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Lehrveranstaltungen

Ecological Restoration for Sustainability- project development (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jacqueline Loos, Victoria Temperton, Eva Völler

Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 09:00 - 12:00 | 06.04.2021 - 09.07.2021 | C 12.013 Seminarraum | Veranstaltung startet online, später teilweise in Präsenz, wenn die Situation dies erlaubt

Inhalt: We are currently losing pollinators, the bees and the flies and the butterflies - in our intensively managed landscapes and we need these organisms not least to feed ourselves. What can we do? Come and help us to restore, study and manage cultural landscapes. The latter provide us with food and resources whilst at the same time fostering biodiversity. It is also highly relevant for the topic of sustainably consumption, as it instills in participants the value of extensively managed landscapes that cannot provide us with huge bumper harvests abut are more resilient in face of climate change and provide much more habitat for many species to co-exist with us. One of the most important challenges of our time is how to combine biodiversity and food security, as our human population and our influence on the biophysical basis of our existence on earth increases. Many people are no longer connected to nature, and feel alienated from natural processes and places. Our activities are causing major biodiversity decline that in turn affects how our ecosystems that we depend on function and the services they provide for us humans. Although our influence is often negative, there are many ways in which we can have positive effects on biodiversity as well as ensuring food security is possible. What can we do? This course combines key aspects of biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems with the extensive management of cultural landscapes that provides us with food and resources whilst at the same time fostering biodiversity. In this planning seminar, we will plan specific sub-projects projects (in smaller groups) in detail. Our baseline project is a wonderful cultural landscape site near the village of Wendisch-Evern, where together with the a traditional orchard club (Streuobstwiesenverein) in November 2016 we restored an apple (and cherry and pear) orchard to a degraded horse paddock with low biodiversity and high nutrients in the soils (not good for biodiversity). Since the restoration action we have been doing two main things with different student cohorts: 1) Tracking how the plants and animals change at the site over time; we expect that the biodiversity of plants and insects and birds will increase over time, as we remove nutrients by mowing or grazing the site and this is good for promoting more plant and hence also animal species. 2) We are testing whether we can attract even more insects to the site but planting different grassland plants under each of the 15 apple trees; more tasty clover and co species (Klee) or forbs species that attract pollinators but are not quite as tasty as the clover and co species. This is the first time that anybody has studied this option scientifically in a traditional orchard, and if it works, it may be a nice option for attracting more pollinators to many other orchard sites. We are embedded in a cultural landscape including returning wolves and a shephard who does not want to have her sheep at our site - there are plenty of socio-ecological topics within the overall topic of the magic orchard and its transformation over time. GENERAL INFO: This course is one several different courses in the sustainability minor (sustainable consumption, sustainable governance, life cycles)- you need to choose one of the main courses and then you stick to this course over two years. This course in the summer semester, Module 3 and 4, takes place in the third semester of your minor. Building on the preceding modules introducing you to transdisciplinary research and projects, and to the key concepts and methods in ecological restoration, this semester you take part in two seminars that move into the more active sphere.

Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Kooperation mit der Praxis (Nachhaltiger Konsum) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Philip Bernert, Teresa Kampfmann, Hanna Weber

Termin:
Einzeltermin | Fr, 26.03.2021, 10:00 - Fr, 26.03.2021, 11:00 | Online-Veranstaltung | Infotermin
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:00 - 14:00 | 06.04.2021 - 09.07.2021 | Online-Veranstaltung | Veranstaltung findet zunächst online statt - ggf. Präsenz zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt im Semester möglich - weitere Termine siehe Komplexe Systeme Transformieren I

Inhalt: Die in Mi-NHW-3 beschriebene Projektaufgabe wird im Kontakt mit geeigneten Praxispartnern transdisziplinär weiterentwickelt. Dafür werden Verfahren und Methoden für die Zusammenarbeit mit Praxisakteuren sowie Theorien der Wissensintegration und des Inter- und transdisziplinären Kooperationsmanagements sowie Verfahren und Aufgaben der Gruppenbildungvermittelt.

Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Ressourceneffizienz (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Andreas Möller

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 06.04.2021 - 09.07.2021 | C 11.308 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Die Veranstaltung arbeitet praktisch an der Thematik der Ressourceneffizienz. Ressourceneffizienz erweist sich dabei als eine Herausforderung, die inter- und transdisziplinär bearbeitet werden muss. Wie bereits im ersten Minor-Semester deutlich geworden ist, sind sozial-, natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftliche Komponenten zusammengeführt werden. Das zeigt bereits die Schwerpunkte: * die Vermeidung von Abfällen in den Wertschöpfungsketten (oft stellt man mit großen Aufwand hochwertige Vorprodukte her, die dann am Ende verschwendet werden); hier kommt etwa das Material Flow Cost Accounting zum Einsatz, um das finanzielle Ausmaß der Verschwendung zu quantifizieren: Was kostet es, verschwenderisch zu sein? * das Schließen von Kreisläufen; dadurch werden neue Gleichgewichte geschaffen (Was wird im Kreislauf geführt? Was muss ersetzt werden?); Recycling wird gern gefordert, unklar bleibt dann, was es genau bringt; * das Etablieren neuer Wertschöpfungsketten durch neue Produkte und Dienstleistungen oder durch neue Technik; hier werden der gewünschte Nutzen (Funktion) durch neue Produkte, Dienstleistung und Verfahren erbracht; es stellt sich die Frage, was das bringt.