economics of the environment - water resources, energy, biodiversity, climate change

Projects of the Department of Economics

Current Projects


Completed Projects

Entwicklung des zukünftigen Wasserbedarfs in verschiedenen Sektoren – Bestimmungsmethoden, Projektionen und Szenarien

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

IP Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems

Integrated Urban Catchment Governance − Organizational, Legal and Fiscal Foundations for Sustainable Management of Waste- and Rainwater in the Wuxi Region/China

Arzneimittelabgabe: Beteiligung von Arzneimittelherstellern an den Kosten von Maßnahmen zur Reduktion der Konzentration von Mikroschadstoffen in Gewässern

Benefit-Cost-Analysis in Water Management – Development of a Method for the Assessment of Disproportional Costs for the German Working Group on Water Issues (116.2 KB)

Evaluierung des Wasserentnahmeentgelts in Baden-Württemberg

InfraWass: Nachhaltigkeitsinstitutionen zur Governance langlebiger technischer Infrastruktursysteme am Beispiel der europäischen Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung unter den Bedingungen klimatischen und demographischen Wandels (BMBF)

International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS): Management of Water Resources in Hydrologically Sensitive Regions (BMBF)

RISK MAP − Improving Flood Risk Maps as a Means to Foster Public Participation and Raising Flood Risk Awareness: Toward Flood Resilient Communities (BMBF)

Conflict, Cooperation, and Institutions in International Water Management (UFZ/Helmholtz)

Decision Support for Integrated River Basin Management − Conflict Assessment and Possible Solutions Using the Example of the River White Elster (BMBF)

CollectiveWater: From Conflict to Collective Action: Institutional Change and Management Options to Govern Transboundary Water Courses

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

Service contract for providing support in relation to the implementation of the EU soil thematic strategy

Research project REWILD_DE: Sustaining Biodiversity and Creating Ecosystem Service Opportunities through Rewilding – Learning from the Oder Delta

Natural Capital Germany – TEEB DE

Integrating Nature Conservation into Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers

STEP − Status and Trends of European Pollinators

Einführung einer Abgabe auf Pflanzenschutzmittel

SCALES − Securing the Conservation of Biodiversity across Administrative Levels and Spatial, Temporal, and Ecological Scale

Weiterentwicklung der Software Ecopay zur Bestimmung kosteneffizienter Ausgleichszahlungen für Maßnahmen zum Schutz gefährdeter Arten und Lebensraumtypen im Grünland zur deutschlandweiten Nutzung in der Naturschutzpraxis

POLICYMIX − Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision

PRESS − PEER Research on EcoSystem Services

SOKO Bio Software-based decision support tool for determining cost-effective compensation payments for conservation measures in a changing environment

Strategies for sustainable land use in the context of wind power generation (BMBF)

Ecological-economic Modelling in the Development of Strategies and Environmental Policy Instruments for Species Protection (UFZ/Helmholtz)

Multi-criteria Evaluation and Decision Aid for Conflicts Between Land Use and Biodiversity Conservation (UFZ/Helmholtz)

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

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)

InfraWass: Nachhaltigkeitsinstitutionen zur Governance langlebiger technischer Infrastruktursysteme am Beispiel der europäischen Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung unter den Bedingungen klimatischen und demographischen Wandels (BMBF)

RISK MAP − Improving Flood Risk Maps as a Means to Foster Public Participation and Raising Flood Risk Awareness: Toward Flood Resilient Communities (BMBF)

FLOODsite − Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies (Integrated Project) (EU)

FLOOD-ERA − Flood risk management strategies in European Member States (BMBF/Defra − United Kingdom/Lebensministerium − Austria)

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“

NANOREM – Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment

SAFIRA II Megasite Management

Risk Habitat Megacity (UFZ/Helmholtz)

Syntheseforschung “Wirtschaftswissenschaften für Nachhaltigkeit” − SynWiN

TIMBRE − Tailored Improvement of Brownfield Regeneration in Europe