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The research unit (RU) will investigate resilience, collapse and reorganisation in complex coupled social-ecological systems (SES) in Africa. Contemporary research shows that Africa not only is the continent most comprehensively affected by global climatic change and environmental transformations, but that societies, economies and environments are also massively impacted by forces of internal mobility and differentiation, violent conflict, economic globalisation and global environmental governance.
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Cluster A |
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Ecosystem Dynamics in Complex Coupled SES
The natural sciences identify the drivers of slow and rapid ecosystem changes, their interrelation and processes of self-organisation in the geo-biophysical sphere in order to elucidate their impact on vulnerability / resilience and collapse / reorganisation within the coupled SES. While the subprojects of cluster A are basically informed by the approaches of the natural sciences, social science perspectives are incorporated where necessary for a full understanding of the complex interplay of drivers.
Projects in this cluster: A1 | A2 | A3 |
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Cluster C |
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Regulation in Precarious SES: Historicity, Mediality and Discourses
The humanities explore the emergence, transcriptions, transformations and hybridisations of knowledge, institutional arrangements, identities, narratives and discourses pertaining to environmental dynamics and social-ecological interaction.
Projects in this cluster: C1 | C2 | C3 |
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Cluster B |
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Institutions, Conflict and Regulation in SES
The social sciences focus on needs and interests, appropriation processes, power-structures, real and expected economic outcomes and social networks in relation to environmental dynamics. These relations on the local, national and global scale are seen as crucial for understanding SES dynamics. The social sciences focus on agency as well as institutional and other (e.g. violent) forms of regulation within the coupled SES .
Projects in this cluster: B1 | B2
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Cooperation |
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While each cluster has a distinct profile and consists of a number of closely collaborating sub-projects, intense cooperation across cluster boundaries is anticipated. |
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