Infras
| Infras research and advice
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1976 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
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| Branch | Research and advice |
| Website | www.infras.ch |
Infras is a Swiss research and consulting company founded in 1976 on sustainable development .
history
Samuel Mauch and the later two national councilors Ursula Mauch and Elmar Ledergerber founded Infras in 1976. It was triggered by the predictions of the Club of Rome that the global economy would collapse if it was not possible to limit the consumption of resources . The founders were convinced that the complex problems associated with this could only be solved through networked thinking. You played a key role in the NAWU report “Ways out of the prosperity trap”. This is seen as a guide for sustainability research in Switzerland.
Research studies by Infras have repeatedly shaped the political discussion in Switzerland . B. to sustainable development , to the shifting of freight transport and the building of the NEAT , the true costs in transport , to energy policy , the environmental tax reform, or more recently to the work-life balance or reforms in the health system .
activity
Infras is a research and consulting company and is organized as a stock corporation based in Zurich and Bern . The company is wholly owned by the management and employees. Infras employs an interdisciplinary team of around 50 scientists (as of 2017). It prepares studies for public and private clients and supports projects at home and abroad.
The studies and projects are intended to provide the public sector with a basis for decision-making in politics and administration in the areas of transport , energy , the environment , economy and society . The studies are usually open to the public.
Awards
- 2009: 2nd place sustainability award from Zürcher Kantonalbank
- 2017: Prix Balance, Canton of Zurich
Publications
- Markus Maibach: The forgotten billions. Verlag Paul Haupt 1996, ISBN 978-3-258-05419-3
- Susanne Stern: Day nurseries and day families in Switzerland. Verlag Paul Haupt 2006, ISBN 3-258-06996-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mauch, Samuel: Growth and Sustainable Development: Lectures of the conference on November 13, 2007: thirty years after the NAWU report "Ways out of the prosperity trap" . City of Zurich, Office for Buildings, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03301743-6 .
- ↑ Hanspeter Guggenbühl: Liberalization Profits. In: Archives of the Tagesanzeiger Zurich. September 11, 2001. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Ursula Mauch and Thomas von Stokar: Politics of Sustainable Development. An inventory with a view of Switzerland. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 30, 2001. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Train with road. In: Alptransit Portal. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Christoph Forster: 9 billion external transport costs. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Rolf Iten: Power Efficiency and Renewable Energy - Economic alternative to large power plants. In: www.infras.ch. April 1, 2011, accessed November 17, 2017 .
- ^ Rolf Iten: Ecological tax reform: design and effects . Ed .: Ecological Tax Reform for Switzerland. Rüegger, Zurich 1998.
- ^ Judith Trageser, Anna Vettori, Rolf Iten, Luca Crivelli: Efficiency, use and financing of the health system . Ed .: Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Bern 2012.
- ↑ Project archive. In: www.infras.ch. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Easter Island as a memorial. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 1, 2009, accessed November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Award 'Prix Balance'. Canton of Zurich takes a close look at the work-life balance. In: Netzwoche. November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .