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Chair of Sociology of Technology and the Environment Prof. Dr. phil. Melanie Jaeger-Erben

Andreas Huber

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Andreas Huber studied Sociology at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg from 1999 to 2006, specialising in European social science research and methods of empirical social research. As part of his studies, he also spent a year each at the Universidad Deusto Bilbao (Spain) and in Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence (France). Following his studies, Andreas Huber was initially employed for 9 months at the Chair of European Social Science Research at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg before working as a research assistant at the European Institute for Energy Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 2007 until the end of 2021. In this context, he was involved in numerous publicly (EU/ADEME/MTE/BMBF) and privately funded projects dealing with, among other things, the processes of energy renovations, intervention strategies to change energy-intensive household practices, thecarbon footprint of lifestyle types, local energy transition processes or the ecological and socio-spatial change processes of strongly infrastructurally characterised river basins.

After a 10-month parental leave, he has been working as a project assistant in the WIRinRegionen project at the Chair of Technical and Environmental Sociology at BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg since December 2022. In his dissertation project at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Mr Huber is investigating the potential normalisation of neighbourhood sharing practices.

2024Huber, A., Heinrichs, H. and Jaeger-Erben, M. (2024) 'Promoting neighbourhood sharing: infrastructures of convenience and community', Buildings and Cities, 5(1), p. 349-367. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.442.
2024Huber, Andreas, Hielscher, Sabine, Jaeger-Erben, Melanie, Rohde, Friederike and Sawicka, Kira (2024): Hoher Fläming. The development of a rural region into a hotspot of social innovation. Work report as part of the WIRinREGIONEN research project. https://www.wir-in-regionen.de/app/download/11572870673/WIRinREGIONEN_Fallstudienbericht_Fl%C3%A4ming.pdf?t=1726758141
2023Huber, Andreas, Hielscher, Sabine, Rohde Friederike, Jaeger-Erben Melanie (2023): Towards an understanding of regional transformative capacity New communality and social innovation for sustainable regions. Work report as part of the WIRinREGIONEN research project. https://www.wir-in-regionen.de/app/download/11392399573/WIRinREGIONEN_Konzeptpapier.pdf?t=1696241869
2022Klitkou, Antje, Simon Bolwig, Andreas Huber, Lina Ingeborgrud, Przemysław Pluciński, Harald Rohracher, Doris Schartinger, Mara Thiene, and Piotr Żuk. "The Interconnected Dynamics of Social Practices and Their Implications for Transformative Change: A Review." Sustainable Production and Consumption 31: 603-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.03.027
Huber, Andreas. "Does Sharing with Neighbours Work? Accounts of Success and Failure from Two German Housing Experimentations." Housing, Theory and Society, February, 1-31. doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2039286.
2021Beisel JN, Staentzel C, Skupinski G, Walch A, Pons M, Weber S, Granier C, Huber A. Evolution of relict floodplain forest in river stretches of Western and Central Europe as affected by river infrastructure networks. PLoS One. 16(9):e0257593. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257593.
Andreas Huber, Manon Pons, Sebastian Weber, Carine Granier, Jean-Nicolas Beisel, Cybill Staentzel, et Anaïs Walch. Interconnections d'infrastructures fluviales, usages et biodiversité en coévolution (INTERCONNECT). Rapport Final.https://ittecop.fr/fr/ressources/telechargements/rapport-final/rapport-ittecop-apr-2017/1246-apr-2017-interconnect-rf/file
2019 Köhrsen, Jens, Mattes, Jannika et Huber, Andreas. Les transitions énergétiques allemandes à l'échelon local: une perspective évolutive des transitions de Bottrop et d'Emden. In: Les territoires de la transition énergétique. Lavoisier, Paris, pages 37-54.
2017Huber, Andreas. "Theorising the Dynamics of Collaborative Consumption Practices: A Comparison of Peer-to-Peer Accommodation and Cohousing." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 23: 53-69. doi.orghttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2016.12.001.
2016Huber, Andreas. Recent dynamics of every day sharing between neighbours in France and Germany. Paper presented at the 2nd International workshop on the Sharing Economy, Paris, 28-29 January 2016.
2015Mattes, Jannika, Andreas Huber, and Jens Koehrsen. "Energy Transitions in Small-Scale Regions - What We Can Learn from a Regional Innovation Systems Perspective." Energy Policy 78: 255-64. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.12.011.
Huber, Andreas and Mayer, Ines. Is this a smart city? Narratives of city smartness and their critical assessment. Eceee summer study proceedings 2015, 817- 823.

Current research projects

BMBF project"WIRinREGIONEN - Cooperation in regions: New communality and social innovations for future regions"

Research interests and fields of study

  • Social practices in transition
  • (Un)sustainable consumption
  • Social innovation
  • Alternative forms of housing, in particular neighbourly sharing
  • Local energy transition processes
  • Dynamics of infrastructures, human uses and biodiversity
  • Practical theory