31 running Projects // 364 Projects in total

• Qualification Structure and Requirements in Environmental Protection

  The object of this research project is to gather information about the qualification structure and future qualification requirements of employees working in the field of environmental protection. Professionals and [...] More

• Regional Adaptation Strategies for the German Baltic Sea Coast (RADOST)

  The aim of the RADOST project is to develop regional adaptation strategies in a dialogue between research institutions, business, public administration and civil society. The IÖW is responsible for the socioeconomic analysis [...] More

• Optimization of a new membrane process for upgrading biogas for injection into the natural gas distribution grid

  The project aims to further develop and optimize a new membrane process for upgrading biogas to methane, whereby the focus is on its potential contribution to climate change mitigation. The company, Ingenieurbüro Buse GmbH, [...] More

• Stakeholder Dialogues: Adaptation to Climate Change

  The adaptation of society, the economy and the environment to the inevitable consequences of climate change gets increasingly important. For this process key stakeholders in economy and society need to be sensitised for the [...] More

• Internet-Based Value-Added Calculator 2.0

  The German Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) developed an internet-based calculation tool in cooperation with the IÖW and on behalf of the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR) to determine the local value-added effects for the [...] More

• Climate change in Germany: Adaptive capacity and tranformation paths towards a resilient society

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• Concentrating Market Power. Bulk Consumer as Change Agent for Innovation Towards Sustainable Consumption

  The project builds on the experience gained with public procurement (GPP) but breaks new ground by aiming at non-public bulk consumers which, either individually or as a group, could provide supply-side stimuli for innovation [...] More

• Chameleon Adapting Utilities to Climate Change - Analysing and Developing Private and Public Action

  Climate change alters and endangers not only natural areas but also our social and technical infrastructure. Extreme weather phenomena such as storms and flooding can bring down power lines or make rail lines impassible. Heat [...] More

• Retrofit Plan for Federal Buildings: A Special Study to Quantify Rebound Effects After Thermal Retrofits of Non-Residential Buildings/Federal Properties

  The German federal government is aiming at reducing heating energy consumption in its properties by 20% by the year 2020, in conformity with commitments by the wider public service sector, and for this it has developed a [...] More

• Water Flows in Germany

  

  The website www.bmbf.wasserfluesse.de presents interactive graphics and films on Water Flows in Germany. The aim of the research project is to capture the water flows in Germany in an integrative analysis and in innovative [...] More

• Linking adaptation knowledge and stakeholders, policy-relevant synthesis and target-oriented communication

  The German Adaptation Strategy includes dialogue processes with relevant stakeholders. Moreover, it aims at informing different target groups about climate impacts and possible adaptation measures. In this project the IÖW and [...] More

• Linking Research and Policy Making for Managing the Contradictions of Sustainable Consumption and Economic Growth (RESPONDER)

  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 [...] More

• Sectoral Economic Modeling for the Integration of Regional Earth System Modeling

  Both climate models as well as economic models and methodology recognize that it is necessary to have sufficient information available on local and regional levels in order to achieve a target oriented consultancy of decision [...] More

• RE-Regions: Socio-Ecology of Self-Sufficiency The conditions for and diffusion of concepts for the complete energy supply of municipalities and regions on the base of renewables - main focus on bioenergy

  There is broad consensus today that local involvement is needed to achieve climate protection targets agreed on a higher political level. Renewable energy self-suffiency can make a significant contribution to this. Especially [...] More

• A brief study on the impacts of the 2014 amendment for the German Renewable Energies Act on value added and employment until 2020

  Against the background of the scheduled amendment of the Renewable Energies Act this year and the related cabinet decision on April, 9th 2014 the brief study shall reveal the impacts on value added and employment until 2020 [...] More