UNESCO Chair "Higher Education for Sustainable Development"

Chairholder Daniel Fischer is a professor of Education for Sustainable Development and Environmental Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research revolves around exploring how more sustainable lifestyles and consumption patterns can be fostered through communication and learning. He employs interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to understand the evolution and transformation of consumption patterns over time and in various cultural contexts, as well as the role of communication processes therein. His keen interest lies in intervention research. In recent research projects with his SuCo2 research group (www.suco2.com), he has investigated how innovative practices such as mindfulness, storytelling, or citizen science can disrupt consumption routines and enhance individuals' reflexivity. In line with an educational tradition, his work aims to empower people to reshape their relationships with consumer societies they are born into, grown up in, and socialized within industrialized societies. Prior to joining Leuphana, Daniel Fischer served as an Assistant Professor in Education for Sustainable Development at Arizona State University (USA) and an Associate Professor in Consumer Communication and Sustainability at Wageningen University (Netherlands).

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