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.
PoST: Processes of Sustainability Transformation (Promotionskolleg)
Barth, M. (Project manager, academic), Kater-Wettstädt, L. (Coordination), Fischer, D. (Partner), Halberstadt, J. (Partner), Schaltegger, S. (Partner), Leventon, J. (Partner), Heinrichs, H. (Partner), Lang, D. J. (Partner), Wiek, A. (Partner), Kümmerer, K. (Partner), von Wehrden, H. (Partner), Vilsmaier, U. (Partner), Rodriguez Aboytes, J. G. (Project staff), Pöggel, K. (Project staff), Hübel, C. (Project staff), Buhr, M. (Project staff), Beyers, F. (Project staff), Laudan, J. (Project staff), Albrecht, S. (Project staff), Weber, H. (Project staff), Rathgens, J. (Project staff), Keβler, L. (Project staff), Hilser, S. (Project staff) & Juarez Bourke, S. (Project staff)
08.12.16 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Raumkonflikte – Konflikträume: Wie beinflussen neue molekularbiologische Züchtungstechniken Diskurse und Praktiken in ländlichen Räumen in Großbritannien und Deutschland?
Friedrich, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.19 → 31.03.20
Project: Research
Rechtliche Konzepte für eine effizientere Energienutzung
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Sanden, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.07 → 31.01.08
Project: Research
REDD+ and the changing politics and economics of forest protection in Indonesia
McGregor, A. (Project manager, academic), Challies, E. (Partner), Gavin, M. (Partner), Weaver, S. (Partner) & Tacconi, L. (Partner)
01.01.12 → …
Project: Research
Research Consortium ‘Sustainability governance of global value chains’
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Bülow, F. (Project manager, academic) & Ehbauer, B. (Project staff)
01.08.24 → 31.07.28
Project: Research
Resonanztheorie in der Nachhaltigkeit
Gehlen, Y. (Project staff) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
01.01.19 → 31.12.20
Project: Dissertation project
NAPS: Reuse of a closed waste disposal site on the periphery of an urban area using the example of the Fulgurit
Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.08.07 → 30.11.09
Project: Research
INNIG: Risk Culture: Communication and Representation of Risks Considering as Example Extreme Floods
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Grunenberg, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.05 → 31.12.06
Project: Research
Rohstoffgewinnung im Kontext wachsender Nutzungsansprüche an den Untergrund – Anforderungen an die unterrägige Raumordnung und das Bergrecht für einen umwelt- und ressourcenschonenden Bergbau, Lösung von Nutzungskonflikten und Steuerung einer nachhaltigen Nutzung des Untergrunds (Instrumente zur umweltverträglchen Rohstoffgewinnung – INSTRO
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Sanden, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.15 → 30.11.17
Project: Research
RURAGRI-MULTAGRI: Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land use (MULTAGRI). Work package 5: Governance challenges to encourage landscape-scale uptake of appropriate management actions
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
29.08.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Rural electrification in the Andean countries: analysis of policies that can accelerate off-grid PV adoption
Feron, S. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
15.11.13 → 21.11.17
Project: Dissertation project
SAFECOAST : SAFECOAST: "The informed society". Analysis and strategy development for risk communication and coastal protection
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Grunenberg, H. (Project staff), Knolle, M. (Project staff) & Lüdecke, G. (Project staff)
01.10.06 → 31.03.08
Project: Research
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 05: Schlüsselfaktor Ressourceneffizienz - ein Prüfsystem für KMU zur Verbesserung der Vollzugsfähigkeit von Umweltgesetzen am Beispiel des neuen Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes (KrWG)
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Guerra González, J. (Project staff), Bleuel, I. (Project staff) & Japsen, A. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.04.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Sensorische Ethnographie und künstlerische Intervention
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Redenius, P. (Project staff)
01.01.23 → 30.09.23
Project: Research
Steuerungsmöglichkeiten des Produkt- und Abfallrechts im Hinblick auf die vermeidbare Obsoleszenz von Elektrogeräten
Dickenhorst, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
19.03.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
SAWA: Strategic Alliance for Integrated Water Management Actions
Evers, M. (Project manager, academic)
17.03.08 → 28.04.15
Project: Research
Strategische Umweltprüfung und strategisches Umweltmonitoring für Offshore-Windenergieanlagen
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Nehls, G. (Partner) & Runge, K. (Partner)
01.07.04 → 31.08.05
Project: Research
DAS: Studienpfad für den Beruf als kommunale*r Klimamanager*in
Hörisch, J. (Project manager, academic), Möller, S. (Project staff) & Redenius, P. (Project staff)
01.10.22 → 31.03.25
Project: Research
Sustainability assessment of municipal climate protection with a focus on urban energy systems based on systemic analysis and stakeholder perspectives
Bickel, M. (Project manager, academic), Schomerus, T. (Project staff) & Lang, D. J. (Project staff)
01.04.14 → 01.04.17
Project: Dissertation project
Sustainability controlling and reporting in the public sector
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.09 → 30.09.11
Project: Research