Monographs and Edited Volumes

Imperialism has long been used as a category to highlight and theorize the connections between capital accumulation and the exogenous use of state power on its behalf.

Policy Highlights. To achieve the recommendation stated in the title, we propose the following: Equip key actors with the transformative capacities to support the development and implementation of regional visions, plans, and narratives.

Policy HighlightsTo achieve the recommendation stated in the chapter title, we propose the following: Ensure the follow-up and implementation of EU policy measures, including by conducting quality assessments and introducing national community ene

Societal transformations, as fundamental change of socio-ecological and socio-technical systems towards more sustainability and justice, are high on scientific and political agendas.

Transdisciplinary research (TDR) seeks to involve non-academic perspectives from the start, ensuring that research draws on diverse knowledge to better address “wicked” problems.

Mobilität ist in der Forschung in historisch-materialistischer Tradition bisher ein eher randständiges Thema.

The European Union has gained increasing influence in setting climate policy.

Das Jahr 2023 war wieder ein Jahr multipler Krisen, die das Alltagsleben der Brandenburgerinnen und Brandenburger prägten.

The European Union has identified clean hydrogen as essential to its climate targets, technology leadership and energy security in the decarbonizing world.

This open access book is a comprehensive exploration of European hydrogen policy, examining its development at both the EU level and in key Member States, while also considering the geopolitical implications of the emerging hydrogen landscape.

This chapter provides a review of Germany’s import-oriented hydrogen strategy.

Drawing on the findings of the case studies presented in this edited volume, this final chapter summarizes and discusses the geopolitical challenges of hydrogen development in the European Union.

This introductory chapter places Europe’s hydrogen ambition in the broader context of the evolving geopolitics of the transition to net zero.

Extraction/Exclusion draws and builds on scholarship from across the social sciences to show that natural resource extraction is predicated on exclusions.

Political science and the public know what has gone wrong with liberal democracy and continues to go wrong, but what can be done to counter this trend?

The IRGC risk governance framework refers to an integrated concept on how to deal with a variety of physical, environmental and social risks characterized by complex, uncertain and ambiguous impacts.

In the light of the major global crises such as pandemics, war, climate change and inequality, scientific research faces new challenges and targets.

This chapter provides an overview of the transhumanist movement, its origins, its main figures and its main positions.

This chapter focuses on the maintenance of waste infrastructures in urban areas, arguing that waste infrastructures and their maintenance should be made more visible to allow for a more extensive, ethical engagement with waste.

Strategies for mitigating climate change today include plans for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through “Negative Emissions Technologies” (NETs).

Bürgerräte basieren auf einer einfachen Idee: Per Los ausgewählte Menschen aus allen Teilen der Gesellschaft sollen stärker an politischen Entscheidungen beteiligt werden.

Inzwischen kann die Wissenschaft mithilfe von Klimamodellen künftige Entwicklungen und Gefährdungen durch den Klimawandel relativ genau projizieren.

In dem Beitrag wird ein grundlegendes Verständnis von den Begriffen Bedürfnisse, Verkehr und Mobilität geschaffen und miteinander in Bezug gesetzt.

Nachhaltigkeit ist als normative Grundlage politischer Entscheidungen zur Transformation des Energiesystems nicht mehr wegzudenken.

Classical approaches to policy advice envisage a clear division of roles between its providers and recipients, i.e. experts and politicians. However, this dualistic scheme is beginning to erode.

Klassische Ansätze der Politikberatung unterscheiden zwischen Anbietern (i.d.R. Experten) und Empfängern (i.d.R. Politiker) von Politikberatung.

Starting from the discussion of the concepts of formality and informality, the paper first examines and analyzes empirical findings from a survey of German and Polish political advisors, lobbyists and experts on their perceptions of the access cha

Ausgehend von der Diskussion um Formalität und Informalität aus der Perspektive der Organisationssoziologie, der Regierungsforschung und der Politikberatung werden zunächst empirische Befunde aus einer Befragung von deutschen und polnischen Politi

Non-traditional and transnational actors have become essential for environmental and climate change governance. One of these actors, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), has taken over a lead role in the governance of SLCPs.

The tipping dynamics in wind and solar power create potential for cascading effects to energy demand sectors, including household energy demand. These most likely start with shift actions and adoption of household-scale batteries and heat pumps.

The destruction suffered across Europe due to centuries of conquests and wars, particularly those that were inflicted during the second world war, eventually gave birth to a strong desire to foster peace and mutual benefit across the borders of th

Is climate science changing the Earth? We would normally want to answer no. A science merely represents and does not intervene. Representation comes first and may or may not be followed by intervention, because intervention is a choice.

