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POLISES retreat at Großbothen

2023-07-25 13:09 by Kaja Alina Jurak

In May 2023 Birgit, Gunnar, Julia and Kaja went to the Wilhelm Ostwald Park in Großbothen for the yearly POLISES retreat...

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InsuranceGrass Retreat at ETH Zurich

2023-03-31 16:19 by Julia Kunkel

After one year of online collaboration, Birgit and Julia met the InsuranceGrass project team in Zurich for a two days retreat...

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POLISES teaching at BESTMAP summer school

2022-11-03 10:44 by Meike Will

As part of the BESTMAP project, Birgit and Meike were teaching in the BESTMAP summer school on modelling...

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Potential side effects of insurance programs: A summary of recent POLISES research outcomes

2021-06-08 08:08 by Meike Will

During the last years, a main focus of our work within POLISES was on potential side effects of insurance programs. In addition to the review article on maladaptive outcomes of climate insurance...

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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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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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