TT-Prof. Dr. Franziska Meinherz

TT-Prof. Dr. Franziska Meinherz

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
    Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
    Kaiserstr. 12
    76131 Karlsruhe
    Germany

Franziska Meinherz

Head of the research group Urban and mobility geography

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Topics

  • (Un)sustainable mobility practices
  • Mobility justice
  • (Urban) mobility transformations
  • Urban governance
  • Sustainable development

CV

since Oct 2024 Tenure-track professor for urban and mobility geography at the Institute for geography and geoecology at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
2022-2024 Postdoc in the Transforming Mobility and Society (TraMS) Lab at the Department of Science, Technology and Society at TU Munich

Responsible of a work package of the project „Transformative Mobility experiments“ of the BMBF-Clusters4Future Cluster MCube – Munich Cluster for the future of mobility in metropolitan regions
2021-2022 Postdoc in the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) at ETH Lausanne

PI of the project “The potential of tactical urbanism to leverage urban sustainability transitions”
2021-2022 Postdoc in the Observatoire universitaire du vélo et des mobilités actives (OUVEMA) at Lausanne University
2016-2021 Doctoral candidate in the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) at ETH Lausanne

Doctoral thesis on urban mobility practices
2014-2016 Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in System Dynamics (Nova University Lisbon, Bergen University, Radboud University)
2010-2013 Bachelor in socio-economics (Geneva University)
2012 Exchange semester (Boston University)

Publications


Chur: Das Paradox einer Stadt für 150 Täler
Meinherz, F.
2024. Die Schweiz von A(rbon) bis Z(ug) : Porträt in 12 Städten. Ed.: M. Felder, EPFL Press 
“The crisis justified the urgency, but now we have to go back to the rule of law”: Urban mobility governance during Covid-19
Meinherz, F. X.; Fritz, L.
2024. Environmental Politics, 33 (3), 508–529. doi:10.1080/09644016.2023.2242741 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Coire : le paradoxe d’une ville pour 150 vallées
Meinherz, F.
2024. La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug): Portrait en 12 villes. Ed: M. Felder, EPFL Press 
Urban mobility policy in pandemic times: : An exploration of how Covid-19 affected policy framings and priorities in eight European cities
Meinherz, F. X.; Wentland, A.
2024. Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit, S3, 9–29. doi:10.17879/sun-2024-5270 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Die experimentelle Stadt: Ent- oder (Re)politisierung städtischer Transformationen?
Meinherz, F.; Mögele, M.; Nitschke, L.; Marquardt, E.; Schneidemesser, D. von
2023. Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2022. Ed.: P. Villa 
‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility
Meinherz, F.; Fritz, L.
2021. Mobilities, 16 (6), 825–842. doi:10.1080/17450101.2021.1919491 
Vom Öffnen und Verschließen von Alternativen: Implikationen der gesellschaftlichen Einbettung nachhaltigkeitsrelevanter Wertvorstellungen
Meinherz, F.; Fritz, L.; Schneider, F.
2021. Gesellschaftliche Transformationen : Gegenstand oder Aufgabe der Technikfolgenabschätzung?. Ed.: R. Lindner, 185–198, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748901556-185 
The challenges of studying change in carbon-intensive urban consumption practices: Exploring the dynamics of practice change and of normative considerations in knowledge production. PhD dissertation
Meinherz, F.
2021. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-8069 
The dynamics of modal shifts in (sub)urban commuting: An empirical analysis based on practice theories
Meinherz, F.; Binder, C. R.
2020. Journal of Transport Geography, 86, Art.-Nr.: 102763. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102763 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Tracing power in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an exploration
Fritz, L.; Meinherz, F.
2020. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 29 (1), 41–51. doi:10.14512/gaia.29.1.9 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power
Fritz, L.; Meinherz, F.
2020. Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems. Ed.: C. Binder, 87–122, Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/9781108574334.006 
How Values Play into Sustainability Assessments: Challenges and a Possible Way Forward
Meinherz, F.; Fritz, L.; Schneider, F.
2020. Sustainability assessment of urban systems. Ed.: C. Binder, 65–86, Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/9781108574334.005 
Mobility practices in Swiss cities: A qualitative study on modal choices in commuting and everyday mobility = Pratiques de mobilité en Suisse: Une étude qualitative sur les choix modaux des pendulaires urbains et la mobilité au quotidien
Meinherz, F.
2019, August 20. doi:10.23662/FORS-DS-1021-1 
The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field
Corsini, F.; Laurenti, R.; Meinherz, F.; Appio, F. P.; Mora, L.
2019. Sustainability, 11 (2), Art.-Nr.: 341. doi:10.3390/su11020341 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use
Bettignies, Y.; Meirelles, J.; Fernandez, G.; Meinherz, F.; Hoekman, P.; Bouillard, P.; Athanassiadis, A.
2019. Sustainability, 11 (12), Art.-Nr.: 3246. doi:10.3390/su11123246 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Participatory Modeling to Elicit Behavioral Drivers in Environmental Dilemmas: the Case of Air Pollution in Talca, Chile
Meinherz, F.; Videira, N.
2018. Environmental Management, 62 (2), 260–276. doi:10.1007/s00267-018-1034-5 
Exploring the energy use drivers of 10 cities at microscale level
Athanassiadis, A.; Fernandez, G.; Meirelles, J.; Meinherz, F.; Hoekman, P.; Cari, Y. B.
2017. Energy Procedia, 122, 709–714. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.374 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
When stakeholders cannot be involved in a modelling process: Integrating participatory modelling and consultative approaches
Meinherz, F.; Paola, E.; Salazar Rua, R.
2016. 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 2016, Curran Associates, Inc