At IRI THESys, we conduct scientific research into the dynamics of human-environment relations. Against the backdrop of climate change, researchers pay particular attention to the intersections between land use practices and issues of water/energy use and governance. This includes research on food-fuel-fibre production, resource extraction and biodiversity management as well as investigations into the relationship between urban centres and their regional and global hinterlands as connected through technical, economic and regulatory infrastructures.

Unpacking the agricultural frontier in the Peruvian Amazon

PhD Project

Project leaders: Miguel Angel La Rosa Salazar

Deforestation frontiers

PhD Project

Project leader: Ana Buchadas

Land transfer in rural Sichuan, China

PhD Project

Project leader: Kristin Leimer

Agricultural transformations

PhD Project

Project leader: Mehwish Zuberi

Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society (MAT_STOCKS)

Network Project

Project leader: Patrick Hostert

Social space: Exploring the production of space in rural southwestern China

PhD Project

Project leader: Haoying Li

Land ownership and land use

PhD Project

Project leader: Clemens Jänicke

RuralFutures – Strategies towards multifunctional, biodiverse and sustainable productive landscapes

THESys Project

Project leader: Ina Säumel

COUPLED

THESys Project

Project leaders: Jonas Nielsen, Tobias Kümmerle

Solarizing irrigation in India

PhD Project

Project leader: Aditya Korekallu Srinivasa

Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM)

Network Project

Project leader: Sabine Gabrysch

Resilience to multiple harvest failure: The role of storage, trade, and local markets

PhD Project

Project leader: David Meng-Chuen Chen

Organic farmers’ advisory networks

PhD Project

Project leader: E. Grace Leonnig

Post soviet food security

PhD Project

Project leader: Olga Statnaia

Inclusive bioeconomy development

PhD Project

Project leader: Hyunjin Park

Food4Future

PhD Project

Project leader: Anna Heitger

Marine ecological-economic systems in the Western Baltic Sea and beyond: Shifting the baseline to a regime of sustainability

Network Project

Project leader: Robert Arlinghaus

Science-based Management and Sustainable Development of Pike Populations of Coastal Lagoons at Ruegen Considering Socio-economic, Fisheries, Ecological and Touristic factors

Network Project

Project leader: Robert Arlinghaus

Enhancement of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Small Artificial Gravel Pit Lakes through Good Managerial Practice in Recreational Fisheries

Network Project

Project leader: Robert Arlinghaus

ginkoo – Management of integrative innovation processes

Past Project

Project leader: Bettina König

EdiCitNet – Integrating edible city solutions

THESys Project

Project leader: Ina Säumel

Following Dammed Rivers in Colombia

PhD Project

Project leader: Laura Betancur Alarcón

Thinking with Rivers for Environmental Peacebuilding

Network Project

Project leaders: Denisse Roca-Servat, Laura Betancur Alarcón, Ana María Arbeláez, Xiomara Mendoza, Holmedo Peláez Grisales, J. Sebastian Silva

Telecoupled water flows

PhD Project

Project leaders: Heindriken Dahlmann

Geowissenschaftliche Landpartie. Wasser, Boden, Mensch – was passiert im ländlichen Raum?

Past Project

Project leader: Theresa Frommen

CliWaC

Network Project

Project leaders: Britta Tietjen, Uwe Ulbrich, Jörg Niewöhner, Christoph Schneider, Birgit Kleinschmit, Dieter Scherer

AnthropoScenes

THESys Project

Project leader: Jörg Niewöhner

Uncertainties and hydro-social transformations in the salt flats of northern Chile

PhD Project

Glacial lake outburst floods in the Halji region, Nepal

Network Project

Project leader: Christoph Schneider

Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change regarding abiotic factors of vulnerability in glaciated high mountain regions of Central Asia

Network Project

Project leader: Christoph Schneider

Distribution of social-ecological benefits of sand dams in Kenya

PhD Project

Project leader: Pius Borona

Uncertainty in water quality monitoring and modelling

Past Project

Project leader: Hoseung Jung

Integrating the social dimension into hydrogeological research and work

THESys Project

Project leader: Theresa Frommen

Water Security for Whom

THESys Project

Project leader: Tobias Krüger

Atmos/Fears: Learning to Be Affected by Landscapes on Fire

PhD Project

Project leader: Marvin Heine

The Economics of Climate Change

PhD Project

Project leader: Denis Momanyi

Provide

Network Project

Project leader: Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

The need for accountability in climate change adaptation

PhD Project

Project leader: María José Vásquez

Towards the implementation of natural climate solutions

PhD Project

Project leader: Ingrid Schulte

Scenarios for sectoral adaptive capacity to climate change

PhD Project

Project leader: Nicole van Maanen

Biomass pyrolysis

PhD Project

Project leader: Constanze Werner

The climate consistency of fincance flows

PhD Project

Project leader: Luis Zamarioli

Climate response and the interaction of hydro-, atmo- and cryosphere in Southern Patagonia

Network Project

Project leader: Christoph Schneider

Constraints to climate change adaptation

PhD Project

Project leader: Emily Theokritoff

Situating complexity

PhD Project

Project leader: Anja Klein

Ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies

Network Project

Project leader: Stefan Schäfer

Climate change adaptation in China’s agriculture

PhD Project

Project leader: Jelena Grosse-Bley

Remembering future disasters

PhD Project

Project leader: Tomás Usón

EmBARK

THESys Project

Project leader: Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

Tensions between decarbonisation, (neo) extractivism and energy justice: the case of Mexico

PhD Project

Project leader: Itzell Torres

Mining ecology

PhD Project

Project leader: Sascha Cornejo Puschner

Making things happen

PhD Project

Project leader: Krystin Unverzagt

Global flows and local ventures in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

PhD Project

Project leader: Anna Frohn Pedersen

Support and opposition to mining

PhD Project

Project leader: Jorge Vega

Extractive socionatures and resistance.

PhD Project

Project leader: Beril Ocaklı

Experimental Fields

Network Project

Project leader: Sandra Jasper

Living in cold houses, ¿fitting or retrofitting?

PhD Project

Project leader: Paz Araya

DiviCiti

THESys Project

Project leader: Timothy Moss

HealthyLiving – Strategy and planning tool for a healthy green residential environment in the city of the future

THESys Project

Project leader: Ina Säumel

Invisible Berlin

Past Project

Project leader: Timothy Moss

KNOWING – The knowledge politics of smart urbanism

Past Project

Project leader: Timothy Moss

UrbanRain – Urban Rainwater Harvesting from Niche to Mainstream

Past Project

Project leader: Timothy Moss