Institute of Sustainability Governance
Organisational unit: Institute
- Junior professorship of Public Law and European Law with Focus on Sustainability
- Professorship for Energy Economics and Energy Policy
- Professorship for Governance and Sustainability
- Professorship for Public Law, in particular Energy and Environmental Law
- Professorship for Sustainability and Politics
- Professorship of Public and International Law with a Focus on Sustainability
Organisation profile
The members of the Institute of Sustainability Governance (INSUGO) focus their work on a fundamental question: Which public institutions and regulation systems are necessary to achieve the normative goal of sustainability in a complex and pluralistic society? The answer to this question is provided by a broad scientific approach which is based on research, academic teaching and knowledge transfer with practitioners on topics of public sustainability governance.
2042: A transformative longitudinal study - Collaborative Economy
Soetebeer, I. (Project staff) & Burandt, S. (Project manager, academic)
31.03.15 → 31.03.18
Project: Research
A Change in Perspective - The Role of Photography in Environmental Communication
Brosien, P. N. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
01.05.20 → …
Project: Dissertation project
A-CLIM: Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Development in Lower Saxony
Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic), Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic) & Ebermann, V. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.12 → 22.01.15
Project: Research
Ansätze zur strategischen Langfristpolitikgestaltung am empirischen Beispiel des Ausstiegs aus den fossilen Energieträgern in Deutschland bis 2050
Schulze, M. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.13 → 31.05.18
Project: Dissertation project
Anwendung des TOP-Runner-Ansatzes auf Konsumgüter
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
05.01.09 → 29.10.12
Project: Research
Aufbau eines nationalen Weiterbildungszentrums für Fach- und Führungskräfte in Schutzgebieten Bulgariens im geplanten Umweltbildungszentrum "Kloster Rila"
Evers, M. (Project manager, academic), Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic) & Pashova, R. (Partner)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
01.05.11 → 01.12.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Benefits - Beschleunigung der Energiewende durch die Erweiterung der finanziellen Teilhabe kommunaler und privater Stakeholder - Teilvorhaben 3: Analyse des Rechtsrahmens
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.20 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
Bewertung Freileitungsmastsysteme
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Lutz, L. M. (Project staff), Lauer, J. J. (Project staff) & Runge, K. (Partner, non-academic)
01.01.15 → 31.12.17
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Biomass - A renewable energy source? Sustainable biomass (re)production through Landscape Quality Management
Brüll, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 10.06.15
Project: Dissertation project
Bürgerbeteiligung bei Onshore-Windenergie – Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beteiligung von Nachbarn bei der Planung, Genehmigung und Finanzierung der Errichtung und des Betriebs von Windenergieanlagen
Maly, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
12.02.14 → 30.09.17
Project: Dissertation project
Can Subjective Indicators Make Sustainability Assessment More Community Relevant? The Important Role of the Stakeholders’ Participation and the Use of Indicators Set towards the Localization of Sustainable Development
Hatakeyama, T. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 28.02.22
Project: Dissertation project
CAPFLO - Local resilience capacity building for flood mitigation
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Kochskämper, E. (Project staff)
01.01.16 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
A-KÜST: Changes in the coastal climate - evaluation of alternative strategies in coastal protection, subproject 06: Perception and Cooperation
Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, A. (Project manager, academic), Lüdecke, G. (Project staff), von Storch, H. (Partner), Weisse, R. (Partner), Mayerle, R. (Partner), Sauter, M. (Partner), Ptak, T. (Partner), Schlurmann, T. (Partner) & Meon, G. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.01.09 → 31.03.17
Project: Research
Climate Conflicts - A Case of International Environmental and Humanitarian Law
Christiansen, S. M. (Project manager, academic) & Sanden, J. (Project manager, academic)
04.06.09 → 12.05.15
Project: Dissertation project
KUNTIKUM: Climate trends and sustainable development of tourism in coastal and low mountain range regions
Kreilkamp, E. (Project manager, academic), Möller, A. (Project manager, academic), Heinrichs, H. (Partner), Burandt, S. (Project staff) & Schulz, D. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.06 → 31.12.09
Project: Research
