Professor Detlef F. Sprinz, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Working Group Leader
Sprinz, Ph.D.

Detlef F. Sprinz is Senior Scientist at PIK—Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, a Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Research Affiliate at ESSCA School of Management, Angers, France.  During 2024-2025, he leads the project “AMaReNa - A Market for the Restoration of Nature.”

He received a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, as well as a M.A. (“Diplom-Volkswirt”) in Economics from the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.  He coordinated a research group at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, located at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, on credible commitment to long-term policy from January-August 2017.  During the academic year 2017-18, Detlef Sprinz served as Rice Faculty Fellow & Visiting Professor in the European Studies Council, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now: Yale School of the Environment), Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.  During 2020-2022, he held a Tandem Fellowship by the German Stifterverband to create a course on “Sustainable and Collaborative Decision-Making in Business and Politics – An Interdisciplinary and Prediction-Based Course,” and during 2022-20233, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.

His areas of research and publications encompass climate policy at various levels, long-term policy, inter/national institutions & the evaluation of their performance, European & international environmental policy, and modeling political decisions.  He served as guest editor of the special issue of Global Environmental Politics on “Long-term Environmental Policy” (2009), co-editor of International Relations and Global Climate Change (The MIT Press, 2001), Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations (The University of Michigan Press, 2004), and Global Climate Policy - Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges (The MIT Press, 2018) - in addition to numerous journal articles.  As a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group III, he co-authored chapter 14 on “international cooperation.”

Detlef Sprinz has taught international relations, international environmental policy, and social science methodology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; the University of Oslo, Norway; the University of Potsdam, Germany; in the joint MA program in International Relations (MAIB) of the Free University Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Potsdam; in the Master of Public Management (MPM) program of the University of Potsdam, as well at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

During 2009-2012, Detlef Sprinz served as Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark.  He was a member of the International Advisory Committee of MILEN—Environmental Change and Sustainable Energy, University of Oslo, Norway (2010-2013), and a Senior Research Fellow at CICERO—Center for International Climate and Environmental Research—Oslo, Norway (2011-2013).  Detlef Sprinz is a member of the European Academy, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany; co-founded Ecologic Institute; and provides consultancy services to companies, governments, international institutions, research institutes, and think tanks.  He also serves on a range of advisory boards of national, European, and international projects, journals, and institutions. 

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Curriculum Vitae

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Contact

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
T +49 (0)331 288 2555
dsp[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam

ORCID

0000-0002-2255-6988

Affiliations

ESSCA School of Management

Visiting Researcher
Angers, France

Detlef F. Sprinz is Senior Scientist at PIK—Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, a Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Research Affiliate at ESSCA School of Management, Angers, France.  During 2024-2025, he will lead the project “AMaReNa - A Market for the Restoration of Nature” which focuses on carbonremovals.

He received a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, as well as a M.A. (“Diplom-Volkswirt”) in Economics from the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.  He coordinated a research group at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, located at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, on credible commitment to long-term policy from January-August 2017.  During the academic year 2017-18, Detlef Sprinz served as Rice Faculty Fellow & Visiting Professor in the European Studies Council, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now: Yale School of the Environment), Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.  During 2020-2022, he held a Tandem Fellowship by the German Stifterverband to create a course on “Sustainable and Collaborative Decision-Making in Business and Politics – An Interdisciplinary and Prediction-Based Course,” and during 2022-20233, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.

His areas of research and publications encompass climate policy at various levels, long-term policy, inter/national institutions & the evaluation of their performance, European & international environmental policy, and modeling political decisions.  He served as guest editor of the special issue of Global Environmental Politics on “Long-term Environmental Policy” (2009), co-editor of International Relations and Global Climate Change (The MIT Press, 2001), Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations (The University of Michigan Press, 2004), and Global Climate Policy - Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges (The MIT Press, 2018) - in addition to numerous journal articles.  As a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group III, he co-authored chapter 14 on “international cooperation.”

