Juelich Systems Analysis (ICE-2)

The Economics of Sustainability Transformation team analyzes the market dynamics of transformative processes and develops advanced early-stage monitoring systems to identify interactions in the context of sustainable development. This includes the use of innovative methodological approaches, by which we seek to uncover and better understand conflicting objectives and provide valuable insights into the adoption and diffusion of new technologies that can then be used as a basis for the development and evaluation of policy interventions. We examine the implications for societal and individual welfare and the factors that influence the supply and demand of resources. In this context, we explore both regional transformation processes in Germany as well as changes in resource systems on a global scale, for example with respect to international trade relations. In order to identify and evaluate possible transformation pathways at the systemic level, interactions between resource systems in particular are considered and the key prerequisites for long-term strategies are developed.