Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Start > Leuphana Bachelor (B.A./B.Eng./B.Sc./LL.B.) -> Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies -> Research Project in Sustainability Science

Lehrveranstaltungen

Climate Resilient Communities in the Caribbean (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Steffen Farny

Inhalt: How to foster community impact? What makes a community resilient? Who needs to engage in climate adaptation action? This transdisciplinary community impact research project focuses on the intersection of climate resilience, communities and social innovations. The setting of the project is Grenada, a Small Island State in the Southern Caribbean (Lesser Antilles) in which communities face continuous challenges to adapt to changing climatic conditions and threats to their livelihoods. In their quest to become ‘climate resilient communities’, Islanders in the Caribbean are currently struggling to mitigate and adapt to changing climatic conditions and impactful catastrophes, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and the pandemic. Building on results generated in the previous two years, student teams will focus on co-creating solution-oriented transferable knowledge for a local community living in a marine-protected area. A concrete entrepreneurial training interventions will be implemented with student mentors (on-site) and regional partners, for example the GIZ Team on St.Lucia.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science

Science meets action: co-creating pathways to the SDGs across scales (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Amanda Jiménez Aceituno, Pramila Thapa

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 10:15 - 13:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 7.319 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The urgent sustainability challenges that we are facing require us to take action to envision and set up new pathways to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. Many bottom-up initiatives led by civil society, Indigenous people, associations, or companies are already in place as experiments (or seeds) that seek to bring about positive futures but need to be amplified to have a real impact in transforming our societies toward more sustainable and just ones. The Seeds of a Good Anthropocene project has collected and analyzed seeds to study their potential to catalyze sustainability transformations. Many of the seeds can be found around the world. In this seminar, we will explore some of these seeds, study the different ways the seeds amplify their impact (e.g., reaching bigger growth or a wider outreach, or changing citizens' deep values), and discuss the factors that might facilitate or hinder their transformative potential.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science

Sustainable Food Systems (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Vania Gomes Zuin Zeidler, Lotta Laura Hohrenk-Danzouma

Inhalt: Sustainable food system (SFS) is an approach that aims at delivering food security and nutrition for all people, i.e., a healthier, fairer, more productive and inclusive of marginalized or not-well informed populations, environmentally sustainable and resilient, and able to promote accessible and nutritious diets. These are complex and systemic challenges that require the combination of interconnected actions at the local, national, regional and global levels (FAO, 2018). As known, the crescent pressures from population growth, urbanization, changing consumption and diet patterns (including undernutrition, overweight and obesity), biodiversity loss and climate crises are all contributing factors to the strain on food systems, meaning that an overhaul in our current concepts and practices is needed for our food systems to become sustainable (UN, 2023).

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science