THESys researchers Leonardo R. Ramírez and Ina Säumel explored the effect of land-use change from extensively used grasslands to intensified silvi- and agricultural monocultures on metacommunity structure of native forests in Uruguay. Now their paper has been published in Ecology and Evolution. Native forest metacommunity structures in Uruguay shaped by novel land-use types in their…
Almost at the same time, THESys Doctoral Researchers Beril Ocaklı and Karen Lebek have successfully defended their dissertations. Congratulations! On 23 February 2022, Beril Ocaklı defended her work on „Extractive socionatures and resistance. The un/making of Kyrgyzstan’s gold rush“. Only one day later, on 24 February, Karen Lebek followed with her work on „Exploring water…
IRI THESys welcomes scholarship holder Franziska Walther! Thanks to a six-month Humboldt Research Track Scholarship, the young researcher is given the opportunity to work on her PhD proposal and a corresponding funding application. Her planned research project focusses on the socio-ecological system of the Greek-Albanian Vjosa river. As the Vjosa is one of the few…
On the 19th and 20th of January 2022 an interdisciplinary group of 40 researchers gathered online to exchange experiences in researching and developing models to study water distributions and governance. The event was an opportunity to present on-going research projects and gauge interest for future collaboration. Towards a reflexive approach When drinking a glass of…
By conducting a policy document analysis, interviews and workshops, THESys Doctoral Researcher Emily Theokritoff and Sarah D’haen took a look at the adaptation science-policy interface in Burkina Faso and make suggestions on how to further strengthen it. How is science making its way into national climate change adaptation policy? Burkina Faso is highly vulnerable to…
On 28 February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the contribution of Working Group II to its Sixth Assessment Report. IRI THESys researcher Delphine Deryng was one of the lead authors of Chapter 5 on food, fibre, and other ecosystem products. Negative effects of climate change will intensify as temperatures continue to…
Water, soil and people – this is what THESys researchers Theresa Frommen and Tobia Lakes want to investigate in their new BMBF-funded science communication project “Geowissenschaftliche Landpartie (Geosciences go rural)” as part of the Science Year 2022 – Participate! What is happening in rural areas? The aim of the project is to facilitate direct exchange…
On February 17th, during the second day of the Making Cities Edible Conference, the winners of the first-ever EdiCitNet awards were announced. These are the winners: Mellomrommet (“The Space”), a community-driven urban garden initiative in Oslo, Norway; Issam Ben Chaaben, an innovative and resourceful urban farmer in Carthage, Tunisia; RESTLOS GLÜCKLICH e.V., an initiative working…
“Water is life, but nobody knows it!” exclaimed a passerby of the bright orange and purple Mall Anders in the Wilma shopping centre. A temporary learning lab built within a former retail space, Mall Anders has become a hub for transdisciplinary events, exhibitions and workshops. Funded by the Berlin-University Alliance, the space invites everyone— including collectives,…
A new report released in February 2022 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is a call to action. It addresses policymakers worldwide seeking to develop sustainable and equitable solutions to our most urgent global challenges. “Ten Facts about Land Systems for Sustainability” was co-authored by…
