Projects of the Department of Environmental Politics

Current Projects

Completed Projects

EKLIPSE Mechanism – Developing a mechanims for supporting better decisions on our environment based on best available knowledge

INTERNAS − Scientific transfer of the results of INTERNational ASsessments in the field of soil and environment into the German political context

Protection of global commons such as biodiversity, forests and oceans for sustainable development − Knowledge synthesis from international assessments and recommendations for international collaboration and development cooperation

Transformative potentials of energy cooperatives

GoverNat – Multi-level Governance of Natural Resources: Tools and Processes for Biodiversity and Water Governance in Europe

Synergien und Konflikte von Anpassungsstrategien und -maßnahmen (SynKon)

Enabling ecosystem based adaptation in Melanesia and Micronesia (EBA)

ValuES: Methoden zur Integration von Ökosystemleistungen in Politik, Planung und Praxis

West African Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Methodenkonvention 3.0 – Weiterentwicklung und Erweiterung der Methodenkonvention zur Schätzung von Umweltkosten

Ecosystem Services in Germany

Natural Capital Germany – TEEB DE

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

Scoping Study on the Concept and Implementation of a National Ecosystem Assessment for Germany (NEA-DE)

KNEU: Developing a knowledge network for European expertise on biodiversity and ecosystem services to inform policy making economic sectors

Nested Networks: Novel Forms of Governance by Nested Networks (NESNET)

Spiral: Science Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity: Research, Action and Learning, EU research project

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its relevance for Germany

IBEFish: Interaction between Environment and Fisheries − a Challenge to Management

Shrinking city, increasing traffic – Effects of pre-move soft policy interventions and the impact of urban development on travel mode choice (846.6 KB)

Parkraumprobleme in wachsenden Stadtteilen: Evaluation freiwilliger Veränderungsmaßnahmen am Beispiel Leipzig-Schleußig (31.4 KB)

GLAMURS – Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability

InContext – Individuals in Context: Supportive Environments for Sustainable Living

GeNECA – Fair sustainable development based on the capability approach

Operationalisation of Natural Capital and EcoSystem Services: From Concepts to Real-world Applications − OpenNESS, Flyer: OpenNESS flyer.pdf (590 KB)

Green Infrastructure – Creating habitats with agriculture

LEGATO: Land-use intensity and Ecological Engineering – Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems

Klimawandel zukunftsfähig gestalten – KLIMZUG-Nordhessen

Water Quality Governance − Understanding the political life of chemicals

RECONECT − Regenerating ECOsystems with Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk rEduCTion

Leipziger BlauGrün

NEXOGENESIS − Facilitating the next generation of effective and intelligent water-related policies utilising artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning to assess the water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) nexus

SMART I: Integrated Water Resources Management in the Lower Jordan Rift Valley − Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies (BMBF)

PEER Project: Climate Policy Integration, Coherence and Governance

The Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index. Evaluation from a German perspective and comparison with other instruments for environmental policy evaluation

INVASION − Evolutionary, ecological and social consequences of biological invasions

PATH − Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology

Responsible Research and Governance at the Science-Policy Nexus of Climate Change: New Discourses, Epistemic Communities and Climate Policy Regimes through Climate Engineering?

BASE − Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies for Europe

PRESS – PEER Research on Ecosystem Services: Work Package 3: Policy Analysis; Research project of the Partnership for European Environmental Research – PEER