34 running Projects // 369 Projects in total

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Municipal Value Added through Energy-Saving Building Refurbishment

  

  The Energiewende in Germany needs to be accompanied by energy efficiency measures. One of the most relevant topics in this regard is the energy-efficient retrofitting of residential and office buildings. Here, large savings [...] More

• Climate Change and Daily Routine Acts: Potentials, Strategies and Instruments for a Low Carbon Lifestyle in a Zero-Emission-City Project part "Climate change and daily routine acts: impact potentials of climate change-adressing instruments"

  The project will analyse the impacts respectively the impact potentials of different climate-change related instruments differentiated according to social groups as distinguished within the project; herewith, efficiency and [...] More

• Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices

  The project “Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices” aims to explore potentials of social innovations for environmental policies for sustainable consumption. The focal point of the project [...] More

• Value Added by Renewable Energies - Calculation of the Effects on State and Federal Level

  Value added by renewable energies (RE) is an important argument for political decision-makers on different spatial scales. In the study “Local value added by renewable energy technologies”, the Institute for Ecological [...] More

• Development potential and marketing concept of the German Ecolabel Blue Angel

  The Blue Angel forms an important part of product-related environmental protection in Germany. It is the oldest environmental label in the world, and, in Germany, regarded as the central point of reference for sustainable [...] 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

• FAIR FUELS? A socio-ecological multi-level Analysis of the Possibilities of and Limits to the international Use of Biofuels Thematic Research Group

  The project “FAIR FUELS?” addresses the question of the extent to which biofuels can be produced and used in a socio-ecologically compatible manner. Since biofuels are produced regionally but the products and raw materials [...] More

• The Potential of Advanced Technological, Decentralised and Personalised Production against the Background of a Low Carbon Economy

  Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the project aims to identify the most relevant manufacturing and consumption patterns of the future. Therefore technological and organizational concepts will be [...] More

• Utilization of the current debates on social welfare for the environmental justice and conclusions for the political and societal transformation. Concepts of social welfare and environmental justice

  Subject of the project are the proposals on the transformation of society in the perspective of sustainable, future-oriented development that are currently discussed in wide areas of the interested public as well as in [...] More

• Improving strategic environmental policy consultancy in the context of the general principle of sustainable development - study and professional dialogue about approaches and utilization perspectives of environmental and sustainability research.

  In the field of sustainability research it can be observed that the successful transfer of generated knowledge into the various fields of social and political activity remains limited. Causes are, among others, that the [...] More

• BaltClim - Supporting national adaptation strategies to climate change in the Baltic States

  Although climate change in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is already regarded as an important national issue, addressing the adaptation requirements for climate change such as sea levels rising, changes in [...] More

• CORPUS Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-making in Sustainable Consumption

  "CORPUS - Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policymaking in Sustainable Consumption” aims to develop novel approaches to knowledge brokering (KB) between policy-making and research. It will foster evidence-based [...] More

• Sustainable Publishing - New environmental standards for the publishing industry

  About 950 million books are produced each year in Germany. Books, magazines and newspapers today are manufactured in industrial processes causing large quantities of emissions, effluents and waste. At the same time the [...] More

• Energy Partnerships Berlin-Brandenburg

  The usage of renewable energies (biofuels, biogas, green electricity and hydrogen deriving from it) can be considered to be one of different approaches towards a more sustainable mobility. As especially Brandenburg offers [...] More

• Green public procurement: Follow up of the SCP/SIP action plan and GPP communication of the European Commission

  Objective of the project is the ongoing support of the market dissemination of environmentally more benign products and services by public procurement (GPP). Additionally, it is intended that the measures announced in the [...] 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

• Adaptive support device/textile with pressure controlled stiffness and integrated sensor technologies inspired by the human skin

  The research project is funded by the Ministry of Research within the program Biona, which aims to support the development in biomimetic approaches. The project aims to develop an adaptive decubitus mattress for persons whose [...] 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