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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. MaSES: Mainstreaming Social-Ecological Sufficiency: Closing the sustainable consumption gap between societal demand and ecological limits (ERC Consolidator Grant)

    Abson, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.23 → 30.04.28

    Project: Research

  2. Management von Gehölzen zur Verbesserung der Multifunktionalität in einer Kulturlandschaft Äthiopiens

    Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic)

    German Federal Environmental Foundation

    15.04.20 → 14.04.23

    Project: Research

  3. Nachhaltige Raumentwicklung - Wirtschaften in Netzen: Regionalvermarktung und Akteursnetzwerke von der Elbe bis zur Heide

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

    15.10.12 → 28.02.13

    Project: Teaching

  4. Nachhaltige Raum- und Regionalentwicklung in der "Energiewende"

    Heilmann, S. (Project manager, academic) & Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.13 → 30.09.18

    Project: Dissertation project

  5. Natur-Wissenschaft-Nachhaltigkeit. Die Bedeutung ökologischer Wissenschaften im Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs sowie deren Zusammenhang mit gesellschaftlichen Natur- und Geschlechtervorstellungen

    Katz, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.00 → 31.07.01

    Project: Research

  6. EQUIVAL: Nurturing a Shift towards Equitable Valuation of Nature in the Anthropocene

    Pascual, U. (Coordination), Balvanera, P. (Project manager, academic) & Martín-López, B. (Partner)

    11.11.17 → …

    Project: Research

  7. OpenNESS: OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

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

    01.10.13 → 31.05.17

    Project: Research

  8. tdAcademy: Platform for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies

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

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.06.20 → 31.08.23

    Project: Research

  9. PoNa: Politiken der Naturgestaltung. Ländliche Entwicklung und Agro-Gentechnik zwischen Kritik und Vision

    Mölders, T. (Project manager, academic) & Gottschlich, D. (Project manager, academic)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.08.08 → 30.04.09

    Project: Research

  10. Politiken nachhaltiger Naturgestaltung als Beitrag zur Demokratisierung der Demokratie – Agro-Gentechnik im Mehrebenensystem (Arbeitstitel)

    Gottschlich, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.09 → …

    Project: Research

  11. PRIME Stipendium: Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience

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

    01.12.20 → 31.05.22

    Project: Other

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Ressourcenpolitik und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Globalisierung

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

    01.04.10 → 31.03.13

    Project: Research

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

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