Lösungskorridor

English translation: scope for action

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German term or phrase:Lösungskorridor
English translation:scope for action
Entered by: Yuu Andou

10:34 Dec 26, 2023
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Energy / Power Generation / renewable energy source
German term or phrase: Lösungskorridor
Net Zero im Gebäudebestand bis 2045 ist machbar – der Weg zum Ziel wird aber steiler, wie ein Gutachten aus dem Wirtschaftsministerium zeigt. Eine klare Absage geht an die umfassende Nutzung von Biomasse und Wasserstoff. Empfohlen wird ein Turbo für Sanierungen und beim Wärmepumpen-Rollout.

Im Kern lässt sich sagen, dass der ***Lösungskorridor*** sehr eng und steiler ist als in bisherigen Studien. Fehler können kaum noch kompensiert werden können. Aber noch sei nichts verloren: Net Zero im Gebäudesektor kann erreicht werden, wenn sofort gehandelt wird, heißt es in dem Hintergrundpapier.
Yuu Andou
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scope for action
Explanation:
https://www.vita.ch/en/pension-plan-related-issues/knowledge...
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Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:05
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Vielen Dank!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5scope for action
Lancashireman
4 +2path(way) to a solution
Johannes Gleim
3 +2Window of opportunity?
Michael Kelly
4pathways for resolving challenges
Michael Martin, MA
3solution corridor
Maja_K
2range of alternative approaches
Adrian MM.
1decision corridor
Bourth


Discussion entries: 2





  

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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
solution corridor


Explanation:
.. as in "narrow/restricted solution corridor"

https://www.parisbeacon.com/faltering-climate-plan-2045-amid...

Maja_K
Germany
Local time: 11:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in MacedonianMacedonian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  philgoddard: Sadly, because your reference is a translation, it's by definition unreliable.
2 hrs
  -> oh, so published translations are by definition unreliable? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

neutral  Björn Vrooman: I wouldn't go as far as Phil, but the translator clearly didn't know what to make of the word. To his or her defense, though, it's not a very well-written paragraph (it should be clear from the "können" bit that no editor has taken a look at the text).
7 hrs

agree  Adrian MM.: OK if English is being used as a relay or 'bridging' lingo into the asker's native lingo of Japanese where it might well work (alas, I was only at conferences & on revision courses at Cantab & SOAS/ School of *Oriental* & African Studies, London Uni. )
2 days 3 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Window of opportunity?


Explanation:
If you went with a literal translation, it would sound very strange. Maybe something like this:
Essentially it can be noted that the window of opportunity is relatively small, and more to difficult to enter than has been found by previous studies.

Michael Kelly
France
Local time: 11:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Good idea.//Yes, one of those fake MAs. Which college?
1 hr
  -> Thanks Phil! A fellow MA Cantab I see! (I was at Sidney Sussex. I wouldn't say fake!)

agree  Kim Metzger
3 hrs
  -> Thanks Kim!

neutral  Johannes Gleim: A steep or difficult window? Will not work acc. MHO.
1 day 4 hrs
  -> That's why I adapted the rest of the sentence.

neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: Such windows are often related to time. Too restrictive here I reckon.
1 day 7 hrs
  -> Greenhouse gases are a time-sensitive issue. However, the best translation is also a subjective issue, so of course some may prefer other solutions.
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1 day 5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
scope for action


Explanation:
https://www.vita.ch/en/pension-plan-related-issues/knowledge...

Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 102
Grading comment
Vielen Dank!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Björn Vrooman: I wish people would read the d-box. Since a Lösungskorridor is essentially Handlungsspielraum, this here is something I can work with. Alternatively, you got a limited number/range of options/solutions (plural!)--while the hill to climb is pretty steep.
6 hrs

agree  Cilian O'Tuama: Sums it up best, IMO. Path(way) hört sich fast vorgegeben an. Scope läßt einen seinen eigenen Weg suchen/finden.
8 hrs

agree  Kim Metzger
12 hrs

agree  uyuni: with Björn and Cilian
18 hrs

agree  Marion Linssen
1 day 22 hrs
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
path(way) to a solution


Explanation:
Was ist ein "Lösungskorridor"?

Die vom Bundeswirtschaftsministerium beauftragten Gutachter gehen davon aus, dass ein klimaneutraler Gebäudebestand bis 2045 machbar ist, doch der "Lösungskorridor" sei "sehr eng".
https://www.boersennews.de/nachrichten/artikel/enger-loesung...