College Studien in der Praxis- Profilschärfung des Reiseveranstalters FairTrade-Travel
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic), Teigeler, M. (Project manager, academic), Seifert, A. (Project manager, academic) & Guerra González, J. (Project staff)
01.10.12 → 31.03.13
Project: Practical Project
College Studien in der Praxis- T.U.N. e.V. - DialogN
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Adzersen, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 30.09.12
Project: Practical Project
Das Recht auf Zugang zu Informationen im Rahmen der europäischen REACH-Verordnung
Schulze-Rickmann, S. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
17.03.07 → 25.08.09
Project: Dissertation project
DATIpilot: DATIpilot - Community - CommunitE-Innovation - Innovations-Ökosysteme für gemeinschaftsgetragene Energieversorgung; TP2: Rechtliche Analyse und Werkzeuge
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.25 → 28.02.27
Project: Research
DIANE-CM: Decentralised Integrated Analysis and Enhancement of Awareness through Collaborative Modelling and Management of Flood Risk
Evers, M. (Project manager, academic), Lange, L. (Project staff) & Teklesadik, A. D. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.09.09 → 30.09.11
Project: Research
Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure Laws - Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories
Bünger, D. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
09.03.07 → 25.01.11
Project: Dissertation project
Der anthropogene Klimawandel und seine Resonanz in der Bevölkerung - Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung des Klimabewusstseins in Deutschland
Weber-Moritz, M. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.02 → 30.04.07
Project: Dissertation project
Der Beitrag des privaten Umweltrechts zu den Umweltschutzzielen
Wogersien, J. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
21.03.06 → 12.06.06
Project: Dissertation project
Der partizipative Weg in die nachhaltige Gesellschaft? Formative Evaluation der Gestaltung neuer Partizipationssituationen in Politik und Wirtschaft zur Förderung nachhaltiger Entwicklung auf der Basis systemübergreifender Prinzipien der Partizipation
Basmer-Birkenfeld, S.-V. (Project manager, academic), Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Wulfsberg, J. P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Designing knowledge-action networks for supporting energy focused sociotechnical change in illiberal democracies: Interfacing science, policy and transformation processes towards sustainability in Andean Countries.
Noboa, E. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
05.10.15 → 04.06.19
Project: Dissertation project
NaKoV: Development and implementation of an integrated sustainability management system in the local public sector, based on the sub-projects “Accounting System Reform” (Freiburg) and “Administrative Reform in the Case of Energy Management (Lüneburg)”
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Kirst, E. (Project staff) & Plawitzki, J. (Project staff)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
01.05.12 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
Aquiferspeicher: Development of Areas of Application of Middle Deep Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage in Northern Germany from Economic, Geological-Technical, Environmental Chemistry and Legal/Subsidy Policy Perspectives; work packages: Economic, Environmental Chemistry and Legal Analysis of Aquifer Storage
Degenhart, H. (Project manager, academic), Holstenkamp, L. (Coordination), Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Opel, O. (Project staff), Strodel, N. (Project staff) & Neidig, P. (Project staff)
01.04.16 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
Development of sustainable as well as environmental-friendly, adaptive and cost-effective technical protection measures for sandy beaches
Brinkmann, B. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.04.10 → 30.09.12
Project: Research
Die Auswirkungen des Atomausstiegs in Deutschland auf Strompreise und Klimaschutz in Deutschland und Europa
Kemfert, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schill, W. P. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.12 → 30.04.12
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Die Berücksichtigung gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen in der Konzeption des Integrated Reporting
Augustine, S. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → 14.12.17
Project: Dissertation project
Die Entwicklung der energierechtlichen Pflichten der Übertragungsnetzbetreiber
Hobbeling, F. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
17.06.06 → 26.08.10
Project: Dissertation project
Die Haftung des Grundstückeigentümers für die Sanierung von Altlasten
Andres, B. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
25.01.05 → 18.12.07
Project: Dissertation project
Die Konkretisierung der abfallrechtlichenProduktverantwortung für Reifen in Deutschland
