Projects of the Department of Environmental Politics

Current Projects

Completed Projects

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

West African Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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

Ecosystem Services in Germany

BASE − Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies for Europe

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

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

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

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its relevance for Germany

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