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Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)

Organisational unit: Institute

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Vision & Mission

We envision a fair world where the benefits generated within social-ecological systems are shared sustainably with other species, both within and across generations. Solutions to sustainability challenges are developed collaboratively across diverse scientific disciplines, knowledge systems, and social interests. To realise our vision, we recognise the need for transformative change. In pursuit of such change we:

  • use place-based social-ecological systems thinking to understand and resolve sustainability challenges such as biodiversity loss and environmental injustice;
  • bring together insights and approaches from the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities in genuinely collaborative endeavours;
  • integrate experiences, practices, and understandings from diverse knowledge systems;
  • embed tools for transformative change into the social-ecological systems thinking via a leverage points perspective;
  • develop and apply methods to bridge multiple scales and governance levels; and
  • provide spaces for people sharing our vision to meet and exchange ideas.

Main research areas

We primarily conduct integrative and transdisciplinary research. In particular, the following topics are central to the Institute's research work:

  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Biocultural diversity
  • Cross-scale governance
  • Leverage points & transformation
  • Ecosystem services
  • Relational values
  • Environmental justice
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  1. PRIME Stipendium: Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience

    Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.20 → 31.05.22

    Project: Other

  2. Project “Soils in the Media: Soil Topics on Youtube”

    Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic), Luenststaeden, B. (Project staff), Skubowius, K. M. (Project staff) & Beier, A. (Project staff)

    01.03.13 → 01.12.13

    Project: Other

  3. Raumkonflikte – Konflikträume: Wie beinflussen neue molekularbiologische Züchtungstechniken Diskurse und Praktiken in ländlichen Räumen in Großbritannien und Deutschland?

    Friedrich, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.19 → 31.03.20

    Project: Research

  4. Regionalisierte sozio-technische und -kulturelle Erfolgsfaktoren für ein nachhaltiges Wasser- und Landmanagment

    Katz, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.09 → 31.12.09

    Project: Research

  5. Ressourcenpolitik und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Globalisierung

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bauhardt, C. (Partner)

    01.04.10 → 31.03.13

    Project: Research

  6. RURAGRI-MULTAGRI: Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land use (MULTAGRI). Work package 5: Governance challenges to encourage landscape-scale uptake of appropriate management actions

    Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    29.08.13 → 31.12.16

    Project: Research

  7. Move'n'Sense: Sense of place and mobility in cross-border contexts – essentialist and progressive perspectives

    Gottwald, S. (Project manager, academic) & Kołodyńska, I. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    05.11.21 → 02.01.25

    Project: Research

  8. PoNa: Shaping nature: Policy, Policies and Polity. Rural Development and Biotechnology in Agriculture between Criticism and Vision

    Mölders, T. (Project manager, academic), Gottschlich, D. (Project manager, academic), Paszkowska, J. (Coordination), Friedrich, B. (Project staff), Sulmowski, J. A. (Project staff), Burandt, A. (Project staff), Szumelda, A. U. (Project staff) & Roth, S. (Coordination)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.11.09 → 31.10.14

    Project: Research

  9. SENet: Social and ecological networks supporting biodiversity and food security

    Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Bergsten, A. (Project manager, academic)

    Europäische Union

    15.01.16 → 17.03.18

    Project: Research

  10. SoCoFarm: SoCoFarm: Soil Communication by Farmers; Study on Farmer´s Perception of and Communication about Soils

    Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic) & Tischbierek, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.14 → …

    Project: Other

  11. Solidarity Farming - An Innovative Concept as a Contribution to the Strengthening of Agricultural SMEs and Sustainable Regional Development?

