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Home     Cross-impact balance analysis     Approach     CIB algorithm     Project references     Publications     Guidelines     ScenarioWizard     Contact     ZIRN	Consuming energy sustainably - consuming sustainable energy Heat energy in the field of tension between social predictors, economic conditions and ecological consciousness This project is part of the research program "From knowledge to action" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It is conceived as an interdisciplinary project and integrates scientific partners from the fields of sociology, engineering, urban planning, economics, architecture and jurisprudence. Furthermore different actors with practical experience, such as energy consultants, chimney sweepers and consumer advice centres are involved in the project. The primary goal is to devise recommendations for action towards sustainable heat consumption for the most significant actors, to uncover possibilities for promotion and analyse constraints to sustainable heat consumption. Members of the scientific partnership are the Institute for Energy Economics and Rational Use of Energy at the University of Stuttgart (IER), the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), the Bremer Energy Institute (BEI), the Faculty of Law at the University of Frankfurt and the Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Risk Governance and Sustainable Technology Development at the University of Stuttgart (ZIRN, project coordinator) . The workpackage "Integration and Evaluation of Results", guided by IER, brings together the social, technical, economic and ecological results of the project. This includes a CIB analysis dealing with the interdependence of consumer behaviour, mesoscale actors and macroscale conditions. The project members contribute to the analysis with their judgements about the cross-impacts. The goal of the analysis is to identify the preconditions of sustainable development in the field of domestic heat consumption. Duration of the project: 2008 - 2011 Contact concerning the project's CIB analysis (IER): Dr.-Ing. Till Jenssen Daniel Zech, Dipl. Geogr. Contact concerning general issues of the project (ZIRN): Sandra Wassermann, M.A. >> Project homepage	News The Helmholtz Alliance "ENERGY-TRANS" studies the interplay between technological and societal aspects of the energy transition in Germany. ZIRN develops societal scenarios using the CIB method... More News In a project dealing with the conditions of sustainable heat consumption the interdependence of structural conditions, actor behaviour and consumer behaviour is analysed using the CIB method... More News A project of the Stuttgart Cluster of Excellence "SimTech" uses CIB as a method to integrate political, social and economical contexts into environmental simulations... More News In a project about obesity prevention the obesity risks of socially disadvantaged children and adolescents will be analysed using the CIB method... More News The German-Peruvian project LiWa aims at strategies to cope with the threats of climate change to the water supply of Lima. The project's integrative scenarios are developed using the CIB method... More News Version 3.42 of the free CIB software ScenarioWizard Basic is available now... More Archive The archive offers a compilation of older CIB notes on projects and publications... More