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  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example from the ‘human health’ action field

    … Maren Winter / stock.adobe.com The heat warning service established by the DWD informs the population and facilities such as hospitals via the heat newsletter, the … website on imminent weather patterns hazardous to health. These information sources can help institutions to take preventative measures in good time …

  • Article from 30.06.2025 | Last changed: 01.07.2025

    Structural policy for the socio-ecological transformation

    … policy supports developments mostly with the help of funding mechanisms. From an environmental and sustainability perspective, it is important that those mechanisms … aim to support the economy and make regions desirable places to live. The funding systems are structured in such a way that there are funding programmes that are for …

  • Article from 11.08.2022 | Last changed: 13.10.2025

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library)

    View into the environmental library in Dessau

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library) The Fachbibliothek Umwelt is the largest environmental … more than 1,500 printed journals, about 30,000 ejournals and other sources of information. The library is an open access library kept available for the needs of … or reserve borrowed media.   Associated content Links OPAC Environmental Discovery System – EDS Contact, service, stock and use (flyer only in German) Exhibitions in …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Remediation technology

    … remediation measures that are available today. Their selection is determined by the environmental medium being remediated, the extent of the contamination, the type of … facility capacity currently stands at 7.3 million tons annually (eight thermal systems, 22 physicochemical systems, and 60 biological systems). In as much as such …

  • Article from 10.03.2014 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Contaminated sites

    Graphic realization of a multifarious land use

    … by improper treatment, storage or disposal of waste and/or the improper handling of environmentally hazardous substances. last update on 10.03.2014 Introduction Since … a step-by-step concept that has proven itself in practice. On the basis of existing information and targeted investigations, suspected contaminated sites are …

  • Article from 26.11.2018 | Last changed: 13.02.2025

    Leaching tests for emissions from building products

    … with groundwater or rainwater should not release harmful amounts of pollutants. An environmentally compatible choice of products requires reliable and comparable data … tests, which are now available for producers and users. last update on 26.11.2018 Information on leaching behaviour to become standard information on building … included varnishes for outdoor applications, external thermal insulation composite systems, roof tiles and polymeric roof membranes which are all exposed to …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Sustainable resource use in the leisure sector

    Top view of a soccer field

    … These are not available in unlimited quantities and their use can have negative environmental consequences . Some products and services in the leisure sector … and guitars need to be manufactured. Based on preliminary figures, the German Environment Agency has estimated that private households in Germany could have …

  • Article from 24.09.2015 | Last changed: 24.09.2015

    Plant protection products

    Bauer brings out pesticides in his field

    … of farmland every year Source: Penny Williams / Fotolia.com Chemicals enter the environment every day, but there is hardly a substance group that is used with more … Environment Agency's role is to evaluate the impact of the product on the ecosystem and ground water. Plant protection products may not have any "unacceptable … carries out application-oriented environmental research, and provides public information on current issues of relevance to plant protection products. The Federal …

  • Article from 06.11.2015 | Last changed: 06.11.2015

    Chemical research at UBA

    A woman in the apron of the chemistry works in the laboratory. You are filled with liquid glass vessels

    … protection products, biocides, pharmaceutical drugs or industrial chemicals on the environment. Its research answers questions such as: How do these substances impact individual organisms in ecosystems? How are they distributed in soil, water and air? Is their effectiveness …

  • Article from 09.04.2020 | Last changed: 27.06.2024

    Risks and opportunities in responding to the coronavirus crisis

    … fail to bring the virus under control and prevent it from spreading, and healthcare systems collapse, considerable economic and social damage occurs. If apparent and … question of how and with which concepts the research into sustainability and the environment and the world of politics become involved to transform uncertainty into …

  • Article from 16.04.2020 | Last changed: 27.06.2024

    COVID-19: let’s make sure we don’t learn the wrong lesson

    … calls in history, threatening both individual lives and entire economic and social systems. Let’s make sure we don’t learn the wrong lesson. It’s not just a public … us just how big are the externalities that markets cannot resolve. Health and environment are intimately linked, so don’t separate them in policy The health of …

  • Article from 20.04.2020 | Last changed: 27.06.2024

    Ecology of data: we should use the coronavirus crisis as ...

    … basic principles. It therefore is no accident that both fields make use of the “ecosystem” concept. The sustainability community talks of natural ecosystems, while the digitalisation community talks of “digital ecosystems". Three …