Dr. Benjamin Hofbauer

Senior Researcher
Contact
+49 40 86607726
hofbauer@ifsh.de
Hamburg
ORCiD

Books and Edited Volumes

Journal Articles

  • Hofbauer, Benjamin, Paul Einhäupl, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Jana Löhrlein, Daniel Bittner, Pia-Johanna Schweizer. 2025. Just Systems or Justice in Systems? Exploring the Ethical Implications of Systemic Resilience in Local Climate Adaptation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 16 (4): 550-559. DOI: 10.1007/s13753-025-00653-2.
  • Buhr, Lorina, Dominic S. Lenzi, Auke J. K. Pols, Claudia E. Brunner, Andrea Fischer, Arie Staal, Benjamin Hofbauer, Bernice Bovenkerk. 2024. The Concepts of Irreversibility and Reversibility in Research on Anthropogenic Environmental Changes. PNAS Nexus 4 (1): pgae577. DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae577.
  • Parviainen, Janne, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Lydia Cumiskey, Sukaina Bharwani, Pia-Johanna Schweizer, Benjamin Hofbauer, Dug Cubie. 2024. The Risk-Tandem Framework: An Iterative Framework for Combining Risk Governance and Knowledge Co-Production Toward Integrated Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 116 (January 2025): 105070. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105070.
  • Hofbauer, Benjamin. 2023. Systemic Risks and Solar Climate Engineering Research. Integrating Technology Ethics into the Governance of Systemic Risks. Journal of Risk Research 26 (12): 1383-1395. DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2023.2288010.
  • Hopster, Jeroen K. G., Alessio Gerola, Benjamin Hofbauer, Guido Löhr, Julia Rijssenbeek, Paulan Korenhof. 2023. Who Owns Nature? Conceptual Appropriation in Discourses on Climate and Biotechnologies. Environmental Values 33 (4): 414-433. DOI: 10.1177/09632719231196535.
  • Hofbauer, Benjamin. 2023. Normative Uncertainty in Solar Climate Engineering Research Governance. Ethics, Policy & Environment 27 (3): 451-470. DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2023.2216148.
  • Sand, Martin, Benjamin Hofbauer, Joost Alleblas. 2023. Techno-Fixing Non-Compliance – Geoengineering, Ideal Theory and Residual Responsibility. Technology in Society 73 (May 2023): 102236. DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102236.
  • Wieners, Claudia E., Benjamin Hofbauer, Iris E. de Vries, Matthias Honegger, Daniele Visioni, Hermann W. J. Russchenberg, Tyler Felgenhauer. 2023. Solar Radiation Modification Is Risky, but So Is Rejecting It: A Call for Balanced Research. Oxford Open Climate Change 3 (1): kgad002. DOI: 10.1093/oxfclm/kgad002.
  • Hofbauer, Benjamin. 2022. Techno-Moral Change Through Solar Geoengineering: How Geoengineering Challenges Sustainability. Prometheus 38 (1): 82-97. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48676468.

Book Chapters

  • Schweizer, Pia-Johanna, Benjamin Hofbauer, Paul Einhäupl. 2025. Systemic Risk Governance for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation. In: Adapting to Climate Change, edited by Claudia Morsut , 37-58. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan . DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07136-1_3.
  • Alleblas, Joost, Benjamin Hofbauer. 2024. Negotiating Visions of Waste: On the Ethics of Maintaining Waste Infrastructures. In: Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology, edited by Mark Thomas Young , Mark Coeckelbergh , 279-305. New York : Routledge .
  • Taebi, Behnam, Dominic S. Lenzi, Lorina Buhr, Kristy Claassen, Alessio Gerola, Benjamin Hofbauer, Elisa Paiusco, Julia Rijssenbeek. 2023. Climate Engineering and the Future of Justice. In: Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, edited by Ibo van de Poel Poel , Lily Frank , Julia Hermann , Jeroen K. G. Hopster , Dominic S. Lenzi , Sven Nyholm , Behnam Taebi , Elena Ziliotti , 83-112. Cambridge : Open Books Publishers . DOI: 10.11647/obp.0366.04.
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