Socio-ecological and -economic Transformation

Current Research Projects:

• Markus Wissen: Socio-ecological Transformation and Just Mobility
• Markus Wissen, Stefan Schoppengerd: Crisis and Socio-ecological Transformation

Finalised Research Projects:

• Markus Wissen: Social-ecological Transformation: Industrial Conversion and the Role of Labour
• Markus Wissen: Imperial Mode of Living, Democratization and Socio-Ecological Transformation
• Bea Ruoff, Hansjörg Herr, Frank Hoffer, Christoph Scherrer: Combating Inequality

Current PhD Projects:

• Hanna Völkle: Feminist-Ecological Economy of Time
• Valeria Jiménez: Ecological Limits to Growth and Macroeconomic Stability – A Post-Keynesian Perspective
• Nina Schlosser: The other side of electric (auto-)mobility: actors, practises, and structures of the internalisation society of Chile’s lithium sector

Finalised PhD Projects

• Philipp Kenel: Social Entrepreneurship Discourse(s) in Germany

Published Master’s Thesis Projects

• Lucia Alfano, The New Developmental State and the Challenges of the Socio-Ecological Transition — Lessons from Argentina and Brazil, Working Paper, No 189/2022
• Sonja Hennen, Concepts of Justice in the Degrowth Debate, Working Paper, No 179/2022
• Luke Neal: Ecological contradictions of Labour’s Green New Deal, IPE Working Paper 152/2021.
• Nina Schlosser: Externalised Costs of Electric Automobility: Social-Ecological Conflicts of Lithium Extraction in Chile, IPE Working Paper 144/2020.
• Misato Adachi: Success and failure of renewable energy policies in the EU: a comparative study between Bulgaria and Poland, IPE Working Paper 131/2020.
• Finn Cahill-Webb: International Environmental Governance and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change: the adoption of the ‘pledge and review’ governance approach, IPE Working Paper 99/2018.
• Cenk Olgun: The Role of the Eastern Member States in the European Union’s Energy and Climate Policy, IPE Working Paper 89/2017.
• Julia Anna Ruf: A Policy Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading System and its Crisis, IPE Working Paper 82/2017.
• Kitty Murnaghan: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the EU’s Biofuel Policy -from Biofuels to Agrofuels, IPE Working Paper 81/2017.
• Alina Adam: Drivers of Food Waste and Policy Responses to the Issue: The Role of Retailers in Food Supply Chains, IPE Working Paper 59/2015.
• Paloma Villanueva Cortés: The External Impact of the Green Economy, IPE Working Paper 56/2015.
• Pavlina Miteva: The Impact of the Increasing Demand for Biofuels in the EU on the Possibility to Conduct Collective Action for Reaching a Common Good: Analyzing the Changes ofand Impact onthe Community-based Management of the Common Pastures in Ethiopia, IPE Working Paper 37/2014.
• Anna Brüning: Towards a Green Internal Electricity Market? The Self-Regulation of European Transmission System Operators for Electricity within EU Multilevel Energy Governance, IPE Working Paper 31/2014.
• Anna Couturier and Kannika Thaimai: Eating theFruit of the Poisonous Tree? Ecological Modernisation and Sustainable Consumption in the EU, IPE Working Paper 20/2013.