Completed Research Projects

Time Horizons in International Environmental Policy

Find out more about which role “time” plays in European climate and fishing policy.

Financialization

The research network "Politiial Economy of Global Financialitation Processes", funded by the German DFG, identifies economic characteristics, causes and the impact of global financialization. Thereby, it contributes to the discussion on structural solutions for the current financial crisis.
Prof. Doris Fuchs is a member of the German Research Association's Research Network Financialization.

Publications
Fuchs, Doris; Meyer-Eppler, Richard ; Hamenstädt, Ulrich. 2013. „Food for Thought: The Politics of Financialization in the Global Agrifood System”. Competition & Change 17 (3): 219-233.
Feist, Marian; Fuchs, Doris. 2014. „Was heißt hier nachhaltig? - Finanzialisierung als diskursive Konstruktion am Beispiel der Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation von Banken“. In Heires, Marcel, und Andreas Nölke (Hrsg.). Politische Ökonomie der Finanzialisierung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 225-240.

Transpose - Transfer of Electricity Saving Policies

TRANSPOSE examines electricity saving potentials in private households.
The project association is based upon the very question why existing electricity saving potentials are so rarely exhausted. We assume that there are plenty of barriers which can be found on both the individual consumer and the consumer environment level . Due to the complexity of these barriers, there is a substantial need to mix political instruments.

Private Retail Governance in the Agri-Food System

This project examined the implications of the standards developed by the food trade (e.g. GlobalGAP) for the ecological and social sustainability of the global food system and the democratic legitimacy of governing in this system.
--> with Agni Kalfagianni, University of Stuttgart.

Agro-Food Corporations and Global Governance

This project investigated transnational corporations' power in the global food system. An international workshop was held in this context at theUniversity of Waterloo. (2006-2007)
--> with Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo, financed by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Center for International Governance and the University of Waterloo.

The Implications of Private Food Governance for Climate Change Politics

Project leader: Karsten Ronit, University of Copenhagen
This project examined the potential and limits of private governance in food policy for global climate