Climate change affects Bremen in many ways. To meet these challenges, the city state created an adaptation strategy. The project “BREsilient” aims at developing Bremen into a climate resilient city of the future. It builds on [...]
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The project 'LiLa Living Lahn' looks at positive and negative effects of selected courses of action for the development of the river Lahn on ecosystem services (ES) and evaluates them economically, if possible. Thereby, it [...]
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Environmental actors increasingly realize the need of cooperative thinking and acting. Links to other policy areas are too close; possible impacts of the necessary transformation too strong. It is essential to convince [...]
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Rivers and floodplains play an important role for people - from flood protection and water management to recreation and nature conservation. In order to demonstrate the wide range of ecosystem services, the project 'River [...]
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WWF's goal is to develop an attractive and convincing narrative that a more social and ecological economy is urgently needed due to the serious global environmental problems such as the loss of biodiversity, ocean [...]
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An implementation of coastal protection processes does not only affect the flood risk for coastal land uses, but also the natural coastal scenery, coastal biodiversity and groundwater quality. For decisions on coastal [...]
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Climate change affects Germany in various ways, for example by increased storms, heat waves and extreme rainfall. The research project analyses to what degree adaption measures and instruments can reduce the expected damage [...]
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The research project aims at supporting communal activities for identifying, selecting and realising measures for greening public spaces that at the same time enhance climate resilience of cities and contribute to the [...]
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The consumption of goods and services has become a defining characteristic of modern-day (industrial) societies and is accompanied by an enormous and continuously increasing use of resources. Agricultural production is for [...]
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The subproject ‘The governance of deep transitions: The role of international organisations’ is part of a larger research project based at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex (SPRU) in the UK and is [...]
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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 [...]
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In recent years, collaborative economy practices have been boosted substantially by the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of digital networks. As collaboration between strangers has been greatly facilitated by the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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