Publications

Paper PubliCations

Journal Publications

Michaelis, J. et al. (with Jonas Lage) (2024): Sufficiency as a “Strategy of the Enough”: Curbing ecological crises and injustices. A summary of the German Advisory Council on the Environment’s discussion paper, in: GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Volume 33, Number 3, 2024, pp. 275-281(7). https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.3.3

Wiese, F., Taillard, N., Balembois, E. et al. (with Luisa Cordroch, Johannes Thema und Carina Zell-Ziegler) (2024): The key role of sufficiency for low demand-based carbon neutrality and energy security across Europe, in: Nat Commun15, 9043 .https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53393-0

Lage, J.; Best, B. (2024): Suffizienz und Vergesellschaftung – eine transformative Verbindung. In: Pfaff, Toni (Hrsg.): Vergesellschaftung und die sozialökologische Frage – Wie wir unsere Gesellscahft gerechter, zukunftsfähiger und resilienter machen können. S. 303-315. München: oekom. Available online

Zell-Ziegler, C., Thema, J., Dünzen, K. (2024). Using impact chains for a feasibility assessment of sufficiency policies in the mobility sector, in: eceee Summer Study Proceedings, p. 751-760, 2024. Open Access: https://energysufficiency.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/6-170-24_Zell-Ziegler-3.pdf

Thema, J., Cordroch, L., Parschau, J., Graser, G., Wiese, F. (2024). Where and how do people live? Modelling the occupation of the German building stock by households, in: eceee Summer Study Proceedings, p. 979-989, 2024. Open Access: https://energysufficiency.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/8-050-24_Thema-1.pdf

Thema, J. (2024). Modelling policy scenarios: refocussing the model-policy logic for the case of German passenger transport, in: Energ Sustain Soc 14, 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-024-00467-y

Wiedenhofer et al. (with Frauke Wiese) (2024). Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-environ-110822-044428

Lage, Jonas; Best, Benjamin; Froese, Tobias; Zell-Ziegler, Carina (2024). Policy-Making as a Crucial Element for Sufficiency on the Business Level – Discussing the Role of Policies to Push Sufficiency beyond Pioneers. In: Gossen, Maike; Niessen, Laura (eds.): Sufficiency in Business. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, p. 325-340.

Christ, M., Lage, J., et al. (2024). Putting sufficiency into practice. Transdisciplinary sufficiency research in urban development: The Hafen-Ost real-world laboratory in Flensburg, Germany. in: GAIA,33/S1(2024): 26 – 34. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/oekom/gaia/2024/00000033/a00101s1/art00005;jsessionid=2cpimhp8gxs73.x-ic-live-02#

Arnz, M., Göke, L., Thema, J., Wiese, F., Wulff, N., Kendziorski, M., Hainsch, K., Blechinger, P., von Hirschhausen, C. (2024). Avoid, Shift or Improve passenger transport? Impacts on the energy system. in: Energy Strategy Reviews, Volume 52, March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2024.101302

Sugiyama et al. (with Frauke Wiese and Carina Zell-Ziegler) (2024). High with low: Harnessing the power of demand-side solutions for high wellbeing with low energy and material demand, in: Joule, Volume 8, Issue 1, 17. Januar 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.12.014.

Lage, J., Böcker, M., Christ, M. (2023). Wie kann Suffizienzpolitik gelingen? Planung und Umsetzung suffizienzorientierter Stadtentwicklung durch kommunale Verwaltungen, in: GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Volume 32, Number 4, 2023, 368-376(9) https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.32.4.8 (open access)

Thema, J., Roa Garcia, M.C. (2023). The Energy Transition in Colombia. Current situation, projections, challenges,
narratives and public policies – in relation to the energy transition in Germany. https://wupperinst.org/en/a/wi/a/s/ad/8143 (open access)

Lage, J., Thema, J., Zell-Ziegler, C., Best, B., Cordroch, L., Wiese, F. (2023). Citizens call for sufficiency and regulation — A comparison of European
citizen assemblies and National Energy and Climate Plans. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623003146 (open access)

Lage, J. (2022). Sufficiency and transormation – A semi-systematic literature review of notions of social change in different concepts of sufficiency,
in: Front. Sustain., 25 August 2022 Sec. Sustainable Consumption. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2022.954660/full (open access)

Best, B., Zell-Ziegler, C. (2022). Closing the information gap on energy sufficiency policies,
in: F1000Research. https://blog.f1000.com/2022/08/18/energy-sufficiency-policies/ (open access)

Böcker, M., Lage, J., Christ, M. (2022). Zwischen Deprivilegierung und Umverteilung: Suffizienzorientierte Stadtgestaltung als kommunales Konfliktfeld,
in: Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit, 8(1), 64-83. https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/sun/article/view/4309 (open access)

Zell-Ziegler, C., Thema, J. (2022). Impact chains of energy sufficiency policies: A proposal for visualization and possibilities for integration into energy modeling,
in: TATuP, 31(2):40-7. https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/6970

Best, B., et al. (2022). Exploring energy sufficiency: New challenges and options in times of crisis,
in: TATuP, 31(2):11-7. https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/6979

