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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  1. Interoperability of mineral sustainability initiatives
  2. Gender Mainstreaming in der Forschung zur berufsbegleitenden akademischen Weiterbildung
  3. Netzwerke des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses im Kontext der Erziehungswissenschaft
  4. Institutional challenges for space activities in Europe
  5. Music City
  6. Die Eigenverbrauchsregelung in § 33 Abs. 2 EEG nach der Photovoltaik-Novelle 2010
  7. IMAGE: Development of a European curriculum for the training of prevention managers
  8. Digitalization, structuration and agency in organizations concerned with the placement of refugee parents in institutions of early childhood care and education
  9. Sichtweisen zu Lern- und Leistungsschwierigkeiten im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule
  10. The marketing and public affairs of sustainability
  11. Sharing Economy
  12. Das Emotionsspektrum von Autofahrern im Straßenverkehr
  13. Silence / Signification Degree Zero: Walter Benjamin’s Anti-Aesthetic of the Body
  14. Die Bedeutung transdisziplinärer Kooperationen an Hochschulen
  15. Bonitätsbeurteilung kleiner Unternehmen mit nicht-linearen Klassifikationsverfahren
  16. Greenpeace Nachhaltigkeitsbarometer 2015
  17. Hybrid life cycle assessment of an onshore wind farm including direct and indirect services
  18. Messung und Steuerung unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit
  19. Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Energy
  20. § 62 Bußgeldvorschriften
  21. Expert-based scenarios for strategic waste and resource management planning: C&D waste recycling in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
  22. Characterizing commercial cattle farms in Namibia
  23. The psychology of entrepreneurship
  24. Transformationale Führung an Schulen in Hamburg
  25. Die Klima-Manipulateure
  26. Tropical cyclone losses in the USA and the impact of climate change