27 research outputs found
Nachhaltiger Konsum braucht innovative Konzepte
Eine steigende Zahl von Politikinstrumenten soll den nachhaltigen Konsum fördern. Doch wirken diese Politikinstrumente wirklich? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wurden Instrumente und Programme in zahlreichen Fallstudien in Europa untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass durch eine Anpassung der Instrumente gröĂere Nachhaltigkeitseffekte erzielt werden könnten
Akzeptanzforschung in den Kopernikus-Projekten - Gemeinsam fĂŒr eine sozial robuste Energiewende
AKZEPTANZFORSCHUNG IN DEN KOPERNIKUS-PROJEKTEN - GEMEINSAM FĂR EINE SOZIAL ROBUSTE ENERGIEWENDE
Akzeptanzforschung in den Kopernikus-Projekten - Gemeinsam fĂŒr eine sozial robuste Energiewende / Brohmann, Bettina (Rights reserved) ( -
Policies to promote sustainable consumption: framework for a future-oriented evaluation
Governments are today developing policies to promote sustainable consumption, yet policy makers face many uncertainties about policy impacts. These include uncertainties about how policy instruments influence consumption patterns and about the impact of changes in consumption patterns on ecological, social and economic sustainability. An assessment of such impacts must account for the fact that consumer action is interlinked with the dynamic activities of other market players and the path-creating effects of technologies and systems of consumption and provision
Addressing the Long-Term Management of High-level and Long-lived Nuclear Wastes as a Socio-Technical Problem:Insights from InSOTEC
This report summarises the lessons to be drawn from the three-year collaborative social sciences research project âInternational Socio-Technical Challenges for implementing geological disposalâ (InSOTEC). Adopting an approach that is relatively novel in this context, the project focused its investigations on the complex interplay between what are typically seen as distinct technical and social dimensions of radioactive waste management (RWM), in particular in the context of the design and implementation of geological disposal. The aim of the InSOTEC project was not to arrive at a prescription for facilitating the implementation of geological disposal, but to foster and deepen the growing awareness of the interaction between social and technical aspects of RWM that has been evident within the technical expert community by providing stakeholders and experts of all kinds with a better understanding of the processes that shape the challenges which confront them. The report brings together insights for RWM that have been generated within the different research strands of the project and offers observations on their implications for practice, addressing in particular the processes of research and development, public and stakeholder involvement in RWM, and long-term governance of geological disposal of higher activity radioactive wastes
What's driving sustainable energy consumption? : a survey of the empirical literature
The focus of the paper is on the individual decision of energy consumers, and it's relation to sustainable consumption. Consumer behavior is based on individual decisions, but it depends largely on supply-side measures and an appropriate infrastructure (e.g. the availability of energy-efficient household equipment) and on socio-political factors (e.g. if systems of emissions trading or eco-labels exist). We derive some hypotheses on the determinants of sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings from a review of the empirical literature on the diffusion of energy efficient activities. While there is agreement on a lot of factors, the role of environmental attitudes and environmental behavior remains uncertain. Thus research needs are derived respectively. Finally, we specify these hypotheses for three specific technologies of sustainable energy consumption: Domestic appliances, micro-power and green electricity
What's Driving Sustainable Energy Consumption? A Survey of the Empirical Literature
The focus of the paper is on the individual decision of energy consumers, and it's relation to sustainable consumption. Consumer behavior is based on individual decisions, but it depends largely on supply-side measures and an appropriate infrastructure (e.g. the availability of energy-efficient household equipment) and on socio-political factors (e.g. if systems of emissions trading or eco-labels exist). We derive some hypotheses on the determinants of sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings from a review of the empirical literature on the diffusion of energy efficient activities. While there is agreement on a lot of factors, the role of environmental attitudes and environmental behavior remains uncertain. Thus research needs are derived respectively. Finally, we specify these hypotheses for three specific technologies of sustainable energy consumption: Domestic appliances, micro-power and green electricity. --Sustainable consumption,consumer behaviour,domestic appliances,micro-power,green electricity
