Center for Environmental Systems Research

Two-thirds of the global population own mobile phones or smartphones. Yet their short service life—often limited to just a few years—leads to frequent replacements, excessive raw material consumption, and rising electronic waste. This study evaluates the environmental benefits of a highly modular…

Uncontrolled mine site leakage poses massive indirect environmental pollution, particularly when harmful substances, like arsenic, infiltrate water bodies, affecting humans. Arsenic contamination, recognized as a severe environmental catastrophe, exemplifies the water quality footprint from a…

Water – Global Assessment and Prognosis (WaterGAP) is a modeling approach for quantifying water resources and water use for all land areas of the Earth that has served science and society since 1996. In this paper, the refinements, new algorithms, and new data of the most recent model version v2.2e…

Klimakatastrophe, Umweltkrisen, Ressourcenknappheit – und das alles mit uns Menschen mittendrin, als zentrale Ursache, aber auch als Betroffene. Wie konnte es dazu kommen und wie kommen wir da wieder heraus? Um Mensch-Umwelt-Systeme zu verstehen, bietet die Umweltpsychologie wertvolle Ansätze. Was…

This report presents indicators, trends and scenarios on the state and performance of the German bioeconomy. The aim is to identify the challenges and opportunities that policy makers need to know in order to effectively steer the transition towards a circular and more sustainable bioeconomy. This…