Projects of Dr. Malte Welling

• gARTENreich Preferences and constraints for biodiversity conservation in home garden, project phase 2

  

  Home gardens have a great potential to protect and promote biodiversity. Around 17 million home gardens occupy just under two percent of Germany's total area. However, biodiversity in home gardens is dwindling due to a steady [...] More

• GartenLeistungen II Urban Gardens and Parcs: Implementation, stabilization and transfer of approaches for socially, ecologically and economically sustainable management of urban areas and flows of materials

  

  Urban gardens and public parks constantly compete with other uses for space. However, they play a central role in sustainable urban development: They increase the resource efficiency of urban neighborhoods and provide a wide [...] More

• Green City of the Future II - Climate-Resilient Neighborhoods in a Growing City Implementation and stabilization phase

  

  A result of the ongoing global urbanization process, cities are playing an increasingly important role in climate protection and adaptation. Urban and open space planning are crucial disciplines for developing [...] More

• Efficiency and cycle potentials of battery systems in e-mobility Comparative analysis of fully integrated and swappable battery systems

  E-mobility is the megatrend in the mobility sector. Compared to the fossil combustion engine and other alternatives such as hydrogen or e-fuels, it offers significant ecological advantages and is besides a significant [...] More

• Strategies for climate-friendly roofs

  Green roofs or photovoltaics? There currently is a competition of goals for using roof surfaces sustainably: On the one hand, potentials for solar energy should be used as well as possible in order to achieve climate [...] More

• Value of Green Urban Spaces II Continuation and transfer at federal and neighbourhood level

  

  The project "Value of Green Urban Spaces" has developed a tool to map and evaluate the benefits of green spaces in four participating cities to illustrate the ecosystem services of urban green spaces. Compared to the status [...] More

• GartenLeistungen Urban Gardens and Parcs: Multidimensional services for socially, ecologically and economically sustainable management of urban areas and flows of materials

  

  The project investigates the multidimensional services of urban gardens and parks for urban society. An extended evaluation of these services provides reliable information that should be considered in political decisions [...] More

• Green City of the Future – Climate-Resilient Neighborhoods in a Growing City Subproject: Analysis of social and economic aspects of green infrastructures

  

  Many German cities experience a significant population growth due to their attractive working and living environment. The consequence is a higher space consumption, triggered by increasing construction activities in the [...] More

• gARTENreich Preferences and constraints for biodiversity conservation in home gardens, project phase 1

  

  Home gardens have great potential to protect and promote biological diversity. Around 17 million private gardens take up almost 2 % of the total and around 10 % of the settlement and traffic areas in Germany. However, the [...] More

• Climate Resilient City of Bremen BREsilient

  

  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 [...] More

• Detailed Economic Analysis of Individual Policy Instruments and Measures for Climate Change Adaptation

  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 [...] More

• Value of Green Urban Spaces Evaluation, Management and Communication as a key for climate resilient and near-natural green spaces

  

  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 [...] 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