Course Schedule


Lehrveranstaltungen

Climate and Change (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Heike Zimmermann

Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 12.101 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This seminar will deepen your understanding from the "Introduction to Spatial Sciences" on how the past and present climate shapes geology, biomes and land use. We will explore the effects of and on climate on different temporal and spatial scales. Furthermore, we will discuss the direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic climate change as well as mitigation and adaptation measures. There are lectures on climate change and there are lectures that provide an introduction to climate. This seminar does both and shows how these things are connected.

Grundlagen und Instrumente des Naturschutzes (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Johannes Prüter, Johann Schreiner

Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 11.319 Seminarraum | Grundlagen und Instrumente des Naturschutzes
14-täglich | Freitag | 08:15 - 09:45 | 24.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 11.319 Seminarraum | Schutzgebiete - Ziele, Funktionen und Management

Inhalt: Grundlagen und moderne Ansätze des Naturschutzes auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene (Biologische Vielfalt, Ressourcenschutz, Landschaftsschutz und Erholungsvorsorge, Biotopverbund, Habitatmanagement, Artenschutz, Landschafts- und Naturschutzplanung). In einer ergänzenden Vorlesungssequenz werden Schutzgebiete und das Natura 2000 Netzwerk vertiefend behandelt. Ziele und Funktionen dieser Gebiete im nationalen wie internationalen Kontext sowie Fragen des Managements werden anhand aktueller Beispiele aus Wissenschaft und Praxis erörtert.

Sustainability and Space (Seminar)

Dozent/in: David Abson, Wies Dijkstra

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 11.319 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The course will explore how space shapes understandings of sustainability, with a focus on: scale and sustainability; system boundaries and sustainability and spatial relations and sustainability. The course will draw on multiple perspectives on space from the natural and social sciences, and places a particular emphasis on appropriate scales for conceptualizing and managing sustainability in relation to equitable outcomes. In addition to general discussions on space and sustainability there will be 4 in depth case studies looking at important approaches within sustainability science (landscape sustainability science (Wu, 2013); Ecologically unequal exchange (Hornborg, 1998); Socio-technical transitions (Geels, 2011) and Social-ecological systems (Ostrom, 2009)) and how they conceptualize space in relation to sustainability.