Prof. Dr. Dieter Rink
Research focus
- Sustainable urban development
 - Urban governance
 - Urban concepts
 - Housing and housing policy
 - Urban ecology
 
Table of contents
Curriculum Vitae
| 
 Rink, Dieter, Prof. Dr.  | 
|
| 
 Official position  | 
 Deputy Head of Department  | 
| 
 Institution  | 
 Department Stadt- und Umweltsoziologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ  | 
| 
 Business address  | 
 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ Permoserstr. 15 04318 Leipzig, Germany  | 
Academic education and degrees
| 
 1981-1986  | 
 Diploma in Cultural Studies  | 
| 
 April 1990  | 
 PHD (Epistemology)  | 
Professional career
| 
 1989-1991  | 
 Scientific assistant (from 1.6.1990 executive) at the Cultural and Art Studies Section  | 
| 
 1992-1994  | 
 Research Associate Science Centre Berlin  | 
| 
 Since 1994  | 
 Research Associate Helmholtz-Zentrum  | 
| 
 01.03.2000  | 
 Honorary professor (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Mittweida (Sachsen))  | 
| 
 Since 2004  | 
 Deputy Head of Department (Urban and environmental sociology)  | 
| 
 01.11.2013  | 
 Honarary professor, Universität Leipzig, Cultural Studies  | 
Honors, awards and positions
| 
 1991-1992  | 
 Scholarship holder Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung  | 
10 most important peer-reviewed papers
(8 out of 43: SCOPUS h-index: 19)
Haase D, Kabisch S, Haase A, Andersson E, Banzhaf E … Rink D et al. Greening cities – to be socially inclusive? About the paradox of society and ecology in cities. Habitat International. 2017;64: 41-48.
Nelle A, Großmann K, Haase D, Kabisch S, Rink D, Wolff M. (2017): Urban shrinkage in Germany: An entangled web of reality, discourse and policy. Cities. 2017;69: 116-123.
Banzhaf E, Kabisch S, Knapp S, Rink D, Wolff M, Kindler A. Integrated research on land use changes in the face of urban transformations – An analytic framework for further studies. Land Use Policy. 2017;60: 403-407.
Mathey J, Arndt T, Banse J, Rink D. Public Perception of Spontaneous Vegetation on Brownfields in Urban Areas – Results from Surveys in Dresden and Leipzig (Germany). Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 2018;29: 384-392.
Rink D, Siemund S. Perforation als Leitbild für die schrumpfende Stadt? Erfahrungen aus Leipzig, disP – The Planning Review. 2015;52(3): 50-60.
Haase A, Rink D, Grossmann K. Shrinking cities in post‐socialist Europe: What can we learn from post-socialist shrinking cities? Geografiske Annaler Series B, Human Geography. 2016;98(4): 305-319.
Rink D, Arndt T. Investigating perception of green structure configuration for afforestation in urban brownfield development by visual methods—A case study in Leipzig, Germany. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 2016;15: 65-74.
Grossmann K, Arndt T, Haase A, Rink D, Steinführer A. The influence of housing oversupply on residential segregation: exploring the post-socialist city of Leipzig. Urban Geography. 2015;36(4): 550–577.