Thesis topics offered by the chair:

1. Förderung der sozialen Akzeptanz erneuerbarer Heiztechnologien: Ein Vergleich politischer Maßnahmen (Fostering social acceptance of renewable heating technologies: comparison of policy tools)
2. Extremereignisse und Energiepreisschwankungen: Der Einfluss verschiedener Extremereignisse (Extreme events and energy price volatility: tracing the impact of different extreme events)
3. Das Mieter-Vermieter Dilemma in der deutschen Wärmewende: Eigenschaften und Lösungsansätze (The landlord-tenant dilemma in the German heating transition: characteristics and solutions)
4. Landwirtschaft in Afrika vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels: Möglichkeiten der Anpassungsfinanzierung und ausgewählte Fallbeispiele (Agriculture in Africa in the context of climate change: options for adaptation financing and selected case studies)
5. Klimafinanzierung: ein Überblick über die Fonds der UNFCCC (Climate finance: an overview of UNFCCC funds)
6. Private und öffentliche Charakteristika von Klimaschutz- und Anpassungsmaßnahmen (Private and public characteristics of climate mitigation and adaptation measures)
7. The impact of energy cooperatives on Germany’s energy transition
8. A comparison of economic methods for analyzing water conflicts
9. Water conflicts in the German open-cast mining region Lusatia - a socio-economic analysis
10. Exploring conflicts arising from Germany’s energy transition
11. Balancing renewable energy expansion with agricultural land use: stakeholder perspectives and conflict resolution in Germany
12. Fiscal Intervention in the food sector - helpful or expensive?
13. Food labels - consumers choice, bureaucratic obstacles or helpful tools?

Interested students are kindly asked to contact the nicole [dot] rudolph [at] vwl [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de (secretariat).

The seminar topics offered by the chair can be found in the corresponding OPAL course.