Detlef Sprinz has taught international relations, international environmental policy, and social science methodology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; the University of Oslo, Norway; the University of Potsdam, Germany; in the joint MA program in International Relations (MAIB) of the Free University Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Potsdam; in the Master of Public Management (MPM) program of the University of Potsdam, as well at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

During 2009-2012, Detlef Sprinz served as Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark.  He was a member of the International Advisory Committee of MILEN—Environmental Change and Sustainable Energy, University of Oslo, Norway (2010-2013), and a Senior Research Fellow at CICERO—Center for International Climate and Environmental Research—Oslo, Norway (2011-2013).  Detlef Sprinz is a member of the European Academy, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany; co-founded Ecologic Institute; and provides consultancy services to companies, governments, international institutions, research institutes, and think tanks.  He also serves on a range of advisory boards of national, European, and international projects, journals, and institutions.

Main research interests

  • Climate policy at various levels
  • Carbon removals
  • Long-term policy
  • Inter/national institutions & the evaluation of their performance
  • European & international environmental policy (in particular climate policy)
  • Modeling and predicting political decisions

2024

  • Detlef F. Sprinz, Tabea Schaefers, Freya Lenk, and Maximilian Krott. 2024. Forecasting Forest-Related Political Decisions in a Climate-Constrained World – The Remuneration of Forest Ecosystem Services in Germany. Forest Policy and Economics 169:103231, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103231. [PDF]

  • Chikh M’hamed, Sonia, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2024. The Keys to the EU’s Climate Neutrality Goal: Forest Carbon and LULUCF. In Making the European Green Deal Work: EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad, edited by Helene Dyrhauge and Kristina Kurze. London: Routledge, 60-75. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246985.[PDF]

2023

  • Sprinz, Detlef. F. 2023. The Challenge of Long-Term Environmental Policy,” In Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy, edited by Helge Jörgens, Christoph Knill, and Yves Steinebach. Milton Park, Abingdon: Routledge, 305-314. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043843. [PDF]

2022

  • Patt, Anthony, Lavanya, Rajamani, ..., Detlef F. Sprinz, ... et al.. 2022. Chapter 14: International Cooperation” In Sixth Assessment Report: Mitigation of Climate Change (WG III). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Geneva: IPCC.[PDF]

2020

  • Sprinz, Detlef F., Shradha Shreejaya, and K. V. Devi Prasad. 2020. Predicting Climate Policy Choices: The Indian Water Mission. In Leidenschaft und Augenmaß: Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Entwicklung, Verwaltung, Umwelt und Klima - Festschrift für Harald Fuhr, edited by Thomas Hickmann and Markus Lederer. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 207-219.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F.  2020.  Effectiveness. In Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance, edited by Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini. London and New York: Routledge, 80-83.[PDF]
  • Sælen, Håkon, Jon Hovi, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal. 2020. How US Withdrawal Might Influence Cooperation Under the Paris Climate Agreement. Enviromental Science and Policy 108:121-132, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.011.[PDF]

 

2019

 

2018

 

2017

  • Sprinz, Detlef F., Rebekka Popp, Jennifer S. Bansard, and Peter Hefele. 2017. Compensating for Climate Change Impacts? Priorities for Research and Public Policy. Hong Kong and Potsdam: Konrad Adenauer Foundation and PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.[PDF]

 

2016

  • Sprinz, Detlef F., Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Steffen Kallbekken, Frans Stokman, Håkon Sælen, and Robert Thomson. 2016. Predicting Paris: Multi-Method Approaches to Forecast the Outcomes of Global Climate Negotiations. Politics and Governance 4:172-187. doi:10.17645/pag.v4i3.654.[Link] [PDF]
  • Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, Håkon Sælen, and Arild Underdal. 2016. Climate Change Mitigation: A Role for Climate Clubs? Palgrave Communications 2:16020. doi: 10.1057/palcomms.2016.20.[PDF]

 

2015

  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. 2015.  Predicting Paris: Forecasting the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP-21 With the Predictioneer’s Game. 10 Nov. 2015. Potsdam and New York City: PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and New York University, ResearchGate: doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3722.1840.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F.  2015.  Effectiveness. In Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance, edited by Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini. London and New York: Routledge, 64-67.

