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Dr. Oskar Marg

Research Scientist
Transdisciplinarity ,  Water and Land Use
+49 69 7076919-26 oskar.marg@isoe.de

Oskar Marg hast been a research scientist at ISOE since 2016. Previously he worked as research scientist at the Disaster Research Unit (DRU) at Freie University Berlin. From 2011 till 2014 he was already active at ISOE in the research unit Energy and Climate Protection in Everyday Life. Before that Oskar Marg worked as a research associate at the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS) at the University of Bremen. He studied sociology, history, and labor sciences at the University of Bremen and Åbo Akademi (Finland) and he received a PhD for his research about resilience of households against extreme events based on the example of a river flood event in a small town in Saxony (Germany).

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Focus of research

  • Transdisciplinary Research
  • Accompanying Research
  • Environmental/Sustainability Research from a Social Science perspective
  • Resilience and Disaster Sociology
  • Sociology of Knowledge

Publications

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Current Publications

Projects

  • Repack-network: sustainable food packaging
    Chemical Risks

    Repack-network: sustainable food packaging

    The project accompanies, supports and evaluates fourteen research projects that deal with measures to reduce plastic in food packaging. Social impact potentials are explored in particular. 

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  • Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies
    Knowledge and Participation

    Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies

    The tdAcademy platform promotes transdisciplinary research by generating knowledge for its effective design, evaluating new methods and formats and offering an international fellowship program.

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  • Cognitive integration and innovation
    Knowledge and Participation

    Cognitive integration and innovation

    The aim of the project is to dynamically integrate current advances in socio-ecological research in relevant scientific fields.

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  • TransImpact – Effective Transdisciplinary Research
    Knowledge and Participation

    TransImpact – Effective Transdisciplinary Research

    The TransImpact project analyzes how and with which methods transdisciplinary research can achieve the desired social and scientific effects.

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  • Accompanying research for ‘Real-World Laboratories’ in Baden-Württemberg
    Knowledge and Participation

    Accompanying research for ‘Real-World Laboratories’ in Baden-Württemberg

    A consortium consisting of Leuphana University Lüneburg, ISOE and the Wuppertal Institute is carrying out the accompanying research for seven existing real-world laboratories in Baden-Württemberg.

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  • Germany under Climate Change
    Transformation

    Germany under Climate Change

    The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has mandated the project partners to study the capability to adapt to climate change and ways into a climate-robust society in 2050.
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  • KlimaAlltag – low carbon lifestyles in the zero emissions city
    Sufficiency

    KlimaAlltag – low carbon lifestyles in the zero emissions city

    The 'KlimaAlltag' project is investigating low carbon lifestyles in different social strata. The focus is on mobility, nutrition, home living and household energy consumption.
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