Heike holds a PhD from the Free University of Berlin (2003) in political science, an MA from Bonn University (2000) in political science, economics and Japanese studies, and a BA from the University of East Anglia (1996) in Contemporary European Studies. She was awarded a DAAD/Monbusho scholarship (2000-02) to conduct doctoral research at the University of Tokyo and a Bonn University Exchange Scholarship (1994/95) for a year abroad at the University of East Anglia.
 

CV and Experience

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Heike's research interest lies in understanding how national boundaries can be bridged to solve trans-national or global environmental problems, and how local, national, and international levels of jurisdiction differ in their abilities to solve such problems.

At the core of her work lies a focus on how institutions – sets of rights, rules and decision-making procedures – matter in causing and addressing problems arising from human/environment interactions (Young, King and Schroeder 2008) and how traditional government practices are often ill-equipped to meet the challenges from large-scale environmental change. It requires a system of governance that transcends national boundaries, links different levels of governance and enables traditional and non-traditional policy actors to play their parts. This new earth system governance approach emphasises the interrelated and increasingly integrated system of formal and informal rules, rule-making systems and actor networks at all levels of governance that are set up to steer societies towards preventing, mitigating and adapting to global environmental change (Biermann et al.2009; 2010a; 2010b).

Research Activities

1. Forest governance

International conference on REDD+ Justice

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has rapidly become a key pillar of international cooperation on climate change. A host of state and non-state actors at all levels of governance have entered this emerging policy field. This conference takes stock of developments to date and discusses the role of justice and equity in current debates on REDD+. Its particular aim is to discuss the limits and opportunities in deriving co-benefits from REDD+ activities.

Operationalising REDD+: actors, interests and ideas

This project includes both analysis of the international REDD+ negotiations and field work on local REDD+ projects. It addresses the changing positions and strategies of international environmental NGOs on REDD+; making sense of who influenced the broadening of REDD to include forest management and conservation activities under REDD+; the design of social safeguards; and multilevel governance of REDD+ in practice.

2. Non-state actors and climate change

Non-State Actors in the New Landscape of International Climate Cooperation

This research programme consists of two interlinked projects, which focus on the role of non-state actors in multilateral climate diplomacy as well as non-state climate governance in the transnational arena.

The role of non-state actors in the UNFCCC negotiations

This project investigates how civil society participation in the climate negotiations is being managed, and what impact non-state actors have through being on national delegations. It also addresses how side events function as a marketplace of ideas and how they get diffused into the formal negotiations, exemplified by the case of REDD+.

3. Cities and climate change

Urban climate governance

This project argues for an expansion of the urban climate change research agenda to include an examination of the drivers of emerging partnerships and for theorizing the emerging role of SMEs in the wider context of non-state actors. It theorizes SMEs as agents of change in the multi-level governance of climate change, and cities as niche spaces in which sustainable development paths might be explored. Using the cases of Metro Vancouver, Canada, and London, UK, the project examines the drivers of emerging partnerships between various levels of government and small businesses in the interests of climate change mitigation. 
 

Publications

Books and Special Issues

• Schroeder, H., Sikor, T. and McDermott, C. (guest eds.) (forthcoming) Beyond Carbon: Ensuring Justice and Equity in REDD+ across Levels of Governance. Ecology & Society.
• Schroeder, H., Burch, S. and Rayner, S. (guest eds.) (forthcoming) Novel Multi-sector Networks and Entrepreneurship Urban Climate Governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.
• Corbera, E., Schroeder, H. and Springate-Baginski, O. (guest eds.) (2011) REDD+ Governance and Implementation. Environmental Science & Policy, 12(2).
• Biermann, F., Betsill, M., Gupta, J., Kanie, N., Lebel, L., Liverman, D., Schroeder, H., and Siebenhuener, B. (2009) Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet. Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project. Earth System Governance Report 1, IHDP Report 20. Bonn, IHDP.
• Young, O.R., King, L.A. and Schroeder, H. (eds.) (2008) Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. MIT Press. 400 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-262-74033-3.
• Schroeder, H. (2001) Negotiating the Kyoto Protocol: An analysis of negotiation dynamics in international negotiations. Münster: LIT Verlag. 336 pp. ISBN-13: 978-3825854461. 