 

2014

  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2014. Long-Term Policy Problems: Definition, Origins, and Responses.  In Predicting the Future in Science, Economics, and Politics, edited by Frank Whelon Wayman, Paul R. Williamson, Solomon Polachek and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 126–43.
  • Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal. 2014. Bottom-up or Top-Down?  In Toward a New Climate Agreement - Conflict , Resolution and Governance, edited by  Todd L. Cherry, Jon Hovi, and David M. McEvoy.  London and New York: Routledge, 167-80.


2013

  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Steffen von Buenau. 2013. The Compensation Fund for Climate Impacts. Weather, Climate, and Society 5:210-220. doi: 10.1175/wcas-d-12-00010.1.[PDF]
  • Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, Carlo Giupponi, Keith Richards, Claudia Binder, Alex de Sherbinin, Detlef Sprinz, Theo Toonen, and Caroline van Bers. 2013. Transition Towards a New Global Change Science: Requirements for Methodologies, Methods, Data and Knowledge. Environmental Science & Policy 28(2013):36-47. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.009. [PDF]

 

2012

  • Bang, Guri, Jon Hovi, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2012. US Presidents and the Failure to Ratify Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Climate Policy 12:755-763. doi:10.1080/14693062.2012.699788.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef, F. 2012. Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition—Origin—Response Options. In Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, edited by Peter Dauvergne, second edition. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 183-193.[PDF]
  • Haberl, Helmut, Detlef Sprinz, et al. 2012. Correcting a Fundamental Error in Greenhouse Gas Accounting Related to Bioenergy. Energy Policy 45:18-23, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.051.[PDF]
  • Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Guri Bang.  2012. Why the United States Did Not Become A Party to the Kyoto Protocol: German, Norwegian, and US Perspectives. European Journal of International Relations 18(1):129-150. doi: 10.1177/1354066110380964.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. Long-Term Environmental Policy: 2012. Challenges for Research. Invited Editorial, 20th Anniversary Issue. Journal of Environment and Development 21(1):67-70, doi: 10.1177/1070496511435667.[PDF]


2011

  • EEA Scientific Committee. 2011. Opinion of the EEA Scientific Committee on Greenhouse Gas Accounting in Relation to Bioenergy.  Scientific Committee, Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.[Link] [PDF]


2010

  • Sprinz, Detlef. 2010. The “Sandwich Solution” to Global Climate Policy. In Delivering Tomorrow - Towards Sustainable Logistics. Bonn: Deutsche Post AG, 71-74.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef. 2010. Die „Sandwichlösung“ für die globale Klimapolitik. In Delivering Tomorrow - Zukunftstrend Nachhaltige Logistik.  Bonn: Deutsche Post AG, 71-74.[PDF]

 

2009

  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2009. "Long-Term Environmental Policy." Guest Editor. Special Issue of Global Environmental Politics 9(3).[Journal]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2009. "Introduction. Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition, Knowledge, Future Research." Global Environmental Politics 9(3):1-8.[PDF]
  • Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal. 2009. "Implementing Long-Term Climate Policy: Time Inconsistency, Domestic Politics, International Anarchy." Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):20-39.[PDF]
  • Lempert, Robert, Jürgen Scheffran, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2009. "Methods for Long-Term Environmental Policy Challenges." Global Environmental Politics 9(3):106-33.[PDF]


2008

  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2008.  Responding to Long-Term Policy Challenges: Sugar Daddies, Airbus Solution or Liability? Ökologisches Wirtschaften 2/2008:16-19.[PDF] [Journal]
  • Ochs, Alexander, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2008.  Europa Riding the Hegemon? Transatlantic Climate Policy. In Hegemony Constrained: Evasion, Modification, and Resistance to American Foreign Policy, edited by D. B. Bobrow. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 144-166.[PDF]
  • EEA Scientific Committee. 2008. Opinion of the EEA Scientific Committee on the Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Utilisation in the EU.  Scientific Committee, Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.[Link] [PDF]


