Broad Based Initiative for Strengthening Social-Ecological Research (Statement)

Over 220 scientists have joined together to speak out for a strengthening of social-ecological research in Germany. In a statement just published they noted the effectiveness of cross-discipline, transdisciplinary research approaches for investigating complex sustainability problems and for developing practical solutions to them. According to the researchers, Germany has established international standards with its multiform and highly productive research community. For the signatories of the initiative the paramount goals with respect to the further development of social-ecological research include improvement of cooperation between universities and non-university research facilities, quality control of research, qualification of young scientists, and a strengthening of the international presence of social-ecological research. Read the full statement at: http://www.isoe.de/ftp/initiativesoceco.pdf

Innovative Science for Sustainability - Social-Ecological Research at L2L-conference: (Lectures)

Within three presentations at the L2L-conference social-ecological research will be introduced as an integrative approach in science for sustainability. Further Information, Links and Downloads:

Presentation by Thomas Jahn: Social-Ecological Research: An Integrative Approach in Science for Sustainability: download presentation (48 kb)

Experiences from the Interface of Policy and Science in The Netherlands and Other Countries DE WIT, Bert Advisory Council for Research on Spatial Planning, Nature and the Environment (RMNO), Den Haag, The Netherlands, download presentation (158 kb)

Commentary on the contribution of Bert de Wit: JAHN, Thomas Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Frankfurt, Germany, download presentation (38 kb)

Immanuel Stiess "Life Cycle Management of Urban Neighbourhoods – A Demand-Oriented Approach to Urban Renewal", download presentation (170 kb)

Hummel, Diana (2006): Transdisciplinary research from a social-ecological point of view (Lecture)

hold at: 3rd International Conference on Urban Ecology "Shrinking Cities - Ecological Consequences and Challenges for Urban Development", Humboldt-University, Berlin, 15/16 September 2006: pdf-file, dh_berlin2006.pdf

Reducing Vulnerability of Societies Against Water Related Risks at the Basin Scale (Poster presentation)

Kluge,Thomas/Alexandra Lux/Nicole Umlauf/Wilhelm Urban (2006): Hessisches Ried, Germany, and Cuvelai Delta, Namibia. Regional Distinctions and Similarities. Consequences for design of an IWRM. Poster presentation within the Third Internationalen Symposiums “Reducing Vulnerability of Societies Against Water Related Risks at the Basin Scale” (Bochum 26-28 September 2006), organised by the International Commission for Water Resources Systems. pdf-file, 380 kb

Press release: A Guide for the Formative Evaluation of Research Projects (pdf-file, 66kb)

Social-Ecological Research: A New Approach towards Generating, Integrating and Transferring Knowledge for Sustainable Development:

Jahn, Thomas/Florian Keil (2005): Social-Ecological Research: A New Approach towards Generating, Integrating and Transferring Knowledge for Sustainable Development: In: Kolleg für Management und Gestaltung nachhaltiger Entwicklung gGmbH (Hg.), European Networks Conference on Sustainability in Practice 2004, Conference Reader. Berlin (130 kb pdf-file)

Societal Relations to Nature

Becker, E./ Th. Jahn (2005): Societal Relations to Nature. Outline of a Critical Theory in the ecological crisis. Published in German in Böhme, Gernot / Manzei, Alexandra (Ed.), Kritische Theorie der Technik und der Natur. 2003. München: Wilhelm Fink, 91-112  Pdf-file 185 kb

"Social-Ecological Research: A conceptual framework for a new funding policy."

Abstract english

Jahn, Thomas

Criteria for sustainable development research: Presentation hold byThomas Jahn at the french/german Workshop  "Science et technologie pour le dévelopment durable / Research and Technology for a sustainable development in Paris in June 2004.  The presentation is now downloadable as portable document file: pdf-file, 101 kb

Egon Becker:

Social-Ecological Research – a new mode of knowledge. Presentation. Held at the Congress of the Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung, "Gut zu wissen - Links zur Wissensgesellschaft", Humboldt-University Berlin, 4th - 6th May 2001. Download (pdf-file 132 kb)

Becker, Egon:

Transformations of Social and Ecological Issues into Transdisciplinary Research
In: UNESCO / Eolss Publishers (2002): Knowledge for Sustainable Development. An Insight into the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS. Paris, Oxford: UNESCO Publishing/Eolss Publishers download (pdf-file 196 kb)

Egon Becker, Thomas Jahn (eds) (1999):

Sustainability and the Social Sciences. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Integrating Environmental Considerations into Theoretical Reorientation. ZED Books

Exploring Uncommon Ground: Sustainability as a Concept for the Social Sciences (Egon Becker, Thomas Jahn and Immanuel Stieß) Download 130kb pdf-file

OEKOFORUM: Critical Analyses of the 6th EU Framework.  english Version (175 kb)

Becker / Jahn / Stieß / Wehling:

Becker, E./Th. Jahn/ I. Stieß/P. Wehling (1997): Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Concept for Social Transformations. MOST Policy Papers No. 6. UNESCO, Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung ISOE. Paris (F) download 3,1 MB pdf-file

