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Identifying social-ecological System Properties benefiting Biodiversity and Food Security

Project: Research

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Description

Ensuring food security and halting biodiversity decline are urgent, interconnected challenges. Drawing on the natural and social sciences, I propose an interdisciplinary research agenda to address these challenges. My goal is to develop a global theory that explains which properties of social-ecological systems benefit both biodiversity conservation and food security (and which benefit one but not the other). This holistic, systems-oriented approach radically differs from existing work: The most high-profile framing at present focuses on the question how to increase agricultural yields without compromising biodiversity. By contrast, a systems-oriented approach recognizes yield as just one variable alongside others that also influence biodiversity and food security. I will use a multi-scale approach that balances the likely trade-offs between depth and generality. Using a specifically developed typology of social-ecological system properties, I will investigate rural landscapes as social-ecological systems at three levels of detail. First, drawing on expert knowledge, I will develop a global database of at least 50 relevant systems, relating general system properties to indicators of food security and biodiversity. Second, I will conduct in-depth workshops on 15-20 social-ecological systems worldwide to reveal in more detail the causal linkages between system properties, food security and biodiversity. Third, I will conduct an in-depth empirical case study on food security and biodiversity in Ethiopia. This will complement the other components by highlighting the nature of potentially important regional subtleties. My multi-scale approach effectively combines high ambition and high feasibility. SESyP will produce new tools and a holistic theory of relevance to researchers, policy makers, supra-national bodies and non-governmental organizations worldwide.
Beschreibung
AcronymSESyP
StatusFinished
Period01.06.14 → 31.05.19
Linkshttp://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/185544_en.html
https://foodandbiodiversity.wordpress.com/

Doctoral thesis

  • Leveraging livelihoods for a food secure future: Smallholder farming and social institutions in southwest Ethiopia

    Doctoral theses (pilot phase): Doctoral thesis

  • Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in the landscapes of Southwestern Ethiopia: Conservation in a context of land use change and human population growth

    Doctoral theses (pilot phase): Doctoral thesis

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  1. Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity
  2. Deconstructing and reconstructing diversity in client-provider-relationships of social work
  3. Actuator- and/or sensor element for sleeve in medical field e.g. limb or joint fracture treatment, has nano-wires comprising nano-fibers, where element deforms and acquires dimensional change of nano-fibers via electrical signal
  4. Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis
  5. Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components
  6. Personalized Transaction Kernels for Recommendation Using MCTS
  7. Polycrisis patterns
  8. Influence of Dy in solid solution on the degradation behavior of binary Mg-Dy alloys in cell culture medium
  9. Digital twin support for laser-based assembly assistance
  10. Analyzing Pragmatic Variation in English
  11. Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites
  12. Tasks in Action (Research)
  13. A Besov space mapping property for the double layer potential on polygons
  14. Tree species identity and functional traits but not species richness affect interrill erosion processes in young subtropical forests
  15. Distribution of Organophosphate Esters between the Gas and Particle Phase-Model Predictions vs Measured Data
  16. Combining Model Predictive and Adaptive Control for an Atomic Force Microscope Piezo-Scanner-Cantilever System
  17. Using density surface models to assess the ecological effectiveness of a protected area network in Tanzania
  18. Bed-Sharing in Couples Is Associated With Increased and Stabilized REM Sleep and Sleep-Stage Synchronization
  19. Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research
  20. Beyond Structural Adjustment
  21. Rebound Effects in Methods of Artificial Intelligence
  22. Computerspiele
  23. QALD-10 — The 10th Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data
  24. Analysing the gender wage gap (GWG) using personnel records
  25. Does board composition have an impact on CSR reporting?
  26. Schreiben
  27. The effectiveness of nudging
  28. DECODING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO PROBLEMATIZE COMPLEX CONCEPTS
  29. Advances in Laser Positioning of Machine Vision System and Their Impact on 3D Coordinates Measurement
  30. Briefe schreiben in der Sekundarstufe I
  31. Question answering over linked data
  32. The challenges of gamifying CSR communication
  33. Problemlösen in der Sekundarstufe I