Environmental research

The Environmental Research claimed causalities uncover in environmental affairs, and has emerged as a research to protect the natural environment. In some cases, research on the understanding of ecological relationships ( ecology ) is also understood as environmental research.

Often environmental research is reduced to a scientific approach; In addition, there are also social and legal approaches to environmental research, as well as integrative environmental research that includes natural and engineering as well as social science approaches.

All external conditions of the "environment" structure are registered by environmental research and the facts obtained are related to one another. The relationships in nature are extremely complex. The way in which environmental research is presented is therefore extremely variable and interdisciplinary : On the one hand it can be more about chemical substances , on another time it can be more about the redesign of landscapes or energetic issues. Environmental research develops the basis for action in environmental protection and environmental protection.

In Germany there are various institutes and research facilities that specialize in environmental research or in which environmental research is a particular focus. The most famous institutions of this type include:

the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
the Center for Environmental Research (ZUFO) in Münster
the Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research (today part of the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), whose predecessor was founded in 1954
the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg (IFEU)
the Institute for Environmental Research at RWTH Aachen
and the Öko-Institut (Freiburg, Darmstadt, Berlin)

literature

Markus Braun (ed.): Out of balance , 2008, ISBN 978-3-9521520-1-0
Achim Daschkeit, Winfried Schröder (Ed.) Cross-thinking environmental research: Perspectives of integrative environmental research and teaching Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-63737-7

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Engelbert Schramm criticism of the reduced environmental terms In: occupational safety and environmental history. Small historical library, Vol. 4. Cologne 1990, pp. 52–66
↑ cf. Emeis, Stefan 60 years of environmental research in Werdenfelser Land In: Lech-Isar Land 2014. Heimatkundliches Jahrbuch des Heimatverband Lech Isar Land eV Weilheim 2014, pp. 185–216

[1] . Engelbert Schramm criticism of the reduced environmental terms In: occupational safety and environmental history. Small historical library, Vol. 4. Cologne 1990, pp. 52–66

[2] . Emeis, Stefan 60 years of environmental research in Werdenfelser Land In: Lech-Isar Land 2014. Heimatkundliches Jahrbuch des Heimatverband Lech Isar Land eV Weilheim 2014, pp. 185–216