Volker Stelzer

Dr. Volker Stelzer

  • Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
    Postfach 3640
    76021 Karlsruhe

Fields of work

  • Systemic sustainability assessment
  • Sustainable power supply

Memberships and participation in boards

  • Member of the review board of Scientists for Future and co-leader of the Karlsruhe regional group
  • Co-head of the working group Climate Crisis and Societal Transformation in the Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (VGDH)
  • Member of the research network Renewable Energies of the MWK: working group Accompanying Research

Current projects

  • Helmholtz platform for the design of robust energy systems and their supply chains (RESUR)
    Projektbeschreibung
  • Feasibility study “Municipal climate protection”
    project description
  • TrafoKommunE – Transformationsprozess für die kommunale Energiewende - sektorengekoppelte Infrastrukturen und Strategien zur Einbindung von lokalen Akteure
    project description
  • Energy transformation in dialog – from real-world lab to Karlsruhe’s transformation center
    project description
  • Urban Transition Lab 131
    project description
  • District Future – Urban Lab
    project description

Completed projects

Professional background

1980 - 1982Study of teaching profession for secondary level II with the subjects geography and biology, Düsseldorf and Cologne
1982 - 1988Study of geography with the aim of Diplom, subsidiary subjects botany, geology, soil science and cultural technology, Cologne and Bonn, degree: Diplom
1989 - 1991Administrator at the Environmental Office Sankt Augustin (environmental report, answering questions from politics and administration)
1991 - 1993Project manager for approval procedures and environmental impact assessments at FRASER Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement
1996Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Bonn with a dissertation on the problem of environmental assessments. Examination subjects geography and soil science
1997 - 2000Expert for Municipal Natural Resource Management at ICLEI-Europe (introduction of ökoBudget at the City of Bielefeld)
since 2001Scientific staff member at ITAS

Selected publications

Stelzer, V.; Kopfmüller, J.
Sustainability Assessment: Integrative Concept, Methodology and Examples.
2020. Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems. Ed.: C. Binder, 161–180, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. doi:10.1017/9781108574334

Rösch, C.; Bräutigam, K.-R.; Kopfmüller, J.; Stelzer, V.; Lichtner, P.; Fricke, A.
Indicator-based Sustainability Assessment of the German Energy System and its Transition.
2018. KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe. doi:10.5445/KSP/1000082161

Fritz, A.; Koch, B.; Bosansky, M.; Pallares, C.; Riviere, E.; Hu, Y.; Kuhn, N.; Bidart, C.; Fichtner, W.; Fröhling, M.; McKenna, R.; Müller, A.-K.; Rudi, A.; Schultmann, F.; Schumacher, K.; Vuilleumier, S.; Barbier, R.; Daniel, F.-J.; Bühler, S.; Hugi, C.; Steiger, O.; Knapp, M.; Meyer, R.; Pehle, A.; Stelzer, V.; Elsaesser, D.; Schulz, R.; Brilhac, J.-F.; Schönnenbeck, C.; Valente, M.; Roger, A.-C.; Duplay, J.; Quaranta, G.; Schäfer, G.; Aguejdad, R.; Blond, N.; Ponche, J.-L.; Selmi, W.; Serradj, A.; Skupinski, G.; Stark, J.; Weber, C.
Roadmap für eine nachhaltige Biomassenutzung in der Oberrheinregion. Roadmap Utilisation durable de la biomasse dans la Région du Rhin supérieur.
2015. KIT, Karlsruhe 

Immendoerfer, A.; WInkelmann, M.; Stelzer, V.
Energy solutions for smart cities and communities : recommendations for policy makers.
2014. European Union, 2014

Stelzer, V.; Quintero, A.
Climate change impacts on the energy sector and adaptation options.
2014. Krellenberg, K. [Hrsg.] Climate Adaptation Santiago Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 2014, 81–105

Recent publications


2023
Journal Articles
Bögel, P. M.; Trenks, H.; Upham, P.; Sauter, H.; Albiez, M.; Stelzer, V.; Laborgne, P.
Diversifying power in action: A socio-psychological approach to inclusive energy transition experiments
2023. Energy Research and Social Science, 100, Art.-Nr.: 103070. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2023.103070
2022
Book Chapters
Albiez, M.; Stelzer, V.
Werde Solar-Coach
2022. Praxisbeispiele und Reflexionsimpulse zur Weiterentwicklung des Bildungsangebotes an Hochschulen. Hrsg.: Georg Winterseel, Lukas Vaupe, 102–105, netzwerk n 
Journal Articles
Albiez, M.; Stelzer, V.; Parodi, O.; Bögel, P. M.; Trenks, H.
Energiewende nah an Mensch und Alltag
2022. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, (6), 31–33 
Reports/Preprints

Publications at ITAS