The Projects

Here you will find a list of the key issues being examined as part of the Economics for Sustainability funding programme.

The respective page contains links to detailed information regarding the individual research project.

• Conflicts of interest over biomass

  Renewable resources and land use (NaRoLa) - Integration of bioenergy into a sustainable energy strategy
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/112.php)
   
  

• Conflicts of interest over wind power

  Strategies for sustainable land use in the context of wind power generation (FlächEn)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/113.php)
   
  

• The price of water

  Global water resources assessment using dynamic optimisation
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/111.php)
   
  

• An intact natural environment as insurance

  Sustainable use of ecosystem services under uncertainty
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/114.php)
   
  

• Sustainability policy

  The concept of 'stocks' as a decision-making aid for sustainability policy
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/115.php)
   
  

• Economic incentives for reducing the use of new land for urban growth

  Simulation of a land development rights trading system with the participation of municipalities (Spiel.Raum)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/98.php)
   
  

• Optimal reduction of air pollutants

  Development of an integrated assessment model for a national emissions management system (Otello)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/99.php)
   
  

• How do companies invest?

  Agents' long-term investments in the context of climate and energy (ALICE)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/116.php)
   
  

• The use of environmental criminal law as an enforcement tool

  The example of German environmental criminal law (ECOCRIME)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/117.php)
   
  

• Catching-up processes in threshold countries

  Integrating sustainability innovations into catching-up processes (ISI-CUP)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/118.php)
   
  

• Innovations for sustainable development

  Creation, diffusion and impact of sustainability innovations
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/119.php)
   
  

• Conserving raw materials

  Actor-based modelling and steering of material stream innovations (AMOSS)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/120.php)
   
  

• Overcoming obstacles to sustainable consumption

  Paths to sustainable consumption - Energy, nutrition (WENKE²)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/121.php)
   
  

• Changing leisure-time mobility on a lasting basis

  Change dynamics in consumption and sustainable innovation paths. A study using the example of leisure-time mobility (DynamiKon)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/122.php)
   
  

• Decisions involved in purchasing a car

  The transition to new energy sources in passenger car traffic: An economic analysis for Germany (ECO-CARS)
  more (URL: http://www.wi-n.org/en/123.php)