50 running Projects // 338 Projects in total

• Waterflows in Germany II Education for Sustainability, Information Transfer to Experts in Water Management and International Networking

  The project "Water flows in Germany" starts into a second phase in which it will create an educational package for schools. Since 2011 the project has collected information about water and its use in Germany and presented it [...] More

• Future Building: Quantification of Rebound Effects After Thermal Retrofits of Non-Residential Buildings/Federal Properties

  Um Rebound-Effekte und deren Ursachen bei der Sanierung von Nichtwohngebäuden genauer zu untersuchen, hat das Projektteam Zukunft Bau im Rahmen einer Sondierungsstudie eine Methodik dafür entwickelt und in ersten Fallstudien [...] More

• Expansion of renewable energies Impacts within an integrated socio-economic and ecological overview analysis

  With the "Energiewende" Germany is on the way towards a fundamental transformation of the energy sytem with the future focus on renewable energies. Especially the substitution of fossil fuels - as source of greenhouse gas [...] More

• Determination of the Value-Added and Employment Effects in Three Selected Bioenergy Regions

  With the competition „Bioenergy Regions“, the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection aims to promote regional structures in the field of bioenergy. As part of the accompanying research of this [...] More

• Private Households as New Key Actors in the Energy System's Transformation Process

  Private households are increasingly in the spotlight not only as consumers but also as a provider of innovative generated power. The applications of renewable generated power become even more diverse and engage in the classic [...] More

• Environmental Education in Vocational Training - an Analysis of Measures and Requirements

  The environmental economy has become one of the most important economic sectors in Germany. The segment is not just growing constantly but also provides highly qualified jobs. Employment sectors such as energy and resource [...] More

• Interdependencies between land use and climate change – Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany (CC-LandStraD)

  Besides inducing ecological effects, land use changes always have socioeconomic consequences. The IÖW-subproject 'Socioeconomic Assessment of Land Management Strategies' therefore assesses direct and indirect costs and [...] More

• Climate Adaptation Concept Munich

  The City of Munich has commissioned the bifa Environmental Institute in cooperation with IOeW to facilitate the development of a municipal climate adaptation concept. Major task will be the coordination of all involved [...] More

• Research on Coastal Waters: Joint Research Project SECOS: The Service of Sediments in German Coastal Seas; Project: Monetary Evaluation

  Coastal and marginal seas serve as natural reaction sites for the processing and accumulation of land-derived discharges. The main location of modification and accumulation of input into coastal and marginal seas are in most [...] More

• Climate-residents. New Roles, Chances and Responsibilities of Citizens in the Transformation of the Energy System

  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;  [...] More

• Adaptating to the Impacts of Climate Change in Berlin (AFOK Berlin)

  Based on the Urban Development Plan Climate (STEP Klima), this adaptation concept illustrates the pathways of climate change in the city and its sub-systems, systemizes and evaluates possible actions to adapt using expert [...] More

• Economics of climate change adaptation - Integrated economic modeling and institutional analysis at different scale levels (econCCadapt)

  The project brings together different economic disciplines and scale levels: Institutional economics, economic modeling at different scale levels using complementary methods of macroeconomic modeling and regionalized [...] More

• Expertise in Order for the Preparation of an Update of the Methodolocical Convention 2.0 for Estimates of Environmental Costs by Integration of the Supply Chain

  Mit der Erstellung des Sachverständigengutachtens unterstützte das IÖW das Umweltbundesamt in seinen Aktivitäten, die Bewertung von Umweltschäden im Zusammenhang mit Produktion, Nutzung und Entsorgung von Gütern und [...] More

• National Roamap Sustainable Consumption in the Post Rio+20 Process

  Ziel des Vorhabens war es, die fachlichen Grundlagen für eine „Nationale Roadmap für nachhaltigen Konsum“ zu erarbeiten. Diese soll als nationaler Beitrag dienen, um die internationalen Beschlüsse zur Förderung nachhaltiger [...] More

• Berlin's Energy and Climate Protection Program

  Berlin's Senate has set the agenda for transforming Germany's capital towards climate-neutrality until 2050. The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) has already been involved in the feasibility study [...] More