Call out: THESys Award 2023 for Bachelor and Master theses 

Since 2015, the IRI THESys has been awarding prizes for excellent Bachelor and Master theses in the field of human-environmental research. Now, all bachelor and master graduates of HU Berlin are again invited to apply for our THESys Award! Applications can be submitted during the application period from 15 September to 15 November 2023. Who…

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Perspectivas de investigación: Un laboratorio editorial para co-crear saberes plurales sobre los ríos

English version   ¿Qué conocimientos se consideran válidos cuando hablamos de las transformaciones de los ríos? ¿Por qué las comunidades ribereñas muchas veces no tienen acceso a los resultados de investigaciones en las que ellas mismas participaron? ¿Y cómo pueden reconocerse las experiencias de quienes viven con los ríos como conocimientos relevantes para su gobernanza?…

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Successful PhD: Congratulations to Jelena Große-Bley

Photo credits: Jelena Große-Bley successfully defended her PhD thesis, Unfamiliar Uncertainties: How experts grapple with socio-material relations to adapt to climate change in China’s agriculture. Jelena’s dissertation shows that in times of climate change, unfamiliar uncertainties started to enter ways in which different ecologies of expertise were grappling with relating to sky. Four empirical chapters…

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