2007

  • Dimitrov, Radoslav, Detlef F. Sprinz, Gerald M. DiGiusto, and Alexander Kelle.  2007.  International Nonregimes: A Research Agenda. International Studies Review 9(2):230-258.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2007.  Zukünftige Forschung zur Effektivität Internationaler Institutionen [The Next Wave: Future Research on the Effectiveness of International Institutions], Politische Vierteljahresschrift - Sonderheft Politik und Umwelt. 39/2007, 60-72.[PDF]

 

2006

  • Hovi, Jon, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2006.  The Limits of the Law of the Least Ambitious Program. Global Environmental Politics 6(3):28-42.[PDF]
  • Hovi, Jon, Robert Huseby, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2006.  When Do (Imposed) Economic Sanctions Work? World Politics 57(4):479-499.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2006. “Germany’s International Environmental Policy”, In Germany’s Uncertain Power: Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, edited by H. W. Maull. Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 214-230.
  • EEA Scientific Committee. 2006. EEA Scientific Committee Opinion on Aggregate and Composite Environmental Indicators.  Scientific Committee, Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.[Link] [PDF]

 

2005

  • Ochs, Alexander, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2005. Europa Riding the Hegemon?  Transatlantic Climate Policy, In  Challenges to U.S. Foreign and Military Policy, edited by Davis B. Bobrow. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2005. Die Herausforderungen der Internationalen Umweltpolitik: Analysen – Perspektiven – Empfehlungen [The Challenges of International Environmental Policy: Analyses - Perspectives - Recommendations], in: Chancen der deutschen Außenpolitik [The Opportunities of German Foreign Policy], edited by S. Bökenförde. Dresden: TUDpress -Verlag der Wissenschaften Dresden.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2005. Europan Ere Inork Ez Du Egin Nahi Esperimentu Berderik [Also in Europe, Nobody Wants to Undertake the Green Experiment at Home]. Berria Asteazkena, 16 February 2005, 3 (in Basque).[PDF]

 

2004

  • Ott, Konrad, Gernot Klepper, Stephan Lingner, Achim Schäfer, Jürgen Scheffran, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2004. Reasoning Goals of Climate Protection. Specification of Article 2 UNFCCC. Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler: Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler on behalf of the German Federal Environmental Agency.[PDF]
  • Ott, Konrad, Gernot Klepper, Stephan Lingner, Achim Schäfer, Jürgen Scheffran, and Detlef Sprinz. 2004. Konkretisierungsstrategien für Art. 2 der UN-Klimarahmenkonvention. Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler: Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2004. Umsetzung von Kyoto ist Herkulesaufgabe [The Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol is a Major Challenge]. Stuttgarter Zeitung, 03 December 2004, 7.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., Anja Bauer, Jette Krause, Kathrin Birkel, and Ruben Zondervan. 2004. International Environmental Policy [E-Learning Course]. PolitikON, 01 April 2004.[Link]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias, eds. 2004. Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias. 2004. Introduction: Methodology in International Relations Research. In Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations, edited by D. F. Sprinz and Y. Wolinsky-Nahmias, 1-16. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2004. Environment Meets Statistics: Quantitative Analysis of International Environmental Policy. In Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations, edited by D. F. Sprinz and Y. Wolinsky-Nahmias, 177-192. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias. 2004. Conclusion: Multimethod Research. In Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations, edited by D. F. Sprinz and Y. Wolinsky-Nahmias, 367-381. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

 