Lage, J., Graef, M. (2022). Co-Benefits als Katalysatoren für Suffizienzpolitk: Wie Bürger*innen in Beteiligungsverfahren Suffizienz begründen,
in: TATuP, 31(2):48-55. https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/6971 (open access)

Best, B., Thema, J., et al. (2022). Building a database for energy sufficiency policies [version2; peer review: 2 approved].
in: F1000Research 2022, 11:229. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108822.2 (open access)

Best, Benjamin (2022). Suffizienzansätze in der nationalen Energie- und Klimapolitik in  Deutschland, Kurzanalyse,
in: Regierungsforschung.de. https://epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7967 (open access)

Wiese, F., Thema, J., Cordroch, L. (2022). Strategies for climate neutrality. Lessons from a meta-analysis of German energy scenarios,
in: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2, 100015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rset.2021.100015 (open access)

Klemm, C., Wiese, F. (2022). Indicators for the optimization of sustainable urban energy systems based on energy system modeling,
in: Energy, Sustainability and Society, 12:3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-021-00323-3 (open access)

Zell-Ziegler, C., Thema, J., et al. (2021). Enough? The role of sufficiency in European energy and climate plans,
in: Energy Policy, 157, 112483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112483 (open access)

Cordroch, L., Hilpert, S., Wiese, F. (2021). Why renewables and energy efficiency are not enough – the relevance of sufficiency in the heating sector for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C,
in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121313

Zell-Ziegler, C., Thema, J., Best, B., Wiese, F. (2021). Sufficiency in transport policy – an analysis of EU countries’ national energy and climate plans and long-term strategies, in: eceee Summer Study Proceedings, p. 723-730, 2021, ISBN: 978-91-983878-9-3. https://www.oeko.de/fileadmin/oekodoc/6-109-21_eceee_Zell-Ziegler.pdf (open access)

Policy Papers

Nachwuchsforschungsprojekt EnSu (2021). Gutes Leben für Alle – Politische Handlungsempfehlungen für mehr Lebensqualität und Nachhaltigkeit
Link to the Article (PDF)

Autor:innengruppe Energiesuffizienz (2022): Energiesparen als Schlüssel zur Energiesicherheit – Suffizienz als Strategie. https://zenodo.org/record/6419202„

Best, B., Zell-Ziegler, C. (2022): Das Gebot der Stunde: Energiesparen durch Energiesuffizienz.
in: APuZ: Energiepolitik. 46-47. 14.11.2022. (S. 39-47). Link to the Article

Wuppertal Institut (2023). Suffizienzpolitik als Booster zum Erreichen der Klimaschutzziele. https://wupperinst.org/a/wi/a/s/ad/8287

Talks, WORKSHOPS, panels, podcasts

Presentation at eceee 2021 Summer Study “Enrgy efficiency: a new reality”

Panel 6: Transport and Mobility (June 11, 2021)

The Summer Study is a central event of the eceee and brings together the community to promote energy efficiency. In 2021, this took place online from 07 – 11 June. Under the title “Sufficiency in transport policy – An analysis of EU countries’ national energy and climate plans and long-term strategies”, Carina Zell-Ziegler presented the results of the EnSu team (Johannes Thema, Dr. Benjamin Best and Prof. Dr. Frauke Wiese were also involved). The complete conference session can be viewed under VIDEOS, with the EnSu presentation starting at minute 24:25. With an eceee account, the presentation can be accessed here. The related conference paper is linked under Journal Publications.

Lecture series “Genug. Perspektiven zur Energie-Suffizienz”

(“Enough. Perspectives on Energy Sufficiency” – most lectures were held in German)

Block I: Sufficiency politics (1.10. – 10.12.2020)
Lectures were recorded. See VIDEOS (5 lectures in German).

Block II: Sufficiency in scenarios and modelling (21.01. – 25.02.2021)
Lectures were recorded. See VIDEOS (3 lectures in German, one lecture in English).

Block III: Sufficiency in practice (tba)

Kick-off workshop: With more sufficiency towards less energy demand

Public kick-off event of the Research Group „The role of energy sufficiency in energy transition and society” (EnSu)

In early 2021 (March 15 to March 17) the three-day kick-off workshop “With more suffuciency towards less energy demand” took place. The program of the event can be looked at here (in German only).

The presentation of the opening talk “Sufficiency in energy politics” of the two heads of the research group, Prof. Dr. Frauke Wiese and Dr. Benjamin Best, is available for download here (in German only). Unless stated otherwise, texts and images are copyrighted by Frauke Wiese and Benjamin Best, 2021, and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

The recordings of the opening talk by Frauke Wiese and Benjamin Best as well as the commenting talk by Prof. Dr. Felix Creutzig and the concluding panel discussion on “Energy sufficiency in the political practice” are available further below under VIDEOS.

Podcasts

[german] Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung #Wir im Wandel. Retten und Teilen – Nicole und Najine engagieren sich für suffizienten Konsum – with Johannes Thema

[german] Deutschlandfunk #Der Tag : CO2 über alles? – Benjamin Best

[german] Zukunftswissen.fm #21: Eine Zukunft ohne Wachstum? – Barbara Muraca, Benjamin Best

[german] Future Economies #10: Energieverbrauch senken – der einzige Weg? – Bendix Vogel