Flurina Schneider is scientific director of ISOE and professor in social ecology and transdisciplinarity at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is also spokesperson of the Research Activity “Ecosystem Services and Climate” at the Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research. Her research focuses on learning and action for sustainability transformations, as well as on transdisciplinary research and science policy for sustainability. She graduated in geography, botany and law at University of Basel, and received her venia docendi by the University of Bern with a habilitation thesis entitled: “Transdisciplinary and Transformative Research for Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources: Towards Intra- and Intergenerational Justice”. Until 2020, she served as head of the Land Resources Cluster at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland.

Focus of research

  • Sustainability science and social-ecological research
  • Learning and action for sustainability transformations
  • Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge
  • Science policy for sustainability

Memberships

  • Scientific Climate Council of the Hessian State Government (Vice Chairwoman)
  • Society for Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research (GTPF) (Associate Member of the Board)
  • Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance)
  • Global Land Project (GLP)
  • Future Earth Pathways Initiative
  • Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (SAGUF)

Projects at CDE, University of Bern

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Projects

  • Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
    Biodiversity

    Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research

    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.
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  • Business for Biodiversity: T-Labs for social-ecological change
    Biodiversity

    Business for Biodiversity: T-Labs for social-ecological change

    In so-called Transformation Labs, the project works with companies in the food industry to research how measures to promote biodiversity can be effectively designed and implemented.

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  • LIRA 2030 – Fostering Transdisciplinarity in Africa
    Knowledge and Participation

    LIRA 2030 – Fostering Transdisciplinarity in Africa

    The program aims to promote the capacities of young scientists in Africa for transdisciplinary research and to support scientific contributions to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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