Extreme rainfall, flash flooding, prolonged droughts and increasing pollution… These are just some of the water-related challenges facing the Berlin-Brandenburg region under the impacts of climate change. And while these prognoses require urgent adaptation and mitigation, developing these measures cannot rely solely on technical or scientific advancements. Social and cultural aspects must be integrated into…
*EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE* Until May 25, bachelor’s and master’s students can apply for the University of Girona Summer School on WATER RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE (June 20th – July 1st 2022), organized in collaboration with the Edible Cities Network Project. Participants will be part of an interdisciplinary and international team exploring nature-based solutions and their…
Throughout the course of one year, the students of the interdisciplinary Humboldt-Scholarship ‘Sustainability and Global Justice’ explored the internal and external framework conditions of science communication at HU Berlin. Now their final report has been published on the IRI THESys website. Scientists’ self-conception, third-party funding and successful science communication at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin One of…
‘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…
