• Development of sustainable development concepts
• Operationalization of sustainable development for various contexts (e. g. urban and rural development, energy system, resource management, organizational management)
• Sustainability assessment
• Sustainability governance
• Energy and climate policy
• Science and research policy
• Socioeconomic causes and impacts of environmental problems

• Coordination Cross-cutting activity Sustainability
• Strengthening integrative and effective sustainability research at Baden-Württemberg universities (SiNfo)
• Socially responsible research – design, impact analysis, quality assurance (LeNa Shape)
• Kopernikus: An Energy transition navigation system for collecting, analyzing and simulating systemic connectivity (ENavi)
• KoOpRegioN – Intercommunal cooperation options for sustainable land use in the Northern Black Forest region
• Sustainability at KIT
• Societally responsible research – design, impact, quality assurance (LeNa Shape)
• Helmholtz platform for the design of robust energy systems and their supply chains (RESUR)

• Risk-Habitat-Megacity
• Climate Adaptation Strategy for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile and regional learning network in megacities of Latin America
• Integrated water resources management (IWRM) for Java in Indonesia
• Helmholtz-Alliance ENERGY-TRANS
• Guideline Sustainability Management (LeNa)
• Urban Transition Lab 131
• Upper Rhine Cluster for Sustainability Research (URCforSR)

Rösch, C.; Bräutigam, K.-R.; Kopfmüller, J.; Stelzer, V.; Fricke, A.
Sustainability assessment of the German energy transition. 2018. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 8 (1), Art.Nr. 12. DOI:10.1186/s13705-018-0153-4

Helming, K.; Ferretti, J.; Daedlow, K.; Podhora, A.; Kopfmüller, J.; Winkelmann, M.; Bertling, J.; Walz, R.
Forschen für nachhaltige Entwicklung: Kriterien für gesellschaftlich verantwortliche Forschungsprozesse. 2016. Gaia, 25 (3), 161–165. DOI:10.14512/gaia.25.3.6

Nayono, S.; Lehmann, A.; Kopfmüller, J.; Lehn, H.
Improving sustainability by technology assessment and systems analysis: the case of IWRM Indonesia. 2016. Applied water science, 6 (3), 279–292. DOI:10.1007/s13201-016-0427-y

Kopfmüller, J.; Lehn, H.; Nuissl, H.; Krellenberg, K.; Heinrichs, D.
Sustainable development of megacities: an integrative research approach for the case of Santiago metropolitan region. 2009. Die Erde , 140 (4), 417–48

Schultz, J.; Brand, F.; Kopfmüller, J.; Ott, K.
Building a theory of sustainable development : two salient conceptions within the German discourse. 2008. International journal of environment and sustainable development, (2008), 7 (4), 465–482. DOI:10.1504/IJESD.2008.022390

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