Replacing conventional vehicles by electric vehicles (EVs) and increasing the use of carsharing are two strategies to reduce the environmental impact of car driving. However such a societal transition towards the use of more sustainable modes of transport will strongly depend on citizens'...

Die langfristigen energie- und klimapolitischen Zielsetzungen erfordern eine konsequente Ausschöpfung der vorhandenen Energieeinsparpotenziale, auch in nicht-energieintensiven Betrieben des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes. In diesem Beitrag wird auf Basis einer repräsentativen Erhebung unter rund 400...

Global climate change represents one of the grand societal challenges which policy makers around the world have agreed to jointly tackle it under the Paris Agreement. Henceforth, much research and policy advice has focused on de-veloping model-based scenarios to identify pathways towards...

Recycling indicators are useful for characterizing anthropogenic metal cycles. While there are suitable and generally accepted recycling indicators at the global level, they are not necessarily useful for regional cycles (where the region of interest can be a part of country, an entire country...

This paper identifies potential drivers and individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for offsetting their emissions from traveling. We focus on the effects of framing the polluting activity with different modes of transportation (i.e. bus and plane) and travel occasions (i.e. holiday and...

A functional analysis of the TIS for wind energy in China has revealed a great disparity in performance with respect to different functions of innovation. A particular strength of the Chinese TIS is the rapid diffusion of wind power equipment which presupposes the development of domestic...

Using a representative sample of more than 11,000 households from eight Eu-ropean countries, this paper empirically studies the factors related to household electricity contract switching by distinguishing between households that switched contracts but stayed with the same supplier (internal...

Vor dem Hintergrund eines diskutierten Verbots von Pkw mit Verbrennungsmotoren in Deutschland sowie des bereits angekündigten Verbots von konventionellen Pkw mit Verbrennungsmotoren in Frankreich und England analysiert das vorliegende Arbeitspapier die möglichen Arbeitsplatzeffekte und...