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The research project “Political Spaces of Climate Governance”, led by Senior Researcher Dr. Frank Wendler, has started on 1st July at the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) and is funded by an a 36-month individual grant by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

The project inquires how conditions of policy...

The Center for Sustainable Society Research is pleased to announce the launch of a new working group!

The working group titled "The EUropean Dimension of Green Transformations" is interested in the economic, political and social dimensions of the European Green Deal (EGD) from an economic, sociological and political science...

A new research paper titled "Ocean-human relations in the Anthropocene: mapping trends in sustainability-related marine social sciences articles" was published in Frontiers in Marine Science. This paper, written by CSS-member Nane Pelke in cooperation with Finn Christian Simonn, provides insights into the evolving landscape...

“Sustainable Lives” was established to investigate the drivers of food choices. Spezifically, it is analyzed how media discourses, norms and attitudes about food relate to actual patterns of food consumption. The focus of the working group is not limited to food choices only and might be enlarged to other sustainable living...

In July 2021, the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) approved the establishment of the Working Group "Biodiversity and Financial Markets". Over its two year duration, the Working Group investigated the relationship between the reported biodiversity impacts made in companies’ nonfinancial disclosures, arising...