Georg Sunderer works as a freelance researcher at the Institute. He studied Sociology at the universities of Trier and Galway (Ireland). His major fields of study were urban and environmental sociology, empirical social research, and social psychology. He is writing his doctoral thesis on the consumption of fair trade products at the University of Zurich.
Focus of research
- Ethical consumption
- Environmental behavior
- Empirical social research
Projects
- Environmental awareness in Germany 2020
- LivingSpaces – Instruments for a needs-orientated usage of the housing stock in municipalities
- Mobility Laboratory 2020 – Attractive alternatives to the private car
- NaKoDi – Sustainable consumption and social participation
- PLASTRAT – Reduction of plastic discharges in lakes and running waters
- Dezent Zivil – New forms of civic involvement when building decentralised energy plants
- Future Fleet - Integrating Electric Cars in Company Vehicle Fleets
- Intelliekon – Acceptance of Electricity Consumption Feedback
- KlimaAlltag – low carbon lifestyles in the zero emissions city
- Mobile Baden-Württemberg – Ways of Transformation towards a Sustainable Mobility
- Mobility Strategy for Hesse
- Optum – Environmental Relief through Electromobility
- PowerFlex – integrating the heating and cooling sector into the electricity market model PowerFlex
- share – Electromobility in car sharing
- Sharing-Concepts for a Multi-Optional Mobility System in Frankfurt-Rhine-Main
- Smartphone Instead of a Car?
- TransRisk – Pollutants as a risk to the water cycle
- Water demand forecast 2045 for Hamburg