Dr. Matthias Gro
professor
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
Dr. Matthias Gro is the Head of Department, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.
Research Interest
Alternative Energy Systems (esp. geothermal energy), Environmental Sociology, Ignorance, Risk, and the Knowledge Society, Real World Experiments and Environmental Innovation, Restoration and Contamination, Science, Technology, and Engineering Studies, Space and Culture: Autoethnographies of Driving, Theories of Nature-Culture Relations.
Publications
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Groß, Matthias, Holger Hoffmann-Riem, and Wolfgang Krohn. 2005. Realexperimente: Ökologische Gestaltungsprozesse in der Wissensgesellschaft. Bielefeld: Transcript (Science Studies Series). Reviewed e.g. in Politische Ökologie, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, & International Sociology.
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Groß, Matthias. 2006. Natur. Bielefeld: Transcript [Introductory textbook in the Reihe Einsichten: Themen der Soziologie]. Reviewed e.g. in Berliner Debatte Initial, Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie, & Soziologische Revue
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Gross, Matthias. 2010. Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Inside Technology Series). Reviewed e.g. in Choice, Building Research & Information, International Social Science Review, Metascience, Science as Culture, Sawari, & Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies. Chinese translation with Yilin Press.
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Groß, Matthias. 2014. Experimentelles Nichtwissen: Umweltinnovationen und die Grenzen sozial-ökologischer Resilienz. Bielefeld: Transcript (Science Studies Series).
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Gross, Matthias and Rüdiger Mautz. 2015. Renewable Energies. London: Routledge (Key Ideas Series). Reviewed e.g. in Technikfolgenabschätzung: Theorie & Praxis
