Immanuel Stieß has been working at ISOE for many years as a research scientist. He is head of the research unit Energy and Climate Protection in Everyday Life. He is a sociologist and planning expert and received his doctorate in Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning from the University of Kassel, with a thesis on communication with tenants during modernisation processes. His focus is on social-ecological life-style research in construction and housing; nutrition; integration of communication instruments in urban and spatial planning; and indicators of sustainability for social life. Immanuel Stieß has wide experience in both quantitative and qualitative empirical research into social life and the related design of target group oriented communication strategies.
Focus of research
- Social-ecological life-style research in construction and housing, energy and nutrition
- Integration of communication instruments in urban and spatial planning
- Indicators of sustainability for social life
Projects
- “LebensWert” – Development Management for Maintaining the Quality of Life in small towns Facing Demographic Change
- Gender equality as a contribution to successful climate policy
- LivingSpaces – Instruments for a needs-orientated usage of the housing stock in municipalities
- NaKoDi – Sustainable consumption and social participation
- netWORKS 4 – Resilient networks: how urban supply systems contribute to climate justice
- PLASTRAT – Reduction of plastic discharges in lakes and running waters
- Renovation 60plus – Age-appropriate approach, advice and support for home and apartment renovation
- SuPraStadt – Quality of life, participation and resource conservation through social diffusion of sufficiency practices in urban neighbourhoods
- The Blue Angel – Environmental Communication for Children and Young People
- TRI-HP – Trigeneration systems based on multiple renewable sources
- Actor survey on the regional energy concept FrankfurtRhineMain
- Analysis of Job Prospects in Energy Saving Advice
- Analysis of the Program "Bremer modernisieren"
- Approaches to long-term effective power saving advice
- Bio+pro – Target Groups in the Market of Organic Foods
- Climate CO2NTEST – Acceptance and impact of the competition in the Hanover region
- Concept for the Framework Programme "Social-ecological Research" SÖF
- Demand-driven Life Cycle Management
- Ecodesign – ecological design as purchase criterion
- EcoLux – Sustainable Building and Housing in Luxemburg
- Effective policy advice through sustainability research
- Efficient Advice on Electricity Consumption in Private Households
- EiMap – Communication strategy promoting energy-efficient refurbishment during the home purchasing process
- ENEF-Haus – Motivating and Enabling Private Home Owners for Energy Efficient Refurbishment
- EUPOPP - Political Strategies and Tools to Promote Sustainable Consumption
- Evaluation of the "Brennpunkt Heizung" (Focus Heating) Campaign
- Evaluation of the Campaign "Gut beraten starten"
- Evaluation of the Cariteam Energy Saving Service
- Food Change
- Gender Impact Assessment of the EU-Programme "Enviroment and Sustainable Development"
- Germany under Climate Change
- Hertie-Studie FrankfurtRheinMain
- Homes-uP – Single Family Homes under Pressure?
- Improving Energy-Efficient Refurbishment of Private Homes
- IndUK – Individual environmental action and climate protection
- INTAFERE – Integrated Analysis of Organic Impurities in Rivers
- JET-SET - Emissions Trading as Social-Ecological Transformation Process
- KlimaAlltag – low carbon lifestyles in the zero emissions city
- Mobile Living – Innovative Housing and Mobility Services
- Modernization of “Blue Angel”
- Motives of Residential Mobility in Braunschweig
- netWORKS 3 – Sustainable concepts for the municipal water sector
- Perception and Acceptance of the Ecolabel “Blue Angel”
- Perspectives of citizen participation in the energy transition – Heat consulting
- Power efficiency classes for households
- PowerFlex – integrating the heating and cooling sector into the electricity market model PowerFlex
- Rising Energy Costs, Social Consequences and Climate Protection
- Smart Home from a Customer's Perspective
- Social Dimensions of Sustainability
- Sustainability as a Concept in the Social Sciences
- Sustainability Performance in the Water Supply
- Sustainable Modernisation of Existing Buildings
- Synergies between environmental and social policy