Special "Sustainable Urban Development": More than half of the World’s population already lives in urban areas; in 2050 it will be two third. Most of the growth will happen in emerging and developing countries, where the number of city-dwellers who live informally is still increasing.
Regine Mehl is Political Scientist and Former Researcher of the Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".
Special "Impact-oriented accompanying research": As a partner of many implementing agencies, DIE conducts rigorous impact assessments covering topics such as governance, social protection, taxation, digitalization and agriculture.
Special "Transformative force of Digitalisation": The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) addresses the tension between our digital potential and current politics and procedures through innovative, policy-relevant research.
Special "NDC Explorer": The NDC Explorer is an interactive tool, which made NDCs information accessible and usable online.
Home » Research » The Trump Doctrine The Trump Doctrine Photo: Ash_crow / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Flickr The Trump Doctrine From 20 January 2017 until 19 January 2019, Donald J. Trump was 45th President of the United States of America. During his election campaign and his transition into office, this new occupant of the White House had, among other things, distinguished himself through sexist and racist remarks, repeatedly proposed to stop immigration by building a wall,…
Special TREND Analytics: TREND analytics is an unique online tool offering its users a birds’ eye perspective of 300 environmental provisions in 630 preferential trade agreements that have been signed since 1945. At the same time political decision makers, researchers or civil society actors are enabled to zoom into the great diversity of this environmental provisions.
Special „The Nexus Water - Energy - Land - Climate“: This topic special presents relevant works and activities on which incentives, governance mechanism and policy instruments could reduce negative effects and stimulate win-win solutions.
Special "Food security and agriculture for a world without hunger": Food security and agriculture have made a remarkable return to the global agenda. With a world population and incomes increasing, demand for agricultural products is rising. Natural resources – land, water and biodiversity – are under pressure. In addition, new developments such as modern technologies, biofuels or large scale investments in land challenge traditional modes rural development. How can we achieve food security?
Rebecca Hadank-Rauch is an Environmental and Development Scientist and Former Researcher in the Research Programme "Inter- and Transnational Cooperation".
Special “Making Supply Chains sustainable”: Our Research on supply chains helps to identify opportunities for companies in developing countries.