Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments While researching and writing this book, I was first a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and later a member of the Department for Technology and Society Studies at Maastricht University . Each of those institutions provided me with a supportive intellectual environment. Portions of chapters 2 and 5 appeared, in a different format, in “Exploring the City of Rubble: Botanical Fieldwork in Germany after World War II” in Science and the City, edited by S. Dierig, J. Lachmund, and J. A. Mendelsohn (Osiris, volume 18, University of Chicago Press, 2003) and in “Knowing the Urban Wasteland” in Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance, edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long Martello (MIT Press, 2004). I am thankful to the ecologists, landscape planners, and activists who allowed me to interview them, provided me with ample documents, and in some cases allowed me to accompany them in the course of fieldwork or political or organizational activities. I am especially grateful to Herbert Sukopp, who gave me access to his personal archive and who commented on portions of the manuscript. I also owe an enormous debt to colleagues who sharpened my thinking in fruitful ways. I want to mention especially Pedar Anker, Karin Bijsterveld, Soraya de Chadarevian, Arthur Daemmrich, Sven Dierig, Michael Hagner, Sabine Höhler, Sheila Jasanoff, Abigail Lustig, Andrew Mendelsohn, Michelle Murphy, Thomas Potthast, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Anke te Heesen, and Rosemary Wakeman. I also want to thank Wiebe Bijker, Andreas Fickers, Ruud Hendriks, Margareth Meredith, Alexandru Preda, Geert Somsen, and the two anonymous reviewers who all read some or all of the draft and provided me with valuable feedback. I am also grateful to Paul Bethge and Byron Evans for their help during the process of preparing the manuscript and to Helen Craggs for proofreading. Finally I want to thank Evelyn Hagenah for her encouragement and personal support. ...