Professorship for Sustainability and Politics
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
How can society and the economy be shaped with foresight and at the same time stabilise the natural foundations of life? The co-optimisation of economic, social and ecological developments is the core issue of sustainable policy. At the Chair of Sustainability and Politics, this question is addressed in research, teaching and practice.
Main research areas
The four subject areas of sustainable state, sustainable community, climate crisis and transformation as well as cultural innovation and communication take centre stage.
Medien und klimabewusstes Verhalten. Die Bedeutung des Fernsehens für ein nachhaltiges Alltagshandeln bei Jugendlichen.
Lüdecke, G. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.08 → 31.03.11
Project: Dissertation project
Sustainability controlling and reporting in the public sector
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.09 → 30.09.11
Project: Research
Sustainability governance and transnational corporations: An analysis of global and national governance instruments affecting TNCs in Germany, USA and India
Wedl, I. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.10 → 04.05.17
Project: Dissertation project
Nachhaltigkeitsbarometer: Greenpeace Nachhaltigkeitsbarometer: Was bewegt die Jugend?
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Grunenberg, H. (Project staff) & Rode, H. (Project staff)
01.09.10 → 30.06.18
Project: Research
Politik der Suffizienz: Eine theoretische und empirische Analyse der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer politischen Umsetzung der Suffizienzstrategie (Arbeitstitel)
Spengler, L. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.10 → 03.03.17
Project: Dissertation project
Wie müsste ein „EU-Instrumentenmix“ konzipiert sein, der die Marktdurchdringung der – auch auf internationaler Ebene – leistungsfähigsten Produkte und Technologien bewirkt und dabei höchstmögliche Material- und Ressourceneffizienz garantiert?
Winzer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.10 → 28.02.13
Project: Dissertation project
Sustainability Politics Barometer
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Laws, N. (Project staff)
01.03.11 → 22.07.15
Project: Research
Tangible Sustainability Policy: Possibilities and constraints of the establishment of biodiversity as a cross-cutting issue on the German federal level
Laws, N. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.11 → 01.03.14
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
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