2003

  • Churkina, G., J. Tenhunen, P Thornton, J. A. Elbers, M. Erhard, E. M. Falge, T. Grünwald, A. S. Kowalski , Ü. Rannik, and D. F. Sprinz. 2003. Analyzing the Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics of Four European Coniferous Forests Using a Biogeochemistry Model. Ecosystems 6:169-184.[PDF]
  • Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal. 2003. The Oslo-Potsdam Solution to Measuring Regime Effectiveness: Critique, Response, And Extensions. Global Environmental Politics 3(3):74-96.[PDF]
  • Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal. 2003. Regime Effectiveness and the Oslo-Potsdam Solution: A Rejoinder to Oran Young. Global Environmental Politics 3(3):105-107.[PDF]
  • Jaeger, Carlo C., Detlef F. Sprinz, and Klaus Hasselmann. 2003. Wer soll das bezahlen? [Who Shall Pay For It?]. Die Zeit 8/2003.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2003. Internationale Regime und Institutionen [International Regimes and Institutions]. In Die neuen Internationalen Beziehungen - Forschungsstand und Perspektiven in Deutschland [The New International Relations - The State of Research and Perspectives in Germany], edited by G. Hellmann, K. D. Wolf and M. Zürn. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 251-273.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2003. Gentleman, Scholar, Visionary - A Living Tribute to Harold K. Jacobson. Michigan Journal of International Law. 24(4):1029-1035.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2003. The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy. In Environment in the New Global Economy, edited by P. M. Haas. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.[Link]


2002

  • Schröder, M., M. Clausen, A. Grunwald, A. Hense, G. Klepper, S. Lingner, K. Ott, D. Schmitt, and D. F. Sprinz, eds. 2002. Klimavorhersage und Klimavorsorge [Climate Prediction and Precautionary Measures], Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung. Bd. 16. Berlin: Springer.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Tapani Vaahtoranta. 2002. National Self-Interest: A Major Factor in International Environmental Policy Formulation, in: Responding to Global Environmental Change, edited by M. K. Tolba, 323-328. London: Wiley.[PDF]


2001

  • Luterbacher, Urs, and Detlef F. Sprinz, eds. 2001. International Relations and Global Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.[PDF]
  • Luterbacher, Urs, and Detlef F. Sprinz, 2001. Problems of Global Environmental Cooperation. In International Relations and Global Climate Change, edited by U. Luterbacher and D. F. Sprinz. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 3-22.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Martin Weiß. 2001. Domestic Politics and Global Climate Policy, In International Relations and Global Climate Change, edited by U. Luterbacher and D. F. Sprinz. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 67-94.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2001. Comparing the Global Climate Regime with Other Global Environmental Accords, In International Relations and Global Climate Change, edited by U. Luterbacher and D. F. Sprinz. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 67-94.[PDF]
  • Luterbacher, Urs, and Detlef F. Sprinz, 2001. Conclusions. In International Relations and Global Climate Change, edited by U. Luterbacher and D. F. Sprinz. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 297-307.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2001. Does Climate Change Lead to Violent Conflict?, In Climate of the 21st Century: Changes and Risks, edited by J. Lozán, H. Graßl and P. Hupfer. Hamburg: Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen in cooperation with GEO, 350-352.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2001. Global Warming/Climate Change Convention, In Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, edited by R. J. B. Jones. London: Routledge, 610-612.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2001. Climate Change After Marrakech: The Role of Europe in the Global Arena. German Foreign Policy in Dialogue - A German E-Newsletter on German Foreign Policy 2(6).[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2001. Summary Notes of the 7th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, at Palais des Congrès, Marrakech, Morocco, 29 October – 10 November 2001.[PDF]

 

2000

  • Helm, Carsten, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2000. Measuring the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes. Journal of Conflict Resolution 45(5):630-652.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 2000. Problems of Cross-Level Inference in Political Science. Climatic Change 44(3) (Special Issue on "Upscaling in Global Change Research"; Guest Editor: L. D. Danny Harvey):393-408.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Andreas Wahl. 2000. Reversing (Inter)National Policy - Germany’s Response to Transboundary Air Pollution, In International Environmental Agreements and Domestic Politics: The Case of Acid Rain, edited by A. Underdal and K. Hanf. Aldershot: Ashgate, 139-166.

