Sustainable Georessources Management

The research and teaching area "Georesources Management" covers "classical" georesources such as fossil energy and mineral resources, renewable resources such as geothermal energy, applied technical resources in the form of geomaterials, and the relationships between georesources, environment and mankind.

At the Geological Institute, research focuses on cross-sectional topics such as the material flow analysis of certain georesources - hydrogen, geothermal energy, hydrocarbons -, the use and economization as well as the ecological assessment of georesources projects, and the analysis of social and economic implications - Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR. In the coming years, these analyses and methods will increasingly be covered at the Institute and in cooperation with other departments in the course of the energy transition in North Rhine-Westphalia.