Leon-Fabian Caspari, M.A.

Leon-Fabian Caspari has been a research assistant at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology since January 2026. His research focuses on how people respond to increasing climate risks. In particular, he examines how different actors understand and implement climate adaptation, what knowledge they draw upon, what strategies they develop, and what reactions adaptation strategies and measures elicit. He is pursuing his doctorate as part of the research project "Climate Adaptation Management in Germany: On the Climate Adaptation Practices in Urban Lower Saxony" funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK).

Leon studied anthropology and human geography in Göttingen, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and himself works as a climate adaptation manager for the city of Göttingen. His focus is on adapting to increasing heat. There, among other things, he coordinates the EU Interreg project COOL CITIES, which aims to reduce heat stress by creating cool and pleasant outdoor areas and routes in cities.

As part of ENLIGHT from July 2021 to April 2024, he coordinated various Blended Intensive Programs (BIPs) under the academic direction of Prof Elfriede Hermann and in interdisciplinary teams with scholars from other ENLIGHT universities, which deal with the sociocultural impacts and responses to the climate crisis. The focus was on the interactions between climate mitigation, adaptation, and climate justice.

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