Egon Becker:

La transformación ecológica - social Notas para una ecología política sostenible. (pdf 51kb)

Oekoforum Postion Paper on the Fifth Framework Programme of the EU

ÖKOFORUM Position Paper prepared by the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Frankfurt am Main, Germany and by Öko-Institut, Freiburg/Darmstadt/Berlin, Germany, oekoforum5FP_eng.pdf

Water and Environmental Planning:

Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), University Hospital Freiburg, Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) organise the 1st international conference on Sustainable Pharmacy on April 24 and 25, 2008, in Osnabrück, Germany. 12.02.2008: Press Release as pdf, Press Release as pdf German, Conference Flyer

Population decline and infrastructure: The case of the German water supply (Publication)

Hummel, Diana/Alexandra Lux (2007): Population decline and infrastructure: The case of the German water supply. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Volume 5 (2007), pp. 167-191 (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/publications/VYPR2007/Yearbook2007_Hummel-Lux_pp167-191.pdf)

Water 2050 – Seeking for International Network Partners

The project “Water 2050” which analyses the needs and options for developing integrated and sustainable system solutions in water supply and sanitation by the year 2050 invites interested parties from governments, municipal administrations, water management agencies and NGOs of countries outside Germany to bring in their perspectives regarding their problems and possible solutions. Read more: http://www.isoe.de/ftp/water2050.pdf

Panel Discussion A Thirsty Blue Planet: Water Poverty – Climate Change – Time for a Blue Revolution,

with Fred Pearce, Mary Seely and Thomas Kluge at 20th June 2007 in Frankfurt Main... More
flyer as pdf-file (401 kb)

Project-flyer

CuveWaters pdf-file

Stefan Liehr

Den Haag Foresight-Workshop on European Rivers: Stefan Liehr participated at the Netherlands Advisory Council for Research on Nature and Environment (RMNO) workshop titeled "Present Needs Future Options - Foresight Transnational Watermanagement and –policies" with the presentation "Two Transnational Water Issues - Mobile Substances and Wastewater Systems", which points out two water issues of particular importance for transnational foresight processes. The slides

(54 kb pdf-file) and the conceptpaper (60 kb pdf-file)

Stefan Liehr

Integrated Water Quality Management – Development of a Social-Ecological Approach: Presentation given by Stefan Liehr at the German Research Foundation DFG. The lecture is ready for download under: abstract  (112 kb pdf-file) - lecture (163 kb pdf-file)

Engelbert Schramm

On the occasion of the 2004 International Summer Academy on Technological Studies in Deutschlandsberg/Austria, Engelbert Schramm gave a review on the "Privatisation of German urban water infrastructure in the 19th and 21st century". It is available as pdf-file ESDlandsberg.pdf (303 kb). ... project

Everyday Life Ecology, Energy, Consumption

Linking Sustainable Consumption to Everyday Life

The EU-funded network “Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges” (SCORE) which consists of around 200 experts from the field of sustainable innovation and sustainable consumption has just published the first book in the series “System Innovation for Sustainability 1”. The book examines what sustainable consumption and production is and what it could be, provides a state-of-the-art review on the system innovation policy perspective and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches. The article by Irmgard Schultz and Immanuel Stieß “Linking Sustainable Consumption to Everyday Life: a Social-Ecological Approach to Consumption Research” outlines a conceptual and methodological framework for social-ecological consumption research, linking lifestyle analysis to the study of everyday behaviour and environmental impact assessment. Based on this framework, a typology of nutrition styles and their environmental impact is presented, resulting from a representative survey about nutrition habits in Germany.

More information on the book you will find on the Website of Greenleaf Publishing: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=2590

The abstract of the article by Irmgard Schultz and Immanuel Stieß is available under: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/greenleaf/abstractpopup.kmod?productid=2706

Rediscovering Urban Neighbourhoods

Stieß, Immanuel / Jutta Deffner (2007): Rediscovering Urban Neighbourhoods - Residential Mobility Motivations of Urban Dwellers in Settlements of the 1950s - 1960s. Paper presented at the Workshop Migration, Residential Mobility, and Housing Policy, ENHR 2007 International Conference "Sustainable Urban Areas", Rotterdam, 25.-28. June 2007 (Charts, 1,2 MB pdf-file)

Rhetoric and Realities - Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe:

the project will present and debate the results of its three year research study on 27 June 2007 in Brussels. For full details and registration: Flyer

Rhetoric And Realities Analysing Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe (RARE)

As download there is a selfdescription of the project and it goals available as pdf-file (638 kb) - project

How can target-group specific strategies contribute to sustainable consumption patterns?

 Presentation held by Claudia Empacher (2003): at the 6th Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Sciences (NESS) in Turku (Finnland)  pdf-file, 101 kb

Results of the study "A household exploration of the Conditions, Opportunities and Limitations Pertaining to Sustainable Consumer Behaviour

Irmgard Schultz, Claudia Empacher, Konrad Götz, Juni 2000 (pdf 141kb) Shortversion

Immanuel Stieß / Doris Hayn

In the range of the international symposium  "9th Karlsruhe Nutrition Congress: Consumer and Nutrition - Challenges and Chances for Research and Society"  Immanuel Stieß presented the so called food styles by means of a poster: pdf-file 348 kb). Information about the project ....

