Projects

Artificial cooling fundamentally shapes the world we live in. Cooling and freezing technologies have become indispensable for a wide range of everyday practices. The project explores the cultural foundations of global cooling infrastructure and its impacts.

Creating transformative spaces to identify new ways of dealing with uncertainties in water resource management – using the example of karst landscapes in Europe

How can bio-based value chains truly become circular? The CoDe research project is working in partnership with companies to design strategic pathways for this transformation.

The project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is establishing a research infrastructure for social-ecological biodiversity research and developing a long-term monitoring system for social dynamics.

The research project investigates the dynamics of land use changes and their effects on ecosystem services and biodiversity.

The research project examines normative conflicts that are emerging in the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

SoCoDES investigates socio-ecological dynamics in the Anthropocene and focuses in particular on interactions between biodiversity and social developments.

The project is developing new approaches to comprehensively research biodiversity, ecosystem services and human interventions on ecosystems.

In cooperation with the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), ISOE is investigating what reduced biodiversity means for the provision of ecosystem services to society.

How can water resources in Germany be managed in a climate-resilient way? The research project is developing models for a near-natural landscape water balance – as a compass for sustainable water management and resilience against droughts and floods.