Profile 
PD Dr. Helmut Weidner
mail: weidner [at] wzb [dot] eu
D-10785 Berlin
10 - 12 2008
Visiting professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
2004
Habilitated with the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin; habilitation topic: „Studies on Environmental Instruments: Overview and Critical Analysis“
since 1978
Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center in the research unit „Transnational Conflicts and International Organisations“
1976 - 1977
Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Free University of Berlin
1970 - 1975
Attended the University of Kiel and Free University of Berlin; majored in political science and sociology
Helmut Weidner, Martin Jänicke in collaboration of Helge Jörgens (eds.), 2002: Capacity Building in National Environmental Policy. A Comparative Study of 17 Countries. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 448.
Helmut Weidner, 2002: “Capacity Building for Ecological Modernization: Lessons From Cross-National Research”. In: David A. Sonnenfeld/Arthur P. J. Mol (eds.), Globalization, Governance, and the Environment, Special Issue: American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 45, No. 9, May 2002, 1340-1368.
Helmut Weidner (ed.), 1998: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Environmental Conflicts – Experiences in 12 Countries, Berlin: edition sigma, 465.
Politicization processes in the extractive industries and the World Bank
The climate change policy of the World Bank
Climate Change Policy and Equity (Global Justice) in a Cross-Cultural Perspective: The role of moral capacities in global negotiations and political responses of industrial countries to climate change
