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  • Article from 20.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    The Coronavirus Crisis as a Social and Scientific Challenge

    … breath". For this reason, preventive sustainability and focusing on the common good must now be at the heart of all the regulations and measures to successfully … and to act accordingly. The lessons learned from the crisis must now be put to good use. In particular, the crisis has contributed to raising the awareness for the …

  • Article from 18.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    Killing two birds with one stone? Green dead ends and ways out of

    … mitigation is put under pressure as being an “extra burden” for industries. For example, European car manufacturers have called for postponing the upcoming … supply chains will resume and that people will catch up on purchasing durable goods like cars, at least partly. It is exactly (the maintenance of) environmental … concepts have been drafted already and that can be realized promptly. Positive examples for such “no-regret measures” can be found in the transport sector. This …

  • Article from 22.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    Biodiversity as insurance: aligning economic stimulus packages

    … of the Green Deal. However, in the past, nature conservation has not lacked good political goals but rather their effective implementation and, in particular, … human well-being are diminishing ( IPBES 2019 ). While the value of single market goods, such as agricultural and forestry products, has increased since 1970, public …

  • Article from 10.06.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    What about us? Youth (un)employment in times of COVID-19

    … is particularly vulnerable to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. Good policies are now more than needed to pave the way for decent and sustainable … Vocational education and training models, also known as dual training system, as practiced in some European countries like Austria, Germany, Luxembourg or …

  • Article from 29.07.2025 | Last changed: 29.07.2025

    Geoengineering

    … change, but merely address global warming as a symptom. Ocean acidification, for example, would continue, as the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere would remain … volcanic eruptions, the effects of SAI are still best researched. It is clear for example, that the chemical reactions would lead to a warming of the stratosphere and … with sulphate aerosols. For this reason, the effects of calcite or diamond dust for example are also calculated in computer models. Larger field experiments with …

  • Article from 14.01.2025 | Last changed: 30.01.2025

    Shaping environmental policy in a socially responsible way

    Reichstag building

    … This should take into account the respective restrictions on their behaviour. For example, a low income can massively restrict the scope for investing in efficient … difficult to switch to less environmentally harmful forms of satisfying needs – for example, the lack of attractive public transport services in rural areas. A lack of … a socially responsible way therefore means enabling consumers to make changes. For example, environmentally harmful subsidies should be phased out and external …

  • Article from 22.01.2024 | Last changed: 11.03.2024

    International Chemicals Management

    International chemicals management aims to achieve the sustainable use of chemicals worldwide

    … chemical management institutions and tools have yet to be put in place. Best practices need to be continuously disseminated and developed worldwide in order to … a wide range of specific aspects and appropriate indicators. This also applies, for example, in the context of the development of a functioning and “non-toxic” circular …

  • Article from 03.09.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Precautionary soil protection

    … protection is also integrated into other fields of law in more or less detail, for example pollution control law, waste law (Sewage Sludge Ordinance, Biowaste … or cesspits on the property or when biocides are used and improper fertilization practices are applied in allotment gardens. When do pollutants lead to hazards? …

  • Article from 12.05.2014 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Brownfield redevelopment and inner urban development

    … The expansion of towns and cities invariably claims more and more open space, –for example, when greenfield land at the outskirts of towns and cities is converted into … ratio: Type A sites, or “self developing sites,” are sites (e.g. properties in good locations in prosperous regions) whose projected land recycling earnings …

  • Article from 24.03.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil protection

    Soil in a child's hand

    … This law governs contaminated-site cleanup in a manner consistent with actual practice. In the interest of avoiding future soil contamination, the law lays down … when granting approvals for installations that engender emissions. Individuals who practice organic gardening also have a hand in soil protection. And while all such …

  • Article from 14.10.2020 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Curbing overdevelopment

    … planning authorities should help municipalities to implement conservative land use practices by imposing limits on human settlement and by funding both intra- and … to curb overdevelopment, providing these stakeholders with information concerning examples of sound practice, and enabling the key stakeholders to network more …