Germany is known for its ambitious climate policy targets. By 2045, the country seeks to achieve climate neutrality. As an intermediate step, the government has determined emission thresholds for different economic sectors through the year 2030.

For developing healthy and environmentally friendly cities an innovative redesign of urban infrastructure is necessary. However, changes to the current infrastructure are not always adopted and accepted immediately.

The Central and South Atlantic represents a vast ocean area and is home to a diverse range of ecosystems and species.

Sustainability transformations in the energy industry, a key sector in the race to a zero-carbon economy in the Anthropocene, are still being largely understood from a technological standpoint.

The debate on how to evaluate and manage risks focuses on three major strategies: (Renn O. EMBO Rep 8:303–305, 2007, Renn O. Risk governance. Coping with uncertainty in a complex world. Earthscan, London, 2008a; Stirling A.

Policy advice for dealing with major crises has focussed on two concepts: resilience and sustainability. The article introduces the term resilience and explains its application in different disciplines.

In this chapter, we reflect on the development and impact of the project “A Mindset for the Anthropocene” a transformative transdisciplinary research process at the IASS Potsdam.

Delphi-Verfahren ermöglichen die systematische Erfassung von Expert_innenurteilen. Sie haben sich vor allem dann bewährt, wenn für die Beantwortung einer Forschungsfrage eine gewisse Sachkenntnis und Urteilsfähigkeit benötigt wird.

Delphi methods enable the systematic collection of expert judgments. They have proven to be particularly useful when a certain level of expertise and judgment is required to answer a research question.

The group Delphi method is a Delphi variant in which the anonymity of the experts is abandoned in favour of an open exchange among professinals.

Nach Einschätzung von Expert:innen reichen Emissionssenkungen allein möglicherweise nicht aus, um den Klimawandel und seine Auswirkungen zu bekämpfen.

Im Laufe der letzten 50 Jahre der Entwicklung und Anwendung der Kernenergie hat die Politik zur nuklearen Energieerzeugung in fast allen Ländern der Welt ein Wechselbad der Gefühle erlebt, das von Begeisterung bis zu tiefer Skepsis reicht.

Ecological modernization is the policy-driven innovation and diffusion of resource efficient clean technologies. It has become an extremely dynamic process – nothing less than a global industrial revolution.

Systemische Risiken stellen eine Herausforderung für Governance dar, weil diese Risiken hochgradig vernetzt und komplex sind sowie non-linearen Entwicklungen folgen und in ihren Ursache-Wirkungs-Beziehungen nicht deterministisch sind.

The global energy transition and the growing ambition of decarbonisation policies in the world’s leading economies are bound to affect Central Asia’s three hydrocarbon producers, yet there has been little research on the issue.

Angesichts der großen globalen Transformationen wie Globalisierung, Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeitsorientierung sowie der aktuellen globalen Krisen wie Pandemien, Klimawandel, Ukrainekrieg und Gasknappheit steht die wissenschaftliche Forschung

The marine environment is under increasing threat from the cumulative effects of human activities. This chapter examines and elaborates on some of the important challenges facing international marine environmental law today.

Deep-seabed mining in the Area is regulated by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) which is mandated to act on behalf of humankind as a whole.

This chapter deploys assemblage theory and thinking to bring together a unique set of insights on the seabed ranging from the ecological, to legal, practice to theoretical.

In this chapter we introduce a number of international governance frameworks and initiatives that, to varying degrees, support and advance integrated policy making on air pollution and climate change.

Bildung ist eine unerlässliche Voraussetzung für die Förderung der nachhaltigen Entwicklung und die bessere Befähigung der Menschen, sich mit Umwelt- und Entwicklungsfragen auseinanderzusetzen (Art. 36.3 der Agenda 21, 1992).

The chapter provides an overview of contemporary religious and secular festivals today in Siberia, which have originated in diverse Indigenous religious practices, institutionalized religion, and the secularized rituals of Soviet times.

The enduring material effects that colonial extractivism has had on human and more-than-human life, and on geopolitical formations, continue to shape imaginaries of future energy security in new ways.

The impetus for Germany’s first bicycle law came from civil society.

Ocean governance comprises the law of the sea as well as all related policy and normative dimensions that relate to the regulation of human activity at sea and increasingly places a strong focus on marine environmental protection and the conservat

Why do exercises in collaborative governance often witness more impasse than advantage? This cumulative dissertation undertakes a micro-level analysis of collaborative governance to tackle this research puzzle.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) functions as the global climate regime’s centerpiece. Yet, innovative climate policy initiatives have proliferated within and beyond this institution.

