This inter- and transdisciplinary research aims at understanding provisioning systems, e.g. housing, care, mobility, and energy systems, with a focus on their spatial and social-ecological dimensions. A provisioning approach parts from a broad understanding of economics and the economy by investigating production, consumption, and distribution in an integrated way. It elaborates theories and undertakes empirical research to understand contemporary transformations by investigating economies as social-ecological systems that provide the material infrastructures, services, and goods to satisfy human needs. It distinguishes different economic zones, e.g. the foundational economy, with variegated effectiveness for satisfying needs in a socially just and ecologically sustainable way. From multiple perspectives, but mainly from social-ecological and feminist economics, it focuses on the uneven, gendered and ethnicized provisioning of basic infrastructures, goods, and services and examines how provisioning systems adapt to social-ecological crises. And it investigates innovative forms of multi-level planning the transformation of provisioning systems by linking top-down and bottom-up approaches. The unit has a strong transdisciplinary focus, due to the importance of activating local knowledge and of involving stakeholders in shaping inclusive and sustainable provisioning of foundational infrastructures, goods, and services.