WAoeN (german: Wortliste der Assoziationen zur ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit) is a word list that contains 1800 German words that are associated to environmental sustainability. The word list is based on a word list of the German Environment Agency (UBA/BMU 2021) and was extended by using a Word2Vec Model as well as GermaNet. Each word was then assigned an association value indicating how strongly (=5) or weakly (=1) the keyword was associated with environmental sustainability.
The .csv-file ist structured as follows:
| Keyword | Source | Association Score |
|---|---|---|
| Klimaschutz | UBA Wortliste | 5.0 |
| Naturschutzbund | GermaNet | 4.666666666666667 |
| ... | ... | ... |
The WAoeN was developed in order to identify apprenticeship job advertisements that refer to environmental sustainability. The respective book chapter can be found here. More information (in German) is summarized in this presentation.
A Dashboard with detailed results of the research project can be found here.
Binnewitt, Johanna; Schnepf, Timo (2021): Wortliste zur Assoziation ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit. PUF_1.0. Bonn: Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung. doi:10.7803/550.21.1.7.10
Pfeiffer, Iris; Weber, Heiko (2023): Zum Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit in Arbeit, Beruf und Bildung -Stand in Forschung und Praxis. Bonn.
Bauer, Stefanie; Thobe, Ines; Wolter, Marc Ingo; Helmrich, Robert; Schandock, Manuel; Janser, Markus; Röttger, Christof; Liesen, Andrea; Mohaupt, Franziska (2021): Qualifikationen und Berufe für den Übergang in eine Green Economy. In: UBA, BMU (Hrsg.): Reihe Umwelt, Innovation, Beschäftigung 06/2021, Dessau-Roßlau, Berlin: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/qualifikationen-berufe-fuer-den-uebergang-in-eine