Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Ph.D. is an Emeritus Reader in Geography at the University of Hull in Kingston-upon-Hull England where she taught environmental policy and politics.[1][2] She was born in Dresden, East Germany then moved to Adelaide, South Australia where she obtained a research degree in geomorphology while also studying German literature and a bit of economics and geology. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the limits to the international control of marine pollution.[3]
She has been editor of Energy and Environment since 1996. The publication, an "interdisciplinary journal aimed at natural scientists, technologists and the international social science and policy communities" (ISSN 0958-305X), is published 8 times a year and has 20 internationally-located members on its editorial advisory board. Of the journal she says that "The focus is on energy policy debates in relation to the numerous environmental 'concerns' that have surfaced in recent decades."
According to Fred Pearce, Boehmer-Christiansen is a sceptic about acid rain and global warming and calls the science reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "political constructs."[4] Her journal once published a paper that claimed that the sun is made of iron.[5]