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Biography
Dieter D. Genske studied Civil Engineering and Geology in Germany and the United States and received master's degrees in both disciplines. After his PhD he started working on environmental problems, first as Humboldt-research fellow in Kyoto, Japan, then as project manager at Deutsche Montan Technologie, here he became involved in large urban remediation projects, including the International Building Exhibition IBA Emscherpark and the new parliament quarter in Berlin. During this time he also carried out in close cooperation with the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne the visualisation project Graf Moltke, an animation of the remediation of a derelict terrain in the German Ruhr District. In 1994, he was appointed Professor of Engineering Geology at Delft University of Technology and three years later Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where he founded the Laboratory of Ecotechnics, the first of its kind in Switzerland. He chaired this research laboratory until the end of 2000. In the same year he was granted a prize for excellence in teaching (New Learning Technology Program). Dieter Genske has presented his projects on numerous international conferences and published extensively in peer reviewed journals. From 1994 to 2000 he edited the journal for then Recycling/Brownfield Redevelopment as well as the associated yearbook. He was invited guest professor at Universities in South Africa and Japan. Presently, he is starting the autonomous Network of Independent Environmental Geo-Scientists EGS.
Selected publications:
Books
Genske DD 2002Urban land - Degradation-Investigation-Remediation. Springer, Heidelberg (in preparation).
Genske DD 1996 Schadstoffausbreitung in kl·tigem Festgestein - Alternativen. (Contaminant migration through fractured media alternative approaches). Sven von Loga Verlag, Kn, 160 p.
Genske DD 1988 Ansatz fein probabilistisches Sicherheitskonzept (Dissertation on a probabilistic safety concept). Bergischen University-GH Wuppertal, Vol. 8, 209 p.
Editions
Genske DD & S Hauser 2002 (eds) Die Brache als Chance (Derelict land as a chance). Proceedings of the workshop Consumed spaces - on the semiotics of abandoned land , 7. International Congress of the IASS-AIS, Dresden, 1999 (in print).
Genske DD, K Heinrich & J Hueb (eds) 2000. Strategy on sanitation for high
risk communities: Identification and planning. Proceedings of an International
Workshop, Lausanne. WHO, Geneva, Leylakitap-Verlag, Bern,
Switzerland, 114p.
Genske DD, K Heinrich & J Hueb 2000. Strategy on sanitation for high risk communities: Identification and planning. Proceedings of an International Workshop, Lausanne. WHO, Geneva, Leylakitap-Verlag, Bern, Switzerland, 114p.
Genske DD & P Noll (eds) 1995 Brachflhen und Flhenrecycling (Remediation of urban land). Verlag Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, 322 p.
Scholarly articles and book chapters
Bell F & DD Genske 2001 The influence of coal mining on the environment, development and restoration: some examples. Environmental Engineering and Geoscience, vol 7, 81-99.
Bell F & DD Genske 2000 Restoration of derelict mining sites and mineral workings. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, vol 59, no 3, 173-183.
Bell F, DD Genske & AW Bell 2000 Rehabilitation of industrial areas: case histories from England and Germany. Environmental Geology, vol 40, 121-134.
Bell F, DD Genske & TR Stacey 2000 Mining subsidence and its effect on the environment: some differing examples. Environmental Geology, vol 40, 135-152.
Bell F, DD Genske, N Hytiris and P Lindsay 2000 A survey of contaminated ground with illustrative case histories. Land Degradation and Development, 11, 419-437.
Genske DD & EWB Hess-L·tich 1999 Water talk Intercultural development communication. Medienwissenschaft Schweiz /Science des mass mia suisse 2, 59-69.
Genske DD, HP Noll & U Risse 1999 European strategies of rehabilitation of degraded land. In Inyang I & VO Ogunro (eds): Enviromental geotechnology and global sustainable development. Proc. 4th Int. Symp. Boston, USA, The Lowell VolumeI, 39-46.
Genske DD & EWB Hess-L·tich 1999 Conflict, Crisis, and Catastrophe.
Cultural Codes and Media Management in Environmental Conflicts: the Case of
Water. In: Bernd Neumann (ed.), Dialogue Analysis and Mass Media. T·ingen,
Niemeyer, 231-248.
Drecker P, DD Genske, K Heinrich & P Noll 1995 Subsidence and Wetland Development in the German Ruhr District. In Bahrends, Brouwer, Schroeder (eds) Land Subsidence, IAHS Press, Wallingford, UK, 413-421.
Annels AE, RA Gayer, DD Genske & J-M Malezieux 1995 A New European Collaboration in the Field of Environmental and Geo-Resource Engineering, BrachFlhenRecyling/Recycling Derelict Land, 95 (3), Gl·kauf Verlag, Essen, 57-59.
Borchert K-M, Genske DD, C Gelbke, E Rkers, W Schhe 1995 Reaktivierung des Spreebogens in Berlin (Revitalisation of the parliament quarter in Berlin at the former German-German-frontier). In Genske DD & P Noll (ed). Brachflhen und Flhenrecycling, Verlag Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, 267-279.
Genske DD & P Noll 1995 Managing Land Recycling - Examples from the German Coal Mining District. Jaarboek van de Mijnbouwkundige Vereeniging te Delft (Yearbook Mining Society Delft), 60th edition, Delft, 148-157.
Send comments or questions to Dieter Genske: dgenske@swissonline.ch