanities
Water ethics, ethics in water research and water governance
Conceptions of water security; fair water security
March 2021-February 2022 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow am Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities der Universität Bergen |
Since 2020 | IZEW, Department “Ethics and Education” |
2018/2019 | Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam |
2013-2017 | IZEW, Head of Junior Research Group “Ethics of Science in the Research for Sustainable Development” |
2013 | PhD in Political Science, University of Tuebingen |
Winter term 2010/2011 | IZEW: Scientific Coordinator (Stand-In for Thomas Potthast) |
2009-2012 | IZEW, Project “Value Isobars. The Landscape and Isobars of European Values in Relation to Science and New Technology” |
2009 | IZEW, Project: “Verantwortung wahrnehmen” |
2007-2009 | IZEW, Managing Office |
2005-2007 | State Postgraduate Scholarship Programme, Baden-Württemberg |
2003-2005 | IZEW, Project: “State-wide Academic Supplementary Programme for the Introduction of the EPG” |
2000/2001 | DAAD annual scholarship, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) |
1996-2003 | Study of Political Science and Modern German Literature at the University of Tuebingen |
Meisch, S. (2014): Devolution in Schottland. Institutionelle Entwicklung zwischen Pfadabhängigkeit und graduellem Wandel (Baden-Baden: Nomos), 274 S.
Meisch, S., Brand, C., Müller, U. (eds., 2022): Ethik in Serie – Staffel 2 (Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing), 220 pp.
Bossert, L., Voget-Kleschin, L., Meisch, S. (eds., 2020): Damit gutes Leben mit der Natur einfacher wird. Suffizienzpolitik für Naturbewahrung (Marburg: Metropolis), 280 pp.
Meisch, S., Jäger, U.; Nielebock, T. (eds., 2018): Erziehung zur Friedensliebe. Annäherungen an ein Ziel aus der Landesverfassung Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Baden: Nomos), 330 pp.
Meisch, S., Hofer-Krucker Valderrama, S. (eds., 2018): Extremwetter. Konstellationen des Klimawandels in der Literatur der frühen Neuzeit (Baden-Baden: Nomos), 160 pp.
Nielebock, T., Meisch, S., Harms, V. (eds., 2012): Zivilklauseln in Forschung, Lehre und Studium. Hochschulen zum Frieden verpflichtet (Baden-Baden: Nomos), 344 pp.
Bremer, S., Meisch, S.P., Hempel, M., Dunn-Sigouin, E. (2024): Adapting seasonal beekeeping patterns in western Norway. In: Time & Society, Special Issue: Contesting Seasonal Orders.
Meisch, S. (2024): Extended peer communities: Creating good and fair knowledges. In: Futures 163, 103455.
Meisch, S., Bremer, S., Young, M.T., Funtowicz, S. (2022): Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making. In: Futures 135, 102868.
Bruns, A., Meisch, S., Ahmed, A., Meissner, R., Romero-Lankao, P. (2022): Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective. In: Geoforum 133, 79-88.
Hanusch, F., Meisch, S. (2022): The temporal cleavage: the case of populist retrotopia vs. climate emergency. In: Environmental Politics 31(5), 883-903.
Meisch, S., Hofer-Krucker Valderrama, S., Lang, S. (2022): Klimawandel im Literaturunterricht, in: Digitale Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Hochschulbildung, ed. by Weselek, J., Kohler, F., Siegmund, A. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 179-191.
Bremer, S., Glavovic, B., Meisch, S., Schneider, P., Wardekker, A. (2021): Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact. In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 12(6), e739.
Meisch, S., Voget-Kleschin, L., Eser, U., Ott, K., Potthast, T., Stolpe, G. (2021): Vilmer Thesen 2019: Naturschutz und politische Strategien. In: Natur und Landschaft 96(6), 306-311.
Kalfagianni, A., Meisch, S. (2020): Epistemological and ethical understandings of access and allocation in Earth System Governance: a 10-year review of the literature. In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 20, 203-221.
Meisch, S., Stark, M. (2019): Recirculation Aquaculture Systems: Sustainable Innovations in Organic Food Production? In: Food Ethics 4(1), 67-84.
Meisch, S. (2019): I Want to Tell You a Story. How Narrative Water Ethics Contributes to Re-theorizing Water Politics. In: Water 11(4), 631.
Bremer, S., Meisch, S. (2017): Co-production in climate change research: reviewing different perspectives. In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 8(6), 1-22.
Leese, M., Meisch, S. (2015): Securitising sustainability? Questioning the ‘water, energy and food-security nexus’. In: Water Alternatives 8(1), 584-598.
Bergleiter, S., Meisch, S. (2015): Certification Standards for Aquaculture Products. Bringing together the Values of Producers and Consumers in Globalised Organic Food Markets. In: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28(3), 553-569.
Meisch, S., Hofer-Krucker Valderrama (2024): Am Beispiel von Martha. In: z.B. Zeitschrift zum Beispiel 6, 121-139.
Meisch, S. (2024): I have bee-s/-n up there, in: Changing Seasonality: How Communities are Revising their Seasons, ed. by Bremer, S. & Wardekker, A. (Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter), 187-191.
Müller, U., Meisch, S. (2023): Ethik in der Schulpraxis: Klassenleiterstunde zum Thema Cybermob-bing, in: Klasse 6b. Eine Unterrichtswoche. Bildungswissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Analysen, ed. by Syring, M., Beck, N.; Bohl, T., Tesch, B. (Tübingen: Tübingen University Press), 349-359.
Meisch, S. (2022): Dark – Erzählen ‚insight out‘, in: Ethik in Serie – Staffel 2, ed. by Meisch, S., Brand, C. Müller, U. (Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing), 45-60.
Hofer-Krucker Valderrama, S., Meisch, S. (2018): Extremwetter: Konstellationen des Klimawandels in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit. In: Extremwetter. Konstellationen des Klimawandels in der Lite-ratur der frühen Neuzeit, ed. by Meisch, S., Hofer-Krucker Valderrama, S. (Baden-Baden: Nomos), 9-64.
Meisch, S. (2017): What is and to what end do we study Water Ethics? Lessons for the Water Ethics Charter, in: Global Water Ethics: Towards a Water Ethics Charter, ed. by Ziegler, R., Groenfeldt, D. (London: Routledge), 37-56.
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