Publications

Selected publications for download

Media contributions

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
Die Verleugnung und Verharmlosung von Fakten ist tödlich
Der Standard, Dezember 2020
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000122439834/klimaforscher-steurer-die-verleugnung-und-verharmlosung-von-fakten-ist-toedlich

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
Crashkurs Klimakrise: Das Wichtigste kurz erklärt
Video von Fridays for Future Austria, September 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pao0gGwaW9c

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
Denkfehler zur großen Erhitzung: Ein Forscher klärt die größten Klimamythen auf
Salzburger Nachrichten, September 2020
https://www.sn.at/panorama/klimawandel/denkfehler-zur-grossen-erhitzung-ein-forscher-klaert-die-groessten-klimamythen-auf-92239501

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
Parallelen zwischen der Corona- und der Klimakrise
Wien Energie, April 2020
https://positionen.wienenergie.at/beitraege/drei-fragen-an-reinhard-steurer/

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
Warum ein Preis für CO2 umstritten aber notwendig ist
Der Standard, Februar 2020
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000114772966/warum-ein-preis-fuer-co2-umstritten-aber-notwendig-ist

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
CO2 bepreisen, aber wie? Drei Optionen
Der Standard, Februar 2020
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000114922014/co2bepreisen-aber-wie-drei-optionen

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
Warum sich der Klima-Kampf in Europa entscheidet
Salzburger Nachrichten, Februar 2020
https://www.sn.at/panorama/klimawandel/warum-sich-der-klima-kampf-in-europa-entscheidet-83042821

Reinhard Steurer (2020)
CO2 einen Preis geben
Podcast "Hör mal wer die Welt verändert" Januar 2020
https://soundcloud.com/user-628933219/co2-einen-preis-geben-ii

ReinhardSteurer & Sarah Louise Nash (2019) Das zahnlose Klimaschutzgesetz novellieren! Vorschläge für ein neues Rahmengesetz, das die Weichen für eine klimapolitische Wende in Österreich stellen könnte Der Standard, November 2019
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000111634979/das-zahnlose-klimaschutzgesetz-novellieren

Sarah Louise Nash & Reinhard Steurer (2019) Der Nationalrat und die Klimakrise: Stell Dir vor es ist Klimanotstand - und wir machen weiter wie bisher Der Standard, September 2019
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000109088341/der-nationalrat-und-die-klimakrise

Reinhard Steurer (2019)
Zehn Mythen der Klimapolitik
FALTER 39/19 - FALTER.at, 24.09.2019
www.falter.at/klimamythen,

Climate policy: mitigation

Reinhard Steurer, Christoph Clar & Juan Casado-Asensio (2019)
Climate change mitigation in Austria and Switzerland: The pitfalls of federalism in greening decentralized building policies
Natural Resources Forum

Reinhard Steurer & Christoph Clar (2015)
Is decentralisation always good for climate change mitigation? How federalism has complicated the greening of builing policies in Austria
Policy Sciences, 48: 85-107

Reinhard Steurer (1999)
Klimaschutzpolitik in Österreich - Bilanz der 1990er Jahre und Ausblick
SWS-Rundschau (39.Jg.), Heft 3/1999, S.197-219

Reinhard Steurer (1999)
Schwierigkeiten der Klimaschutzpolitik.
Eine österreichische Fallstudie zur Psychologie der Umweltpolitik
IPG Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft 4/1999, S.414-429

Climate policy: adaptation

Christoph Clar & Reinhard Steurer (2019)
Climate change adaptation at different levels of government: Characteristics and conditions of policy change
Natural Resources Forum 43: 121-131

Sustainable development and economic growth

Reinhard Steurer (2013)
Disentangling governance: A synoptic view of regulation by government, business and civil society
Policy Sciences, 46: 387-410

Reinhard Steurer (2012)
The governance of sustainable development:
Putting the pieces of regulation together
Habilitation Thesis submitted by Reinhard Steurer

Reinhard Steurer (2010)
Die Wachstumskontroverse als Endlosschleife: Themen und Paradigmen im Rückblick
Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 4/2010, S.423ff

Reinhard Steurer (2006)
Soft, softer, am softesten
Die CSR-Politik der Europäischen Kommission verliert an Biss
ÖkologischesWirtschaften 4/2006, S.8-10

Reinhard Steurer (2004)
Politische Manifestationen einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung:
Die Wachstumskontroverse im Spiegel der deutschen Wirtschafts- und Umweltpolitik
ZfU 3/2004, S.349-390

Reinhard Steurer (2001)
Der Wachstumsdiskurs in Wissenschaft und Politik:
Von der Wachstumseuphorie über 'Grenzen des Wachstums' zur Nachhaltigkeit
Dissertation Universität Salzburg

Reinhard Steurer (2001)
Paradigmen der Nachhaltigkeit
Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht 4/2001, S.537-566

Discussion Papers of Reinhard Steurer

Climate policy: mitigation

Reinhard Steurer, Christoph Clar & Juan Casado-Asensio (3/2019)
Climate change mitigation in Austria and Switzerland: The pitfalls of federalism in greening decentralized building policies