 

1999

  • Helm, Carsten, and Detlef Sprinz. 1999. Measuring the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1999. Empirical-Quantitative Approaches to the Study of International Environmental Policy, In Policy Analysis Methods, edited by S. S. Nagel. Commack, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, 41-64.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1999. Modeling Environmental Conflict, In Environmental Change and Security. A European Perspective, edited by A. Carius and K. M. Lietzmann. Berlin, 183-194.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1999. Contributions to "Environment & Security in an International Context". Bonn & Brussels: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany & Committee of the Challenges of Modern Society, Nato.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Galina E. Churkina. 1999. The Analysis of Environmental Thresholds. Venice International University, Venice, Italy: NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security".[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Carsten Helm. 1999. The Effect of Global Environmental Regimes: A Measurement Concept. International Political Science Review 20(4):359-369.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Tapani Vaahtoranta. 1999. The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy, In Environmental Policy, Volume II: International Environmental Policy, edited by W. Rüdig. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 342-370.[PDF]

 

1998

  • Sprinz, Detlef. 1998. Contributions to "Institutional Frameworks for Political Action", In Human Choice and Climate Change, edited by S. Rayner and E. L. Malone. Columbus, OH: Battelle Press, 345-439.[Link]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1998. Domestic Politics and European Acid Rain Regulation, In The Politics of International Environmental Management, edited by A. Underdal. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 41-66.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1998. Die Modellierung umweltbedingter Konflikte [Modeling Environmental Conflict], in: Umwelt und Sicherheit. Herausforderungen für die internationale Politik [Environment and Security - Challenges for International Policy], edited by A. Carius and K. M. Lietzmann. Berlin: Springer, 195-208.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1998. Internationale Klimapolitik [International Climate Policy]. Die Friedens-Warte - Blätter für internationale Verständigung und zwischenstaatliche Organisation 73(1):25-44.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1998. Umwelt und Sicherheit: Die Rolle von Umweltschwellenwerten in der empirisch-quantitativen Modellierung [Environment and Security: Environmental Thresholds and Empirical-Quantitative Modeling]. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1998. Cross-Level Inference in Political Science, in: Elements of Change 1997, edited by S. J. Hassol and J. Katzenberger, 135-142. Aspen, CO: Aspen Global Change Institute.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Tapani Vaahtoranta. 1998. The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy, in: The Politics of International Environmental Management, edited by A. Underdal, 13-40. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Andreas Wahl. 1998. Reversing Course: Germany's Response to the Challenge of Transboundary Air Pollution. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).[PDF]

 

1997

  • Sprinz, Detlef, Carsten Helm, Rudolfo Lewanski, and Kenneth Hanf. 1997. International Governmental Organizations and National Particaption in Environmental Regimes: The Organizational Components of the Acidification Regime. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1997. Environmental Security and Instrument Choice, In Conflict and the Environment, edited by N. P. Gleditsch. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 483-502.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1997. Cross-Level Inference in Political Science. Aspen, CO: Aspen Global Change Institute.

 

1996

  • Carius, Alexander, Melanie Kemper, Sebastian Oberthür, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 1996. NATO/CCMS Pilot Study Environment and Security in an International Context: State of the Art and Perspectives, Interim Report, October 1996. Environmental Change and Security Project Report (3):55-65.[PDF]
  • Hanf, Kenneth, Steinar Andresen, Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Stephan Kux, Rodolfo Lewanski, Francesc Morata, Jim Skea, Detlef Sprinz, Arild Underdal, Tapani Vaahtoranta, and Jørgen Wettestad. 1996. The Domestic Basis of International Environmental Agreements: Modelling National/International Linkages. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1996. Monitoring and the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1996. Klimapolitik und Umweltsicherheit: Eine interdisziplinäre Konzeption [Climate Policy and Environmental Security: An Interdisciplinary Coneptual Model], in: Klimapolitik - Naturwissenschaftliche Grundlagen, internationale Regimebildung und Konflikte, ökonomische Analysen sowie nationale Problemerkennng und Politikumsetzung, edited by H. G. Brauch. Berlin: Springer, 141-150.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1996. International Negotiations Related to Global Climate Change (Abstract of a Keynote Address), in: Global Change, Local Challenge - HDP Third Scientific Symposium, 20-22 September 1995, edited by Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme Geneva: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme, 40-41.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Urs Luterbacher, eds. 1996. International Relations and Global Climate Change. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).[PDF]

