Headline: Academic Articles - 2024

Introduction Current urban and transport planning practices have significant negative health, environmental, social and economic impacts in most cities. New urban development models and policies are needed to reduce these negative impacts.

We study the impact of California’s cap-and-trade system on carbon emissions in the electricity and industrial sectors.

Transdisciplinary processes deal with transdisciplinary problems that are (i) complex, (ii) societally relevant, (iii) ill-defined, and (iv) real-world problems which often show a high degree of ambiguity resulting in contested perceptions and eva

The question of how science can become a lever in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals permeates most recent sustainability research. Wide-ranging literature calling for a transformative approach has emerged in recent years.

In academia and political debates, the notions of ‘degrowth’ has gained traction since the dawn of the 21st century.

The Paris Agreement requires countries to break away from carbon lock-in, a particular challenge for traditional oil and gas producers.

Klimapolitik ist aufgrund ihrer Komplexität und Reichweite mehr denn je auf innovative Beteiligungsverfahren angewiesen.

Real-world labs make the mobility transition tangible for residents. However, these experiences are not always positive, and often local conflicts arise.

As climate targets tighten, all countries must transition toward a renewable electricity system, but conflicts about generation and infrastructure deployment impede transition progress.

Today, populism is widely understood to entail an exclusionary conception of “the people” that threatens climate change action.

The topic of greenhouse gas emissions embodied in products is gaining in prominence and the possibilities for measuring and verifying them are improving.

The Corona pandemic was one of the most challenging political events of the last decades in Europe in which many important political issues had to be decided within a very short space of time.

Transdisciplinary problems are complex, ill-defined, societal real-world problems with high ambiguity that are contested and require multiple trade-offs.

Net-zero energy system configurations can be met in numerous ways, implying diverse economic effects.

In sustainability transitions research, the deliberate destabilisation of socio-technical regimes is increasingly recognised as a central intervention point.

The transport sector and especially private cars pose environmental, economic, and social challenges. For this reason, cargo bikes and shared mobility are considered viable alternatives for road transport.

Net zero targets have rapidly become the guiding principle of climate policy, implying the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to compensate for residual emissions.

Hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, can trigger a complex web of compound and cascading impacts (CCI) due to interdependencies between coupled natural and social systems.

Background This article asks the following question: how well are coal regions, affected by phase-out plans, represented in mediating commissions, to what extent do local communities participate in the decision-making process and how are the polit

Crises may act as tipping points for decarbonization pathways by triggering structural economic change or offering windows of opportunity for policy change.

Simulating the ozone variability at regional scales using chemistry transport models (CTMs) remains a challenge. We designed a multi-model intercomparison to evaluate, for the first time, four regional CTMs on a national scale for Germany.

The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region frequently experiences ozone pollution events during the summer and autumn seasons.