Professor Dr. Tanja Mölders

Biography

Tanja Mölders is a Professor for Environmental Planning and Transformation at the University of Freiburg. Her work focuses on inter-disciplinary approaches to spatial and environmental planning in the context of sustainable development. She emphasizes sustainability as a dual justice imperative, addressing both intra- and intergenerational equity while seeking to transcend disciplinary and sectoral boundaries. Her research tackles social-ecological crises that oppose sustainable development, investigating theoretical and empirical aspects through various projects in societal spatial relations. She engages with theories and methods of spatial and environmental planning as well as ontological and epistemological questions concerning nature-society relationships. Additionally, she integrates gender as an analytical and transformative perspective into her teaching and research endeavors, which encompass both undergraduate studies in Environmental Natural Sciences and Master programs like Environmental Governance and Environmental Sciences with a focus on land use and conservation.

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