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.
- Textile-Transformation- Beyers, F. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff) - 01.11.17 → 31.10.20 - Project: Dissertation project 
- 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 
- 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 
- 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 
- Ölpflanzen als Zwischenfrüchte; Teilvorhaben 1: Analyse der Stakeholder-Akzeptanz und politische Rahmenbedingungen- Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Noboa, E. (Project staff) & Laws, N. (Project staff) - 01.07.15 → 01.01.17 - Project: Research 
- Transitionsgestaltung für nachhaltige Innovationen - Initiativen in den kommunal geprägten Handlungsfeldern Energie, Wasser, Bauen und Wohnen - TP 3- Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Laws, N. (Project staff) - Federal Ministry of Education and Research - 01.05.15 → 30.04.18 - Project: Research 
- 2042: A transformative longitudinal study - Collaborative Economy- Soetebeer, I. (Project staff) & Burandt, S. (Project manager, academic) - 31.03.15 → 31.03.18 - Project: Research 
- 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 
- Nachhaltigkeitskompetenzen von Führungspersonen in Kommunalverwaltungen- Plawitzki, J. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) - 01.04.14 → 31.03.18 - Project: Dissertation project 
