Irene H. Schöne
Irene H. Schöne (born 1942 in Germany) has a PhD in politics and economics and has spent a career working in environmental economics, as well as writing and speaking on these issues.
Career
[edit]She was an elected member of one of Hamburg's local councils from 1974 to 1978 and an elected member of the Hamburger Bürgerschaft, Hamburg's regional parliament from 1978 to 1982.[1]
After working in marketing, she studied politics and economics in Hamburg and Kassel, achieving the master's degree Diplom Sozialoekomon. While at university in Hamburg, she initiated and managed the first "Summer University".
From 1983 to 1987 she became elected director of the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) in Freiburg, Europe's leading non-profit research and consultancy institution, establishing there the "Ecological Economy" group.
At Kassel University she worked for her PhD degree Dr. rerum politicarum, and published her thesis in the book "Ökologisches Arbeiten - Zur Theorie und Praxis ökologischen Arbeitens als Weiterentwicklung der marktwirtschaftlich organisierten Arbeit",[2] in English: "Ecological Working" - Theory and Practice of Ecological Working beyond the Meaning of 'Labor' in a Market Economy".
She was a founding member of the Institute for Ecological Economy (IOEW) in Berlin and is a member of the IOEW's Scientific Council.
Irene H. Schöne worked from 1988 to 2004 as a scientific adviser for economics and finance at Schleswig-Holstein parliament in Kiel.
In 1997 she became head of the Environmental Council at the UmweltBank AG, Nürnberg,[3][4] Germany's leading private green bank which specializes in financing environmental projects, and is today the Head of the Board of Non-Executive Directors.
Interests
[edit]The focus of her scientific work is modernizing economic theory, considering the environmental damage, climate change and loss of biodiversity. She has presented at conferences, edited and published books, and published numerous articles over the years primarily in Germany and the UK. [2][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Fair Economics
[edit]Her latest book "Fair Economics - Nature, Money and People beyond neoclassical thinking"[18] will be published in September 2015 by GREEN BOOKS, Cambridge, in the UK and four weeks later in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA.[19]
In the book she points out that today's mainstream economics has an understanding of nature and people derived from the 18th, no longer appropriate for the 21st century, and therefore in urgent need of modernization.
References
[edit]- ^ Fock, Hinnerk. Handbuch der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft 9. Wahlperiode. pp. 37, 45, 287–288.
- ^ a b Schöne, Irene (1988). Ökologisches Arbeiten - Zur Theorie und Praxis ökologischen Arbeitens als Weiterentwicklung der marktwirtschaftlich organisierten Arbeit. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag. ISBN 978-3824440030.
- ^ "UmweltRat mit kompetenten Persönlichkeiten besetzt" (PDF). Bank & Umwelt (11): 1–2. April 1997. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ "Irene Schoene: Executive Profile and Biography". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ von Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich (1989). Erdpolitik: ökologische Realpolitik an der Schwelle zum Jahrhundert der Umwelt. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt. p. 262. ISBN 3-534-10998-8.
- ^ Schöne, Irene (6 July 1994). Mit der Ökologie die Ökonomiekrise überwinden. Düsseldorf: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. ISBN 978-3860773246.
- ^ Schöne, Irene (1994). Wirtschaften in Schleswig-Holstein – Analysen und Perspektiven. Raisdorf: Edition Studio Schleswig-Holstein. ISBN 978-3980368209.
- ^ Müller, Christa (1998). Von der lokalen Ökonomie zum globalisierten Dorf: bäuerliche Überlebensstrategien zwischen Weltmarktintegration und Regionalisierung. Campus Verlag. p. 230. ISBN 9783593361215.
- ^ Schöne, Irene (August 1998). "Öko-Zuwachs: Ein neuer Begriff für eine neue Form von wirtschaftlichem Wachstum" (PDF). Bank und Umwelt (16): 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Meyer, Ursula (2003). Der philosophische Blick auf die Arbeit. ein-FACH-verlag. p. 195. ISBN 9783928089340.
- ^ Schöne, Irene (2003). "Emilienstraße 3: Ein Beispiel für ökologische Altbausanierung". UmweltBank. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Schöne, Irene (2006). "Den unternehmerischen Erfolg neu definieren". Politische ökologie (99). Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Schöne, Irene (Summer 2008). "Towards better energy efficiency". Green Building Magazine. 18 (1).
- ^ Schöne, Irene (January 2009). "Der Naturverbrauch gehört in die Berechnung der Kosten: Integrierte Bilanzierung – die etwas andere Buchführung". Böll.Thema: Green New Deal. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Mathieu, Petra (Mar 9, 2013). Unternehmen auf dem Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsweise: Theoretische Grundlagen — Praxisbeispiele aus Deutschland — Orientierungshilfe. Springer-Verlag. pp. 29, 152. ISBN 9783322914453.
- ^ Diefenbach, Thomas (Apr 17, 2013). Kritik und Neukonzeption der Allgemeinen Betriebswirtschaftslehre auf sozialwissenschaftlicher Basis. Springer-Verlag. pp. 85, 176. ISBN 9783322810946.
- ^ Dyas, Sabine (Sep 3, 2013). Nachhaltiges Verwendungs- und Entsorgungsverhalten privater Haushalte: Realisationschancen eines neuen Konsumleitbildes in Deutschland. Springer-Verlag. p. 245. ISBN 9783663087830.
- ^ a b Schöne, Irene (2015). Fair Economics - Nature, Money and People beyond neoclassical thinking. Cambridge: Green Books. ISBN 978-0857843098.
- ^ "Green Books - Irene Schoene". Green Books. Retrieved 5 July 2015.