Other Research
Apart from working on the
politics of sport I do research on climate protection policies. What
most of my research in this area of interest has in common is that it
aims to identify pioneering green policies and analyze their potential
for regional and global diffusion. In my articles I ask the questions of
why the countries are pioneering, how do the innovations work and
whether (and under which conditions) the initiatives can spread.
- Policy differences in the promotion of renewable energies in the EU member states, Energy Policy, 2004
- Renewable energy policy in Germany: pioneering and exemplary regulations, Energy for Sustainable Development, 2004
- Renewable energies in the EU-Accession States, Energy Policy, 2006
- Sovereign
wealth funds as a new instrument of climate protection policy? A case
study of Norway as a pioneer of ethical guidelines for investment
policy, Energy Policy, 2010
- Renewable Energy Policies in the Gulf
countries: A case study of the carbon-neutral ‘‘Masdar City’’ in Abu
Dhabi, Energy Policy, 2010
- Energy Policies of Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) countries—possibilities and limitations of ecological
modernization in rentier states, Energy Policy, 2010
- Why
subnational actors matter: the role of Länder and municipalities in the
German energy transition. In Germany's Energy Transition, 2016.