43 running Projects // 395 Projects in total

• 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

• Digitalization and social-ecological transformation Rebound Risks and Sufficiency Opportunities of Digital Services

  

  Economy and society are facing fundamental structural change that is largely driven by the digitalization of production and consumption. Concepts such as the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) or (in Germany) ‘Industry 4.0’ are [...] More

• Future Potentials of a Rural Bio-Economy Analysis and Assessment of Value Chains of a Multiple and Cascade Based Usage of Renewable Raw Resources (Phase I)

  A resource-efficient economy based on renewable resources, with less or even no use of fossil resources at all – that is the objective of the German “National Policy Strategy on Bioeconomy”. The German Federal Government [...] More

• Internet-Based Value-Added Calculator for Energy-Saving Building Refurbishment

  

  The economic effects of energy efficiency measures and especially those of energy-saving building refurbishment are barely mentioned in regional energy concepts. In view of this fact the German Federal Ministry for the [...] More

• Regional Usage of Groundwater in Climate Change

  

  The goal of this project is to find workable solutions to cover the regional needs of water in the future, regarding to the aspect of climate change. Management strategies towards the regional water resources, the development [...] More

• Procurement Specifications Considering Biodiversity - Feasibility Study and Action Plans for German Public Procurement and the Construction Sector

  Per year around 480 billion Euro are spent on the public procurement in Germany. This market power can contribute to the conservation of biodiversity if e.g. biodiversity criteria are embedded in public tenders and thus it [...] More

• Analysis of Approaches to Alternative Economy: Effects of Sustainability and Need for Action for the State Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia - An Explorative Analysis

  The project examines the complex concept of alternative economy with an explorative approach, it points out possibilities of social, economic and ecological effects and deduces needs for action for the state politics of North [...] More

• Approaches to Resource Conservation in the Context of Post-Growth Concepts

  

  The recent institutions of society and economy are mainly focused on economic growth, measured in Gross National Product (GDP). This enhances a consumption of resources that is incompatible with planetary boundaries. Current [...] More

• IÖW/future-Ranking of Sustainability Reports 2015

  Since 1994 the IÖW/future Ranking of Sustainability Reports regularly assesses the extra-financial reports of the largest German companies on the one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the other. The basis [...] 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

• Scientific Support of Processes for an Enforced Consideration of Environmental Criteria in Public Procurement (GPP)

  Main objective of the project is to support the German Federal Environment Agency in its activities to strengthen green public procurement (GPP) in Germany. The very first task of the consortium consists of drafting a [...] More

• IT and Electrical Power Supply: Potentials and Risks of Coupling Regarding Vulnerability and Resilience

  

  With the Energiewende Germany has to arrange a fundamental transformation of the energy system, which will be characterized by a high content of volatile renewable energies. The accompanying fluctuations of the energy supply [...] More

• Linking Innovative Forms of Living With Mobility Services in Business Models Housing Providers and Initiatives as Initiators and Actors of Socio-ecological Change

  Housing and mobility are closely interlinked in everyday life. They shape land uses, environmental quality and quality of living. In order to minimize social and ecological impairment, it is useful to consider housing and [...] More

• 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

• Innovative System Solutions for a Transdisciplinary and Regional Ecological Flood Risk Management and River Basin Management/Water(course) Development Close to Nature

  Aim of the project is to develop tools for a management on river basin level, which contribute to a systematic synergetic effect in the implementation of two directives of the European Union (EU): the Water Framework [...] More

• 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 [...] More

• PeerSharing

  

  The project “Peer-Sharing” focuses on innovative online-platforms, which act as an intermediary for peer-to-peer (consumer to consumer) lending, buying or swapping of products or services. At this point digital peer-to-peer [...] More

• Cooperation and participation process for the further development of the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (participation process DAS)

  In consideration of the ongoing climate change, adaptation to its inevitable consequences has gained relevance in recent years both in research and in politics. In Germany, the Federal Government resolved the German Strategy [...] 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

• 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

• Commons-based Peer Production in Open Labs (COWERK)

  

  The project COWERK intends to examine the adoption of cooperative ways of organizing the economy by using the example of open-access labs. The project has the aim of analyzing the adoption of new technological methods in the [...] More

