Dr.Isabell Braunger

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Contact

E-mail
isabell.braunger-PleaseRemoveIncludingDashes-@uni-flensburg.de
Building
Gebäude Vilnius 1
Room
VIL 113
Street
Auf dem Campus 1b
Post code / City
24943 Flensburg

Institutions

Name
Abteilung Energie & Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Position
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Name
Abteilung für Nachhaltige Energiewende
Position
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Projects

CoalExit

CINTRAN

Curriculum vitae

Isabell Braunger has been a research assistant at the European University of Flensburg in the Department of Energy and Environmental Management since April 2021. Since April 2018 she has also been a guest scientist at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. At the same time she started her work as a research assistant in the junior research group "CoalExit" at the TU Berlin. Her specialty there was economic and infrastructure policy (WIP). From October 2013 to August 2018 she worked for the Naturschutzjugend Rheinland-Pfalz (NAJU-RLP) as an expert for youth education. From April 2012 to August 2013 she worked in the field of environmental education and campaigning as a project employee. Before that, she worked at the Institute for Political Studies and Comparative Science at the University of Würzburg as a student assistant for the German Research Foundation’s project "Rule of Law and Informal Institutions".

Publications

  • Braunger, I. (2023) The role of natural gas in energy transitions - Path dependencies, lock-in effects, and governance strategies in the case of Germany. Dissertation, Europa-Universität Flensburg, https://www.zhb-flensburg.de/?55102
  • Braunger, I. (2023) Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Volume 48, 100768
  • Hauenstein, C.; Braunger, I.; Krumm, A.; Oei, P. (2023) Overcoming political stalemates: The German stakeholder commission on phasing out coal Energy Research & Social Science vol. 103, 103203
  • C. Kemfert, F. Präger, I. Braunger, F. Hoffart, H. Brauers (2022) The expansion of natural gas infrastructure puts energy transitions at risk. Nature Energy 7: 582–587
  • J.Jewell, M. Vetier, V. Vinichenko, O.M. Lægreid, S. Pai, A. Cherp, H. Brauers,I. Braunger, L. Nacke, H. Zerriffi (2022) Quitting fossil fuels: How fast can the world do it? Polet polcy brief
  • I.Braunger, C. Grüter, F. Präger Wasserstoff und die sozial-ökologische Transformation: Folgerungen für die EU Wasserstoffstrategie. Studie für "The Left in the EU Parliament"
  • Braunger, I./ Walk, P. (2022): Power in transitions: Gendered power asymmetries in the United Kingdom and the United States coal transitions. Energy Research & Social Science 87: 102474. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621005612
  • Walk, P./ Braunger, I./ Semb, J./ Brodtmann, C./ Oei, P./Kemfert, C. (2021): Strengthening Gender Justice in a Just Transition: A Research Agenda Based on a Systematic Map of Gender in Coal Transitions. Energies 14: 5985. Download-Link
  • H. Brauers, I. Braunger, J. Jewel, Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions, 2021.
  • I. Braunger, C. Grüter, F. Präger, Wasserstoff und die sozial-ökologische Transformation: Folgerungen für die EU Wasserstoffstrategie, 2021.
  • P. Ahmels, J. Bosse, H. Brauers, I. Braunger,  A. Gheorghiu, E. Häublein, F. Holz, C. Kemfert, F. Präger, Am Klimaschutz vorbeigeplant – Klimawirkung, Bedarf und Infrastruktur von Erdgas in Deutschland DIW Politikberatung kompakt 153. Berlin, Germany: DIW Berlin, 2021.
  • H. Brauers, I. Braunger, F. Hoffart, C. Hoffart, C. Kemfert, P. Y. Oei, S. Schmalz, M. Troschke, Ausbau der Erdgas-Infrastruktur: Brückentechnologie oder Risiko für die Energiewende? Diskussionsbeiträge der Scientists for Future 6, 2021.
  • P. Walk, I. Braunger, J. Semb, C. Brodtmann, P.-Y. Oei, C. Kemfert, Strengthening Gender Justice in a Just Transition: A Research Agenda Based on a Systematic Map of Gender in Coal Transitions. Energies, 2021.
  • I. Braunger, C. Hauenstein, Pokern um die Zukunft. Verzögerungstaktiken beim Klimaschutz am Beispiel von CO2 Abscheidung und Speicherung. In Grundrechte-Report 2020 - Zur Lage der Bürger- und Menschenrechte in Deutschland, edited by M. Armbruster, B. Bartolucci, R. Gössner, J. Heesen, M. Heiming, H.-J. Kreowski, J.P. Thurn, R. Will, M. Winkler, C. Zedler, 177-180. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer S. Verlag GmbH, 2020.
  • I. Braunger, C. Kemfert, P. Y. Oei, C. Rieve, Garzweiler II Prüfung: Die Energiewirtschaftliche Notwendigkeit des Tagebaus. DIW Politikberatung kompakt 153. Berlin, Germany: DIW Berlin, 2020.
  • I. Braunger, C. Hauenstein, How Incumbent Cultural and Cognitive Path Dependencies Constrain the "Scenario Cone": Reliance on Carbon Dioxide Removal due to Techno-bias. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 9 (1): 137-145, 2019.
  • H. Brauers, I. Braunger, L. Fitzgerald, Destabilisation of Sustainable Energy Transformations: Analysing Natural Gas Lock-in in the case of Germany. STEPS Working Paper 106. Brighton: STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, 2019.
  • I. Braunger, F. Corral Montoya, P. Y. Oei, C. Riede, P. Walk, Das Braunkohlerevier Leipziger Land. Aktuelle Zahlen, Daten, Fakten zur Energiewende, 2019.