 

1995

  • Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 1995. Umweltkrisen und internationale Sicherheit [Environmental Crisis and International Security], in: Deutschlands neue Außenpolitik, Bd. 2: Herausforderungen [Germany's New Foreign Policy, Vol. 2: Challenges], edited by K. Kaiser and H. W. Maull. Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 239-260.[PDF]

 

1994

  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1994. Editorial Overview: Strategies of Inquiry into International Environmental Policy. International Studies Notes 19(3):32-34.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1994. Empirical-Quantitative Analyses of International Environmental Policy. International Studies Notes 19(3):37-40.
  • Sprinz, Detlef F., and Tapani Vaahtoranta. 1994. The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy. International Organization 48(1):77-105.[PDF]

 

1993

  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1993. The Impact of International and Domestic Factors on the Regulation of Acid Rain in Europe: Preliminary Findings. Journal of Environment & Development 2(1):37-61.[PDF]
  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1993. Contributions to "Jahresgutachten 1993 des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU), In Welt im Wandel: Grundstruktur globaler Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen, edited by WBGU, Bonn: Economica Verlag.[PDF]

 

1992

  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1992. Why Countries Support International Environmental Agreements: The Regulation of Acid Rain in Europe. Ph.D. diss, Ann Arbor, MI: Department of Political Science, The University of Michigan.[PDF]

 

1990

  • Sprinz, Detlef F. 1990. Environmental Concern and Environmental Action in Western Europe: Concepts, Measurements, and Implications. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA).[PDF]

  • AMaReNa - A Market for the Restoration of Nature
  • Carbon Removals
  • Long Term Policy
  • Climate Policy

Course Syllabi (the latest version of each course can be found below; for an overview of all courses taught, please consult my CV):

  • Modeling Political Decisions for Sustainability: EU Carbon Removals (MA-level Seminar, University of Potsdam, Fall/Winter 2024).[PDF]
  • Global Climate Governance (MA-level Seminar, University of Potsdam, Summer 2024.[PDF]
  • Predicting Policy Decisions for Sustainability and their Influence on Business Strategy (MA-level Seminar, University of Potsdam, Summer 2020).[PDF]
  • Thursdays for ... Predicting Environmental Policy (MA-level Seminar, University of Potsdam, Fall/Winter 2019).[PDF]
  • Global Environmental Governance (MA-level Foundation Course, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Fall 2017).[PDF]
  • Global Climate Governance (Undergraduate, MA-, and Ph.D.-level Seminar, Yale University, Fall 2017).[PDF]
  • Methods for Studying International Relations/ World Politics (MA-level Seminar, Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin & University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Summer 2016).[PDF]
  • Global Climate Governance: Predicting Paris / Global Environmental & Climate Policy (MA-level Seminar, Master of Public Management, MA Political Science, MA Public Administration, University of Potsdam, Fall/Winter 2015/2016).[PDF]
  • International Environmental Policy (Ph.D.-level seminar, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Winter 2007).[PDF]
  • Introduction to World Politics (First-year Undergraduate Course, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Winter 2007).[PDF]
  • Methods for Studying World Politics (Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Fall 2006).[PDF]
  • Quantitative International Relations & Quantitative Political Science (MA-level course, Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, & University of Potsdam, Fall/Winter 2005).[PDF]
  • Introduction to Statistical Methods for Political Scientists (MA-level course, Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, & University of Potsdam, Summer 2005).[PDF]
  • Climate Change Policy: National, European, Global (Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, University of Potsdam, Summer 2001).[PDF] 
  • Advanced Topics in International Environmental Policy (Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, University of Potsdam, Fall/Winter 1998).[PDF]
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