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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. Negotiating normativity: discourses of (non) belonging and (non) coincidences in the context of transnational adoption
  2. Analysing Improvement Processes in the Context of School Inspection
  3. HyperKult XXIII – Bring your own... 2014
  4. Robots versus Machines
  5. Schreiben digital = Schreiben ohne Regeln?
  6. Conference presentation: The Relationship between the Internal Audit Function and the Audit Committee. An empirical analysis for the One- and Two Tier-System
  7. Navigating cognition biases in the search of sustainability
  8. Fostering Oral Skills Through the Use of Participatory Web 2.0 Technologies in the Project-based EFL Classroom
  9. Effects of an Internet-based guided self-help intervention for college women with eating disorders: Long-term results from a large randomized controlled trial.
  10. 15th Internation Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries
  11. Journal of the Writing Research (Zeitschrift)
  12. Criteria and Strategies of Student Teachers to Deal with Teaching Material from the Internet about Refugees
  13. Zootechnologies. A Media History of Swarm Intelligence
  14. A Geometric Approach for the Model Parameter Estimation in a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor
  15. Working and learning from home post-covid
  16. Doing space: Atmospheres of teaching
  17. Advances in large scale production of mircoalgae and mussels (Mytilus edulis)
  18. International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services 2017
  19. Exploring the potential role of priority effects for ecological restoration
  20. International Relations (Fachzeitschrift)
  21. Where tasks, technology, and textbooks meet: Intelligent tutoring systems on the task-based language teacher's horizon (SLTED, Universität Wien)
  22. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  23. Emergency Design
  24. Digital Leadership

Publications

  1. Multi-view hidden markov perceptrons
  2. Diffusion of the Balanced Scorecard
  3. Perceptron and SVM learning with generalized cost models
  4. Interplay of formative assessment and instructional quality—interactive effects on students’ mathematics achievement
  5. Properties of some overlapping self-similar and some self-affine measures
  6. Non-identity – So what? A political scientist’s perspective on a curious but somehow arbitrary problem
  7. Application of friction surfacing for solid state additive manufacturing of cylindrical shell structures
  8. Control oriented modeling of DCDC converters
  9. Prothesen, Aufschreibesysteme, Cyborgs
  10. Land use affects dung beetle communities and their ecosystem service in forests and grasslands
  11. Collaboration and Open Science Initiatives in Primate Research
  12. Developmentalities and donor-NGO relations
  13. Relative wage positions and quit behavior
  14. Fast, curvature-based prediction of rolling forces for porous media based on a series of detailed simulations
  15. Quality and Adoption of COVID-19 Tracing Apps and Recommendations for Development
  16. 3D Simulation of Electric Arcing and Pressure increase in an Automotive HVDC Relay During a Short Circuit Situation
  17. Tschick
  18. Influences of yttrium content on microstructure and mechanical properties of as-cast Mg–Ca–Y–Zr alloys
  19. Digital technology in game-based approaches
  20. Planning for Sea Spaces I: Processes, Practices and Future Perspectives
  21. Modeling Bolt Load Retention of Ca modified AS41 using compliance-creep method
  22. Beyond Structural Adjustment
  23. Time-varying persistence in real oil prices and its determinant