Im Kern lässt sich sagen, dass der Lösungskorridor sehr eng und steiler ist als in bisherigen Studien. Fehler können kaum noch kompensiert werden können. Aber noch sei nichts verloren: Net Zero im Gebäudesektor kann erreicht werden, wenn sofort gehandelt wird, heißt es in dem Hintergrundpapier.
https://www.haufe.de/immobilien/wohnungswirtschaft/dena-leit...

Check out Infotrend Inc's latest blog post on "Analysis of Alternatives" (AoA):
"An AoA ultimately provides the

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I wonder why my chain of links are broken? … I strived again to retrieve some of the lost examples:

Check out Infotrend Inc's latest blog post on "Analysis of Alternatives" (AoA):
"An AoA ultimately provides the pathway to a solution that is the closest fit to a set of requirements.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martialmichel_what-is-an-anal...

The narrow path to a solution would require North Korea to recognize South Korea and give up the goal of unifying the peninsula on its own terms.
https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/dotard

This paper presents a method that permits the students to work out their own logical pathway to a solution, rather than having to recall a previously learned series of solution steps. The students begin by analyzing the information content of the problem, writing out the objective and given, following which they work out a pathway.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ed080p92

He says he thinks he has found a pathway to a solution.
The Guardian (2016)
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-german/...

The global stocktake is like an inventory. It looks at everything related to where the world stands on climate action and support. This includes identifying gaps and working together to agree on a pathway to a solution.
https://www.avonpensionfund.org.uk/calling-action-climate-ch...

We’ll be working together in a safe environment to work through your issues and build a strong and sustainable pathway to a solution.
https://www.roaringberry.com/life-and-executive-coaching/

Initially, all of these paths offer more solutions than just one, but some are difficult to achieve and others are less effective. As a result, all efforts ultimately converge towards an effective solution that is as simple as possible.

Johannes Gleim
Local time: 11:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 98

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gordon Matthews: I think "pathway..." or "way to a solution" works better as a consistent (and commonly used) metaphor: The pathway is "steep and (very) narrow". A window (of opportunity) can be narrow, but not steep.
3 hrs
  -> This is true especially to a steep path, other than a window.

neutral  Björn Vrooman: Won't disagree, since I didn't with Maja--but this wording (taken from a translation of one of Frank-Walter Steinmeier's speeches) is just as unfortunate. A Lösungskorridor is a Korridor möglicher Lösungen. That element of plurality is now missing.
11 hrs
  -> Ganau das habe ich gesagt, aber leider waren die meisten Links verloren gegangen.

agree  Bourth: Wie eng ist die Pforte und wie schmal der Weg, der zum Leben führt, und wenige sind's, die ihn finden / Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Nicely expressed.
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1 day 12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
decision corridor


Explanation:
German really isn't my language, so I'm giving this low confidence, even if it makes perfect sense to me.

Is too much emphasis being put on the physical nature of any Lösungen rather than on the thinking that might lead to solutions being found? I have seen Lösungskorridor translated into French as corridor décisionnel which, seen from a certain angle, makes a lot of sense. Solutions will be reached by making decisions to discard some options and back others.
As in a quality-control line, where products in conformity will continue towards packaging while others will be swatted off the conveyor belt for destruction, some ideas will progress to the end of the corridor while others are pushed out side doors.
Here are some examples where I think 'decision corridor' (of which you will find plenty of examples on the Ouèbbhe) could translate Lösungskorridor.

Sie bekommen von uns eine Auswahl zwischen Lösungen, zwischen Anbietern und zwischen Herstellern. Sie entscheiden und nicht irgend ein Hersteller, wir sind Ihr Ideengeber und Berater. Sie bekommen von uns einen Lösungskorridor, der Ihnen hilft, Ihren Kommunikationsbedarf einzugrenzen. Wir zeigen Ihnen das richtige "Regal" und Sie müssen nur noch zugreifen, vergleichen und abwägen.
https://knowledge.dekom.com/in-7-lektionen-zum-experten-fuer...

