‘One gram of gold’, a short documentary film by THESys Doctoral Researcher Anna Frohn Pedersen, has been selected for the German International Ethnographic Film Festival 2022, which will take place in Göttingen between May 25th – 29th. The film is about gold — a global commodity shaping local livelihoods and landscapes across the world. It…
In the March edition of the HU podcast “humboldt hören” (listening to humboldt), THESys Members Peter Feindt and Harald Grethe talk with radio journalist Cora Knoblauch about urgently needed agricultural reforms and animal welfare issues, and discuss the connection between environmental protection and sustainable nutrition. In the interview, the two agricultural scientists make it clear…
Together with colleagues from the University of Insbruck, THESys Member Christoph Schneider has published a study on glacial lakes in the mountains of High Asia. In the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, the authors show that the water volume of glacial lakes could increase tenfold compared to today as a result of climate change. This…
The latest KOSMOS-Lesung from 3 of February 2022 with economist Ottmar Edenhofer (MCC, PIK, TU) has now appeared on the IRI THESys YouTube channel. Climate, science, politics – comments on a difficult relationship In his KOSMOS-Lesung, Ottmar Edenhofer explained that science should not be politicised. But that science can help politicians to make the right…
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…
