Dr. Finn Müller-Hansen

• Machine learning and bibliometry applied to sustainability literature and science-policy discourse
• Social-ecological modeling, complex networks, and nonlinear dynamics
• Ecological and environmental economics theory

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113178Link to: ORCID, Google Scholar

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Müller-Hansen, F., Repke, T., Baum, C., Brutschin, E., Callaghan, M.W., Debnath, R., Lamb, W.F., Low, S., Lück, S., Roberts, C., Sovacool, B.K., Minx, J.C.
Attention, sentiments and emotions towards emerging climate technologies on Twitter.
Global Environmental Change, 83, 102765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102765

Nemet, G., Greene, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Minx, J.C. (2023).
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures.
Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01056-1

Creutzig, F., Hilaire, J., Nemet, G., Müller-Hansen, F., Minx, J.C. (2023).
Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation.
Energy Research & Social Science, 105, 103276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103276

Manych, N., Müller-Hansen, F., Steckel, J.C. (2023).
The political economy of coal across 12 countries: Analysing qualitative interviews with topic models.
Energy Research & Social Science, 101, 103137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103137

Debnath, R., Reiner, D.M., Sovacool, B.K., Müller-Hansen, F., Repke, T., Alvarez, R.M., Fitzgerald, S. (2023).
Conspiracy spillovers and geoengineering.
iScience, 26, 106166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106166

Tiedemann, S., Müller-Hansen, F. (2023).
Auctions to phase out coal power: Lessons learned from Germany.
Energy Policy, 174, 113387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113387

Müller-Hansen, F., Lee, Y. T., Callaghan, M. W., Jankin, S., Minx, J. C. (2022).
The German Coal Debate on Twitter: Reactions to a Corporate Policy Process.
Energy Policy, 169, 113178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113178

Müller-Hansen, F., Callaghan, M. W., Lee, Y. T., Leipprand, A., Flachsland,  C., Minx,  J. C. (2021).
Who cares about coal? Analyzing 70 years of German parliamentary debates on coal with dynamic topic modeling.
Energy Research & Social Science, 72, 101869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101869

Kittel, T., Müller-Hansen, F., Koch, R., Heitzig, J., Deffuant, G., Mathias, J. D., Kurths, J. (2021).
From lakes and glades to viability algorithms: automatic classification of system states according to the topology of sustainable management.
European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 230, 3133-3152. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00262-2

Diluiso, F., Walk, P., Manych, N., ..., Müller-Hansen, F., ..., Minx, J. C. (2021).
Coal transitions - Part 1: A systematic map and review of case study learnings from regional, national, and local coal phase-out experiences.
Environmental Research Letters, 16(11), 113003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1b58

Creutzig, F., Callaghan, M., Ramakrishnan, A., ..., Müller-Hansen, F., ...,  Wilson, C. (2021).
Reviewing the scope and thematic focus of 100 000 publications on energy consumption, services and social aspects of climate change: A big data approach to demand-side mitigation.
Environmental Research Letters, 16(3). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd78b

Callaghan, M. W. & Müller-Hansen, F. (2020).
Statistical stopping criteria for automated screening in systematic reviews.
Systematic Reviews, 9, 273. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01521-4

Müller-Hansen, F., Callaghan, M. W., & Minx, J. C. (2020).
Text as big data: Develop codes of practice for rigorous computational text analysis in energy social science.
Energy Research & Social Science, 70, 101691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101691

Lamb, W. F., Antal, M., Bohnenberger, K., Brand-Correa, L.I., Müller-Hansen, F., Jakob, M., Minx, J. C., Raiser, K., Williams, L., & Sovacool, B. (2020).
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature.
Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), 113006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc11f

Kolb, J. J., Müller-Hansen, F.,  Kurths, J., & Heitzig, J. (2020).
Macroscopic approximation methods for the analysis of adaptive networked agent-based models: Example of a two-sector investment model.
Physical Review E, 102, 042311. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.042311

Lamb, W. F., Mattioli, G., Levi, S., Roberts, T., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., Minx, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Culhane, T., &  Steinberger, J. K. (2020).
Discourses of climate delay.
Global sustainability, 3, e17, https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.13
Press release: https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/news/information/information-detail/article/the-argumentation-patterns-of-climate-action-preventers.html

Donges, J. F., Heitzig, J., Barfuss, W., Kassel, J. A., Kittel, T., Kolb, J. J., Kolster, T., Müller-Hansen, F., Otto, I. M., Wiedermann, M., Zimmerer, K. B., & Lucht,  W. 2020.
Earth system modelling with complex dynamic human societies: the copan:CORE World-Earth modeling framework.
Earth System Dynamics, 11, 395-413. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-395-2020

Müller-Hansen, F., Heitzig, J., Donges, J. F., Cardoso, M.F., Dalla-Nora, E. L., Andrade, P., Kurths, J., & Thonicke, K. (2019).
Can Intensification of Cattle Ranching Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? Insights From an Agent-based Social-Ecological Model,
Ecological Economics, 159, pp. 198-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.025

Ciemer, C., Boers, N., Hirota, M., Kurths, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Oliveira,  R.S., & Winkelmann, R.:
Higher resilience to climatic disturbances in tropical vegetation exposed to more variable rainfall.
Nature Geoscience, 12, pp. 174-179. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0312-z

Müller-Hansen, F., Schlüter, M., Mäs, M., Donges, J. F., Kolb, J. J., Thonicke, K., & Heitzig, J. (2017).
Towards representing human behavior and decision making in Earth system models -- an overview of techniques and approaches.
Earth System Dynamics, 8, pp. 977-1007. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-977-2017

Donges, J. F., Lucht, W., Müller-Hansen, F., &  Steffen, W. (2017).
The technosphere in Earth System analysis: A coevolutionary perspective,
The Anthropocene Review, 4(1), pp. 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616676608

Müller-Hansen, F., Cardoso, M. F., Dalla-Nora, E. L., Donges, J. F., Heitzig, J., Kurths, J. & Thonicke, K.  (2017).
A matrix clustering method to explore patterns of land-cover transitions in satellite-derived maps of the Brazilian Amazon.
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 24, pp. 113-123. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-113-2017

Fauser, H., Kersting, F., Müller-Hansen, F., & Sacharow, A. (2016).
Missing bridges: a pluralist analysis of the debate on Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 7(3), pp. 300 - 322. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPEE.2016.079693

Müller-Hansen, F., Droste, F., & Lindner, B. (2015).
Statistics of a neuron model driven by asymmetric colored noise.
Physical Review E, 91, 022718. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.022718

Other Publications

Levi, S., Müller-Hansen, F., Lamb, W. F., Mattioli, G., Roberts, J. T., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., Minx, J.C., Culhane, T., & Steinberger, J. K. (2021).
Klimaschutz-Ausreden.
In: Dohm, L., Peter, F., & van Bronswijk, K. (Eds.), Climate Action - Psychologie der Klimakrise} (pp. 89-104). Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. https://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/3110

F. Müller-Hansen:
Ökologische Krise und grüne Ökonomie – eine Einführung
Beitrag für www.exploring-economics.org, 2016.

F. Müller-Hansen:
Economic Framing: Environmental Governance and Teaching Pluralist Economics
Contribution to the Anthropocene Curriculum 2016, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2016.

F. Ueckerdt, G. Luderer, F. Müller-Hansen:
Analyse des Klimaschutzpotentials der Nutzung von erneuerbarem Wasserstoff und Methan,
Abschlussbericht des Forschungsvorhabens G 8/01/11 für den Deutschen Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW) e.V., 2013 (pdf).