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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
Institutionalisierung von Nachhaltigkeit in der Gesundheitspolitik
Fischer, M. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
02.12.13 → 04.12.18
Project: Dissertation project
KRIM: Klimawandel und Öffentlichkeit: Interpretationen des globalen Klimawandels durch die Öffentlichkeit - Konsequenzen für die Risikowahrnehmung und die Implementierung eines vorbeugenden Küstenschutzes
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.01 → 31.05.04
Project: Research
Konflikttreiber Klimawandel? –Eine Analyse zukünftiger Konfliktpotenziale infolge des Klimawandels in Tourismusdestinationen
Bartels, C. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.07 → 31.10.09
Project: Dissertation project
Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Politik- und Öffentlichkeitsberatung
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.20 → 28.02.21
Project: Research
Media, Expertise and Political Decision
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Petersen, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.05 → 01.01.07
Project: Research
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
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 13: Nachhaltige Beschaffung - Herausforderungen und Gestaltungsoptionen KMUs, Stadtverwaltung und Kammern
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Sühlsen, K. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.05.13 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D 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
Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie Niedersachsen
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Hartmann, E. (Project staff) & Redenius, P. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the state of Lower Saxony
01.01.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
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
Political Leadership as a Key Driver towards Sustainability.
von Stauffenberg, A.-K. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.19 → 12.12.23
Project: Dissertation project
Politikberatung in der Wissensgesellschaft: Eine Analyse umweltpolitischer Beratungssysteme
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.98 → 31.05.01
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
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
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
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
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
Sensorische Ethnographie und künstlerische Intervention
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Redenius, P. (Project staff)
01.01.23 → 30.09.23
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 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
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
Textile-Transformation
Beyers, F. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
01.11.17 → 31.10.20
Project: Dissertation project
The potential spread of collaborative consumption practices in France and Germany
Huber, A. (Project staff), Heinrichs, H. (Project staff), Wilhite, H. (Project staff) & Douzou, S. (Partner, non-academic)
01.03.14 → …
Project: Dissertation project
The Sufficiency Perspective on Climate Change Mitigation - Policy Measures towards Transformation in Germany
Hartmann, E. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
01.10.23 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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
Water reuse for green hydrogen production (WtR4GH2)
Adisorn, T. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
01.10.24 → …
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