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Research Seminar Systems Science

Summer Semester 2017

The Research Seminar takes place on Tuesdays from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Guidelines for Presenters

Timetable

Date Presenter Title Room Target audience *
21.03.2017 Dr. Joanne Vinke - de Kruijf
Learning by organizations and wider networks from European cooperation projects: Results from a Qualitative Comparative Analysis. 66/E01 REM/BEE





04.04.2017
► 11:00am
Prof. Dr. Arndt Telschow
WWU Münster
Disease outbreaks and critical transitions in complex (socio-)ecological systems. (Abstract below) 66/E01 USF
► 01:30pm Joachim Ulrich Kleinmann
MSc Geoecology
UFZ Leipzig
Plant-fungus interactions and their implications for nutrient cycling and biomass growth: Insights from modelling arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a heterogeneous environment. (Disputation) 66/101 USF
► 03:00pm Gunnar Dreßler
Dipl. Biomath.
UFZ Leipzig
Analyzing resource use decisions under global change by agent-based modeling. (Disputation) 66/101 USF
05.04.2017
► 10:00am
Mateus Dantas de Paula
MSc Plant Ecology
UFZ Leipzig
Forest fragmentation in space and time – new perspectives from forest modelling and remote sensing. (Disputation) 66/101 USF
25.04.2017 Dr. Paula Ungar
Carson Fellow, LMU München
Main results and critical thoughts around the delimitation of Colombian Páramos. 66/E01 REM/BEE
02.05.2017 Simone Ossani, MSc Maths.
UFRGS Porto Alegre, Brazil
A bit about prey-predator systems and synchronized metapopulations. 66/E01 ASW/TSW/NumP
10.05.2017
► 04:00pm
Dr. Alessandro Tavoni
Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Tipping Points and Loss Aversion in International Environmental Agreements. 66/E01 USF
16.05.2017 Lara Ahmann
Zielgerichtete Zahlungen für Umweltleistungen in Deutschland am Beispiel des Ökolandbaus in Niedersachsen. (Masterarbeit) 66/E01 BEE
Lisa Nielen
Effektiver kontrollieren in der Landwirtschaft - Die Düngeverordnung als Fallbeispiel. (Masterarbeit) 66/E01 BEE
30.05.2017 Abel-Gautier Kouakou, MSc
From Field to Lab and Lab to Field: Using Economic Experiments to Design a PACS Program in Benin. 66/E01 BEE/REM
27.06.2017 Juan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo, MSc
Does stakeholder involvement solve the dilemma? 66/E01 REM/BEE
04.07.2017 Caroline Lumosi, MSc
Can conflicting and competing actors deliberate towards a shared understanding? Negotiating spaces for learning in trans-boundary river basin management. A case of Omo and Zambezi basin, Africa. 66/E01 REM/BEE
03.08.2017 Melle Nikkels, MSc
Wageningen University, NL
Using cross-over analysis to support water user discussion about investments in water sources for irrigation. How to support learning processes? 66/E16 REM/BEE

* Target audiences

USF General seminar for all members of the Institute
Specific seminars
ASW Applied Systems Science
EcoM Ecological Modelling
BEE Behavioral and Environmental Economics
NumP Numerical Physics: Modelling
PEM Projects in Environmental Systems Modelling
REM Resources Management
TSW Theoretical Systems Science

Abstracts of selected talks

04.04.2017 Prof. Dr. Arndt Telschow, WWU Münster 

Disease outbreaks and critical transitions in complex (socio-)ecological systems

Abstract: The rapid spread of emerging infectious diseases is a serious global environmental problem that threatens not only humans, wildlife, and livestock worldwide, but also induces economical loss and collapse of ecosystems. However, the natural and anthropogenic factors that promote disease outbreaks are largely unknown, and reliable methods to predict when outbreaks occur are missing. The first part of the presentation summarizes results from an interdisciplinary research project conducted at the Research Institute of Humanity and Nature in Kyoto (Japan) ( http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/project/C-06.html ). The aim of the project was to verify the hypothesis that human mediated environmental degradations cause the spread of infectious diseases by studying Koi herpes virus (KHV) disease as a model. The second part of the presentation takes a broader perspective. New techniques of nonlinear time series analysis are introduced that aim to anticipate whether a complex socio-ecological system approaches a critical transition (e.g., a tipping point). The methods are first tested on mathematical models and then applied to empirical data including dengue fever, climate, and google trends. It is argued that these new techniques are of wide applicability to analyse complex socio ecological processes.

Archive: Research Seminars of previous semesters