Hartmut Bossel
Hartmut Bossel | |
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| Born | 3 March 1935 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of California |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Kassel |
| Website | www |
Hartmut Bossel (born 3 March 1935) is a German environmental scientist and systems scientist. Bossel was a professor of environmental systems analysis and director of the Scientific Center for Environmental Systems Research and Environmental Systems Analysis Group at the University of Kassel, Germany, until his retirement in 1997.[1]
Bossel collaboratively developed a number of computer simulation models and decision support systems in the following areas: energy supply policy, global dynamics, orientation of behavior, agricultural policy, forest dynamics and management, sustainable development, and indicator systems.[1] Bossel also wrote a number of textbooks on the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, social change, future paths, and sustainable development.
Bossel and co-author Florentin Krause are credited with coining the term Energiewende, used to describe German energy policy post-2010, in 1980.[2][3]: 223
Life
Bossel graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1961 with a diploma in mechanical engineering (aeronautical sciences). He worked at the Northrop Corporation in Los Angeles until 1963. He was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded a PhD in engineering (aeronautical sciences) in 1967. From 1967 to 1972, he was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1]
After returning to Germany in 1972, Bossel worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe and from 1978 at the Institute of Systems Analysis and Forecasting (ISP Eduard Pestel) in Hannover. In 1979, he was appointed a professor at the University of Kassel where he held the chair of Environmental Systems Analysis and was the director of the Scientific Center for Environmental Systems Research and Environmental Systems Analysis Group. He was a member of the Balaton Group from its inception. Bossel completed several research sabbaticals abroad, including in the US, France, the former Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Zealand.[1]
Bossel married in 1961 and has three children.
Selected bibliography
See also
- Computer simulation
- Environmental systems analysis
- Integrated assessment modelling
- Sustainable development
- Systems science
- Systems theory
References
- ^ a b c d "Hartmut Bossel". Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ Krause, Florentin; Bossel, Hartmut; Müller-Reißmann, Karl-Friedrich (1980). Energie-Wende: Wachstum und Wohlstand ohne Erdöl und Uran [Energy transition: growth and prosperity without petroleum and uranium] (PDF) (in German). S Fischer Verlag. ISBN 3-10-007705-9. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Jacobs, David (2012). "The German Energiewende: history, targets, policies and challenges". Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review. 3 (4): 223–233. In support of the claim that Krause et al (1980) was the first use of the term Energiewende.
External links
- Website of Hartmut Bossel (in English)
- 1935 births
- German scientists
- Living people
- People from Braunschweig
- Sustainability advocates
- Systems scientists
- Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- University of Kassel faculty