Journal Articles

• Bulkeley, H. and Schroeder, H. (2012) Beyond state/non-state divides: Global cities and the governing of climate change, European Journal of International Relations 18 (4) 743-766.
• Burch, S., H. Schroeder, S. Rayner and J. Wilson (forthcoming) Novel multisector networks and entrepreneurship: the role of small businesses in the multilevel governance of climate change, Environment & Planning C
• Schroeder, H., Boykoff, M., & Spiers, L. (2012). Equity and state representations in climate negotiations, Nature Climate Change, 2 (12), 834-836
• Schroeder, S., M. Boykoff and L. Spiers (2012), "Equity and State Representations in Climate Negotiations", Commentary, Nature Climate Change, Vol. 2, December. 
• Newell, P., P. Pattberg, and H. Schroeder (2012), Multiactor Governance and Environment, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37: 365–87.
• Biermann, F., K. Abbott, S. Andresen, K. Bäckstrand, S. Bernstein, M. M. Betsill, H. Bulkeley, B. Cashore, J. Clapp, C. Folke, A. Gupta, J. Gupta, P. M. Haas, A. Jordan,  N. Kanie, T. Kluvánková-Oravská, L. Lebel, D. Liverman, J. Meadowcroft, R. B. Mitchell, P. Newell, S. Oberthür, L. Olsson, P. Pattberg, R. Sánchez-Rodríguez, H. Schroeder, A. Underdal, S. Camargo Vieira, C. Vogel, O. R. Young, A. Brock, R. Zondervan (2012) Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance. Science, 335 (6074): 1306-1307. 
• Shiroyama, H. M. Yarime, M. Matsuo, H. Schroeder, R. Scholz and A.E. Ulrich (2012), Governance for Sustainability: Knowledge Integration and Multi-actor Dimensions in Risk Management”, Sustainability Science, 7 (1), 45-55. 
• McDermott, C., L. Coad, A. Helfgott, H. Schroeder (2012), “Operationalizing social safeguards in REDD+: Actors, interests and ideas”, Environmental Science & Policy, 21: 63-72.
• Biermann, F., K. Abbott, S. Andresen, K. Bäckstrand, S. Bernstein, M.M. Betsill, H. Bulkeley, B. Cashore, J. Clapp, C. Folke, A. Gupta, J. Gupta, P.M. Haas, A. Jordan, N. Kanie, T. Kluvánková-Oravská, L. Lebel, D. Liverman, J. Meadowcroft, R.B. Mitchell, P. Newell, S. Oberthür, L. Olsson, P. Pattberg, R. Sánchez-Rodríguez, H. Schroeder, A. Underdal, S. Camargo Vieira, C. Vogel, O.R. Young (2012), “Towards a Strengthened Institutional Framework for Global Sustainability”, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4  (1): 51-60.
• Schroeder, H. and Lovell, H. (2012) The role of non-nation state actors and side events in the international climate negotiations. Climate Policy, 12 (1): 23-37.
• Doherty, E. and Schroeder, H. (2011) Forest tenure and multi-level governance in avoiding deforestation under REDD. Global Environmental Politics, 11(4): 66-88.
• Corbera, E. and Schroeder, H. (2011) Governing and implementing REDD+. Environmental Science & Policy, 14(2): 89-100.
• New, M., Liverman, D., Schroeder, H. and Anderson, K. (2011) Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 369(1934): 6-19.
• Biermann, F., Betsill, M., Gupta, J., Kanie, N., Lebel, L., Liverman, D., Schroeder, H. and Siebenhuener, B. (2010) Earth System Governance: Navigating the Anthropocene. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 10(4): 277-298.
• Schroeder, H. (2010) Agency in International Climate Negotiations: The case of indigenous peoples and avoided deforestation. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 10(4): 317-332.
• Chu, S.Y., and Schroeder, H. (2010) Private governance of climate change in Hong Kong: an analysis of drivers and barriers to corporate action. Asian Studies Review, 34(3): 287-308.
• Biermann, F., Betsill, M., Camargo Vieira, S., Gupta, J., Kanie, N., Lebel, L., Liverman, D., Schroeder, H., Siebenhuener, B., Yanda, P.Z. and Zondervan, R. (2010) Navigating the anthropocene: the Earth System Governance Project strategy paper. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2(3): 202-208.
• Lovell, H. and Schroeder, H. (2010) Carbon standards and non-nation-state actors.Exploration and Production - Oil and Gas Review, 8(1): 14-15.
• Schroeder, H. and Bulkeley, H. (2009) Global cities and the governance of climate change: what is the role of law in cities? Fordham Urban Law Journal, 36(2): 313-359.
• Okereke, C. and Schroeder, H. (2009) How can the objectives of justice, development and climate change mitigation be reconciled in the treatment of developing countries in a post-Kyoto settlement? Climate and Development, 1(1): 10-15.
• Reprinted as Okereke, C. and Schroeder, H. (2010) Africa in a Post-Copenhagen Climate Accord. In, Agyeman-Duah, I. (ed.) Pilgrims of the Night: Development Challenges and Opportunities in Africa. Ayebia Clarke, Banbury, pp. 41-51.
• Schroeder, H. (2009) Leuchtkraft in Gefahr: Staedtische Energieversorgung. Politische Oekologie, 114: 28-30.
• Okereke, C., Bulkeley, H. and Schroeder, H. (2009) Conceptualizing climate governance beyond the international regime. Global Environmental Politics, 9(1): 58-78.
• Young, O.R., Lambin, E., Alcock, F., Haberl, H., Karlsson, S., McConnell, W., Myint, T., Pahl-Wostl, C., Polsky, C., Ramakrishnan, P.S., Schroeder, H., Scouvart, M., and Verburg, P. (2006) A portfolio approach to analyzing complex human-environment interactions: institutions and land change. Ecology and Society, 11(2): 31.
• Hirono, R. and Schroeder, H. (2004) The road to and from the Kyoto Protocol: the perspectives of Germany and Japan. International Review for Environmental Strategies, 5(1).
• Schroeder, H. (2004) The Japanese Top Runner Approach. (in German) Ökologisches Wirtschaften, 3-4. 

