Born 1962 in Duisburg. Studied Soziology, Philosophy and Romanistic at the Universities of Berlin and Frankfurt/Main. stiess@isoe.de Phone 0049 (69) 707 69 19 19 research area Everyday Life Ecology, Energy, Consumption

Selected projects:

Motivating and Enabling Private Home Owners for Energy Efficient Refurbishment of Single and Double Occupancy Houses

Demand-Driven Life-Cycle Management: Developing Urban Neighborhoods

Sustainability Performance in the Water Supply

Social Impact of Energy Price Rises and Options for Climate Change Policies

Improving energy efficient refurbishment of private homes

INTAFERE – A research project within the network of competence MOMUS

Evaluation and optimisation of the advisory campaign "focus: heating" of the Bremer Energie-Konsens GmbH

Adopting Emissions Trading Systems as a Social-Ecological Transformation Process

Task Force on Social Sustainability

Sustainable Modernisation of Existing Buildings - intergrated services for sustainable housing styles

New Target Groups for Bio-Products: Improving Market Opportunities for Bio-Products

Funding Policy for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Germany

Project Gender Impact Assessment in the European EESD-Programme

Sustainability as a Concept of the Social Sciences

References

Becker, Egon/Th. Jahn/I. Stieß(1999): Exploring Uncommon Ground: Sustainability as a Concept for the Social Sciences. In: Egon Becker, Thomas Jahn (eds), Sustainability and the Social Sciences. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Integrating Environmental Considerations into Theoretical Reorientation, ZED-Books: Download 130kb pdf-file