CONTENTS: Mapping institutional change... 3, Insa Theesfeld, Frauke Pirscher; Affordability as an institutional obstacle to water-related price reforms... 9, Erik Gawel, Wolfgang Bretschneider; Analysing the shortcomings of the Ukrainian urban waste water sector - Institutional options for...

This study argues that environmental activists need to be better understood to bridge the gap between growing activism and policy. Conventional wisdom is that environmental activists generally support stronger climate policies. But there is still little understanding about diversity of views...

CRISPR/Cas genome editing has the potential to revolutionise agricultural biotechnology and breeding. Also, it can contribute to advancing modern agriculture in multiple respects and lead to shifts in market structure. However, genetic engineering is a highly contested and controversial societal...

CRISPR/Cas is one of the newly developed genome editing techniques, that is expected to have great innovative potential in the very early stages of the food change, i.e. plant breeding. CRISPR/Cas remains within species boundaries. The cisgenetic plants could also be the outcome of conventional...