 
Book Chapters

• Schroeder, H. and C. Okereke (forthcoming), “REDD+ and Social Justice: Adaptation by Way of Mitigation”, in: Toward Successful Adaptation: Linking Science and Practice in Managing Climate Change Impacts, edited by S. Moser and M. Boykoff. Routledge.
• Bulkeley, H. and H. Schroeder (2012), “Global Cities and the Politics of Climate Change”, in Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, 2nd ed. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 249-260. 
• Schroeder, H., J. Li, H. Bulkeley, C. Barbier, J. Zhao, M. Columbier, S.Y. Chu and S. Ghosh (2012), “Enabling the Transition to a Low Carbon Climate Resilient Economy in Asian Cities: Drivers, Barriers and Solutions“, in: Climate Smart Development in Asia: Transition to Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economies, edited by A. Srinivasan, F. Ling and H. Mori. London: Routledge, pp. 148-183.
• Bulkeley, H., Schroeder, H., Janda, K., Zhao, J., Armstrong, A., Chu, S. and Ghosh, S. (2011) The role of institutions, governance and planning for mitigation and adaptation by cities. In, Hoornweg, D., Frire, M., Lee, M., Bhada, P. and Yuen, B (eds.) Cities and Climate Change: responding to an urgent agenda, The World Bank; Washington, DC, pp. 68-88.
• Schroeder, H. (2010) The history of international climate change politics: three decades of progress, process and procrastination. In, Boykoff, M. (ed.) The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey. Routledge.
• Schroeder, H., King, L.A. and Tay, S. (2008) Contributing to the science-policy interface: policy relevance of findings on the institutional dimensions of global environmental change. In, Young, O.R., King, L.A. and H. Schroeder (eds.) Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Schroeder, H. (2008) Analyzing biosafety and trade through the lens of institutional interplay. In, Young, O.R., Chambers, W.B., Kim, J.A. and C. ten Have (eds.) Institutional interplay: the case of biosafety. Tokyo: UNU Press.
• Schroeder, H. and Yocum, D. (2006) Vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation: response mechanisms in an environmental emergency - the Asia Tsunami in Thailand and Hurricane Katrina in the United States. In, Simeonov, L. and E. Chirila (eds.) Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.
• Schroeder, H. and Yocum, D. (2006) European institutions for controlling chemical air pollution: an analysis of CLRTAP - European Union interplay. In, Simeonov, L. and E. Chirila (eds.) Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.
• Schroeder, H. (2006) The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. (in German) In, Altner, G., Leitschuh-Fecht, H., Michelsen, G., Simonis, U.E., and E.U. von Weizsaecker (eds.) Jahrbuch Ökologie 2007. Munich: Verlag, C.H. Beck.
• Schroeder, H. (2004) Japan's contribution to international climate policy. (in German) In, Pohl, M. and I. Wieczorek (eds.) Japan 2004. Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde.
• Schroeder, H. (contributing writer) (1999) The Americas. In, Julian G.B. and J.R. Gagain Jr. (eds.) A Guide to Delegate Preparation 1999-2000, Model United Nations. New York: United Nations Association of the United States of America.

