Final Theses

We are pleased to supervise Master’s theses that lie in our area of expertise.

Students who want to write their Master’s thesis under our Chair with Prof. Dr. Remmer Sassen as the first supervisor need to meet the following requirements:

When you apply to write a Master’s thesis with the Chair of Environmental Management, you are also signing up for a place in the research study group. In this research study group, you will learn the tools to write a successful Master’s thesis. All the students in the research study group will meet once a month to share their research proposal, progress, and results. Feedback will be exchanged among Prof. Dr. Remmer Sassen, research associates, and participating students during the meeting. Students that are interested in writing a Master’s thesis with the Chair are welcome to participate in the meeting. Successful completion of at least one course held by the Chair of Environmental Management would be recommended. However, it is not necessary if your research proposal meets our research fields. For further information and application to participate in the monthly research study group meeting, please contact Lisa Junge.

Topics

For the focus of your thesis, the potential research questions below could provide you with a basis and lead you in a more concrete direction:

Research field: Corporate Biodiversity Management

• What motivate/ hinder corporations or even small and medium-sized enterprises in a certain sector to implement biodiversity management?

• Drivers and barriers of biodiversity management in the finance sector

• Financial institutions as drivers of sustainable development

• Which quantitative measurement approach helps to promote biodiversity conservation within certain industries?
• Developing a business model for biodiversity in a specific sector
• Materiality analysis on biodiversity aspects in reporting (in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn AG)
• Stakeholder analysis of the practical implementation of biodiversity indicators (in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn AG)

• Possibilities of systematization for biodiversity in wastewater management (in cooperation with Stadtentwässerung Dresden GmbH)

• "Biodiversity at WACKER" (in cooperation with WACKER) 

If you are interested in writing your Master's thesis in this research area, please contact Vera Braun, Lisa Junge, or Yu-Shan Lin Feuer (No supervision possible until 06/2025) depending on your research proposal along with your CV and research plan.

Research field: Sustainability Management and Assessment of Non-Profit Organizations, especially higher education institutions

• Management of and Reporting on biodiversity in the non-profit sector, esp. at universities

Research field: Sustainability Accounting and Sustainable Finance

• Sustainable Finance and Biodiversity Management
• Association between sustainability accounting and reporting and sustainability-related organizational change
• Assessment of and reporting on biodiversity
• How do financial institutions disclose their impact on biodiversity? Empirical analysis of the biodiversity reporting of the Euro Stoxx 600 financial sector.

If you are interested in writing your Master's thesis in these two research areas, please contact Dr. Leyla Azizi along with your CV and research plan.

Research field: Sustainability reporting through the Sustainability Code (DNK)

• Sustainable Management and Reporting: What influence does sustainability reporting have on sustainable management? An empirical study based on the Sustainability Code  

• The Disclosure and Relevance of Risks in Sustainability Reporting: State of the art. An investigation using the Sustainability Code as an example

• Regulatory Frameworks and Sustainability Reporting: The Implementation of the Due Diligence Act in the Sustainability Code in International Comparison

• What role do environmental management systems play in sustainability reporting? An analysis using the Sustainability Code as an example

• Sustainable Transformation of Companies: What role does sustainability reporting play? An analysis using the Sustainability Code as an example

If you are interested in writing your Master's thesis in this research area, please contact Sarah Bärsch along with your CV and research plan.

Other topics relevant to these research fields are also welcome.

Guidelines for Scientific Work

Please remember that your written work must comply with guidelines for the preparation of scientific papers and presentations from the TU Dresden and our Chair. The general guidelines on the good academic behavior of TU Dresden can be found here. The guidelines for academic writing of the Chair of Environmental Management are available here.