Transformation hin zu nachhaltigen, gekoppelten Infrastrukturen – Synthese der Ergebnisse

Publication: Report
Citation: Hirschnitz-Garbers, M., A. Olfert, G. Schiller, B. Brunnow, K. Hölscher, J.M. Wittmayer, J. Walther, M. Hinzmann, S. Langsdorf (2020). Transformation hin zu nachhaltigen, gekoppelten Infrastrukturen – Synthese der Ergebnisse. Teilbericht des Vorhabens: "Transformation hin zu nachhaltigen, gekoppelten Infrastrukturen". UBA-Texte 102/2020, Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau.

The project examined the effects, processes and support options for implementing innovative infrastructure coupling. Current developments, the associated transformation processes including supporting and hindering factors as well as potential sustainability effects of coupled infrastructure solutions were examined. The focus is on innovative, i.e. not established, couplings (understood as niche innovations) in the transport, energy, water, wastewater, waste management and information and communication technologies (ICT) sectors. The present volume provides a summary of the results, which are available (in German) in the following three sub-reports:

The reports are available for download.

Transformation towards sustainable, coupled infrastructures - synthesis of results. Sub-project report: "Transformation towards sustainable, coupled infrastructures"

Mehr Nachhaltigkeit durch gekoppelte Infrastrukturen

Leitfaden für Kommunen

Year 2021

Publication:Report

The project examined the effects, processes and support options for implementing innovative infrastructure coupling. The present volume examines local innovation processes in four case studies. Especially when it comes to innovations, there are no standard solutions. The technical systems must be embedded in supportive organisational structures, be economically feasible and implementable, function in a social context and encounter a enabling political and legal framework. Local actors, especially public utilities, are able to take the new, often uncertain paths, if the right framework conditions are in place.

Erfolgsbedingungen und Prozessbegleitung für eine nachhaltige Umgestaltung von Infrastrukturkopplungen

Year 2020

Publication:Report

The project examined the effects, processes and support options for implementing innovative infrastructure coupling. The present volume examines development paths, success factors and barriers as well as the contribution of infrastructure couplings to sustainability transformation and design options. Implementation processes are often complex, breaking new ground and requiring the cooperation of actors in completely new constellations and responsibilities. Whether sustainability transformation is successful on the local level depends on numerous factors that can also be shaped on local level in a systematic way. Innovations promote new structures, networks, new behaviour and knowledge.

Infrastrukturkopplungen als Beiträge zur Nachhaltigkeitstransformation: Einflussfaktoren und Handlungsmöglichkeiten

Year 2020

Publication:Report

The project examined the effects, processes and support options for implementing innovative infrastructure coupling.The present volume analyses the effects of innovative couplings on performance, resilience, resource efficiency, and social and economic compatibility. A "sustainability check" with 26 criteria was developed and tested in an expert survey. Coupling infrastructures does not automatically lead to greater sustainability, but coupled infrastructure systems have the potential to contribute to resource conservation and security of supply. This requires a differentiated consideration of the effects on sustainability.

Nachhaltigkeitspotenziale von innovativen, gekoppelten Infrastrukturen

Year 2020

Presentation:Speech

The World Resources Forum 2017 entitled "Accelerating the Resource Revolution" was held in Geneva from 24 to 25 October 2017. Ecologic Institute's Mandy Hinzmann presented the TRAFIS project with a lecture on "Transforming infrastructures towards sustainability - lessons learnt from ICT-based peer-to-peer carsharing service Drivy in Germany". The presentation slides are available for download.

Transforming Infrastructures towards Sustainability – lessons learnt from ICT-based peer-to-peer carsharing service Drivy in Germany

24 October 2017
Mandy Hinzmann

Project

The TRAFIS project investigates the development of climate resilient and resource-conserving infrastructures through the lens of transition and action research. The project focuses primarily on interlinked infrastructures.

Transformation to Climate Resilient and Resource-conserving Infrastructure (TRAFIS)

Jan 2016 - Nov 2019

Language: German
Authorship: Dr. Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers

Mandy Hinzmann

Susanne Langsdorf

Alfred Olfert (Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung, Dresden)

Georg Schiller (Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung, Dresden)

Benjamin Brunnow (Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung, Dresden)

Katharina Hölscher (Dutch Research Institute for Transition, Rotterdam)

Julia M. Wittmayer (Dutch Research Institute for Transition, Rotterdam)

Jörg Walther (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus)
Funding: German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Published by: German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Year: 2020
Dimension: 18 pp.
ISSN: 1862-4804
Project: Transformation to Climate Resilient and Resource-conserving Infrastructure (TRAFIS)
Project ID: 2582
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1 Warum Transformationen hin zu nachhaltigen, gekoppelten Infrastrukturen analysieren?
2 Wie wurden Transformationen in TRAFIS analysiert?
3 Kernergebnisse zu Nachhaltigkeitspotentialen und Einflussfaktoren
3.1 Bewertung von Nachhaltigkeitswirkungen –TRAFIS-Nachhaltigkeitscheck
3.2 Abgeschlossene Fallbeispiele: Einflussfaktoren und Gestaltungsoptionen
3.3 Laufende Fallbeispiele: Einflussfaktoren, Gestaltungsoptionen und Reflektion
4 Fazit aus dem TRAFIS-Projekt
5 Quellenverzeichnis
Keywords: Energy

Governance

Mobility

Water

Infrastructure coupling, transformation, sustainability potential, influencing factors

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