Subject Areas

Governance for Sustainable Development

Generally speaking, the concept of governance addresses how policy decisions are developed and implemented. Thus, it is not only about networks and participation, but about how governments and public administrations function and how their relations with the private sector and civil society change over time. Governance in the context of sustainable development primarily involves the integration of economic, social and environmental policies (horizontal integration), the integration of short- and long-term time scales (intergenerational equity) and the involvement of stakeholders in decision making (participation). These challenges and the changing relations between states, businesses and civil society are at the centre of our work.

Selected projects of recent years

Projects (1-27 of 27)
2012 - 2015		EUROSTAT Monitoring Report and flagship publications (Details)
2012 - 2016		DYNAMIX - DYNAmic policy MIXes for absolute decoupling of environmental impact of EU resource use from economic growth (Details)
2012 - 2016		Framework contract "Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Space Policy" (Details)
2011 - 2012		EUROSTAT SDI publications & videos (Details)
2011 - 2014		Framework contract for monitoring of the application of the 'Europe 2020' policy (Details)
2011 - 2012		Analysis, implementation and dissemination of well-being indicators (Details)
2010 - 2012		CORPUS - Enhancing Connectivity between Research and Policy-making in Sustainable Consumption (Details)
2010 - 2010		Strategic Public Management - Theoretische Fundierung und Ermittlung der Anwendungsmöglichkeiten im Bereich der Wiener Stadtverwaltung (Details)
2007 - 2008		Sustainable Development in Turkey: Integration Methodologies and Indicators of Sustainable Development (Details)
2007 - 2008		Review of the Serbian Sustainable Development (SD) Strategy (Details)
2007 - 2008		Weiterentwicklung der Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie - Internationale Vergleichsstudie zu gesellschaftlichen Konsultationsprozessen bei der Formulierung und Weiterentwicklung nationaler Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien (Details)
2007 - 2008		Study on contributions of the regional and local authorities to sustainable development strategies (Details)
2007 - 2007		Pilot study for developing a monitoring methodology for FP7's contribution to the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (DG Research) (Details)
2007 - 2007		Wissenschaftliche Betreuung des Workshop "Unternehmen und soziale Nachhaltigkeit - umsetzen, bewerten, auszeichnen" (Details)
2007 - 2007		SDI Analysis of Sustainable Development Indicators (Details)
2007 - 2010		Österreichischer Walddialog 2007/2010 (Details)
2006 - 2013		European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN) (Details)
2006 - 2008		New Governance und Sustainability (Details)
2004 - 2004		Tagung "Good Governance: Neue Qualitäten im Verhältnis von Staat und Zivilgesellschaft" (Details)
2003 - 2004		Governance for Sustainable Development - innovation-workshop for the implementation of strategies for SD (Details)
2003 - 2004		Austrian Forest-Dialogue - process management and scientific editing (Details)
2002 - 2003		Umfeldanalyse für den Lehrgang B.U.N.T. - Bildung und Nachhaltiger Tourismus (Details)
2002 - 2006		STRATUM - process management for the implementation of the austrian strategy for sustainable development (Details)
2001 - 2002		Austrian sustainability strategy (Details)
2000 - 2007		www.nachhaltigkeit.at - Austrian Sustainability Portal (Details)
1999 - 1999		Tagung "Erfolgreiche Umweltpolitik braucht Partner" inkl. Vorbereitungskonferenz "Szenariotechnik" (Details)
1999 - 2004		NachhaltigkeitsTATENbank - best practise database of Austrian sustainable development projects (Details)