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Dr. Klaus Jacob

Klaus Jacob

Research Director

Ihnestraße 22 — Room 3.2
D-14195 Berlin

Phone: (+)49 - 30 - 838 54492
Fax: (+)49 - 30 - 838 56685

E-mail: jacob@zedat.fu-berlin.de


Dr. Klaus Jacob is research director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and has been a senior research fellow at FFU since 1995. He is head of the research group on Policy Assessment which works on Impact Assessment, evidence-based policy making, strategies in environmental and sustainability policy, ecological modernization as well as innovation and lead markets. The work of the research group combines both fundamental research and political consulting. Klaus Jacob uses methods of policy analysis for his work in different issue areas: 1) Environmental Policy Integration, with a focus on the development and evaluation of impact assessment instruments, 2) Innovation in environmental policy and 3) Comparative analysis of sustainability strategies. He is co-coordinator of the European network of excellence LIAISE, which develops models in support of impact assessment and studies the conditions under which they can be employed (www.liaise-noe.eu). Klaus Jacob is coordinator of a research-project on an impact assessment of the resource policy (PolRess, www.ressourcenpolitik.de). He is chair of the steering committee of the Berlin Conferences series on the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change. He has been Lead Author for the Global Environmental Outlook 4 and reviewer for GEO 5 of the United Nations Environmental Program. Klaus Jacob teaches courses in policy analysis as well as political science methods and theories at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. His diverse research projects range from applied consultancy for national and international clients to basic research funded by distinguished research promotion institutions.

 

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institutional analysis, innovation theories and methodologies of policy analysis, integration of environmental concerns into other sectoral policies, tools and methods for policy assessment, measuring and modelling national capacities for innovation-friendly environmental policies

 

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News

Nagoya University Global Environmental Leaders Program

04/13/2012

New publication: Positions and Expectations on the Green Economy

Holger Bär, Klaus Jacob and Stefan Werland published their study on European civil society's stances on issues related to the Green Economy as part of Sustainable Development.
03/15/2012

Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs appointed to the expert group "Zukunftsdialog" of the federal government

02/19/2012

 

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