In jüngster Zeit hat eine bemerkenswerte Politisierung des Klimawandels stattgefunden. Damit einher ging auch eine Zuspitzung verkehrspolitischer Auseinandersetzungen.

Air pollutants with lifetimes of a few weeks or longer, such as ozone, fine particulate matter, mercury, and many persistent organic pollutants, are ubiquitous in the atmosphere, and may be transported around the globe under the influence of globa

The continuing unsustainable pattern of human behavior creates enormous risks of increasingly frequent and severe disasters impacting the complex social-ecological-economic-technical system (SES) in which all life on Earth is embedded.

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) offers flexible and decarbonised power generation and is one of the few switchable renewable technologies that can generate renewable power on demand.

Chapter 4 proposes metrics to study socio-technical systems’ systematic transformation, focusing specifically on tipping points.

This chapter introduces nature and the source of climate change and its effects on human society and natural systems. It discusses the role of sustainable energy in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The chapter defines environmental sustainability and creates a linkage between energy and the environment. It highlights the impact of both renewable energy technologies and nonrenewable energy usages on the environment.

The chapter begins with the conceptualization of energy security. Then it explains the core components that are required for any country to be energy secure.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made global inequalities significantly worse, with women being disproportionately affected.

Truth is always concrete, as are emergencies. If truth and reliability of good decisions is what, in general, nourishes change and the readiness of people to trust in transformation, emergency response should be at the heart of this.

In Zeiten postfaktischer Verunsicherung kommt der wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung besondere Bedeutung zu.

In den jüngsten Umfragen zu den wichtigsten Problemen in Deutschland gibt es drei eindeutige Spitzenreiter: die Invasion der Ukraine durch Russland, die Corona-Pandemie und die Sorge vor Klimawandel und Umweltschäden.

This chapter analyses the challenges of extreme change in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. In both regions, warming seas, declining sea ice and acidification of waters are adversely affecting the distribution of marine species.

Wind power plays a major role in the decarbonization of the power sector. Already now, it supplies increasing shares of the global energy demand.

Solar energy supplies increasing shares of global energy demand. As a renewable source of energy, it will play a major role in decarbonizing electricity supply. This chapter provides an overview on the solar sector from an economic perspective.

This chapter reviews how the European Union has fared in enabling a green recovery in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis, drawing comparisons to developments after the financial crisis.

Die Perspektive der Nachhaltigkeit bezieht sich auf die Dauerhaftigkeit humaner Lebensbedingungen sowie den Erhalt der dazu notwendigen natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen für die heutigen Menschen weltweit und künftigen Generationen.

The literature suggests that local business more likely stands to profit from infrastructure shifts allotting more space to pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders, even when space for motor traffic is reduced.

The climate is already changing, making climate change adaptation (CCA) an essential component of any sustainable development strategy.

This chapter elaborates how the cultural perspective of Chinese philosophy supports an interconnected worldview.

This chapter examines the blue economy concept and discusses the increasing and cumulative challenges that require integrated solutions and finance approaches.

In their essay and film script, written for the exhibition Lithium, researchers David Habets, Cameron Hu and Stefan Schäfer focus on the element as a remedy for the exhaustion of personal reserves.

The EU’s regulatory approach to decarbonization advances sustainability but falls short of promoting regeneration.

In their essay and film script, written for the exhibition Lithium, researchers David Habets, Cameron Hu and Stefan Schäfer focus on the element as a remedy for the exhaustion of personal reserves.

The topic of increasing the reflectivity of the Earth as a measure to counteract global warming has been the subject of high-level discussions and preliminary research since several decades, though prior to the early 2000s there was only very limi

The effects of human activities are increasingly overwhelming the geologic, biological and chemical processes that drive changes in the abundance of trace and greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere and Earth System behaviour.

Democracy and sustainability are political ideas that have shaped the course of human history and continue to do so today. On a very general level, these ideas have multiple commonalities.

This chapter gives an overview of the scholarship on the general tensed relationship between political representation and sustainable futures.

Ideas of temporality are of key importance for understanding the relationship between democracy and sustainability.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice.

We live in a social world whose pace is accelerating. While the focus of most aspects of our intensified social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever-longer shadows.

Das Verhältnis von Gentechnik und Nachhaltigkeit ist von vielen Unsicherheiten und Unklarheiten geprägt.

