Andreas Hübner

Graduate engineer in spatial planning

Dortmund University of Technology
Faculty of Spatial Planning
Chair of Resource and Energy Systems
August-Schmidt-Straße 10
D-44227 Dortmund

+49 151 22347908
E-mail: andreas.huebner(at)tu-dortmund.de

 

 

Vita

Andreas Hübner, born in Opladen in 1966, has been a lecturer in municipal climate protection since 2015 and a research assistant at the Chair of Resource and Energy Systems at the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University since October 2022. He completed his studies in spatial planning from 1986 to 1991 and then joined Gertec GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft in Essen in 1992, where he has been a partner since 2002 and Managing Director since 2015.

Special areas of focus are municipal and regional energy concepts as instruments of municipal climate neutrality strategies, the climate-neutral development of new residential and commercial areas and the design of transformation processes in municipal climate protection.

Research topic

Over the past three years, numerous major cities in Germany have developed strategies to achieve climate neutrality on the territory of these cities.

The implementation of these climate neutrality strategies is now imminent and it is already becoming apparent that the administrative structures and organizational framework conditions in place to date are not having the necessary impact that can be influenced by the municipality

  • in terms of quantity (considerable greenhouse gas savings in cooperation with the municipal community, far beyond the current scope) and
  • in terms of the time required (achieving climate neutrality in the period from 2035 to 2045 at the latest)

.

On the one hand, the research project aims to investigate

  • which institutional framework conditions can be used to achieve a significantly higher impact in the implementation of municipal climate neutrality strategies and
  • how these should be designed in conjunction with local political control and the tasks of the municipal administration.

Supervision

First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Faulstich, TU Dortmund University
Second supervisor: Hon.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Kaiser, TU Dortmund
Place of doctorate: TU Dortmund

Keywords

Municipal climate neutrality strategy, municipal climate protection, climate protection concept