Projects of the Department of Environmental Politics
Current Projects
Paisajes Futuros / Future Landscapes − Implementation and Financing of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) by the Food and Agriculture Sector to Reduce Climate Risk and Environmental Impacts in Latin America
Duration: 2022 − 2028, Contact: Dr. Julian Rode
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
Duration: 2021 − 2025, Contact: Dr. Frank Hüesker
Leipziger BlauGrün
Contact: Dr. Frank Hüesker
VooDoo – Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change
Duration: 2020 – 2023, Contact: Christine Polzin
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
Duration: 2020 – 2022, Contact: Salina Spiering
Initiative "Green Value" − Comprehensive Valuation of the Natural Capital of African Protected Areas
Duration: 2019 – 2021, Contact: Augustin Berghöfer
TONINA − Transforming the Colombian Orinoquia by integrating nature's benefits in the sustainability agendas
Duration: 2018 − 2022, Contact: Marcela Muñoz Escobar
RECONECT − Regenerating ECOsystems with Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk rEduCTion
Duration: 2018 − 2022, Contact: Dr. Frank Hüesker
INTERACT-Bio: Integrated Action on Biodiversity
Duration: 2017 – 2021, Contact: Augustin Berghöfer
Water Quality Governance − Understanding the political life of chemicals
Duration: 2017 – 2021, Contact: Dr. Frank Hüesker, Robert Lepenies
Bio-Mo-D: Appreciating biodiversity − Modernising economic accounting in Germany
Duration: 2021 − 2024, Contact: Johannes Förster
INTERNAS − Scientific transfer of the results of INTERNational ASsessments in the field of soil and environment into the German political context
Duration: 2018 − 2021, Contact: Heidi Wittmer
EKLIPSE Mechanism – Developing a mechanims for supporting better decisions on our environment based on best available knowledge
Duration: 2016 − 2020, Contact: Heidi Wittmer, WP 3 leader & Co-coordination
Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GoST)
Duration: 2018 − 2022, Contact: Dr. Silke Beck
Completed Projects
Biodiver_CITY − Creating interurban bio-corridors in the region of San José, Costa Rica
Unlocking Forest Finance (UFF)
Enabling ecosystem based adaptation in Melanesia and Micronesia (EBA)
ValuES: Methoden zur Integration von Ökosystemleistungen in Politik, Planung und Praxis
Enhancing the Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Thailand/South-East Asia (ECO-BEST)
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
Klimawandel zukunftsfähig gestalten – KLIMZUG-Nordhessen
Synergien und Konflikte von Anpassungsstrategien und -maßnahmen (SynKon)
West African Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
BASE − Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies for Europe
Natural Capital Germany – TEEB DE
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
Nested Networks: Novel Forms of Governance by Nested Networks (NESNET)
PEER Project: Climate Policy Integration, Coherence and Governance
INVASION − Evolutionary, ecological and social consequences of biological invasions
PATH − Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its relevance for Germany
IBEFish: Interaction between Environment and Fisheries − a Challenge to Management
Circulus − Opportunities and Challenges of Transformation towards a Sustainable Circular Economy
Transformative potentials of energy cooperatives
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