Prevention: The Concept of Preventive Risk Reduction, Illustrated by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Zwischen dem Wissen über Ursachen, Folgen und geeignete Strategien zur Eindämmung der Klimakrise einerseits und der Umsetzung in Handeln andererseits klafft eine große Lücke.

Risk perception is an important component of risk governance, but it cannot and should not determine environmental policies. The reality is that people suffer and even die as a result of false information or perception biases.

Risk perception is an important component of risk governance, but it cannot and should not determine environmental policies. The reality is that people suffer and die as a result of false information or perception biases.

Humankind is confronted with two types of risks: conventional and systemic risks.

Kernenergie, Kohlekraftwerke, grüne Gentechnik, selbst fahrende Autos, Eingriffe in die menschliche Keimbahn, Nanotechnologie und Müllverbrennungsanlagen – diese Technologien haben eines gemeinsam: Sie sind umstritten.

In considering the changing world, the authors of the Integrated Science: Science without Borders were asked how you would see the future of your field 30 years later. The present chapter publishes authors’ views on this subject in 2050.

Das Buch präsentiert interdisziplinär Wege des Zusammenspiels von gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung für die Bewahrung und die Nutzung historischer Gärten.

Many political decision-making processes are based on evidence and expert knowledge. However, expert knowledge and its use in public policy arenas have become increasingly contested in society.

This master thesis explores the potential of enriching higher education with the triad of self, sustainability and Silence.

In every region and every nation in the world, people face the difficult challenges of learning to design and maintain healthy societies with limited natural resources—including water, land, and energy—under rapidly changing global to local condit

Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen speisen sich oft aus wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen. Gerade der Klimawandel zeigt dies eindrücklich. Wissenschaft ist aber immer auch Teil der Phänomene, die sie beobachtet.

Climate change and climate-altering technologies pose an emerging risk governance challenge involving risk-risk trade-offs both regarding potential outcomes as well as governance choices.

Temporality has played a central role in poststructuralist thought, where the human experience of living in time has been understood as having profound ethical and political consequences.

Das DiDaT Weißbuch liefert Orientierungen, Wegweiser und Leitplanken für einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit digitalen Daten und Infrastruktursystemen.

Der vorliegende Band „Supplementarischen Informationen zum DiDaT Weißbuch“ beinhaltet 24 Kurzpapiere.

Das DiDaT Weißbuch ist das Ergebnis eines zweijährigen transdisziplinären Prozesses der Identifikation, Erkundung und Analyse der Probleme und Lösungsoptionen bei der Erfassung, Behandlung, Verwertung und Nutzung digitale

In ihrer Jugend wollte Silke Butzlaff eigentlich nicht in den Bergbau. Nun steuert sie seit 37 den ältesten noch im Betrieb befindlichen Eimerkettenbagger in der Lausitz und ist doch Bergarbeiterin geworden.

Der Anstoß für Deutschlands erstes Fahrradgesetz kam aus der Zivilgesellschaft.

The chapter addresses the history and context of school strikes, the form of action that helped Fridays for Future gain attention for the global climate crisis.

Die Lausitz hat einen Strukturbruch hinter und einen Strukturwandel vor sich. Der wirtschaftliche Umbau nach der deutschen Vereinigung hat nicht viel von der Industrie, die vor allem auf Braunkohle setzte, übrig gelassen.

Three major global processes in ocean governance under the umbrella of the United Nations are currently underway: negotiations for an international legally binding agreement under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) f

Risk governance is used to refer to a body of scholarly ideas and concepts for collective decision making involving uncertain consequences of events or actions.

If we had unrestricted basis income for everyone, what would the consequences be? Would it increase freedom and equality and so dim down the ever faster accelerating times? Would it help to save the environment with its restricted resources?

Richard Sennett bereichert seit Jahrzehnten als Soziologe und öffentlicher Intellektueller die gesellschaftlichen Zeitdiagnosen.

Time is discussed as a framework within which social interactions take place, a structure for synchronization and a resource for planning activities and projects.

PolicyadvicefordealingwiththeCoronaCrisishasbeenfocusingontwomajorconcepts: resilienceandsustainability.Thepaperexplorestherelationshipbetweenthetwoterms,illustratesthe various concepts that are associated with each term, and suggests an i

Vielfältige Krisenprozesse machen deutlich, dass die Rückkehr zur gewohnten Tagesordnung keine Zukunft hat.

Ein wesentliches Merkmal unserer Zeit ist die Tatsache, dass wir die Lebensbedingungen zukünftiger Generationen grundlegend beeinflussen.

In the energy access sector, local community members are often not given the opportunity to be heard and voice their concerns.

