Adam X. Hearn

Publications: ORCID ID 0000-0002-6799-7920

Peer reviewed:

Koehrsen, J.,Buzzi, A-L., & Hearn, A. (2025)  Are religious organizations becoming green? Faith communities’ role in advancing environmental sustainability in Switzerland. Sustainability Science 2025 DOI : 10.1007/s11625-025-01766-9

Bruehwiler, N., Hearn, A., Roysen, R., Kos, L., Koehrsen, J., Hausmann, R., Bögel, P.,, (2025) Energy Justice in Innovative Living Spaces: Examining Positive Energy Districts and Ecovillages in Europe. Energy Research and Social Sciences Volume 127, September 2025, 104248 https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2214-6296(25)00329-9

Stolz, J., Köhrsen, J., Senn, J., Monnot, C., Buzzi, A-L., & Hearn, A. (2024). Säkularisierung und Inklusivität. Die Entwicklung loka-ler religiöser Gruppen in der Schweiz, 2008 – 2022. Social Change in Switzerland, N°39. doi: 10.22019/SC-2024-00006
(PDF) Säkularisierung und Inklusivität. Die Entwicklung lokaler religiöser Gruppen in der Schweiz, 2008 -2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386140781_Sakularisierung_und_Inklusivitat_Die_Entwicklung_lokaler_religioser_Gruppen_in_der_Schweiz_2008_-2022

Hearn, A.X., Huber, F., Koehrsen, J. et al. The perceived potential of religion in mitigating climate change and how this is being realized in Germany and Switzerland. J Environ Stud Sci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-023-00884-z

Positive energy district stakeholder perceptions and measures for energy vulnerability mitigation. Hearn A.X. 2022Applied Energy, 322, p.119477.

Redefining energy vulnerability, considering the future. Hearn, A.X., Mihailova, D., Schubert, I. and Sohre, A., 2022.Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4, p.952034.

Preferences for configurations of Positive Energy Districts–Insights from a discrete choice experiment on Swiss households Mihailova, D., Schubert, I., Martinez-Cruz, A.L., Hearn, A.X. and Sohre, A., 2022.  Energy Policy, 163, p.112824.

Towards a Just Energy Transition, Barriers and Opportunities for Positive Energy District Creation in Spain AX Hearn, R Castaño-Rosa, Sustainability 13 (16), 8698

Innovative but unjust? Analysing the opportunities and justice issues within positive energy districts in Europe AX Hearn, A Sohre, P Burger, Energy Research & Social Science 78, 102127

Non-peer reviewed academic:

Schubert, I., Sohre, A., Hearn, A.X., Timpano, F., Martz, J. & Giacometti, M. (2024). Enpower: Summary report on focus groups for
Ourpower’s ServeU-App. App features that could engage energy community members and future members. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25498189


Report on “must-read” factors in policy design to tackle energy poverty through PED creation C. Marggraf, AX Hearn, L. Lamonaca, R. Ackrill, K. Galanakis 2021

Business Models and Consumers’ Value Proposition for PEDs Value Generation Systems for PEDs: Archetypes for a Networked Europe, 2040: Foresight Report, SMART BEEjS, 2022 (Contributor)  https://smart-beejs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/D6.4_BMs-and-Value-Propositions_final.pdf


de Mier Cortijo, L.G., Lopez, M.L., Castaño-Rosa, R. and Hearn, A., Consulta Pública Previa Comunidades Energéticas Locales,  2020, https://hogaressaludables.getafe.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Consulta-publica-Comunidades-Energ%C3%A9ticas.pdf

Non-peer reviewed non-academic:

F. Billinghurst ed. Call of the God: An anthology exploring the divine masculine within modern paganism, 2015 Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. (Contributor) Poem in the anthology “Il Cornuto, the horned God”.

Hearn, A.X., 2019. Making Shamanic Drums: A shamanic guide to the creation of sacred drums from raw deer hides Self-published (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Adam-X-Hearn/dp/190680902X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=making+shamanic+drums&qid=1623057595&sr=8-1)

Hearn, A.X., 2008. The Book of Peace and Love: The Little Book of Big Words, self-published (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Peace-Love-Little-Words/dp/1906809003/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=book+of+peace+and+love%2C+the+little+book+of+big+words&qid=1623057921&sr=8-1)

Articles in the press about me and by me (academic and non-academic)

  1. University of Basel Magazine “In Focus: Adam Hearn wants to make sustainability fair” August 2022 https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-People/In-Focus–Adam-Hearn-wants-to-make-sustainability-fair.html
  2. Shamanic Drums Issue 45 of Indie Shaman magazine, published in July 2020. https://indieshaman.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/shamanic-drums/
  3. Plant Spirit Vegan Drums Jan 26, 2023, online for Indie Shaman https://indieshaman.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/plant-spirit-vegan-drums/