Fields of Research

In the research area Agrifood Governance, the team focuses on questions of private regulation, innovative policy approaches and the potentials for a sustainable food system.

The Chair's team develops conceptual approaches for a better understanding of questions of power and processes of financialization.

The Chair analyzes questions of climate and energy policy at all governance-levels with a special focus on the interaction of local, national and european governance levels.

In the field of research 'sustainable consumption', the Chair looks at the over-consumption of natural resources by consumption practices by the global North.

In the research field of participation, the team researches questions of citizen participation in the context of the challenges of a socio-ecological transformation towards sustainability

The Chair’s team analyzes questions of Religion and Sustainability at all governance levels.

How responsibility is understood and practiced by different actors has a direct influence on what measures are taken in the future to make societies at all levels more sustainable. Learn more about this here.