Projects of the Department of Economics
Current Projects
Governance and Institutions
Review of possibilities for harmonising water abstraction charges
Energy and Bioeconomy
Climate
CAESAR – Climate Adaptation and Economic Solutions
Completed Projects
FUSE: Food – water – energy for Urban Sustainable Environments
Jordan Water Project
Jordan Water Project – Capacity Building: Development and Implementation of a Strategic Modeling Tool for Water Management in Jordan
Evaluierung des Wasserentnahmeentgelts in Baden-Württemberg
Conflict, Cooperation, and Institutions in International Water Management (UFZ/Helmholtz)
BASINFORM-Verfahren zur Aufstellung von Maßnahmenprogrammen nach EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie
+ Weiterentwicklung des Verfahrens BASINFORM unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Naturschutzes
Das Konzept der Bestände als Entscheidungshilfe für eine Politik der Nachhaltigkeit (BMBF)
Enhancement of Waste Water Charges and Water extraction Charges to a comprehensive charge for the use of aquatic ecosystems
FLOOD-ERA − Flood risk management strategies in European Member States (BMBF/Defra − United Kingdom/Lebensministerium − Austria)
FLOODsite − Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies (Integrated Project) (EU)
GLOWA Elbe III: Impacts of global change on the hydrological cycle of the Elbe River Basin. Results and consequences (BMBF)
GLOWA Elbe II: Impacts of global change on the hydrological cycle of the Elbe River Basin. Risks and options
GLOWA-Elbe I: Global Change Impact on the Environment and Society in the Elbe Region (BMBF)
HarmoniRiB − Harmonised Techniques and Representative River Basin Data for Assessment and Use of Uncertainty Information in Integrated Water Management
IP Water Scarcity
Mikroverunreinigungen und Abwasserabgabe (UBA)
MoMo II: Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia: Model Region Mongolia
Nachhaltige Wasserbewirtschaftung und Landnutzung − untersucht am Beispiel des Torgauer Raumes (UFZ/Helmholtz)
Nationales Auenprogramm − Beitrag zum Klimaschutz
Praktische Ausgestaltung einer fortzuentwickelnden Abwasserabgabe sowie mögliche Inhalte einer Regelung (UBA)
Qualitative Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen zur Begründung von Ausnahmen nach EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie
SMART II: Integrated Water Resources Management in the Lower Jordan Rift Valley − Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies II (BMBF)
Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management in Urban Growth Centres Coping with Climate Change − Concepts for Lima Metropolitana (Peru) − (LiWa) (BMBF)
Verantwortung für Nachhaltigkeit − Die Bewirtschaftung von Wasserressourcen in der EU (BMBF)
Verhältnismäßigkeit von Maßnahmekosten im Sinne der EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie
Wasser 2050 − Nachhaltige wasserwirtschaftliche Systemlösungen − künftige Chancen für die deutsche Wasserwirtschaft (BMBF)
Regulative Vorsorgepolitik in ihren Wirkungen auf Innovationen zum nachhaltigen Wirtschaften − dargelegt am Beispiel der Chemikalienregulierung (BMBF)
Regional Sustainability − Bridging Resource Conservation and Economic Development (DAAD/NSF)
SMART I: Integrated Water Resources Management in the Lower Jordan Rift Valley − Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies I (BMBF)
NexusFootprints – Combining Indicators for Urban Food-Water-Energy Nexus Comparison
UFZ cooperation project with the Thuringian Environmental Ministry on the Thuringian Low Water and Drought Strategy
Natural Capital Germany – TEEB DE
Integrating Nature Conservation into Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers
STEP − Status and Trends of European Pollinators
Einführung einer Abgabe auf Pflanzenschutzmittel
PRESS − PEER Research on EcoSystem Services
Strategies for sustainable land use in the context of wind power generation (BMBF)
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its relevance for Germany (BMU)
Regional Sustainability − Bridging Resource Conservation and Economic Development (DAAD/NSF)
