A new paper from 30 scientists under the lead of THESys Member Prof. Carl-Friedrich Schleussner published in Nature analyses future scenarios in which we temporarily exceed 1.5°C and bring temperatures back down in the long run. It finds overshoot comes with irreversible consequences and rapid near-term emissions reductions are essential to reducing climate risks. The…
THESys Member Prof. Dr. Dörthe Tetzlaff was recently awarded the Water Resource Prize 2024 by the Rüdiger Kurt Bode Foundation for her outstanding research into the sustainable use of water under drought conditions. Congratulations! Dörthe Tetzlaff is Professor in Ecohydrology at the Geography Department of HU Berlin and Head of the Department 1 Ecohydrology at…
HU – IRI THESys “It was an honour to travel to Berlin and to be hosted at the generous staff at HU. I was attracted to IRI THESys because it has the bold ambition of institutionalising new models of scientific practice that support transformations.” Jason Alexandra A call for the institutionalization of integrative research approaches…
Tobias Krüger, Director of IRI THESys, and communications expert Pauline Münch were appointed as Open Science Ambassadors from the Berlin University Alliance to promote open science standards. This two-year programme aims to raise awareness and encourage the use of open science practices such as transdisciplinary research and transparent handling of research data. The 23 ambassadors,…
In a new paper published in Conservation Letters, THESys Member Tobias Kümmerle discusses how land use is often oversimplified in conservation assessments, policy, and planning—and how integrating Land System Science and Conservation Science can help overcome this. Specifically, he highlights how limited data on (global) land use, weak consideration of land-use dynamics and actor diversity,…
On September 09, 2024, Ana Buchadas successfully defended her PhD thesis “Understanding deforestation frontiers in the world’s tropical dry woodlands” at the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her thesis was supervised by Tobias Kuemmerle and Patrick Meyfroidt. Ana graduated with summa cum laude. This doctoral research sought to understand the patterns, processes, and consequences…
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 cordially invited to apply! Applications for the THESys Award 2024 can be submitted during the application period from 15 July to 01 November…
Información en español abajo | Spanish below The ‘Thinking with Rivers’ initiative, co-led by IRI THESys, contributed to socio-legal actions to defend four rivers in the Magdalena-Cauca Basin and finished in the summer of 2024 The defence of rivers is as plural as their geographies, waters, and communities in Colombia. From local civic actions to…
In his KOSMOS-Lesung, Prof. Philippe Baret shows how agroecology can help to rethink agriculture. From Policies to Practices: An Agroecological Approach to Transition 09.10.2024, 18.00-19.30 HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Senatssaal Agroecology offers a framework to rethink agriculture within the broader context of food systems and proposes a pathway to reconcile agricultural practices with…
As part of the Humboldt-Scholarship “Sustainability and Global Justice”, an interdisciplinary group of students spent a year working on the topic of “Rights of Nature”. Their final report has now been published. Is the current legal framework sufficient for effective nature and climate protection? Do we need to change our Eurocentric understanding of nature and…
