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How can computer models better help policymakers to solve problems in human-environment systems?

2021-03-31 14:44 by Meike Will

This is a plain language summary of our paper “How to make socio‐environmental modelling more useful to support policy and management?” which was recently published in People and Nature. This...

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An internship in times of coronavirus

2020-12-02 17:58 by Meike Will

By David Hötten

From the end of August until the beginning of October I was an intern in the POLISES group. Looking back...

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International Workshop on Social-Ecological Effects of Microinsurance under Climate Change

2020-04-23 12:18 by Meike Will

From February 4-6, the POLISES working group organized an international workshop within the DFG-funded SEEMI project (Social-Ecological Effects of Microinsurance)...

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Learning from my research internship to enhance my PhD

2019-11-04 13:52 by David

Tim Williams talks about what his experience during a research-based internship with the POLISES team at UFZ taught him about research...

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Summer School on “Modelling Food Security” has started

2019-09-10 16:52 by David

The POLISES research group welcomes 18 PhD students and postdocs to its summer school on the UFZ’s Leipzig campus. In a combination of lectures and...

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POLISES Colloquium “Pastoralism in Transition”

2019-07-08 16:46 by David

The concluding colloquium for the Junior Research Group POLISES, held in Leipzig from June 27-28, brought together researchers and practitioners interested in pastoral livelihoods in Africa and beyond. The list of 20 participants...

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Leverage Points and Transformational Leadership: impressions from Lüneburg

2019-04-03 17:00 by Gunnar Dreßler

In early February, I embarked on a trip to the north of Germany where I spent one week in the beautiful town of Lüneburg, attending the Leverage Points conference and the second seminar of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership...

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Summer School on Modelling Food Security: Apply Now!

2019-01-21 12:14 by David

We would like to draw your attention to the international Summer School on Modelling Food Security, which will take place from September 8-14, 2019 at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany...

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Looking for a thesis topic?

2018-12-14 15:47 by David

We have two new thesis calls and one student job offer out...

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Collective Infrastructure Governance in Bangladesh

2018-11-15 15:29 by David

By Kimberly Rogers

Just as dryland pastoralists are coping with climate risk arising from drought cycles, farmers in coastal regions are facing hazards such as flooding and erosion that accompany sea level rise. Static dikes or sea walls...

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