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature.

Access to sustainable and effective energy services is central to every challenge and opportunity that humanity and the planet face today.

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are increasingly employed as a tool to protect Europe’s swiftly declining marine biodiversity. However, despite increasing coverage, MPA effectiveness and equity is considered highly variable.

An ecosystem approach to the management of human activities in the marine environment began to feature as a normative concept in international instruments in the 1980s, beginning with the pioneering Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Mari

The European Union aims to fully decarbonise its electricity system by 2050 and relies largely on renewable electricity to reach this goal.

Seit mehr als einer Dekade profitieren die USA von der Förderung von Schiefergas und nichtkonventionellem Erdöl.

This chapter is mainly based on the "Techno-Economic Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment Guidelines for CO2 Utilisation" written by the authors.

Human populations have relied on the oceans for centuries for food supply, transportation, security, oil and gas resources, and many other reasons.

Inmitten der Corona-Krise fand am 17. und 18. April der elfte Petersberger Klimadialog statt. Von dieser Veranstaltung ging in diesem Jahr ein starker Weckruf aus, dass nämlich die Menschheit nicht nur durch den Virus namens COVID-19 bedroht ist.

One response to the numerous governance challenges faced with respect to the oceans, a shared space, is the creation of international organizations.

The global energy transition, that is the full decarbonization of the world energy system until 2050, is attracting growing attention in global policy debates.

This chapter gives an overview on the European Union (EU)’s role in global energy governance.

The number of forms, contexts and actors of policy advice and lobbying has grown over the years to such an extent that the problem of diffuse boundaries between these processes, and of capturing the specificity of the market that they form, gains

Könnte ein Bedingungsloses Grundein/auskommen die Freiheit und Chancengleichheit eines jede(n) Einzelne(n) fördern und auf diese Weise die maßlose Beschleunigung unserer Zeit eindämmen und so dazu beitragen die begrenzten Ressourcen unserer Umwelt

With the adoption of its first Energy Transition Law in August 2015, France has scaledup its commitment to address global environmental issues.

Turkey’s energy policy focuses on the promotion of coal and nuclear power.

India is undergoing structural urban and economic transitions and has set ambitiouspolicy targets to meet its rising energy needs for development.

Indonesia is the biggest energy consumer in Southeast Asia and the world’s leadingcoal exporter. Its primary energy mix is dominated by oil and traditional biomass.Almost a third of its population lacks access to modern energy services.

Historically, Saudi Arabia’s economic progress has relied heavily on high oil revenues.In times of low oil prices, its rentier state system suffers from decreased revenues,which are needed to sustain a generous welfare state and highly subsidised

The European Union (EU) is represented in the G20 by the Union as well as by theindividual (EU-4) member states France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Japan’s energy policy remains dominated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011.While the government continues to be committed to nuclear power, its future is uncertain.Japanese greenhouse gas emissions have increased significantly as nuclear en

As the world’s second largest energy consumer and emitter of greenhouse gases, oneof its most important producers of oil and gas and home to the second largest capacityof renewable energy, the United States is a central actor in global energy gove

Due to its strong reliance on coal, South Africa is a middle-income country with veryhigh per capita emissions.

After years of stalemate, attracting investment in the energy sector to mitigate electricityshortages and meet rising demand are top priorities for Argentina.

In diesem Kapitel wird Partizipation in der Energiewende, also die Beteiligung von Einzelpersonen, Institutionen und anderen Akteuren an Planungsverfahren, Energiewende-Strategien, konkreten Umsetzungsmaßnahmen und an Energieanlagen selbst behande

Die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von Energieinfrastrukturen und klimapolitischen Maßnahmen stellt einen wesentlichen Erfolgsfaktor für die Transformation des Energiesystems dar.

Die Verkehrswende ist ein sozio-technischer Transformationsprozess, der ohne die Akzeptanz der Bevölkerung nicht gelingen kann.

The emerging climate engineering (CE) debate will be fed by scientific information–and likely by misinformation as well.

If the detrimental impacts of human-induced climate change continue to mount, technologies for geoengineering our climate – i.e.

Climate engineering is a novel enterprise embedded in the complex and dynamic landscape of natural and human systems.

This book systematically introduces historical trajectories and dynamics of environmental policy and governance in India. Following the features of environmental policy in India as outlined in Chapter 1, subsequent chapters explore domestic and in

Individual perceptions of climate-related environmental changes are essential to understand behavioural responses to such changes.

