Fenn Faber

Fenn Faber, M.A. Research Associate Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography Chair of Forestry Economics and Planning Tennenbacher Str.4 D-79106 Freiburg Phone: ++49 (0)761-203-3800 Fax: ++49-(0)761-203-3690 Email: f.faber@ife.uni-freiburg.de

 
Fenn Faber studied sociology and political science at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and the Université de Montréal (Canada), was a visiting researcher at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder (USA) and is currently a research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the Chair of Forestry Economics and Planning.

His research interests are in the areas of sociology of knowledge and science, environmental sociology and sociology of risk as well as organization studies. With his dissertation, which is being funded by the National Research Fund of Luxembourg, Fenn Faber aims to explain the extent to which the social environments of state-owned forest companies influence their organizational decision-making concerning climate change adaptation measures under uncertainty.

Teaching 

Lecturer

• Module "Forstökonomie"
  Winter 2012/2013, M.Sc. Forstwissenschaften/Forest Sciences
• Module "Forstwissenschaftliches Eingangsprojekt" (FOPRO)
  Winter 2012/2013, M.Sc. Forstwissenschaften/Forest Sciences
• Seminar "Scientific, economic and political handling of environmental problems"
  Winter 2012/2013,  B.A. & M.A. Sociology, B.Sc. Environmental Sciences & B.Sc. Forestry and Environment
• Module "Management II"
  Winter 2012/2013 & Winter 2009/2010, M.Sc. Renewable Energy Management
• Lecture "Climate change adaptation in the face of risk & uncertainty as a decision-making problem"
  Summer 2012, NFZ-Summer School, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research & ETH Zurich
• Module "Management I"
  Summer 2012 & Summer 2013, M.Sc. Renewable Energy Management

• Seminar "Organizations, Environments, and Social Conflicts"
  Winter 2010/2011, B.A. & M.A. Sociology

• Module "Student Field Trip to Luxembourg"
  Summer 2010, B.Sc. Forestry and Environment

Teaching Assistant

• Lecture “Fundamentals of Sociology” (Prof. Dr. W. Eßbach)
  Winter 2007/2008, B.A. Sociology
• Lecture “European Social Structure and Global Change” (Prof. Dr. B. Rehbein)
  Summer 2006, M.A. Sociology
• Lecture “Person, Work and Knowledge during Processes of Modernization” (Prof. Dr. N. Degele)
  Summer 2006,  M.A. Sociology 

Publications

Articles

• FABER, F. (together with Roderich v. Detten): „Organisationen in einer unberechenbaren Umwelt – Wie Landesforst-betriebe mit der Herausforderung des Klimawandels umgehen“. In: VON DETTEN, R.; FABER, F; BEMMANN, M. (eds.) (2012): Unberechenbare Umwelt: Zum Umgang mit Unsicherheit und Nicht-Wissen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 157-190.
• FABER, F.: Climate Change Adaptation at the Interface of Science and Practice in Forestry: An Outline of a Theoretical Toolkit for Studying Organizational Decision‐making under Uncertainty. In: Proceeding of the 2010 Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk - Disaster, Risk and Climate Change, August 2-13 2010, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Beijing: Hazard and Risk Science Base, October 2010, 51-58.
   

Anthologies

• FABER, F. (together with Roderich v. Detten & Martin Bemmann) (eds.) (2012): Unberechenbare Umwelt: Zum Umgang mit Unsicherheit und Nicht-Wissen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
• FABER, F.; JAY, M.; REINECKE, S.; WESTERMAYER, T. (Hrsg.) (2011): Entscheidungen mit Umweltfolgen zwischen Freiheit und Zwang: Tagungsband der 7. Tagung der Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie (NGU). Arbeitsbericht 55-11, Freiburg: Institut für Forstökonomie. (Download: here) 

Conferences & Research Workshops

• IMAGe Theme of the Year Workshop on Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: An Integrated Approach. Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, USA (6.-17. August 2012). 
• "From Natural Hazards to Gradual Environmental Change: Climate Change Adaptation in Forestry". International Research Committee on Disasters Researchers Meeting, International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociology of Disasters RC39, Broomfield, USA (18. July 2012).
• "Organizational Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts: Problem-Solving Practices of State Forest Administrations in Germany" (Poster). 37th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Broomfield, USA (14.-17. July 2012).
• "Hiding in plain sight: Revealing institutions and institutionalization through neoinstitutionalism in organizational risk research". 28th EGOS Colloquium (European Group for Organizational Studies), Sub-theme 28 "Risks of Organizing and Organizing of Risks", Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland (5.-7. July 2012, together with Wee-Kiat Lim).
• "Organizational Problem-Solving Performances of German State Forest Administrations Concerning Climate Change Adaptation Measures". New Frontiers of Forest Economics (neFFE), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (26.–30. June 2012, together with Roderich v. Detten).
• "Ecosystem management in the face of uncertainty". International Conference "Tackling Climate Change: The Contribution of Forest Scientific Knowledge. GIP Ecofor, VINCI Centre International Congrès de Tours, Tours, France (21.-24. May 2012, together with Roderich v. Detten).
• „Unsicherheit als Wissens- und Entscheidungsproblem – der Klimawandel als kommunikative Herausforderung zwischen Forstwirtschaft und Forstwissenschaft“. SciCoRe III – Frühjahrstagung 2012. Erwartungen an die Wissenschaft: Politikberatung, Unternehmensberatung, Beratung im Alltag. SCIentific COmmunication REsearch & Forum interdisziplinäre Forschung, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (26.-28. March 2012, together with Roderich v. Detten).
• "Organizational Problem-Solving Performances of German State Forest Administrations Concerning Climate Change Adaptation Measures". International Symposium on ‘ The Governance of Adaptation’. Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (22.-23. March 2012, together with Roderich v. Detten). 
• "Klimawandel: Wie Landesforstbetriebe mit Risiko, Unsicherheit und Nicht-Wissen umgehen".  32. Freiburger Winterkolloquium Forst und Holz "Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform: Organisation als zentraler Erfolgsfaktor für die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Sektors Forst und Holz". Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (26.-27. January 2012, together with Roderich v. Detten).
• Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk - Disaster, Risk, and Climate Change. Hazard and Risk Science Base at Beijing Normal University & International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change - Integrated Risk Governance, Beijing, China (August 2-13 2010).
• "Organizational decision-making on climate change adaptation measures in forestry". UNU-EHS Ph.D. Block Course "From Vulnerability to Resilience in Disaster Risk Management". Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany (7.-16. April 2010).