In Lösungen denken
Wenn wir in Krisen geraten, drehen sich unsere Gedanken in erster Linie um das Problem, das es zu lösen gilt. Wir analysieren es aus jeder erdenklichen Perspektive und kennen es in- und auswendig. Dennoch glauben wir immer tiefer in das Problem eintauchen zu müssen, bevor wir etwas ändern können. Allerdings manifestieren wir so unter Umständen das Problem. Wir stecken fest. Nichts ändert sich. Alles bleibt wie es ist. Unser Lösungskorridor ist eingeschränkt.
https://www.saskiakuhmann.de/post/sieben-säulen-der-resilien...

Wenn die Wissenschaft unser Weltverständnis prägt, wenn sie zentrale politische Probleme definiert und wenn sie Lösungskorridor vorzeichnet, dann wirkt ihre Beschreibung als rein politikberatende Instanz etwas verzwergend
https://www.wissenschaftsmanagement-online.de/system/files/d...

In Brandenburg hat die Gewerkschaft Verdi den Streik nach zwei Wochen für neue Tarifverhandlungen ausgesetzt. Gespräche mit dem Kommunalen Arbeitgeberverband (KAV) hätten am Freitag eine kompromissfähige Basis ergeben. Auch der KAV-Verhandlungsführer Klaus Klapproth zeigte sich zuversichtlich. „Wir haben einen Lösungskorridor gefunden, der eine Einigung möglich macht“, sagte er der Deutschen Presse-Agentur. Bis zum Beginn der neuen Tarifverhandlungen am Dienstag wollten sich beide Seiten nicht mehr äußern.
https://taz.de/!869179/

Die Aufgabenstellung wird hinsichtlich ihrer Verständlichkeit, der fachlichen und zeitlichen Machbarkeit sowie hinsichtlich des Lösungskorridor überprüft.
https://www.pruefen-im-handwerk.de/fileadmin/redaktion/news/...

Die Polen mögen sich da ebenso angesprochen fühlen wie die Tschechen und Briten, die ebenfalls als Verfassungsskeptiker gelten.Jose Manuel Barroso, Chef der EU-Kommission, warnte etwas deutlicher in Richtung Polen, Aufschub des Problems sei keine Lösung. Langsam scheine sich "ein Lösungskorridor abzuzeichnen", sagte Steinmeier, doch am Ziel sei die deutsche EU-Präsidentschaft noch nicht. Natürlich weiß auch der Bundesaußenminister, dass Polen das größte Hindernis auf Europas Weg aus seiner Verfassungskrise darstellt
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/polens-regierungschef...

Meine Hoffnung, dass durch diese Regierung die durch die Energiewende getriebenen dramatischen Verwerfungen in der deutschen Energiewirtschaft konzentriert und konsequent aufgegriffen und in verträgliche Lösungskorridor gebracht werden, sind leider eher gering. Wir – und damit meine ich uns alle, jeden Mitarbeiter – müssen uns aktiv in diesen Prozess einbringen
https://www.gmbgmbh.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/GMB_Dialog...

Here we have 'decision corridor' in a text written by a German … well, Austrian, where the original might well have been 'Lösungskorridor':

In this way, double loop learning can be enabled right from the beginning of the planning process especially addressed to strategic environmental problems. The methods support to follow a decision corridor as laid out above, in which environmentally unsustainable planning solutions can be excluded on the level of system alternatives.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14615517.2019.1...


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Bourth
France
Local time: 11:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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2 days 5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
range of alternative approaches


Explanation:
if English isn't being used as a relay or 'bridging' language into the asker's native language of Japanese. Surely, I'm not the only one this alternative has occured to.

Lösungsweg : approach; FWIW Der Grosse Eichborn

Ausweichösung : alternative approach.

Otherwise, it has nowt to do with Handlungspielraum or Handlungsbedarf.

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Ausweich*l*ösung

Example sentence(s):
  • Range-based approaches categorisation from publication

    Reference: http://ludwig.guru/s/range+of+approaches
    Reference: http://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/lösungsk...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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4 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
pathways for resolving challenges


Explanation:
When I translated the whole sentence, I found that "scope of action" or "solution" didn't really work that well..

"Essentially​ what has emerged is that ​we're facing more narrow and steeper pathways for those challenges than previous studies indicated."

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Note added at 4 days (2023-12-30 16:07:26 GMT)
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Correction: Scope for action, not scope of action.

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 05:05
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 61

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lancashireman: Sorry that 'scope for action' didn't work for you. I have to confess that I have never 'faced a pathway' before, let alone a 'pathway for a challenge'. And are these narrower pathways or more pathways that are narrow?
4 days
  -> Are you under a lot of stress, Andrew?
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