The two KOSMOS-Lesungen taking place this summer semester are all about water. In their lectures, Naho Mirumachi (King’s College London) and Dieter Gerten (PIK, HU Berlin) emphasise that we urgently need a new way of dealing with water. Naho Mirumachi focuses on the relationship between water and society and calls for a new water agenda…
Together with colleagues from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), THESys Member Hermann Lotze-Campen co-authored a paper that was recently published in Nature finds. The authors analyse the environmental benefits of microbial protein, a market-ready meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks, and show that substituting just a fifth of meat from cattle with…
Students of the Humboldt-Themenklasse “Sustainability & Global Justice” have published a policy brief on how to reduce CO2 emissions produced by business travel at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The policy brief can now be accessed as a THESys Discussion Paper on the university’s edoc server. Prevention is better than compensation! Through business travel, science and research…
Together with Paola Pozo Inofuentes, THESys member Ina Säumel has published a study demonstrating the importance of park forest trees to the promotion of forest regeneration and recovery in grazed forests in agricultural landscapes in Uruguay. Nurse species facilitate persistence of dry forests in agricultural landscapes in Uruguay Park forests form cultural landscapes of South…
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…
