Lisa joined the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) in 2008 as student assistant, working in different projects on sustainability governance. Since May 2011 she has been working as research fellow in projects on environmental strategy development, resource politics and dynamics and processes of transformation.

She was Conference Manager in 2010 and 2012 of the international ‘Berlin Conference of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change’.

Within the programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) "A new passage to India" Lisa spent two month in 2012 at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) in Delhi, India. In her research at TERI she focused on the potentials and restraints of virtual water/water footprint labeling as a tool for sustainable water management.

As a lecturer for master students she worked on the topic “sources of legitimacy - political philosophy and their respective views on legitimacy applied on recent environmental policy processes".

Lisa studied political science and communication science in Berlin, Munich and Barcelona. During her study she completed internships among others at the German Bundestag, the Environmental Department of the Deutsche Bahn and at the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Key research areas

Environmental strategies and strategy development, sustainability and transformation governance, resource policies.

Current projects

• Socio-ecological transformation of the food system

• Policy Scenarios of Resource Policies. Analysis and evaluation of policy measures and economic instruments for resource protection for the further development of ProgRess

• Ressourcenpolitik 2 - PolRess2

• Evaluation, monitoring and adaptation of existing programmes and further development of the National Climate Initiative (NKI)

Completed projects

• Environmental Policy in the 21. Century – Approaches for Overcoming New Challenges

• Analysis of strategic policies and its effects within the ministry of environment and its government agencies

• Development of central elements of a concept for transformative environmental policy

• Ressourcenpolitik – PolRess 

• National Roadmap Sustainable Consumption in the Post Rio+20 Process

• Sustainable Germany 2030 to 2050 – How do we want to live in the future? Concepts and communication processes for a “Grand Design” of the German Sustainability Strategy from an environmental policy perspective

• Environmental strategy development- Sustainable Management of political environmental goals and strategies
  

• 2012 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: "Evidence for Sustainable Development"
  

• 2010 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: “The Social Dimension of Environmental Change and Governance”

Publications

2018

• Transformative Umweltpolitik: Nachhaltige Entwicklung konsequent fördern und gestalten. Ein Wegweiser für den Geschäftsbereich des BMU. PDF

2017

• Graaf, Lisa; Jacob, Klaus (2017): Ressourcenpolitik und Abfallvermeidung. Analyse der Anknüpfungspunkte zwischen dem Abfallvermeidungsprogramm und ProgRess. Kurzanalyse im Projekt Ressourcenpolitik 2. PDF

• Graaf, Lisa; Jacob, Klaus (2017): Ressourcenpolitik und Nachhaltiger Konsum: Analyse der Anknüpfungspunkte zwischen Maßnahmen und Bedürfnisfeldern des Nationalen Programms für Nachhaltigen Konsum und ProgRess. Kurzanalyse: PDF; Policy Papier: PDF

• Jacob, Klaus; Werland, Stefan; Graaf, Lisa (2017) Umrisse eines ressourcenpolitischen Narratives: Analyse der Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede von ressourcenpolitischen Konzepten. PDF

2016

• Graaf, Lisa; Jacob, Klaus (2016) Ressourcenpolitik und Klimaschutz. Analyse der Anknüpfungspunkte zwischen Maßnahmen und Handlungsfeldern des Ressourceneffizienzprogramms ProgRess und dem Klimaschutzplan 2050. PDF (Langfassung); Policy Papier zur Studie: PDF

• Jacob, Klaus; Wolff, Franziska; Graaf, Lisa; Heyen, Dirk Arne; Guske, Anna-Lena (2016) Dynamiken der Umweltpolitik in Deutschland: Rückschau und Perspektiven. PDF

• Jacob, Klaus / Werland, Stefan / Graaf, Lisa et al. (2016) Handlungsbedarfe und Optionen für eine innovationsorientierte Ressourcenpolitik in planetaren Grenzen.
  

2015

• Jacob, Klaus / Werland, Stefan / Münch, Lisa, et al. (2015): Innovation-oriented resource policy within planetary boundaries. PolRess-final report.
• Werland, Stefan / Graaf, Lisa et al. (2015): The Nexus between Resource Efficiency Policy and the Energiewende in Germany. Synergies and conflicts. 
• Jacob, Klaus / Werland, Stefan / Münch, Lisa (2012): Expectations, positions and conflicts of resource policy. Contribution of the project “Resource policy – Analysing the debate and developing policy options” to the European Resource Forum, November 2012.