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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

Recently viewed

Activities

  1. Campusemerge 2011
  2. “The Bigger Picture of Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Europe and the Rest of the World”, 03.03.2014.
  3. The Predictive Power of Social Media Sentiment for Short-Term Stock Movements
  4. Internet-based guided self-help to reduce depressive symptoms in teachers: Results from a randomized controlled trial
  5. Intercultural Relations in Practice 2017
  6. Das Unding. Colonial Gothic in Contemporary Art
  7. Ocean eddies and the polar vortex: coherence in complex systems
  8. Mercator School of Management
  9. Science Slam a New Popularized and Artistic Way of Informal Science Communication. Challenges of Contemporary Science Communication
  10. Elsevier B.V. (Externe Organisation)
  11. Karlstad Universität
  12. Plenary Speaker at the 2021 4th IEEE International Conference on Information Communication and Signal Processing (ICICSP 2021)
  13. Explaining Healthcare System Change

Publications

  1. Teaching Sustainable Development in a Sensory and Artful Way — Concepts, Methods, and Examples
  2. Do children with deficits in basic cognitive functions profit from mixed age primary schools?
  3. Multi-view hidden markov perceptrons
  4. Implementation of formative assessment
  5. Assessing empirical research on value-based management
  6. A highly transparent method of assessing the contribution of incentives to meet various technical challenges in distributed energy systems
  7. Negotiation complexity
  8. Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches — A concept and real-world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales
  9. Microstructure, mechanical properties and fracture behaviors of large-scale sand-cast Mg-3Y-2Gd-1Nd-0.4Zr alloy
  10. Atomic Animals
  11. Set oriented computation of transport rates in 3-degree of freedom systems
  12. Supporting non-hierarchical supply chain networks in the electronics industry
  13. Communicating Uncertainties About the Effects of Medical Interventions Using Different Display Formats
  14. Accuracy Improvement by Artificial Neural Networks in Technical Vision System
  15. Application of Friction Riveting technique for the assembly of electronic components on printed circuit boards (PCB)
  16. University-linked programmes for sustainable entrepreneurship and regional development
  17. “Making Sense”
  18. Land use affects dung beetle communities and their ecosystem service in forests and grasslands
  19. Pathways and mechanisms for catalyzing social impact through Orchestration: Insights from an open social innovation project
  20. Predictive mapping of plant species and communities using GIS and Landsat data in a southern Mongolian mountain range
  21. Differences in psychological strategies of failed and operational business owners in the Fiji Islands
  22. Long-term population dynamics of Dactylorhiza incarnata (L.) Soo after abandonment and re-introduction of mowing
  23. Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition
  24. From Claiming to Creating Value
  25. Uncertainty, Pluralism, and the Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm
  26. Dynamic material flow analysis in the life cycle assessment tool chain
  27. What is a Digital Object?
  28. Application of camera controlled laser projection systems for manual mounting tasks
  29. Polynomial Augmented Extended Kalman Filter to Estimate the State of Charge of Lithium-Ion Batteries
  30. Problem Definition and Agenda-Setting in Critical Perspective