Gender Research:

Rhetoric And Realities Analysing Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe (RARE)

Schultz, Irmgard (2007): Case Study on Gender Equality through CSR in the Banking Sector. Working paper of RARE project., Frankfurt/M., rare16casestudy.pdf, 240 kb

Schultz, Irmgard (2007): Policy Paper on Gender Equality. Background paper on EU policies on gender equality in the private sector. Frankfurt/M., rare17casestudy.pdf, 257 kb

Schultz, Irmgard (2007): EU Goals Concerning Gender Equality: To What Extent Does CSR Contribute to Achieving Them? Frankfurt/M., rare_benchmarking.pdf, 137 kb

The Pilot Project "Gender Mainstreaming in the National Park Eifel" (summary/draft)

Hayn, Doris (2005): The Pilot Project "Gender Mainstreaming in the National Park Eifel" – the Development of Implementation Instruments Report in the context of the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the Ministry for Environment and Nature Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUNLV) of North Rhine-Westphalia. In collaboration with Gudrun Seltmann and Julia Guttmann. Summary/Draft, (pdf-file, 196 kb)

Scientific consultancy for the introduction of gender mainstreaming - Short Version

Doris Hayn, Irmgard Schultz (2004): Scientific consultancy for the introduction of gender mainstreaming in the daily practice of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Summary of the final report, Download pdf-file 89 kb

Rhetoric And Realities Analysing Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe (RARE)

Eco-Institute News about Rare (pdf-file)

The Instrument of Gender Impact Assessment

2004: The test procedure comprises three stages: relevance test, the main GIA analysis, and evaluation (explanations are given in italics):  Download as pdf-file 162 kb - project

Gender Impact Assessment

Hayn, Doris/Irmgard Schultz (2002): Gender Impact Assessment in the Field of Radiation Protection and the Environment  – Concluding Report – on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), 635 kb pdf-file (short version pdf-file 157 kb) (project)

Gender Impact Assessment in the field of Radiation Protection and Environment

Final Abstract of the project bmugia_final_abstract.pdf (41,4 kb)

Hayn, Doris/Schultz, Irmgard (2004): Scientific consultancy for the introduction of gender mainstreaming in the daily practice of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
Concluding report,  Download pdf-file 635 kb
Summary of the final report, Download pdf-file 89 kb

Claudia Empacher

Segovia, February 13th, 2002, Contribution to the Spanish EU-Presidency Workshop on European Environmental Policies and Women: Research on Gender, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Why does gender matter in environment and environment policy matters? (PowerPoint Präsentation 86 kb)

Gender & Environment: Research for"Gender & Environment" - The German debate. Irmgard Schultz english Version (pdf - 87kb)

Irmgard Schultz (2001)

Another attempt to explain the natural environment from a feminist perspective.
By Helga Purgand: Andreas Nebelung/Angelika Poferl/Irmgard Schultz (Hrsg.): Geschlechterverhältnisse – Naturverhältnisse. Auseinandersetzungen und Perspektiven der Umweltsoziologie. Opladen: Leske+Budrich 2001

http://www.querelles-net.de/english/2002-7/text21.htm or here

Mobility and Lifestyle Analyses:

Beyond the Eco-Niche - Mainstreaming Sustainable Tourism

Conference Flyer (pdf-file, 288 kb)

Space-Sensibility of different Leisure-Life-Styles

Konrad Götz: Kongress "Facing the Challenge of Urban Diversity - Integrative approaches to urban ecology", 22. – 23. November 2004 pdf-file 167 kb

OECD est!-Workshop Leisure Travel, Tourism Travel, and the Environment Leisure Travel, Tourism Travel, and the Environment

The presentation, held by Steffi Schubert at the OECD est!-Workshop, hold in Berlin 4-5 November:  Leisure Travel, Tourism Travel, and the Environment, titeled "Mobility-Styles in Leisure-Time - a lifestyle-approach for a better understanding and shaping of leisure-mobility", is available here (pdf-file, 236 kb). The complete documentation of the workshop you will find at

http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,2340,en_2649_34363_34024047_1_1_1_1,00.html

A research concept for mobility styles. Conference Paper

Moving through nets: The physical and social dimensions of travel. The paper is the abstract of the presentation held by Konrad Goetz at the 10th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research in Lucerne, 10-15. August 2003. Now it is available as download (pdf-file, 118 kb)

Götz, K./W. Loose/M. Schmied/S. Schubert (2002): Mobility Styles in Leisure Time.

Final Report for the Project  "Reduction of Environmental Damage Caused by Leisure and Tourism Traffic". Commissioned by the Federal Environmental Agency - pdf-file 188 kb

Supplying the Population – Interactions Among Demographic Trends, Needs, and Supply Systems