• Needs and Opportunities for Climate Resilient and Sustainable Design of National and Cross-Border Infrastructure

  The result of the research project will be the systematization and processing of existing knowledge concerning the development dynamics, the guiding principles and the interdependencies of the infrastructures and possible [...] 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

• 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

• LowExTra – Low-Exergy-Grids for Storing and Distributing Heat at Different Temperature Levels

  The objective of the project is to investigate and develop a new, intelligent and democratic district heating grid. The grid is - in contrast to exisisting district heating systems with one flow line and one return line - [...] 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

• Scientific Support on the Topic: Environmental and Conservation Policy as Social Policy – Concepts and Future Challenges

  Environment and nature conservation policy is also social policy. This statement might seem trivial but it is highly relevant when taking into account the increasing and ever more dramatic effects of failing environmental [...] 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Scientific Support of Processes for a Green Public Procurement (GPP)

  Main objective of the project is to support the German Federal Environment Agency in its plethora of activities to strengthen green public procurement (GPP). To realise it, different activities are envisaged which refer to [...] More

• Postwachstumspioniere – Kommunikationsprojekt zur Erweiterung des Postwachstumsdiskurses um die Rolle mittelständischer Unternehmen

  Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum – ist das überhaupt möglich? Wie kann eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft aussehen und wie kommen wir da hin? Diese Fragen werden derzeit in der deutschen Politik, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft verstärkt [...] More

• Participatory Design of consumer-oriented Innovations for Smart Grids (InnoSmart)

  Due to the energy transition, all stakeholders in the energy industry are facing fundamental challenges. They have to realign and coordinate their positions, strategies, decisions and actions. This also applies to private [...] More

• Systemic Transformation of the Energy Supply in the Existing Housing Stock Sustainability Assessment of Different Refurbishment Options in Residential Buildings in Two Model Regions

  The central objective of the project is to identify possible development pathways for heat supply in the existing housing stock, which take into account social needs, are accepted by stakeholders, and enable a reduction of [...] More

• Public sector and infrastructure financing of German seaports and waterways - Optimization instead of double sponsorship

  In German seaports parallel infrastructures with huge investment and maintenance costs are being funded despite increasing financial constraints. So, at the moment, on the one hand port infrastructures are being increasingly [...] More

• Value-Added and Employment Effects by the Expansion of Renewable Energies

  In the last few years, the IÖW has published a series of studies on the quantification of value added and employment by renewable energies. On behalf of Greenpeace Deutschland, the IÖW has updated value added and employment [...] More

• Resilient Design of the Energy System Exemplified by Options of Transformation in the EE-Methane-System and Regional Self-Suffciency (RESYSTRA)

  The German „Energiewende“ is understood as a project of societal transformation with the goal to create a resilient energy system. Due to path-dependency, such transformation cannot be achieved by public regulation only, but [...] 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Feasibility Study "Carbon neutral Berlin 2050"

  The new government of the German capital Berlin wants to be a pioneer on climate change among the major cities around the globe. The elaboration of the feasibility study "Carbon neutral Berlin 2050" on behalf of the Senate [...] More

• Analysis of Economic, Technical and Environmental Benefits of Energy Storage Systems in Grid-connected Photovoltaic Systems

  This project analysed the potential economic, technical and environmental benefits of energy storage systems in grid-connected photovoltaic systems in domestic households by investigating the following questions:   In [...] More

• NATURAL VALUE – Close-to-Nature Company Premises as an Introduction to Environmental Management which Promotes Biodiversity

  By analysing the real estate management of corporatios the project aims at showing concrete starting points for the corporate protection and conservation of biodiversity. Thereby the project concentrates on the potential of [...] 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

• Impacts of the Expansion Plans for Renewable Energies until 2020 on Value Added and Employment

  Prior to the energy summit of the German federal government and the states on November 2nd, 2012, the German government proposed to limit support for wind energy and bioenergy generation similar to the cap imposed on the [...] 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

• Research Activities and Core Competences Regarding Renewable Energy from Biomass and Wind Power in Berlin-Brandenburg

  In 2011, the Brandenburg Economic Development Board (ZAB) organized a conference with regional stakeholders from the energy sector to discuss and prioritize measures to support the further development in this sector. One of [...] More