IBEFish: Interaction between Environment and Fisheries − a Challenge to Management
ValuES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into policy, planning, and practice
Ecopay Romania: Producing an ecological-economic model for habitats preservation − Case study Mureș Floodplain
CONNECT − Linking biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services
TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
INVASION − Evolutionary, ecological and social consequences of Biological Invasions (BMBF)
ALTER-Net: A Long-term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network (EU)
INVASIONS: The Invasion Potential of Alien Species − Identification, Assessment, and Risk Management (BMBF)
FRAP − Development of a Procedural Framework for Action Plans to Reconcile Conflicts between Large Vertebrate Conservation and the Use of Biological Resources: Fisheries and Fish-eating Vertebrates as a Model (EU)
EcoTRADE − Ecological Thresholds for Reshaping Ecosystem Networks: Ameliorating landscapes Driven by Economic development
Umsetzung der Biodiversitätskonvention: Chancen und Probleme der Integration von Naturschutz und landwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in Guatemala: Eine politik- und institutionenökonomische Analyse (UFZ/Helmholtz)
EcolEconMod: Developing a framework to assess the total cost of conservation measures
Regional value chains in the context of biodiversity and ecosystem services − The example of a Czech-Polish-Saxon project cooperation
BonaRes − Centre for Soil Research, Team Governance
Green stimulus and investment packages
International Standards and Strategies for the Reduction of Land Consumption (SURFACE)
Synergien und Konflikte von Anpassungsstrategien und maßnahmen (SynKon)
Participatory Decision Processes (UFZ/Helmholtz)
The Implementation of EU Environmental Policies: Efficiency Issues (EU)
CollectiveWater: From Conflict to Collective Action: Institutional Change and Management Options to Govern Transboundary Water Courses
Conflict, Cooperation, and Institutions in International Water Management (UFZ/Helmholtz)
Designoptionen und Implementation von Raumordnungsinstrumenten zur Flächenverbrauchsreduktion − DoRiF (BMBF-Projekt REFINA)
PATH − Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology (EU)
Perspectives of Economic Research on Climate Change (BMBF)
Technological Neutrality: A Critical Assessment
Analyse der gesamtökonomischen Effekte von Biogasanlagen − Wirkungsabschätzung des EEG
Kopernikus Project “Systemintegration: Energiewende-Navigationssystem” (ENavi)
Spitzencluster BioEconomy (BMBF)
SOTERIA – Solutions and technologies for regions through insurance of climate adaptation
Governing multi-scale heterogeneities to activate natural carbon sink potentials (GONASIP)
Living Walls: Green facades for multifunctional climate adaptation in the city
EnhANcing emergencY management and response to extreme WeatHER and climate Events (ANYWHERE)
ARC3-2 Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN)
ClimateAdaptationSantiago (BMU)
FLOODsite − Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies (Integrated Project) (EU)
Evaluation of the „Aktionsplans Klimaschutz“ (action plan for climate protection) of the government of Hessen
Innovative Ansätze der ökonomischen Anpassungsforschung mit Bezug zu Sachsen-Anhalt
BASE − Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies Towards a Sustainable Europe
CLIMALERT − Climate Alert Smart System for Sustainable Water and Agriculture
PLACARD – PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction
Praktische Ausgestaltung einer fortzuentwickelnden Abwasserabgabe sowie mögliche Inhalte einer Regelung (UBA)
CONHAZ − Costs of Natural Hazards
REKLIM Topic 7: Risk assessment and risk management for climate adaptation strategies
Bessere Nutzung von Entsiegelungspotenzialen zur Wiederherstellung von Bodenfunktionen und zur Klimaanpassung
DE-US.net: German-US Network „Zukunftsstadt – Future City“
SAFIRA II Megasite Management
Risk Habitat Megacity (UFZ/Helmholtz)
Syntheseforschung “Wirtschaftswissenschaften für Nachhaltigkeit” − SynWiN
TIMBRE − Tailored Improvement of Brownfield Regeneration in Europe