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Projects on the topic "Production and Consumption"

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Climate-residents. New roles, Chances and Responsibilities of Citizens in the Transformation of the Energy System
(April 2013 - March 2016)
The project analyses residents' roles and courses of actions in transforming the energy system. It pursues the following objectives:
  • analysing the municipal and regional role structures, role models and behaviours;

  • portraying transitions, interdependences and conflicts...
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Linking Research and Policy Making for Managing the Contradictions of Sustainable Consumption and Economic Growth (RESPONDER)
(January 2011 - June 2014)
The EU-funded project RESPONDER aims at disclosing and discussing the contradictions between sustainable consumption and economic growth. The project seeks to inform policy-making by exploring novel ways of knowledge brokerage. The challenge is linking four communities: linking science and policy...
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Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices
(June 2012 - November 2013)
The project “Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices” aims to explore potentials of social innovations for environmental policies for sustainable consumption. The focal point of the project is to develop a typology of social innovation and a practical guideline....
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Climate change and daily routine acts: potentials, strategies and instruments for a CO2-poor life style in a zero-emission-city
(November 2010 - October 2013)
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Development potential and marketing concept of the German Ecolabel Blue Angel
(October 2011 - October 2013)
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