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Ocean governance comprises the law of the sea as well as all related policy and normative dimensions that relate to the regulation of human activity at sea and increasingly places a strong focus on marine environmental protection and the conservat

Warum führen Prozesse der collaborative governance oft eher in die Sackgasse als zum Erfolg? Die vorliegende kumulative Dissertation geht dieses Problem an, indem sie die Mikroebene von collaborative governance analysiert.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) functions as the global climate regime’s centerpiece. Yet, innovative climate policy initiatives have proliferated within and beyond this institution.

In jüngster Zeit hat eine bemerkenswerte Politisierung des Klimawandels stattgefunden. Damit einher ging auch eine Zuspitzung verkehrspolitischer Auseinandersetzungen.

Air pollutants with lifetimes of a few weeks or longer, such as ozone, fine particulate matter, mercury, and many persistent organic pollutants, are ubiquitous in the atmosphere, and may be transported around the globe under the influence of globa

In Zeiten postfaktischer Verunsicherung kommt der wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung besondere Bedeutung zu.

In den jüngsten Umfragen zu den wichtigsten Problemen in Deutschland gibt es drei eindeutige Spitzenreiter: die Invasion der Ukraine durch Russland, die Corona-Pandemie und die Sorge vor Klimawandel und Umweltschäden.

Die Perspektive der Nachhaltigkeit bezieht sich auf die Dauerhaftigkeit humaner Lebensbedingungen sowie den Erhalt der dazu notwendigen natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen für die heutigen Menschen weltweit und künftigen Generationen.

Economic crises offer a window of opportunity for transformational change. Periods of crisis may act also as catalysts for institutional changes.

Studien legen nahe, dass die lokale Wirtschaft von einer Flächenumverteilung, die eine Reduzierung des Motorverkehrs zugunsten von Fuß- und Radverkehr sowie ÖPNV anstrebt, profitiert.

The continuing unsustainable pattern of human behavior creates enormous risks of increasingly frequent and severe disasters impacting the complex social-ecological-economic-technical system (SES) in which all life on Earth is embedded.

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) offers flexible and decarbonised power generation and is one of the few switchable renewable technologies that can generate renewable power on demand.

This chapter introduces nature and the source of climate change and its effects on human society and natural systems. It discusses the role of sustainable energy in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The chapter defines environmental sustainability and creates a linkage between energy and the environment. It highlights the impact of both renewable energy technologies and nonrenewable energy usages on the environment.

The chapter begins with the conceptualization of energy security. Then it explains the core components that are required for any country to be energy secure.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made global inequalities significantly worse, with women being disproportionately affected.

This chapter analyses the challenges of extreme change in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. In both regions, warming seas, declining sea ice and acidification of waters are adversely affecting the distribution of marine species.

The climate is already changing, making climate change adaptation (CCA) an essential component of any sustainable development strategy.

This chapter elaborates how the cultural perspective of Chinese philosophy supports an interconnected worldview.

We live in a social world whose pace is accelerating. While the focus of most aspects of our intensified social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever-longer shadows.

Ideas of temporality are of key importance for understanding the relationship between democracy and sustainability.

This chapter gives an overview of the scholarship on the general tensed relationship between political representation and sustainable futures.

Democracy and sustainability are political ideas that have shaped the course of human history and continue to do so today. On a very general level, these ideas have multiple commonalities.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice.

Humankind is confronted with two types of risks: conventional and systemic risks.

Das Verhältnis von Gentechnik und Nachhaltigkeit ist von vielen Unsicherheiten und Unklarheiten geprägt.

Prevention: The Concept of Preventive Risk Reduction, Illustrated by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Zwischen dem Wissen über Ursachen, Folgen und geeignete Strategien zur Eindämmung der Klimakrise einerseits und der Umsetzung in Handeln andererseits klafft eine große Lücke.

Kernenergie, Kohlekraftwerke, grüne Gentechnik, selbst fahrende Autos, Eingriffe in die menschliche Keimbahn, Nanotechnologie und Müllverbrennungsanlagen – diese Technologien haben eines gemeinsam: Sie sind umstritten.

In their essay and film script, written for the exhibition Lithium, researchers David Habets, Cameron Hu and Stefan Schäfer focus on the element as a remedy for the exhaustion of personal reserves.

Risk perception is an important component of risk governance, but it cannot and should not determine environmental policies. The reality is that people suffer and even die as a result of false information or perception biases.

The EU’s regulatory approach to decarbonization advances sustainability but falls short of promoting regeneration.

Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen speisen sich oft aus wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen. Gerade der Klimawandel zeigt dies eindrücklich. Wissenschaft ist aber immer auch Teil der Phänomene, die sie beobachtet.

In ihrer Jugend wollte Silke Butzlaff eigentlich nicht in den Bergbau. Nun steuert sie seit 37 den ältesten noch im Betrieb befindlichen Eimerkettenbagger in der Lausitz und ist doch Bergarbeiterin geworden.

Die Lausitz hat einen Strukturbruch hinter und einen Strukturwandel vor sich. Der wirtschaftliche Umbau nach der deutschen Vereinigung hat nicht viel von der Industrie, die vor allem auf Braunkohle setzte, übrig gelassen.

Richard Sennett bereichert seit Jahrzehnten als Soziologe und öffentlicher Intellektueller die gesellschaftlichen Zeitdiagnosen.

Risk governance is used to refer to a body of scholarly ideas and concepts for collective decision making involving uncertain consequences of events or actions.

Wind power plays a major role in the decarbonization of the power sector. Already now, it supplies increasing shares of the global energy demand.

Solar energy supplies increasing shares of global energy demand. As a renewable source of energy, it will play a major role in decarbonizing electricity supply. This chapter provides an overview on the solar sector from an economic perspective.

This chapter examines the blue economy concept and discusses the increasing and cumulative challenges that require integrated solutions and finance approaches.

In their essay and film script, written for the exhibition Lithium, researchers David Habets, Cameron Hu and Stefan Schäfer focus on the element as a remedy for the exhaustion of personal reserves.

The topic of increasing the reflectivity of the Earth as a measure to counteract global warming has been the subject of high-level discussions and preliminary research since several decades, though prior to the early 2000s there was only very limi

The effects of human activities are increasingly overwhelming the geologic, biological and chemical processes that drive changes in the abundance of trace and greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere and Earth System behaviour.

In considering the changing world, the authors of the Integrated Science: Science without Borders were asked how you would see the future of your field 30 years later. The present chapter publishes authors’ views on this subject in 2050.

Many political decision-making processes are based on evidence and expert knowledge. However, expert knowledge and its use in public policy arenas have become increasingly contested in society.

In every region and every nation in the world, people face the difficult challenges of learning to design and maintain healthy societies with limited natural resources—including water, land, and energy—under rapidly changing global to local condit