Water shortage and water pollution are serious problems in China's Northern provinces which strongly influence not only socio-economic development, but also ecology and quality of life in these regions. Shandong Province and [...] More

The objective of the project is to provide policy guidance on how to change consumption patterns to make them more sustainable by using various approaches, including those based on behavioural research. To accomplish this, a [...] More

The integration of climate scenarios with other models for social and environmental development is a precondition for a reliable estimate of the future development of coupled human-environment systems under conditions of [...] More

The project intends to analyse measures and strategies for an improved application of synergies among environmental and social policy and to develop innovative strategies for their application. Herewith, the preconditions for [...] More

The BioEconomy Council has presented a study which deals with the perspectives and the action approaches to promote bio-economy. The basic orientation of bio-economy is that a fundamental change from the use of non-renewable [...] More