Working papers and other publications

• Biermann, F., K. Abbott, S. Andresen, K. Bäckstrand, S. Bernstein, M.M. Betsill, H. Bulkeley, B. Cashore, J. Clapp, C. Folke, A. Gupta, J. Gupta, P.M. Haas, A. Jordan, N. Kanie, T. Kluvánková-Oravská, L. Lebel, D. Liverman, J. Meadowcroft, R.B. Mitchell, P. Newell, S. Oberthür, L. Olsson, P. Pattberg, R. Sánchez-Rodríguez, H. Schroeder, A. Underdal, S. Camargo Vieira, C. Vogel, O.R. Young, (2011), “Transforming governance and institutions for a planet under pressure. Revitalizing the institutional framework for global sustainability: Key Insights from social science research”. Planet Under Pressure Policy Brief, 3 2011, available at: http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/Policy-Brief-3_Institutional-Framework.pdf.
• Schroeder, H. (2011) Climate change mitigation in Los Angeles, US. Case study prepared for the Global Report on Human Settlements 2011.http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/GRHS2011/GRHS2011CaseStudyChapter05LosAngeles.pdf
• Bulkeley, H. and Schroeder, H. (2009) Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities - Melbourne. Tyndall Working Paper.
• Bulkeley, H., Schroeder, H., Janda, K., Zhao, J., Armstrong, A., Chu, S.Y. and Ghosh, S. (2009) Cities and Climate Change: The role of institutions, governance and urban planning. Report prepared for the World Bank Urban Symposium on Climate Change.
• Schroeder, H. and Bulkeley, H. (2008) Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities, Case-Study: Los Angeles. Tyndall Working Paper, 122.
• Bulkeley, H. and Schroeder, H. (2008) Governing Climate Change Post-2012: The Role of Global Cities - London. Tyndall Working Paper, 123.
• Young, O.R. with contributions by others, edited by Schroeder, H. (2005) Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan, 3rd edition. Bonn: IHDP.
• Schroeder, H. (2003) From Dusk to Dawn: Climate Change Policy in Japan. Ph.D. Dissertation, Free University of Berlin.
• Barrett, B., Chambers, W.B. and Schroeder, H. (2001) Perceptions of Science and Politics in the UNFCCC Process: Delegates at COP3 and COP4. UNU/IAS EMD Series No. 8, United Nations University's Institute for Advanced Studies, Tokyo.
• Paoletto, G. and Schroeder, H. (1997) Enhancing Participation of NGOs in the FCCC Process. GEIC Paper Series, Global Environment Information Center Tokyo, October 1997. 

Course Co-Director for

MSc in Climate Change and International Development
MA in Globalisation and International Development (changing to MA in Globalisation, Business and International Development from 2013)

Teaching Areas

Postgraduate Modules

• Climate Change Policy for Development (CCPD)
• Perspectives on Globalisation (POG)
• Advanced Qualitative Research and Analysis (AQRA)
• Globalisation, Industrialisation and Development (GID)

Undergraduate Modules

• Resource Development & Conservation (RDC)
• Overseas Studies Module (OSM)

Supervision

PhD students

• Susan Conlon, UEA – CDM and indigenous communities in Peru
• Ursula Flossmann-Kraus, UEA – Governance of adaptation finance
• Diana Franco, UEA – REDD+ and indigenous peoples in Mexico
• Wei Shen, UEA - renewable energy and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in China
• Lucy Baker, UEA - Governance of clean energy in South Africa
• Karen Anderton, Oxford - Sub-national government responses to reducing the climate impact of cars (completed)

 Masters students

• Keane Gruending, UEA 2012
• Aya Naito, UEA 2012
• Ji Xia, UEA 2012
• Nsikan-George Emana, UEA 2012
• Hyunjin Kim, Oxford 2011
• Sam Davidson, Oxford 2010
• Daphne Liew, Oxford 2010
• Leon Westby (distinction), Oxford 2010
• David Aitken (distinction), Oxford 2009
• Emma Doherty (distinction), Oxford 2009
• Lysete Hernandez, Oxford 2009
• Sofia Shellard, Oxford 2009
• Elizabeth Anderson, Oxford 2008
• Joy Bailey, Oxford 2008
• Shu Yi Chu (distinction), Oxford 2008
• Jonathan Gaventa (distinction and best dissertation), Oxford 2008
• Daniela Rey, Oxford 2008 

Undergraduate students

• William Pasang, UEA 2013