Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

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. "Invasive" Arten im Prozessschutz

    Kapitza, K. (Project manager, academic) & Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1730.04.20

    Project: Dissertation project

  2. Kleinforschungsprojekt: Transformationsfeld Energiewende im Raum - Impulse aus der Genderforschung

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Henkel, A. (Project staff) & Stumpe, F. (Project staff)

    16.02.1530.09.15

    Project: Research

  3. Kollektiv-privater Landbesitz und die Krise des (Re)Produktiven

    Dannenberg, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.13 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  4. Language for Sustainability: Sustaining Biodiversity and Biocultures

    Manuel-Navarrete, D. (Project manager, academic), Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic), Lam, D. (Project staff), Swanson, T. D. (Project manager, academic), Gerber, L. (Project staff), Mwampamba, T. H. (Project manager, academic), Escalante, A. E. (Project staff) & Camou Guerreroe, A. (Project staff)

    01.07.1830.06.19

    Project: Research

  5. Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge

    Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic), Sieveking, A. (Project staff), Klaniecki, K. T. (Project staff), Dorninger, C. (Project staff), Clarke, E. A. (Project staff), Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Project staff), Lam, D. (Project staff), Patru-Duse, I. A. (Project staff), Jager, N. W. (Project staff), Derwort, P. (Project staff), Patru-Duse, I. A. (Project staff), Apetrei, C.-I. (Project staff), Freeth, R. C. (Project staff), Engbers, M. (Project staff), Peukert, D. (Project staff), Berkau, A. J. (Project staff), Lutz, L. M. (Coordination), Leventon, J. (Project manager, academic) & Abson, D. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.04.1531.03.21

    Project: Research

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  6. Variability in leaf traits reveals contrasting strategies between forest and grassland woody communities across southern Brazil
  7. The impact of the 2004 EU-enlargement on enterprise performance and exports of service enterprises in the German eastern border region
  8. Das Gebot der eindeutigen Leistungsbeschreibung zwischen Vergaberecht und Allgemeiner Rechtsgeschäftslehre
  9. Der Grundsatz der Subsidiarität der Verfassungsbeschwerde auf dem Prüfstand des Unionsrechts
  10. Zur Tiefenstruktur des Bildungswachstums von 1800 bis 2000
  11. The Great Pacific Garbage Catch
  12. Nikolaos - Nikolaiten
  13. Sprach(en)sensibilität
  14. Ladwig, Bernd (2020): Politische Philosophie der Tierrechte
  15. „1940er-1950er. Grund und Körper“
  16. Ein modifiziertes Newton-Verfahren zur Lösung des Hochrechnungsproblems nach dem Prinzip des minimalen Informationsverlustes
  17. Rational Socially Responsible Investment
  18. Betriebswirtschaftliche Steuerlehre
  19. Als Musiker unterwegs an Bord der Hansekogge
  20. Vollrauschtatbestand und unsicherer Rauschgrad
  21. Vierzig Jahre "Überwachen und Strafen"
  22. Kommunale Möglichkeiten zur Förderung regionaler Wertschöpfung bei Windenergieprojekten
  23. Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  24. Diversität im Sportspielunterricht
  25. Berücksichtigung statutsfremder Sicherheits- und Verhaltensregeln
  26. PUMA's Environmental Profit and Loss Statement
  27. Ecopharmacology -A New Topic of Importance in Pharmacovigilance
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