Reinhard Steurer & Christoph Clar (1/2018)
The ambiguity of federalism in climate policy-making: how the political system in Austria hinders mitigation and facilitates adaptation

Juan Casado-Asensio & Reinhard Steurer (1/2016)
Mitigation climate change in a federal country committed to the Kyoto Protocol - How Swiss federalism further complicated an already complex challenge

Reinhard Steurer & Christoph Clar (4/2015)
Is decentralisation always good for climate change mitigation? How federalism has complicated the greening of building policies in Austria

Juan Casado-Asensio & Reinhard Steurer (3/2015)
"Bookkeeping" rather than climate policymaking: National mitigation strategies in Western Europe

Reinhard Steurer & Christoph Clar (5/2014)
Politikintegration in einem föderalen Staat: Klimaschutz im Gebäudesektor auf Österreichisch

Sarah Louise Nash & Reinhard Steurer (1/2019)
Taking stock of Climate Change Acts in Europe:
living policy processes or symbolic gestures?

Climate policy: adaptation

Christoph Clar & Reinhard Steurer (4/2019)
Climate change adaptation at different levels of government: Characteristics and conditions of policy change

Ralf Nordbeck, Reinhard Steurer & Lukas Löschner (2/2019)
The future orientation of Austria's flood policies: from flood control to anticipatory flood risk management

Christoph Clar & Reinhard Steurer (1/2017)
Erfolgsfaktoren von politischen Prozessen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel auf verschiedenen räumlichen Ebenen

Lukas Löschner, Ralf Nordbeck, Michael Pregernig & Reinhard Steurer (2/2016)
Flood Risk Governance and Climate Change Adaptation: an analytical framework

Anja Bauer & Reinhard Steurer (2/2015)
National adaptation strategies, what else? Comparing adaptation mainstreaming in German and dutch water management

Christoph Clar & Reinhard Steurer (7/2014)
Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in a federal state setting: Policy changes in flood protection and tourism promotion in Austria?

Anja Bauer & Reinhard Steurer (4/2014)
Innovation in climate adaptation policy: are regional partnerships catalysts or talking shops?

Anja Bauer & Reinhard Steurer (1/2014)
Multi-level governance of climate change adaptation: The role of regional partnerships in Canada and England

Anja Bauer, Judith Feichtinger and Reinhard Steurer (1/2011)
The governance of climate change adaptation in ten OECD countries: Challenges and approaches

Sustainable development and economic growth

James Meadowcroft & Reinhard Steurer (2/2018)
Assessment Practices in the Policy and Politics Cycles: A Contribution to Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development?

Ralf Nordbeck & Reinhard Steurer (5/2015)
Integrated multi-sectoral strategies as dead ends of policy coordination: Lessons to be learned from sustainable development

James Meadowcroft & Reinhard Steurer (6/2014)
Assessment practices in the policy and politics cycles: a contribution to reflexive governance for sustainable development?

Juan Casado-Asensio & Reinhard Steurer (3/2014)
Integrated strategies on sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation in Western Europe: communication rather than coordination

Reinhard Steurer (3/2013)
Disentangling governance: A synoptic view of regulation by government, business, and civil society

Reinhard Steurer, S. Margula & A. Martinuzzi (2/2012)
Public policies on CSR in Europe: Themes, instruments, and regional differences

Reinhard Steurer (4/2011)
The renewed EU SDS: policies, governance, actors and political relevance

Reinhard Steurer (3/2011)
Soft Instruments, Few Networks: How 'New Governance' Materialises in Public Policies on Corporate Social Responsibility across Europe

Reinhard Steurer und Gerald Berger (2/2011)
The EU's double-track pursuit of sustainable development in the 2000s: How Lisbon and sustainable development strategies ran past each other

Reinhard Steurer and Gerald Berger (4/2010)
Horizontal Policy Integration: Concepts, administrative barriers and selected practices

Reinhard Steurer & Astrid Konrad (3/2010)
Business-society relations in Central-Eastern and Western Europe: How those who lead in sustainability reporting bridge the gap in corporate (social) responsibility

Reinhard Steurer (2/2010)
The Role of Governments in Corporate Social Responsibility: Characterising Public Policies on CSR in Europe

Reinhard Steurer & Gerald Berger (1/2010)
The Lisbon Strategy and sustainable development strategies across Europe: How different governance arrangements shape the European coherence of policy documents

Reinhard Steurer & Michael Tiroch (2/2009)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Österreich: Wie substanziell ist der freiwillige Beitrag der Wirtschaft zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung?

Reinhard Steurer (1/2009)
Sustainable development as governance reform agenda: An aggregation of distinguished challenges for policy-making

Reinhard Steurer (1/2007)
From Government Strategies to Strategic Public Management: An Exploratory Outlook on the Pursuit of Cross-Sectoral Policy Integration

Reinhard Steurer (1/2006)
Mapping Stakeholder Theory Anew: From the Stakeholder Theory of the Firm to Three Perspectives on Business-Society Relations

Reinhard Steurer and André Martinuzzi (1/2005)
Towards a new pattern of strategy formation in the public sector: First experiences with National Strategies for Sustainable Development in Europe