NSSI Research

The NSSI research groups are engaged with environmental decision making processes. We investigate prerequisites, constraints and impacts of individual, organizational and social decision making. NSSI develops methods, models and theories for investigating environmental decision making with the goal of establishing sustainable human and environment interactions.

Postdocs (Oberassistenten)

Research Projects

Transdisciplinarity Laboratory (TdLab) »»

There is a need for adequate institutional facilities through which a science-society dialogue can be established, e.g., a transdisciplinarity laboratory. Here, scientists and non-scientists cooperate for a certain period of time, aspire to a mutual learning process and conduct transdisciplinary research. The TdLab has developed the ETH-NSSI Case Study in the Department of Environmental Sciences, which has organized twelve case studies in Zurich and, furthermore, has contributed to almost ten case studies in Sweden, Germany and Austria. The transdisciplinary case study is a hybrid combining learning, research, and application used to learn competencies and skills necessary for research in problems of sustainable development. In case studies, methods are used that allow to integrate different types and qualities of knowledge, as well as different interests and types of cognitive representations. The current focus of the TdLab is on the application of our knowledge, skills and experiences to real(-life), complex, societally-relevant problems shaped by environmental issues, such as radioactive waste management.