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Lang, F. J. (Project staff) & Schrader, R. (Project staff)

    01.08.12 → 28.04.13

    Project: Research

  12. tdAcademy: Modul Gäste und Fellows

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Grauer, C. (Project staff) & Lam, D. (Project staff)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    01.05.20 → 31.05.25

    Project: Research

  13. sTeleBES : Telecoupled use of biodiversity and ecosystem services: synthesis of concepts, methods and evidence

    Schröter, M. (Project manager, academic), Bonn, A. (Coordination), Koellner, T. (Project manager, academic) & Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.11.16 → 01.11.17

    Project: Research

  14. The future of brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Transylvania

    Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Dorresteijn, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.12 → 27.04.15

    Project: Research

  15. The future of the European brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Transylvania II: How to maintain coexistence in a rapidly changing system

    Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Dorresteijn, I. (Project manager, academic)

    International Association for Bear Research and Management

    01.02.13 → 20.04.15

    Project: Research

  16. ETH-Coffee: Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy: A Scenario Analysis for the Jimma Coffee Landscape in Ethiopia

    Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Schultner, J. (Project manager, academic), Abson, D. (Project manager, academic), Duguma, D. W. (Project manager, academic), Jiren, T. S. (Project staff) & Brück, M. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.11.19 → 31.08.23

    Project: Research

  17. TraVo: Transformation in Ökonomie und Politik: Teilvorhaben 2: Nachhaltigkeitswissenschafliche Ansätze und Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Transformationsdebatte

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Moths, K. (Project staff), Amri-Henkel, A. (Project staff) & Lenz, C. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.08.15 → 30.10.16

    Project: Research

  18. Understanding human-carnivore relationships: from social conflicts to ecosystem services

    Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic), Lozano Mendoza, J. (Project staff), von Wehrden, H. (Partner), Dorresteijn, I. (Partner) & Fischer, J. (Partner)

    01.11.16 → 31.10.17

    Project: Research

  19. Unraveling patterns of ecosystem services supply: a case study in Southern Chile

    Benra, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.18 → 31.08.22

    Project: Dissertation project

  20. VaNaTe: Unravelling the relation between Values of Nature and Telecoupling

    Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.23 → 30.04.26

    Project: Research

  21. Von Weltbürger_innen und Anderen. Subjektivation im entwicklungspolitischen Freiwilligendienst weltwärts

    Kontzi, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.09 → 05.02.14

    Project: Dissertation project

  22. Vorsorgendes Wirschaften: Wege zur gesellschaftlichen Transformation. Diskursanalytische Untersuchung des Transformationsfeldes Energie

    Amri-Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.16 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  23. Vorstudie: Universitäre und universitätsübergreifende Voraussetzungen für Nachwuchsförderung im Themenfeld "Gender und Nachhaltigkeit".

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Katz, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.00 → 01.04.01

    Project: Research

  24. Waldwissen; wa'gen: Waldwissen und Naturerfahrungen auf dem Prüfstand: Reflexion von Natur- und Tätigkeitsverständnissen zur Entwicklung einer gendersensiblen forstlichen Waldbildungskompetenz

    Katz, C. (Project manager, academic) & Mayer, M. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.05.05 → 30.11.08

    Project: Research

  25. BiodiWert: Was sind erfolgreiche Konzepte zur Wiederherstellung artenreichen Grünlandes in Deutschland? Eine multiregionale Bewertung sozial-ökologischer Systeme und pilothafte Umsetzung (Grassworks)

    Temperton, V. (Project manager, academic), Leventon, J. (Project staff), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Martín-López, B. (Project staff), May, F. (Project staff), Tischew, S. (Partner), Kirmer, A. (Partner), Kollmann, J. (Partner), Beckmann, V. (Partner), Dieker, P. (Partner), Thiele, J. (Partner) & Metzner, J. (Partner)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.10.20 → 30.09.21

    Project: Research

  26. Wildnis und nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.07 → …

    Project: Research

  27. WiN: Wirtschaften in Netzen – Stärkung regionaler Absatzmärkte für KMU als Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung der Region

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Lang, F. J. (Project staff), Burandt, A. (Project staff), Schrader, R. (Project staff), Thiem, A. (Project staff) & Japsen, A. (Project staff)

    Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank

    01.08.10 → 31.12.15

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  28. Wissenschaftliche Qualifizierungswege - Mentoring an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

    Thiem, A. (Project staff) & Hofmeister, S. (Partner)

    01.01.07 → 30.04.12

    Project: Teaching

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