Water and Social-Ecological Planning
		Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods
		Everyday Life Ecology, Energy, Consumption
		Gender & Environment
		Mobility and Lifestyle Analyses
		Demographic Trends, Needs, and Supply Systems

Water and Social-Ecological Planning

Projects in work:

• Integrated Water Resources Management in northern Namibia Cuvelai-Basin (CuveWaters)
• Transformation Management for a Sustainable Water Infrastructure
• INTAFERE – Integrated Analysis of Mobile Organic Foreign Substances in Rivers
• Water 2050

Finished projects (selection):

• Water Demand Prognosis 2030 for the Supply Area Hamburger Wasserwerke GmbH (2007)
• Sustainability Performance in the Water Supply (2007)
• Water Demand Prognosis 2030 for the Supply Area Hamburger Wasserwerke GmbH (2007)
• Virtual Water Trade Expert Workshop. 3.-4. Juli 2006. Frankfurt am Main (2006)
• netWORKS - Transformations in Network Related Infrastructure Sectors (2006)
• Integrated Water Resources Management in Esfahan: Exploratory Study Zayandeh Rud River Basin (2005)
• Integrated Water Resources Management in Northern Namibia (2005)
• Exploratory Study „Privatisation of the Water Industry“ (2001)
• Privatisation and Competition in Drinking Water Supply in Germany (2001)
• Regional Sustainability (1998)
• Water Cycle and Urban-Ecological Development
(1997)
• Stormwater Infiltration in Wiesbaden (1996)

Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods

Projects in work:

• Strengthening of Transdisciplinary Research Practice - tdPrax
• Transdisciplinary Integration  - Cooperation and Concept Devlopment in Knowledge Networks
• start – Management Strategies for Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
• Task Force on Social Sustainability

Finished projects (selection):

• Transdisciplinary Cognitive Integration (2006)
• The Communication of Scientific Knowledge (2006)
• Evaluation Network for Transdisciplinary Research (2006)
• Modelling Nature Society Systems (2004)
• Regional approaches for sustainable economy (2003)
• Evaluation and Synthesis of Social-Ecological Exploratory Projects (2002)
• Funding Policy for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Germany  (2001)
• On the predictability of social-ecological transformations (2001)
• Analysis of the Dutch Sustainable Technology Development Programme (1997)
• Sustainability as a Concept of the Social Sciences (1997)
• Hybrid Projects in the Cognitive Sciences (1997)
• Neo-Cybernetic Prognosis Machines (1997)
• Research Policy for Sustainable Development (1997)
• Sustainability as a Concept of the Social Sciences (1997)

Everyday Life Ecology, Energy, Consumption

Projects in work:

• Motivating and Enabling Private Home Owners for Energy Efficient Refurbishment of Single and Double Occupancy Houses
• Dissemination Strategy Food Change
• Demand-Driven Life-Cycle Management: Developing Urban Neighborhoods
• Quali-Set-Praxis - Practical Quality Assurance in Health Promoting Settings

Finished projects (selection):

• Top Ten Ecological Product Innovation and Sustainable Consumption (2007)
• Food Change - Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformations in the Field Environment-Food-Health (2005)
• Improving energy efficient refurbishment of private homes (2005)
• Evaluation and optimisation of the advisory campaign "focus: heating" of the Bremer Energie-Konsens GmbH (2005)
• New Target Groups for Bio-Products: Improving Market Opportunities for Bio-Products (2003)
• Gender Impact Assessment in the field of Radiation Protection and Environment (2002)
• Sustainable Modernisation of Existing Buildings (2001)
• Green Energy Offerings for the City of Bremen (2001)
• Sustainability Auditing - an Instrument for Sustainable Business (2000)
• Substituting Environmentally Relevant Flame Retardants:
  Assessment Fundamentals (2000)
• Consumption Styles - A Household Exploration (1999)
• Sustainable Consumption Patterns and Post-Material Lifestyles (1999)
• Material Flows for Selected Environmentally Relevant Materials: Product Line Auditing (1996)

Field of Research Mobility and Lifestyle Analyses

in work:

• Energy Saving by Intelligent Measuring and Feedback Systems

• Leisure-Mobility in Swiss Agglomerations
• MOVILIZATION – toward accessible cities

finished projects (selection):

• Creating a Sustainable Mobility Culture (2007)
• Sustainable Management in the Tourism Sector (Invent) (2005)
• New Local Transport Options in the Southern Black Forest National Park -The NahviS Project Consortium (2005)
• Mobility Management and Service for an environmentally friendly excursion... (2005)
• ecobiente - More successful design of sustainable goods (2005)
• EcoTopTen Innovations (2004)
• Target Groups and their Mobility Needs in Public Transportation (2003)
• Socio-Empirical Research on Leisure Mobility (2002)
• Customer Potential for New Period Tickets (2002)
• Development of New Methods of Ecological Product Innovation (1999)
• Viable Form of Urban Mobility (1998)
• Evaluation of the Public Relations Work for the Brundtland Project of the City of Viernheim (1994)

Field of Research Gender & Environment

in work:

• Efficient advisory instruments to reduce energy consumption in private households
• Research on Gender and Environment

finished projects:

• RARE - Rhetoric and Realities Analysing Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe (2007)
• Joint Emissions Trading as a Social-Ecological Transformation (JET-SET) (2007)
• Scientific Monitoring of the Introduction of the Gender Mainstreaming Strategy within the Ministry for Environment and Nature Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia as Exemplified by the National Park Eifel (2005)
• Scientific Consultants for the Introduction of Gender Mainstreaming in the daily practice of the Federal Environment Ministry (FEM) (2004)
• Project Gender Impact Assessment – Review of the Hanseatic City of Bremen’s Support Program for Applied Environmental Research (2003)
• Gender Impact Assessment in the field of Radiation Protection and Environment (2002)
• Gender Impact Assessment for the EU (2001)
• Project Gender Relations, Sustainable Models of Consumption and Environmental Impact (2001)

Field of Research Demographic Trends, Needs, and Supply Systems

• Supplying the Population

updated 2008-07-17