Policy & Politics:
Instruments

Which norms, frameworks, strategies, instruments and organizations are necessary for reducing material flows?

The goal of dematerialization can serve here as a guiding principle. But how can it be implemented? Hence, we research in the following fields:

(a) Frameworks for Markets, Efficiency and Dematerialization

• Dematerialisation and markets: How can Ecological guardrails and institutional frameworks put into practice?
• Are instruments of dematerialization subsidiary?
• Are there conflicts with competition policy?
• Could interventions into markets be minimalized?
• Is there room for deregulation?

(b) Strategies and Instruments of Dematerialisation

• How can ecological innovations be induced?
• What are possible instruments of an Inputoriented Ecological Policy on a
  micro-, meso-, and macro level?
• How practicable are the instruments?
• Which strategies for an Inputoriented Ecological Policy (IEP) are possible?

(c) Integration of Environmental and Economic Policy

For putting dematerialization into practice, environmental and economic policy must be integrated. Therefore,

• implications for the design of an Inputoriented Ecolocigal Policy and
• the design of the supporting economic policy have to be derived

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