European policy patterns are in a state of transformation. New governance models are shifting power away from states and toward the involvement of all stakeholders and the idea of shared responsibility. It's a move from command and control to push and pull. What's in this new approach for the environment? This book provides a detailed analysis of the example of integrated product policy (IPP) which aims to improve the environmental performance of products and services through their life-cycle. All products cause environmental degradation in some way, whether from their manufacturing, use or disposal. The life-cycle of a product is often long and complicated. It covers all the areas from the extraction of natural resources, through their design, manufacture, assembly, marketing, distribution, sale and use to their eventual disposal as waste. At the same time it also involves many different actors such as designers, manufacturers, marketers, retailers and consumers. IPP attempts to systematically stimulate each phase of this complicated chain to improve its environmental performance. With the involvement of so many different products and actors there cannot be one simple policy measure for everything. Instead, IPP employs a whole variety of tools - both voluntary and mandatory - which are used to achieve identified objectives. These include economic instruments, the phase-out of dangerous materials, voluntary agreements, eco-labelling and product design guidelines. IPP is still in relative infancy and can be seen as an ongoing process hugely dependent on effective governance measures to ensure its continued success. This book presents a plethora of perspectives from policy-makers, researchers and consultancies, representatives from business, environmental and consumer associations on how to effectively conceptualise, institutionalise and implement IPP. The book is divided into four parts. First, the approach to the governance of IPP is examined in relation to other approaches to sustainable production and consumption. Second, the widely differing approaches to environmental product policy in practice at national, supranational and global level are analysed. Third, the book explores the challenge of designing a coherent policy mix to support the integration of sustainable consumption and production patterns by sector and theme. Finally, the book concentrates on the key issue of how to involve stakeholders in IPP in order to encourage continuous innovations for sustainability throughout the value chain. Governance of Integrated Product Policy aims to fill a clear gap in work to date on sustainable production and consumption by providing researchers and practitioners from politics, business and civil society new insights into modern environmental governance in practice.

This book provides a broad overview of essential features of subsurface environmental modelling at the science-policy interface, offering insights into the potential challenges in the field of subsurface flow and transport, as well as the corresponding computational modelling and its impact on the area of policy- and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts: Part I presents models, methods and software at the science-policy interface. Building on this, Part II illustrates the specifications using detailed case studies of subsurface environmental modelling. It also includes a systematic research overview and discusses the anthropogenic use of the subsurface, with a particular focus on energy-related technologies, such as carbon sequestration, geothermal technologies, fluid and energy storage, nuclear waste disposal, and unconventional oil and gas recovery.

This book provides a broad overview of essential features of subsurface environmental modelling at the science-policy interface, offering insights into the potential challenges in the field of subsurface flow and transport, as well as the corresponding computational modelling and its impact on the area of policy- and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts: Part I presents models, methods and software at the science-policy interface. Building on this, Part II illustrates the specifications using detailed case studies of subsurface environmental modelling. It also includes a systematic research overview and discusses the anthropogenic use of the subsurface, with a particular focus on energy-related technologies, such as carbon sequestration, geothermal technologies, fluid and energy storage, nuclear waste disposal, and unconventional oil and gas recovery.

In diesem Sammelband werden die Herausforderungen und Potenziale einer zukunftig nachhaltig zu gestaltenden Biooekonomie interdisziplinar beleuchtet. Hierbei wird die Biooekonomie als sozio-technisches System aufgefasst, in dem die technische Ausgestaltung aufs Engste mit sozialen, oekonomischen und politischen Elementen verknupft ist. Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven wird die Transformation des herkoemmlichen Wirtschaftens in Richtung einer biooekonomischen Wirtschaftsweise thematisiert. Aspekte von Umbau bzw. Transformation und Zukunftsgestaltung stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt.

Computersimulationen haben sich als wichtiges Erkenntnisinstrument neben Theorie und Experiment in der Wissenschaft etabliert. Das uber Simulationen gewonnene Wissen hat damit auch Einfluss auf andere Gesellschaftsbereiche wie Politik, Wirtschaft und Offentlichkeit. Dirk Scheer untersucht am Beispiel der geologischen CO2-Abscheidung und Speicherung (engl. Carbon Capture and Storage), wie politikrelevante, wissenschaftliche Simulationen in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen verarbeitet werden. Uber eine theoretisch-konzeptionelle Analyse soll zum einen ein besseres und differenzierteres Verstandnis von simulationsbasierten Kommunikationsprozessen und deren Wirkung in der Politik erfolgen. Zum anderen sollen empirisch rezeptionsseitige Muster der Informationsaufnahme und -verarbeitung bei politisch-gesellschaftlichen Entscheidungstragern ermittelt werden."