Well over half the waste generated in Germany is mineral waste. It represents a major potential for resource conservation. Huge quantities of natural, mineral raw materials, such as natural stone, sand, gravel and the [...] More

Systematic preparation for the world of tomorrow would appear the most logical course of action. Consequently, the project “Forest Futures 2100” wants to illuminate the horizon of expectable, possible and desirable future [...] More

The agriculture in Germany accounts for a significant degree of greenhouse gas emissions. In climate protection strategies (i.e. the energy and climate programme of the federal government), the contribution of the agriculture [...] More

The main objective of this project was to conduct a process of policy reflection through a professionally facilitated series of three workshops, including a fundamental pre- and after-workshop phase. In doing so the proposed [...] More

The project “Relief Effects for the Environment through Nanotechnological Processes and Products”, conducted in cooperation with Bremen University, is aimed at the prospective identification and evaluation of the potential [...] More

The Oder Estuary is a rural region at the German-Polish border. It has great ecological and recreational potential. The region suffers from economic and social problems and a steep gradient between West and East and between [...] More

Bionics exercises great fascination for many different reasons. It promises 'adapted', ecologically compatible solutions for social problems. An important contribution towards implementing this promise consists in working out [...] More

This research project aims to explore the particular features of global-local governance that are nowadays so distinctive in the field of climate change. These features include the complex relationships between global, [...] More

Das Forschungsvorhaben brachte mehr Transparenz in die Diskussion um die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wirtschaftswachstum und Verkehrsentwicklung, entwickelte Strategien und Gestaltungsprinzipien, die als Bestandteil von [...] More

Nanotechnology is regarded as a key technology of the 21st century. The hopes and expectations placed in it as a motor for innovations are enormous. This project is being conducted on behalf of the Bundesinstitut für [...] More

Das Projekt entwicklete im Auftrag der Europäischen Kommission neue Methoden, um die Effekte internationaler Handelsbeziehungen besser und breiter evaluieren zu können. Diese Methoden sollten geeignet sein, um Effekte in [...] More

The research project examined the cost-benefit ratios of alternative flood protection strategies from an integrated river basin-related perspective. In collaboration with the Federal Institute of Hydrology, technical flood [...] More

The Concerted Action on Trade and Environment (CAT&E) is designed to provide an opportunity for the large and growing community of European researchers working on trade and environment issues to meet regularly, to discuss [...] More

The main focus of the approach pursued here consists in a systematisation of the approaches and fields of bionics (in particular against the background of the current dynamic differentiation between bionic approaches). [...] More

Der dynamische Wandel von Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Umwelt verändert die Kontextbedingungen für eine sozial-ökologische Steuerung gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung. Auf allen politischen, wirtschaftlichen und räumlichen [...] More

Green budget reform, differentiation of value added tax, business development reform, sustainability assessment More

Purpose of this report is the preparation of a BMBF-programme focussing towards procut-related challenges of sustainable economy in the framework of the German research programme sustainability (FONA): Which chances and [...] More

Objectives of the project are: Positioning of the Swiss strategy and activities in the area of an Integrated Product Policy in relationship to the acivitities of the EU-Commission and other Member States of the EU with [...] More

Evaluation of the environmental effects of feedstuff production and trade. Additionally the economic and political relevance of the feedstuff industry is discussed. More

In 1995, the European Union and Mediterranean countries initiated the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership which will oversee the step by step establishment of a free trade zone by 2010. Dismantling trade restrictions will give the [...] More