The project takes up the approach stated in the National Program for Sustainable Consumption (NPNK) of understanding and promoting sustainable nutrition as a concept that is equally health-promoting and ecological. … Read More
Completed Projects
Analysis of software-based influence on shortened useful life of products
Technological progress and digitization have a facilitating and pleasant effect on the one hand, but on the other hand lead to a considerable environmental impact due to rapid obsolescence. … Read More
The Greening of Online Commerce: New Challenges for the Environmental Promotion of Sustainable Consumption
Distance selling has been growing steadily in Germany and Europe for years. … Read More
Evaluation of the project „Alle im digitalen Wandel“
From June 2019, ISIconsult will accompany the project as evaluator until November 2021. … Read More
Social innovations for sustainable consumption – integration of consumer orientation and knowledge transfer taking into account sociographic options for action and information needs of private households
The project builds on the work and results of the BMUB- and UBA-funded research project “Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practice” and extends it to include the perspective of consumers. … Read More
Potentials of civic engagement for ecological justice and socio-ecological renewal of society
The project aims to identify potentials and synergies for socio-ecological change processes in the classic areas of environmental engagement as well as in other areas of civic engagement, and to derive recommendations for promotion and action for their dissemination. … Read More
Support for the implementation of the National Program for Sustainable Consumption
Within the project, ISIconsult supports the implementation of the National Program for Sustainable Consumption as well as the associated competence center in the partner consortium. … Read More
Identification of sociological determinants of waste prevention and design of target group specific communication.
Waste prevention as a central field of action of modern environmental policy is at the top of the five-level waste hierarchy. Despite numerous environmental policy efforts in recent years, the per capita volume of municipal waste in Germany is rising. At the same time, the German population is said to have a very high level of environmental awareness. … Read More
Interdependent gender aspects of the areas of need mobility, food, housing, clothing, community consumption and digitalization as the basis of urban environmental protection.
In order to do justice to current urbanization processes in the sense of sustainable urban development, the inclusion of gender aspects is unavoidable. Insights into behavior and responsibilities, such as the unequal distribution of care work between the sexes, different income distributions, but also gender-specific consumption and nutrition practices are elementary. … Read More
Organizational and technical support for colloquia “Making Environmental Policy Fit for Transformation: New Basic Configurations for Applied Environmental Policy”.
The aim of the UBA colloquia was to support the exchange of experience and networking of ideas between public institutions, scientific institutions involved in applied sustainability and transformation research, and also within the Federal Environment Agency. … Read More