Scholars
Benjamin Beuerle
Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin)
Based in
Germany
Europe
Benjamin Beuerle joined the Franco-German research institute Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin (CMB) in March 2022 after five years at the German Historical Institute in Moscow, where he had been scientific coordinator for an interdisciplinary collaborative project on Russia in the Asia-Pacific. Since autumn 2022 he is co-responsible for CMB’s then-created “Environment, Climate, Energy” research focus. Among his recent publications are “From continuity to change: Soviet and Russian government attitudes on climate change (1989–2009)” and the co-edited volume Russia’s North Pacific: Centres and Peripheries (both 2023). His research interests include the historical development of climate policy approaches, renewable energy policies, and sustainable urban transport, with a focus on Eastern Europe.
Country(ies) of Specialty
France Russia UkraineFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics History Renewable energyPublications
Articles
Benjamin Beuerle, “A Dormant Giant: Renewable Energy in the Soviet Union and Russia (1970s – Present)”, in: Russian Review, April 2025.
Benjamin Beuerle, „The Sakhalin Climate Experiment. Greenwashing or an actual chance to become a game changer for Russian climate policy?”, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-024-00606-x.
Benjamin Beuerle, “Urban Air Pollution and Environmental Engagement in the Russian Far East: Developments from Late-Soviet to Post Soviet Times”, in: Benjamin Beuerle/ Sandra Dahlke/ Andreas Renner (eds.), Russia’s North Pacific. Centres and Peripheries, Heidelberg 2023, 65-88, https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1114.c16376.
Benjamin Beuerle, “From Continuity to Change. Soviet and Russian government attitudes on climate change”, in: Benjamin Beuerle/ Katja Doose/ Marianna Poberezhskaya (eds.), Climate Change in Russia – history, science and politics in global perspectives, topical collection in: Climatic Change 176, 36 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03488-2.
Katja Bruisch/ Benjamin Beuerle, “Putin’s War and Europe’s Carbon Democracies. Paying the Price of Half-Hearted Climate Policies”, in: Energy Humanities, 14.03.2022, https://www.energyhumanities.ca/news/putins-war-in-ukraine-and-europes-carbon-democracies-paying-the-price-of-half-hearted-climate-politics.
Benjamin Beuerle, “Climate Change in Russia’s Far East. Controversial Perspectives (mid 1990s-2010s)”, in: Marianna Poberezhskaya/ Teresa Ashe (eds.), Climate Change Discourse in Russia. Past and Present, London 2018, 80-96.