Factors influencing the societal acceptance of new, renewable and energy efficiency technologies: meta-analysis of recent European projects
The paper addresses the conditions for the successful introduction of sustainable energy technology projects in different geographic, institutional and cultural contexts. Our aim is to identify contextual and process-related factors influencing the level of societal acceptance and techno-economic successfulness achieved in energy projects that aim to mitigate climate change (renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced technologies). Our focus is on successfulness on the level of individual projects, but we also consider how âlessons learnedâ in individual projects diffuse into the wider context of energy planning. In our conclusions, we identify key challenges for project managers and policy makers
QualitĂ€tskriterien transdisziplinĂ€rer Forschung : ein Leitfaden fĂŒr die formative Evaluation von Forschungsprojekten
TransdisziplinĂ€re Forschung befasst sich mit lebensweltlichen Problemstellungen. Bei der Forschungsarbeit mĂŒssen Experten/innen aus verschiedenen FĂ€chern bzw. Disziplinen und aus der Praxis zusammenwirken, um die komplexe Problematik umfassend behandeln zu können. Diese Vielfalt, die besondere Formen der Kooperation, der Differenzierung und Integration, Methoden und Theorien impliziert, bringt es mit sich, dass gĂ€ngige, bei der fachbezogenen Bewertung hinreichende Verfahren der Evaluation und der QualitĂ€tssicherung nicht unmittelbar auf solche Forschungsvorhaben ĂŒbertragen werden können. Diesem Mangel an Kriterien und Methoden der Evaluation begegnet Evalunet, das Evaluationsnetzwerk fĂŒr transdisziplinĂ€re Forschung, mit dem vorgelegten Leitfaden fĂŒr die Forschungspraxis, der vor allem ausfĂŒhrlich beschriebene QualitĂ€tskriterien enthĂ€lt und ebenso Aussagen zu methodischen und Verfahrensfragen macht. Er ist aus der empirischen Auswertung konkreter transdisziplinĂ€rer Forschungsprojekte und unter Mithilfe zahlreicher Experten und Expertinnen aus verschiedenen Fachrichtungen entstanden. Der Leitfaden dient dem Zweck der Evaluation von transdisziplinĂ€ren Forschungsprojekten, wobei dieses Instrument auf den Aspekt des Lernens aus dem Evaluationsvorgang (formative Evaluation) zugeschnitten ist und bei der Aus- und Bewertung auf einen Diskurs setzt (diskursive Evaluation). Neben einer Evaluierung mittels der ausfĂŒhrlich beschriebenen Detailkriterien ist auch eine weniger aufwĂ€ndige Evaluation mit Hilfe einer Kriterienauswahl (Basiskriterien) möglich. Die QualitĂ€tskriterien können auch fĂŒr die Konzipierung neuer transdisziplinĂ€rer Forschungsvorhaben genutzt werden.Transdisciplinary research projects investigate problems from everyday life. Experts from various disciplines and practitioners from the practical field in question have to co-operate to cope with the problem appropriately. Multiple forms of co-operation, differentiation and integration, methods and theories are significant for such projects. So conventional methods of disciplinary evaluation cannot be transferred and applied directly. In this situation, Evalunet, the Network for Transdisciplinary Evaluation, offers this guide, which provides researchers with very detailed evaluation criteria and descriptions of evaluation methods and practices. The criteria and procedures were identified in an empirical process by evaluating a number of transdisciplinary research projects. In this process, the Evalunet team was supported by numerous experts from various research areas. The main purpose of the guide is to provide guidance for the evaluation of transdisciplinary research projects. The criteria mainly support discursive evaluation processes that initiate learning processes for researchers and evaluators (formative evaluation). A set with a reduced number of criteria (Basiskriterien) offers a basic procedure for the evaluation, while the larger set with more detailed criteria (Detailkriterien) provides explanations and assistance in making a judgement. Criteria can also be used for conceiving and constructing new research projects