Nichts hat so sehr zur heutigen finanziellen Globalisierung beigetragen wie die Transformation des internationalen Währungssystems. In seiner gegenwärtigen Form hat es eine hierarchische Struktur mit dem US-Dollar an der Spitze.

In recent years, manifold ways to deal with the ecological crisis are subsumed under the header “transition/ transformation to sustainability” or even “Great” transformation.

Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times.

In this article, I aim to delineate the genesis and analytical scope of risk governance.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes entstanden im Rahmen einer 3-teiligen Tagungsreihe in den Jahren 2016-2018 an der Internationalen Naturschutz Akademie des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz.

The dissertation studies climate policy discourses in Indiana and Michigan. These two U.S. Rust Belt states are among the country's ten largest greenhouse gas emitters and have shown relatively low climate protection ambitions.

This paper explores potential contributions of narrative ethics to the re-theorization ofthe political in water governance, particularly seeking to rectify concerns regarding when wateris excluded from cultural contexts and issues of power and dom

Against the background of more than one billion people worldwide without regular access to clean water and sanitation, an intensive debate has been going on about water security for many years now.

Sustainable development is a challenging vision for the governance and management of agriculture and food production. On the one hand, it aims to make these systems more just.

Im Jahr 2005 erschien das »ABC der Globalisierung«. Inzwischen zeigen sich die Auswirkungen der neoliberalen Globalisierung in aller Deutlichkeit: Aus dem Wohlfahrtsversprechen ist eine Welt der globalen ­(Un)Ordnung ­geworden.

This chapter provides an overview of the international and national regulatory framework pertaining to deep seabed mining activities.

The market of political consulting and lobbying from the perspective of Polish and German parliamentarians. The number of forms, contexts and actors of policy advice and lobbying has grown over the years to such an extent that the problem of diffu

Based on a critical review of recent debates within democratic theory, the contribution argues for the adoption of deliberative democratic innovations in order to react to the current crisis of democracy.

Evaluation research can provide policy advice on the basis of evidence that it is increasingly expected to rely upon. At the same time, policy advice itself can take on the role of the evaluandum and become the very object of evaluation.

It is no secret that the world is urbanizing very fast. If UN estimates turn out to be true, by midcentury 2.5 billion people will have joined the approximately 3.9 billion living in cities today, an urban population increase of over 60 %!

Scientists and engineers have long been aware of the tension between narrow specialization and multidisciplinary cooperation, but now a major transformation is in process that will require technical fields to combine far more effectively than form

Was genau ist eine Handlung? Wie unterscheidet sie sich von bloßem Verhalten und von Ereignissen? Und wie lassen sich Handlungsgründe analysieren?

Wissenschaftskommunikation ist zentral für moderne Wissensgesellschaften – und in den vergangenen Jahren immer vielfältiger geworden.

Spätestens die Proteste gegen die Erweiterung des Flughafens in Frankfurt am Main, den Bau der Dresdner Waldschlößchenbrücke oder Stuttgart 21 haben gezeigt: Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger möchten auf die konkrete Ausgestaltung ihres unmittelbaren Leb

The chapter addresses perspectives and societal appetite for risks associated with unconventional oil and gas development on public health.

Resiliente Energiesysteme sind nicht gefeit vor Störfällen, bleiben aber auch bei schweren Störungen funktionsfähig oder werden es rasch wieder und lernen aus Krisen.

The chapter studies the main features of U.S. energy policy in its emerging international policy dimension.

Die Konferenz »Bits & Bäume« (2018 in Berlin) bot das bis dato größte Debattenforum für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit.

n diesem Buch setzt sich die Gesellschaft für Sicherheits-wissenschaft e. V. (GfS) mit dem Thema Sicherheit in einer vernetzten Welt in einem breiten Verständnis der (soziotechnischen) Vernetzung auseinander.

Proteste gegen den Ausbau von Stromtrassen und Windparks zeigen: Technische Lösungen allein reichen nicht aus, um den Umbau des Energiesystems voranzubringen.

The bioeconomy, understood as the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy via innovative and efficient technologies, has the potential to tackle current grand challenges l

Social and sustainability reporting in universities and research institutes is still in its early stages compared to CSR reporting in corporations.

Das Gruppendelphi-Verfahren ist eine Delphi-Variante, bei der die Anonymität der Expert_innen zugunsten eines offenen Austauschs aufgegeben wird.

In diesem Sammelband der Reihe „Sozialethik konkret“ wird die vielschichtige Problematik einer globalen und gerechten Umweltpolitik aufgegriffen und aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen diskutiert.

