Sustainability Strategies and Policies: Challenges and Approaches

The project supports the Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in the further development of the sustainability and environmental programs with regard to the timeframe of 2030 and beyond. The project analyses how effective basic principles and guiding concepts of environmental politics have been so far and discusses whether modern environmental politics needs further guiding principles.

Moreover, the project aims at identifying which opportunities and risks would arise if sustainability politics pursued such goals as quality of life, welfare, happiness or flourishing of life. Finally, the project discusses how to conceptualize sustainability policy that aims at a good life for all