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Identifying social-ecological System Properties benefiting Biodiversity and Food Security

Project: Research

Project participants

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/

    Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

    Doctoral theses (pilot phase): Doctoral thesis

Research outputs

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Activities

  1. „Don't forget: the archive!“ – Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition - 2013
  2. Crazy, Classified City Life - Hackfeminist Future-Making Practices between Dystopia and Utopia, Predictability and Possibility
  3. Campusemerge 2011
  4. Methodology, Resources, Issues, and Challenges in Nazi-Era Provenance Research
  5. Breaks and Age Related Strain in Continuous Physical Work
  6. PhD Workshop on Theories in Information Systems Science
  7. Center for Voting and Parties
  8. Investigation of the evolution and kinetics of temperature-driven intermetallic compound during solid-state joining of an Al-Mg alloy via the multiphase-field method
  9. Corporate Responsibility Evolution Models: Concepts, Evidence and Implications
  10. The Advance of Diagnosis Chatbots: Should We First Avoid Distrust Before We Focus on Trust?
  11. Interdisziplinarität in kuratorischen Netzwerken
  12. Emerging Visions of Seamless Travel: (En)Countering Camouflaged Sovereignty at the Frictionless Border
  13. Explaining Healthcare System Change, TranState Research Center 597
  14. The systematic approach: Residue management according to ISO 14 001 and EMAS-Scheme of the European Union.
  15. Workshop MECS - 2015
  16. 24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing - ICSTCC 2020
  17. Ocean eddies and the polar vortex: coherence in complex systems
  18. Global Knowledge Hubs
  19. Universität Wien

Publications

  1. Perfectly nested or significantly nested - an important difference for conservation management
  2. Developing spatial biophysical accounting for multiple ecosystem services
  3. A Two-Stage Sliding-Mode High-Gain Observer to Reduce Uncertainties and Disturbances Effects for Sensorless Control in Automotive Applications
  4. Discourse, practice, policy and organizing
  5. A Unified Contextual Bandit Framework for Long- and Short-Term Recommendations
  6. Emergence of Responsiveness Across Organizations, Networks, and Clusters from a Dynamic Capability Perspective
  7. BUSINESS MODELS IN BANKING: A CLUSTER ANALYSIS USING ARCHIVAL DATA
  8. Simon Denny
  9. The Influence of Robots’ Emotion Expressions on the Uncanny-Valley-Effect
  10. Perception of Space and Time in a Created Environment
  11. Reconceptualizing the role of socioeconomic material stocks in the leverage points framework to enable transformative change
  12. German Utilities and distributed PV
  13. New descriptions and typifications of syntaxa within the project 'Plant communities of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and their vulnerability' - Part II
  14. Solution for the direct kinematics problem of the general stewart-gough platform by using only linear actuators’ orientations
  15. Study of the solidification of AS alloys combining in situ synchrotron diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry
  16. Discourse of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Newspaper Editorials on Insecurity in Nigeria
  17. Joint Proceedings of Scholarly QALD 2023 and SemREC 2023 co-located with 22nd International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2023
  18. DigiSchreib
  19. From Planning to Implementation: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches for Collaborative Watershed Management
  20. Modeling Self-Organization
  21. Equivalence unbalanced-metaphor, case, and example-from Aristotle to Derrida
  22. High-precision frequency measurements: indispensable tools at the core of the molecular-level analysis of complex systems.
  23. Implementation of formative assessment
  24. Chip extrusion with integrated equal channel angular pressing
  25. Education and Communication as Prerequisites for and Components of Sustainable Development. Reflections for Policies, Conceptual Work, and Theory, Based on Previous Practises
  26. A highly transparent method of assessing the contribution of incentives to meet various technical challenges in distributed energy systems