Inhabitants of Pacific Small Island States are facing multiple socio-ecological pressures and the impacts of global climate change aggravate the situation.

The natural capital of the vast deep ocean is significant yet not well quantified. The ecosystem services provided by the deep sea provide a wide range of benefits to humanity.

Air pollution has large impacts on the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), affecting not just the health of people and ecosystems, but also climate, the cryosphere, monsoon patterns, water availability, agriculture, and incomes (established but incomplete)

Die angestrebte Transformation zur nachhaltigen, klimaneutralen Gesellschaft ist ein konfliktgeladener und riskanter Prozess, der technologische Innovationen, den gravierenden Wandel im Umgang des Menschen mit den Ökosystemen und gesellschaftliche

The German legislator has made the “…preservation of the diversity of actors…” an explicit policy goal introduced since the 2014 recast of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). Furthermore, sec.

Risk perception differs from scientific or statistical assessment of risks. More than reflecting probability and magnitude, risk perception also includes aspects such as voluntariness of risk, possibility of personal control, or familiarity.

Lean-burn natural gas engines can be used to reduce exhaust emissions significantly.

The world we live in has been shaped by expertise. Yet experts were not born with power: they had to struggle to achieve their authority and legitimacy.

Mindfulness meditation has become mainstream, making its way into schools, corporations, prisons and government agencies including the U.S. military.

Das Konzept der Risiko Governance beschreibt einen integrativen Ansatz zum Umgang mit Risiken, insbesondere wenn diese als simpel, komplex, unsicher oder mehrdeutig beschrieben werden können.

Online magazines and blogs are attempting to translate mindfulness into the cultural mainstream, but online discussions often reproduce assumptions and patterns of thinking which are divisive, leading to an increasingly polarized debate.

On June 19, 2015, following a long period of preparation, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution A/69/L.65: 65 “Development of an international legally-binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conserv

Evaluation research can provide policy advice on the basis of evidence that it is increasingly expected to rely upon. At the same time, policy advice itself can take on the role of the evaluandum and become the very object of evaluation.

With a growing impetus to meet energy demand through decentralized hybrid mini-grids in rural and semi-urban locations in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the need to accurately assess the market drivers, policy requirements and job creation impacts of t

This chapter aims at extending the policy advisor’s toolbox, by presenting the potential of serious games to support the whole spectrum of advisory and analytical processes behind public policymaking.

This chapter examines global energy trends, whether a global renewable energy transition is already taking place, and what steps are needed to further accelerate the global deployment of renewables.

Im Diskurs um eine nachhaltige Entwicklung ist unter anderem die Frage nach distributiver Gerechtigkeit, das heißt der gerechten Verteilung von begrenzten Ressourcen, von hoher Bedeutung Dem Bildungsbereich wird hier eine bedeutende Rolle zugewies

In einer zunehmend differenzierten Medienlandschaft mit konventionellen Massenmedien wie Zeitungen und TV sowie neuen internet-basierten Medien hat sich die Funktion der Medienberichterstattung signifikant geändert: es geht weniger um Informations

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition.

We are entering an era characterized by new social and economic forms beyond our understanding.

This essay maps the conditions under which a socially just and sustainable global future could emerge from large-scale structural transformations to contemporary society.

GRASP (Governance of Resources for Arctic Sustainable Policy and Practice) is an inter- and transdisciplinary research project jointly developed in 2014 by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Inst

Climate change is expected to alter global, regional and local meteorological conditions and as a result, the changes in the climate system will play an essential role on future air quality.

Scholarly analysis has, in the past, rarely focused on the role that diverging notions of justice play in the evolution of natural resource conflicts.

Green infrastructures play an essential role in urban planning, namely with their potential to reduce the impact from air pollution episodes together with extreme weather events.

The principles of responsibility and accountability have increasingly become a significant concept for the political capability to act independently and make decisions without superior authorization.

Mit den im September 2015 von den Vereinten Nationen verabschiedeten Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der Agenda 2030 wurden erstmals soziale und ökologische Nachhaltigkeitsziele systematisch verknüpft.

Mit den im September 2015 von den Vereinten Nationen verabschiedeten Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der Agenda 2030 wurden erstmals soziale und ökologische Nachhaltigkeitsziele systematisch verknüpft.

After having worked academically in the field of semiconductor nanophysics I joined the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam in 2012.

In his thesis, Steffen examines this process of 'accommodating' private credit money from a comparative perspective.

Transatlantic regulatory patterns overall, and in four key sectors: food, automobiles,chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, indicate that EU risk regulation is not always orgenerally more stringent than US regulation.

