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Germany is known for its ambitious climate policy targets. By 2045, the country seeks to achieve climate neutrality. As an intermediate step, the government has determined emission thresholds for different economic sectors through the year 2030.

The debate on how to evaluate and manage risks focuses on three major strategies: (Renn O. EMBO Rep 8:303–305, 2007, Renn O. Risk governance. Coping with uncertainty in a complex world. Earthscan, London, 2008a; Stirling A.

Sustainability transformations in the energy industry, a key sector in the race to a zero-carbon economy in the Anthropocene, are still being largely understood from a technological standpoint.

Policy advice for dealing with major crises has focussed on two concepts: resilience and sustainability. The article introduces the term resilience and explains its application in different disciplines.

This chapter reviews how the European Union has fared in enabling a green recovery in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis, drawing comparisons to developments after the financial crisis.

The group Delphi method is a Delphi variant in which the anonymity of the experts is abandoned in favour of an open exchange among professinals.

Delphi methods enable the systematic collection of expert judgments. They have proven to be particularly useful when a certain level of expertise and judgment is required to answer a research question.

Im Laufe der letzten 50 Jahre der Entwicklung und Anwendung der Kernenergie hat die Politik zur nuklearen Energieerzeugung in fast allen Ländern der Welt ein Wechselbad der Gefühle erlebt, das von Begeisterung bis zu tiefer Skepsis reicht.

The global energy transition and the growing ambition of decarbonisation policies in the world’s leading economies are bound to affect Central Asia’s three hydrocarbon producers, yet there has been little research on the issue.

Deep-seabed mining in the Area is regulated by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) which is mandated to act on behalf of humankind as a whole.

The marine environment is under increasing threat from the cumulative effects of human activities. This chapter examines and elaborates on some of the important challenges facing international marine environmental law today.

The impetus for Germany’s first bicycle law came from civil society.

In this chapter we introduce a number of international governance frameworks and initiatives that, to varying degrees, support and advance integrated policy making on air pollution and climate change.

This chapter deploys assemblage theory and thinking to bring together a unique set of insights on the seabed ranging from the ecological, to legal, practice to theoretical.

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

Bildung ist eine unerlässliche Voraussetzung für die Förderung der nachhaltigen Entwicklung und die bessere Befähigung der Menschen, sich mit Umwelt- und Entwicklungsfragen auseinanderzusetzen (Art. 36.3 der Agenda 21, 1992).

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.

For developing healthy and environmentally friendly cities an innovative redesign of urban infrastructure is necessary. However, changes to the current infrastructure are not always adopted and accepted immediately.

The Central and South Atlantic represents a vast ocean area and is home to a diverse range of ecosystems and species.

In this chapter, we reflect on the development and impact of the project “A Mindset for the Anthropocene” a transformative transdisciplinary research process at the IASS Potsdam.

Ecological modernization is the policy-driven innovation and diffusion of resource efficient clean technologies. It has become an extremely dynamic process – nothing less than a global industrial revolution.

Systemische Risiken stellen eine Herausforderung für Governance dar, weil diese Risiken hochgradig vernetzt und komplex sind sowie non-linearen Entwicklungen folgen und in ihren Ursache-Wirkungs-Beziehungen nicht deterministisch sind.

Angesichts der großen globalen Transformationen wie Globalisierung, Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeitsorientierung sowie der aktuellen globalen Krisen wie Pandemien, Klimawandel, Ukrainekrieg und Gasknappheit steht die wissenschaftliche Forschung

The chapter provides an overview of contemporary religious and secular festivals today in Siberia, which have originated in diverse Indigenous religious practices, institutionalized religion, and the secularized rituals of Soviet times.

The enduring material effects that colonial extractivism has had on human and more-than-human life, and on geopolitical formations, continue to shape imaginaries of future energy security in new ways.

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

Chapter 4 proposes metrics to study socio-technical systems’ systematic transformation, focusing specifically on tipping points.

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.

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

Nach Einschätzung von Expert:innen reichen Emissionssenkungen allein möglicherweise nicht aus, um den Klimawandel und seine Auswirkungen zu bekämpfen.

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.