Professor of Spatial Planning

I was born in 1946.

I studied spatial planning at the University of Dortmund from 1969 to 1974. After four years as a research assistant at the Department of Spatial Planning at the University of Dortmund, I moved to the Ministry of the Interior of Lower Saxony in 1978 (then the highest state planning authority, responsibilities: statistics, spatial analysis, spatial planning report, use of IT in state planning). In 1986, I moved to the Ministry of the Environment, which was founded in the same year (responsibilities: Fundamental issues, voluntary ecological year, agriculture, transport).

From 1990 to 1994, I held a lectureship in spatial planning and regional planning in the subject of geography at the University of Göttingen. In the winter semester 1993/1994, I took on an interim professorship at Vechta University of Applied Sciences, where I was appointed professor of the subject 'Spatial Planning' in 1995. I taught students on the degree programmes 'Environmental Monitoring' and 'Social Sciences', and from 1996 also 'Environmental Sciences'. I was head of the 'Spatial Planning/Regional Sciences' department in the 'Institute of Environmental Sciences'.

In 2003 - during my temporary position as President of Vechta University of Applied Sciences - the decision was made to relocate Environmental Sciences to another university in Lower Saxony. The 'Spatial Planning/Regional Sciences' department was transferred to the University of Oldenburg in the winter semester 2005/2006. My subject there forms the 'Spatial Planning Working Group' in the 'Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences'.

Since November 2009 I have been a member of the 'Center for Sustainable Spatial Development Oldenburg (ZENARiO)'

I teach in the following degree programmes:

• Landscape Ecology (Diplom)

• Environmental Sciences (Bachelor)

• Landscape Ecology (Master)

  Sustainability Economics and Management
  
  

Topics of the courses:

• Spatial planning/land use management

• Environmental impact assessment/intervention regulation

• Assessment methods

• Specialised planning

• Sustainable spatial development

Research focus:

• Quantitative methods for determining the significance of interventions and the assessment of compensation measures,

• Design of integrated planning systems and processes (formal and informal procedures, public and private actors),

• Use of GIS in spatial planning

• Utilisation of information and communication technologies for spatial information (development of the tourist information system DAGIT, www.dagit.de)

Memberships:

• Corresponding member and member of the State Working Group Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL), Hanover (since 1986)

• Association of Urban, Regional and State Planners (SRL), Berlin

• Information Centre for Spatial Planning (IfR), Dortmund

• UVP Society, Hamm

• German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND)