生物多样性、运作良好的生态系统、清洁的水和完整的土壤都构成了自然资源基础。面对全球变化，亥姆霍兹环境研究中心（UFZ）的员工团结一致，致力于展示将社会发展与健康环境相结合的方法。中心的综合环境研究包括未来的生态系统、水资源和环境、环境中的化学物质、环境与生物技术、智能模型监测以及环境与社会。

UFZ通过出色的研究在科学界发挥塑造作用。作为可靠的合作伙伴，UFZ支持公众更好地了解人类行为对环境的影响，并为社会决策过程制定可行的选择。为此，UFZ对社会创造的刺激做出反应，并通过生产有助于快速识别包含环境与社会之间相互冲突的优先事项的问题的诀窍和技术。

在处理复杂的环境问题时，需要克服自然科学、工程科学和社会科学之间的学科界限。UFZ在综合环境研究方面具有广泛的能力。它拥有创新的科学基础设施，并培养了不可或缺的国家和国际合作，能够在最高水平上解决问题。

Biodiversity, well-functioning ecosystems, clean water and intact soils all form a natural resource base. In the face of global change, the staff of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) are united in their commitment to demonstrate ways of combining social development with a healthy environment. The Centre's integrated environmental research includes future ecosystems, water resources and the environment, chemicals in the environment, environment and biotechnology, intelligent model monitoring, and environment and society.

UFZ plays a shaping role in the scientific community through outstanding research. As a reliable partner, the UFZ supports the public to better understand the impact of human behaviour on the environment and to develop viable options for the social decision-making process. To this end, the UFZ responds to socially created stimuli and, through production, contributes to the rapid identification of issues containing conflicting priorities between the environment and society.

In dealing with complex environmental problems, disciplinary boundaries between the natural sciences, engineering sciences and social sciences need to be overcome. The UFZ has a wide range of capabilities in integrated environmental research. It has an innovative scientific infrastructure and fosters indispensable national and international cooperation that can solve problems at the highest level.