This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies.

Die Helmholtz-Allianz ENERGY-TRANS1 wurde im Jahr 2011 kurz nach den Ereignissen in Fukushima und den darauf folgenden Entscheidungen über die deutsche Energiewende gegründet und endete fristgerecht in 2016.

New energies form new energy landscapes (Apostol, Palmer, Pasqualetti, Smardon, & Sullivan, 2016; Gailing & Leibenath, 2013). Energy carriers converge within space and open up leeway and scope for design.

Die Energiewende ist eines der ambitioniertesten politischen Transformationsvorhaben in der bundesdeutschen Geschichte (Ethikkommission Sichere Energieversorgung 2011).

This chapter explores aspects of the relationship between the financial system and resource industries, starting with general criteria for sound investment and an overview of the various materials and resources that need to be distinguished.

Sie ist eine der großen Aufgaben unserer Zeit: die Energiewende. Das anspruchsvolle Ziel dieser Jahrhundertaufgabe lautet, Energie umweltverträglich, wirtschaftlich und sicher bereitzustellen.

Der Band vereint die wichtigsten Forschungsergebnisse der Helmholtz-Allianz ENERGY-TRANS zur Energiewende aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Fachbereiche: u.a.

Der Band vereint die wichtigsten Forschungsergebnisse der Helmholtz-Allianz ENERGY-TRANS zur Energiewende aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Fachbereiche: u.a.

Der Band vereint die wichtigsten Forschungsergebnisse der Helmholtz-Allianz ENERGY-TRANS zur Energiewende aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Fachbereiche: u.a.

The advantages of superconductivity have been acknowledged by the European Commission with its funding of Best Paths, a collaborative project on energy transmission that includes a superconducting power transmission line as one of its five constit

Die schulische Förderung von MINTeressierten Mädchen („FeMINTinnen“) erfordert aufgrund verschiedener Motivlagen und Prädispositionen auch unterschiedliche Ansätze.

In the late 1960s a debate about the long-term feasibility and desirability of economic growth as a one-size-fits-all economic policy emerged.

Die komplexe Debatte über Climate Engineering dreht sich sowohl in der Öffentlichkeit als auch inder Wissenschaft um die zwei zentralen Fragen nach der Erforschung und dem Einsatz von CETechnologien.Dabei wird eine Vielzahl von Argumenten diskutie

Sustainable development is all over the place. The concept is broad and vague. The vagueness of the concept has a Janus face. It has been called a unifying concept because its vagueness breeds a consensus that might be utilised later on.

The chapter argues for a lecture of the notion of development as strongly linked to the uneven distribution of material and non-material sources of power among groups.

In this chapter, the Summary and Recommendations are included of the first report of the TransGov project of IASS, Potsdam, authored by Roeland J. in ’t Veld. For this report the contributions to this volume were used as source of inspiration.

The concept of boundary work has been put forward as an analytical approach towards the study of interactions between science and policy.

The concerns about tax haven activity shown by leading nations originate not only from a sense of injustice caused by the fact that tax havens allow multi-billion dollar firms such as Google, Starbucks and Apple to pay only a few pennies in taxes

‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses what implications recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may have for gov

In the 20 years since the United Nations summit on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the world has become more diverse, turbulent, fast and multi-polar.

Jeden Tag begegnen uns in der Zeitung und im Internet ausführliche Hinweise, wie wir uns gesund ernähren sollen, wie wir gesund leben und arbeiten und was wir unter allen Umständen vermeiden sollen.

Der Band vereint die wichtigsten Forschungsergebnisse der Helmholtz-Allianz ENERGY-TRANS zur Energiewende aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Fachbereiche: u.a.

US-Präsident Donald Trump möchte mit seinem „America First EnergyPlan“ die Wirtschaft ankurbeln, Arbeitsplätze schaffen und unabhängig von Energieimportenwerden.

sdg 14 focuses on human interactions withthe ocean, seas and marine resources.It is underpinned by targets addressingconservation and sustainable use of theocean, seas and marine resources includingcoastal zones, and targets referring tocapacity b

This chapter examines citizen participation in international organizations (IOs). The focus on citizen participation builds on the understanding of participation as a principle of governance in democratic theory.

Deutschlands Energiesystem ist bislang stabil, Störungen können jedoch nicht ausgeschlossen werden. Anschläge, Wetterextreme und Rohstoffengpässe könnten die Versorgung bedrohen.

This publication presents the research result of 'the Anthropocene Project' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. In the Anthropocene era - a geological age of our own making, what understood to be nature is made by man.