A5070323878- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Climate variability and models
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
2017-2024
Institute for Social-Ecological Research
2015-2022
Drought is one of the major threats to societies in Sub-Saharan Africa, as majority population highly depends on rain-fed subsistence agriculture and traditional water supply systems. Hot-spot areas potential drought impact need be identified reduce risk adapt a growing changing environment. This paper presents Blended Index (BDI), an integrated tool for estimating climate-induced hazard semi-arid Cuvelai-Basin Angola Namibia. It incorporates meteorological agricultural characteristics that...
With the Earth system being about to leave Holocene conditions and thus known safe operating space for humanity, frameworks such as Planetary Boundaries (PBs) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide quantitative metrics guide sustainability transformations. In order strive, not only compliance with PBs but also societal well-being, some approaches attempt combine both SDGs within a single assessment. We focus on two prominent examples, "Doughnut" by Kate Raworth #SDGinPB project of 2018...
Abstract Mongolian nomadic herders traditionally pass on ecological knowledge intergenerationally, mainly within families. However, little is known about how current societal transformation processes may impact the application and transfer of traditional (TEK) amongst herders. Combining quantitative household survey data with qualitative interviews, we show that TEK still widely applied Our households living under conditions greater apply more often in order to adapt situation than lower...
Sozial-ökologische Transformationen können nur gelingen, wenn wir sie als gemeinsame Gestaltungsaufgabe verstehen. Doch wie kann gemeinsames Handeln gefördert werden, die Vorstellungen von einem ,,guten Leben“ so unterschiedlich sind? Die hier vorgestellten Gestaltungsprinzipien sollen transdisziplinärer Nachhaltigkeitsforschung Orientierung geben ‐ helfen, Antworten auf komplexe Fragen nach einer tragfähigen Wassernutzung oder dem Schutz der Artenvielfalt zu finden.
Nomadic pastoralism is of vital importance for grasslands worldwide. As one the largest, widely intact, temperate in world, eastern Mongolian steppe looks back on a millennia-old tradition nomadic pastoralism. Thus, this type use ecosystem plays an important role providing and maintaining functions, e.g. seed dispersal, nutrient distribution composition plant communities. In addition, way life has cultural social functions. Global change processes like urbanisation, globalisation,...
Good quality data on precipitation are a prerequisite for applications like short-term weather forecasts, medium-term humanitarian assistance, and long-term climate modelling. In Sub-Saharan Africa, however, the meteorological station networks frequently insufficient, as in Cuvelai-Basin Namibia Angola. This paper analyses six rainfall products (ARC2.0, CHIRPS2.0, CRU-TS3.23, GPCCv7, PERSIANN-CDR, TAMSAT) with respect to their performance crop model (APSIM) obtain nutritional scores of...
Non-technical summary Investing in stricter biodiversity conservation and wildlife protection to reduce the number of emerging diseases and, consequently, risk pandemics such as coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), must integrate a social-ecological perspective. Biodiversity conservation, order be effective disease prevention, requires consideration people's needs, knowledge institutions within their locally specific contexts. To meet this goal, future research policy should apply six...
Abstract This article combines Aoki’s institutional complementarity concept with actor-centered analysis of action situations to study herder behavior and change in a complex pastoral social–ecological system. Transformation the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem face climate social has led decline mobility, which turn is making ecosystem less sustainable. Responding this concern, policymakers have designed pasture use conservation policies. We evaluate whether enacted policies are complementary...
Zusammenfassung Die Zusammenhänge zwischen Klimawandel und Konflikten sind vielfältig werden in Politik Forschung zunehmend thematisiert. Verbindung von nachhaltigem Frieden Klimagerechtigkeit ist hingegen wenig erforscht. Dieser Beitrag adressiert diese Lücke konzeptionell zeigt auf, dass Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung wirksame Mittel zu Bewältigung der Klimakrise bereithält. Klimaschutz, Klimaanpassung müssen genauso wie Frieden, Umwelt Entwicklung zusammengedacht werden, um sozial-ökologische...