Gabriel Weber

Dr. Gabriel Weber is Associate Professor of international studies and sustainable development at ESSCA, Bordeaux.

Gabriel also is a Fellow at Fundació ENT (ENT) in Barcelona, Spain, where he was a Marie-Curie Post Doc in an International Training Network on Political Ecology.

His research at ENT includes primarily waste management and sustainable urban transitions. He works with local communities and municipalities for a sustainable transformation of waste management and waste degrowth. Gabriel is also a member of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), the European Roundtable of Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP), the Sustainability Transitions Network (STRN) and the Ecological Economics Research Group at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

He obtained his Master from Free University Berlin, Germany and his PhD from TU Dresden, Germany. He has worked as senior lecturer at Northumbria University, UK teaching in the field of Business Ethics, Strategic Management, and International Management. He was also a Full Professor at ISM, Hamburg teaching Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Leadership amongst others. He is still Adjunct Lecturer for ISM, Hamburg. After having worked at ESSCA’s Angers campus (2015/2016) he re-joined ESSCA at Bordeaux Campus in 2018.

At ESSCA Gabriel teaches primarily International Trade and Export Diagnosis and EU Sustainability Policies. With his students at ESSCA he is participating in the EJOLT Project (led by Joan Martinez-Alier, UAB Barcelona). In this project Environmental Justice conflicts in France, Germany and beyond are identified, and later mapped by the students (www.ejatlas.org). By doing so the students play an active part in confronting Environmental Injustice and achieving more Sustainability.

Gabriel Weber is an active member of ESSCA’s EU*Asia research group. He is also a leader of the Working Group “The European Environmental Conscience – its development and impact on European integration” as part of the research project “The Governance of Sustainability in Europe” (funded by Alliance Europe).

His academic research focuses on Ecological Economics, Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, Degrowth, Sustainability Transformations, Role of Environmental Organizations and Movements, Sustainable Digitalization, and Sustainability Education. His work has been published in Business & Society and Cleaner Production among others.