At the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), we aim to forge new paths towards sustainable futures. We conduct inter- and transdisciplinary research on land use change, integrative food systems, global water cycles, climate change adaptation, and infrastructures.
Sketch by Maxime Le Calvé Anja Klein successfully defended her PhD thesis, Doing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological…
Photo credits: Andrés Vargas. Hyunjin Park successfully defended her PhD thesis, Reorganization of Bio-Based Innovations Towards Inclusion: Insights Into Responses, Constraints, and Governance Challenges. Her…
Paradoxically, the current climatic, political and geopolitical situation, which confronts us with instability and forces us to question many certainties, offers the right moment to…
Congratulations to Robert Arlinghaus, IRI THESys member and professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, for being named one of the “100 most important minds in Berlin’s…
On Earth Day, April 22, 2025, the 19 National Champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize — a globally renowned research award for sustainability — were…
Agroecology in Season: Local Knowledge and Christmas Traditions Across European Landscapes
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