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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

Links

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Activities

  1. Eine Podiumsdiskussion zu Fracking
  2. CeBIT 2014
  3. Forest pedagogics in a global context – implemented locally
  4. “The Bigger Picture of Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Europe and the Rest of the World”, 03.03.2014.
  5. „Don't forget: the archive!“ – Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition - 2013
  6. Struktur – Institution – Organisation
  7. Conference Presentation: Engaging the Listener in Your Talk
  8. Paper, pegboard, software: Elements of a media theory of organization
  9. Quantencomputer. Taktlos. „Kulturtechniken der Synchronisation” - 2007
  10. Bacillus pseudofirmus AL-89: A source for industrial relevant proteases
  11. Do we need a new paradigm for mastering existing and future challenges of the urban water cycle
  12. The relationship between intragenerational and intergenerational justice in the use of ecosystems and their services
  13. Crazy, Classified City Life - Hackfeminist Future-Making Practices between Dystopia and Utopia, Predictability and Possibility
  14. „Reichsbürger and Temporalities“
  15. The Discourse on Corporate Digital Responsibility
  16. The Process of Dividuation and the Nebula of Anonymity
  17. Campusemerge 2011
  18. The Predictive Power of Social Media Sentiment for Short-Term Stock Movements
  19. Where To Start? Exploring 1-Year-Students’ Preconceptions of Sustainable Development
  20. Projektabschlusspräsentation
  21. 17th Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research Workshop
  22. Transdisciplinary research - a bridge between science and practitioners to produce reliable knowledge
  23. Methodology, Resources, Issues, and Challenges in Nazi-Era Provenance Research

Publications

  1. Timing matters: Distinct effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application timing on root system architecture responses
  2. Conditions of One-Way and Two-Way Approaches in Strategic Start-Up Communication
  3. CHANGING RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR REDUCING INSOMNIA SEVERITY? RESULTS FROM A SERIAL MEDIATION ANALYSIS ON THE IMPACT OF RECREATIONAL BEHAVIOR AS A MECHANISM OF CHANGE IN DIGITAL INTERVENTIONS FOR INSOMNIA
  4. Perfectly nested or significantly nested - an important difference for conservation management
  5. Anisotropy and mechanical properties of dissimilar Al additive manufactured structures generated by multi-layer friction surfacing
  6. Proof of concept
  7. Developing a Process for the Analysis of User Journeys and the Prediction of Dropout in Digital Health Interventions:
  8. Learning shortest paths in word graphs
  9. Downsizing, Ideology and Contracts
  10. Article 11 Formal Validity
  11. Analysis of the relevance of models, influencing factors and the point in time of the forecast on the prediction quality in order-related delivery time determination using machine learning
  12. Quality Assurance of Specification - The Users Point of View
  13. A Two-Stage Sliding-Mode High-Gain Observer to Reduce Uncertainties and Disturbances Effects for Sensorless Control in Automotive Applications
  14. The Network Dynamics of Movements
  15. Microstructural and mechanical aspects of reinforcement welds for lightweight components produced by friction hydro pillar processing
  16. "If you like something, you want it to develop."
  17. archiDART: an R package for the automated computation of plant root architectural traits
  18. Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes
  19. Obtaining Object Information from Stereo Vision System for Autonomous Vehicles
  20. Action Errors, Error Management, and Learning in Organizations
  21. Teaching Sustainable Development in a Sensory and Artful Way — Concepts, Methods, and Examples
  22. Communicating CCS
  23. Rethinking Economic Practices and Values As Assemblages of More-Than-Human Relations
  24. Second-Order Sliding Mode Control with State and Disturbance Estimation for a Permanent Magnet Linear Motor