Contact
Lehr- und Forschungseinheit Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen
Luisenstraße 37
80333 München
Luisenstraße 37
80333 München
Room:
A 301
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 4179
Email:
henrike.rau@geographie.uni-muenchen.de
Research Interests
- Social-scientific and interdisciplinary sustainability research
- (Un)sustainable consumption patterns in the areas of mobility, energy and food
- Dynamics of mobility practices across the life course, diverse mobility cultures and the mobility-related (re-)distribution of temporal and spatial resources
- Transport, mobilities and the ‘consumption of distance’
- Household energy use in Europe
- Cross-cultural, comparative studies and qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
Doctoral Students Supervised
Current students:
- Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova, “Connected Food: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Interspecies Encounters of Informal Food Transfers” (co-supervisor)
- Talitta Reitz, “Community Transformation and Ecological Restoration in Portland, Oregon, and Munich, Bavaria” (co-supervisor)
- Pui Ting Wong, “Electricity Demand. Explanations and Predictions on the Basis of Time-use Analysis” (co-supervisor
- Fausto Ignatov Vinueza, „Die Ambivalenzen des Erfolgs: Diskurse über Entwicklung, Wachstum und Extraktivismus” (co-supervisor)
Past students:
- Gary Goggins, “Public Food Consumption and the Role of Organisations in Localised Food Systems”
- Sarah O'Malley, “Reconnecting Children and Nature? A Sociological Study of Environmental Educa¬tion in Ireland”
- Emmet Fox, “Society, Power and Climate Change: A Social Critique of Public Climate Change Receptivity in Ireland”
- Mike Hynes, “Mobility Matters: Technology, Telework and the (Un)sustainable Consumption of Distance”
- Barbara Heisserer, “Curbing the Consumption of Distance? A Practice-theoretical Investigation of an Employer-based Mobility Management Initiative to Promote More Sustainable Commuting”
- Lisa Moran, “Tacit Knowledge and Resistance: The Impact of Rural Knowledge–Based Cultures on the Implementation of Environmental Policy in Connemara”
- Noel Healy, “Parks and Protected Areas: Integrating Environmental Policies into the Tourism Product”