Eitel, B. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
26.07.06 → 13.08.08
Project: Dissertation project
Die Wassergesetzgebung im Herzogtum Braunschweig nach Bauernbefreiung und industrieller Revolution
Behrens, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
10.03.04 → 29.01.09
Project: Dissertation project
Disruptive Power Projections
Bäumler, J. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
07.10.19 → 06.11.19
Project: Other
Durchführung innovativer Bildungsmaßnahmen und Erprobung neuer Bildungsformate zur Förderung von Nachhaltigkeitshandeln in Kommunen am Beispiel Niedersachsen
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Laws, N. (Project manager, academic)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
09.04.18 → 31.01.20
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
EIGEN: Efficient inter- and intragenerationally just use of ecosystem services - Sustainability-economic analysis of trade-offs in biodiversity and fishery policy
Baumgärtner, S. (Project manager, academic), Quaas, M. F. (Project manager, academic), Hoberg, N. (Project staff), Stumpf, K. H. (Project staff), Voss, R. (Project staff), Glotzbach, S. (Project staff), Fünfgelt, J. (Project staff), Döring, R. (Partner), Schmidt, J. (Partner) & Becker, C. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.07.10 → 31.10.13
Project: Research
Eine Systematisierung der Schutzgebietskategorien des Bundesnaturschutzgesetzes nach landschaftsökologischen Kriterien unter Beachtung sowohl des Europa- als auch des Völerrechts
Dietrich, B. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
04.06.10 → 11.06.10
Project: Dissertation project
Einfluss partizipativer Organisationsstrkturen auf die Implementierung und Einhaltung von Sozialstandards. Eine empirische Analyse chinesischer Zulieferbetribe in der Textilindustrie.
Knolle, M. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 31.12.10
Project: Dissertation project
Elektro- und Elektronik-Altgeräte (EAG): Juristisches Gutachten über die Förderung der Vorbereitung zur Wiederverwendung von Elektro-Altgeräten im Sinne der zweiten Stufe der Abfallhierarchie - Projektnummer 22119
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Fabian, M. (Project staff)
01.08.12 → 05.02.13
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
TM 1.1 KT 10 - EnERgioN: EnERgioN - Erzeugung, Speicherung und Vermarktung von erneuerbaren Energien in der Region Nord (Kompetenztandem-Projekt)
Degenhart, H. (Project manager, academic), Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Schulz, D. N. (Project manager, academic), Holstenkamp, L. (Coordination), Grumm, F. (Project staff), Maly, C. (Project staff), Meister, M. (Project staff), Storjohann, J. (Project staff), Stecher, M. (Project staff), Obbelode, F. (Project staff), Doliwa, M. (Project staff), Kowallik, J. (Project staff), Storjohann, J. (Project staff), Olsen, B. E. (Project manager, academic), Gaines, S. (Project staff) & Peeters, M. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.02.12 → 31.12.15
Project: Research
Entwicklung eines Regelungskonzepts für ein Ressourcenschutzrecht des Bundes
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Sanden, J. (Partner)
01.09.09 → 29.10.12
Project: Research
MULTISURE : Entwicklung multisequenzieller Vorsorgestrategien für grundhochwassergefährdete urbane Lebensräume. Teilvorhaben 3: Kommunikation
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Grunenberg, H. (Project staff) & Newig, J. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.12.06 → 14.06.10
Project: Research
Entwicklung von Instrumenten zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 31.03.14
Project: Research
HWS-Mobil: Entwicklung von wassergefüllten Schlauchkonstruktionen zum Einsatz im Hochwasserschutz - Wasserbauliche Fragestellungen
Brinkmann, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.09 → 20.09.11
Project: Research
Environmental Communication among the Media and Environmental NGOs in Malaysia
Mohamad Saleh, M. S. (Project staff) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → 30.09.16
Project: Dissertation project
ECOPAG: Environmental consequences of participatory governance – A Comparative Meta-Analysis of Case Studies in Environmental Decision-Making
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Adzersen, A. (Project staff)
01.03.09 → 14.04.15
Project: Research
„Ermittlung und Sicherstellung der Umweltverträglichkeit von Klimawandel-Anpassungsmaßnahmen“ – Querschnittsaufgabe im Verbundvorhaben KLIMZUG-NORD
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 30.11.12
Project: Research
Erneuerbare Energien und Energieeffizienz im Wärmemarkt
Ahlbrink, M. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
14.05.14 → 30.09.17
Project: Dissertation project
EDGE: Evaluating the Delivery of participatory environmenal Governance using an Evidence-based research design
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Jager, N. W. (Project staff) & Challies, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.11 → 31.03.16
Project: Research