FOR 1730:  Local Formation of Knowledge Relevent for Chosing Specific Local Strategies and Measures against Climate Change

• Subject Area: Social and Behavioural Sciences ; Construction Engineering and Architecture ; Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Term: from 2011 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 197049773

The Research Unit seeks to explain policy-change in local climate policies by significant shifts of local epistemologies (or knowledge orders) underlying political decisions and choices of measurer and instruments. Local epistemologies reflect what is considered to be a factual or normative appropriate action – or not. Epistemologies are far from being homogenous but reveal contradictory or competing knowledge claims, particularly in times of political change.
The goals of the Research Unit are to identify mechanisms and practices of the selection and generation of knowledge (demonstration practices, strategies of objectivation, role of experts, participation) and to explain city-specific ways of dealing with climate change.
Empirical studies focus on the three German cities of Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main. All of these three cities developed ambitious measures to become the green capital of Europe or a leading "low carbon city". The six projects of the Research Unit address transport planning and transport management, Europeanisation, land use planning, environmental politics, the real estate sector, the local administration and international city networks.

• DFG Programme: Research Units

Projects

• Generierung handlungsrelevanten Wissens am Beispiel der Entwicklung lokaler Strategien und Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel im Bereich der städtischen Verkehrsplanung und des städtischen Verkehrsmanagements (Applicant Boltze, Manfred )
• Lokale Formierung handlungsrelevanten Wissens im europäischen Kontext (Applicant Knodt, Michèle )
• Lokale Generierung handlungsrelevanten Wissens - am Beispiel lokaler Strategien und Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel (Applicant Heinelt, Hubert )
• Lokale Strategien zu Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung in Flächenmanagement und Immobilienwirtschaft (Applicants Linke, Hans-Joachim ;  Pfnür, Andreas )
• Städtewettbewerb, Städtenetze und lokales Politiklernen im Klimawandel (Applicant Benz, Arthur )
• Verwaltungsalltag: Die Generierung von Wissen in der Planungs- und Umweltverwaltung (Applicants Wékel, Julian ;  Zimmermann, Karsten )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Hubert Heinelt