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Podcasts, Voices and Sounds From the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. The Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) conducts research with the aim of investigating, identifying, and advancing development pathways for transformation processes towards sustainable societies in Germany and abroad. The Institute joined the Helmholtz Association in 2023 and is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. Its research ...
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In every episode, a new guest takes a seat across from Jan-Claas Dajka and talks to him about current research projects, curious anecdotes as well as paths, detours and companions in the (not only) scientific career. Jan is interdisciplinary postdoc in marine ecology and marine governance at HIFMB. Chatting with ecologists, geographers, bioacousticians, mathematicians and many more, he shows the interesting and diverse personalities behind the transdisciplinary research at HIFMB. The Helmhol ...
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Shifting Basslines #3: Dance Floors as Portals | Camille Sapara Barton
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Shifting Basslines is a podcast series about sustainability and club culture. It is s dedicated to creating awareness, sharing knowledge and diving into the complex relationship between the planet and raving.In this episode facilitator, collective care practitioner, and music nerd Sarj Lynch finds old cassette tapes in the basement and wonders how …
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Shifting Basslines #2: Clouds Are More Than Water | Sarj
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Shifting Basslines is a podcast series about sustainability and club culture. It is s dedicated to creating awareness, sharing knowledge and diving into the complex relationship between the planet and raving.In this episode facilitator, collective care practitioner, and music nerd Sarj Lynch finds old cassette tapes in the basement and wonders how …
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Shifting Basslines #1: Grounded Travel On Space Ways | Nono Gigsta
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Shifting Basslines is a podcast series about sustainability and club culture. It is s dedicated to creating awareness, sharing knowledge and diving into the complex relationship between the planet and raving.In this episode musician and climate campaigner Nono Gigsta takes us on a grounded journey over land and sea to visit places and people that c…
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Shifting Basslines #Editor's Notes: We Cannot Do It Alone | Kerstin Meißner
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Shifting Basslines is dedicated to creating awareness, sharing knowledge and diving into the complex relationship between the planet and raving. The project centres on a three-part podcast series. In this additional recording, researcher and initiator of the project, Kerstin Meissner, shares some thoughts on the background of her research-based pod…
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WuPiG #6: Passt der Green Deal in die Blue Economy? Mit Felix Leinemann und Florian Lennert
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Der Begriff der „Blue Economy“ ist jetzt in Mode, aber welche Sektoren verbergen sich tatsächlich hinter dieser „blauen Wirtschaft“? Und welchen Einfluss hat die Energiewende auf Bereiche wie Meeresschutz, maritimen Transport oder Fischerei? Sind Elektro-Containerschiffe in naher Zukunft vorstellbar?Dies ist das Thema der sechsten Episode des Podca…
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WuPiG #5: Fußball: „Die nachhaltigste EM aller Zeiten“? Mit Michael Jopp und Jutta Katthage
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Ein Gespräch mit Michael Jopp, (Senatsverwaltung Berlin) und Jutta Katthage (Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft).Die UEFA und der DFB haben nichts weniger versprochen, als „dienachhaltigste Fußball-Europameisterschaft aller Zeiten“ zu organisieren. Aber welche konkreten Maßnahmen sind damit gemeint? Welche Sektoren kann das Organisationskomitee i…
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WuPiG #4: Wie wollen wir in Zukunft wohnen? Mit E. Kaiser (SPD) & E. Roswag-Klinge (TU Berlin)
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Ein Gespräch zum „Nachhaltigen Bauen“ mit Elisabeth Kaiser (SPD) und Eike Roswag-Klinge (TU Berlin) Wie kann das Gebäudesektor seine Klimaziele überhaupt erreichen? Ist das Ziel der Bundesregierung 400 000 neue Wohnungen pro Jahr zu bauen überhaupt sinnvoll und nachhaltig? Welche realistischen Baustoffalternativen gibt es für den Klimasünder Beton?…
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WuPiG #3: Gibt's KI auch in Grün? Mit Maximilian Funke-Kaiser (FDP) und Stefanie Kunkel (RIFS)
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Mit Maximilian Funke-Kaiser (FDP) und Stefanie Kunkel (RIFS) Die Benutzung der Künstlichen Intelligenz gehört in vielen Bereichen inzwischen zum Alltag, aber gibt es schon genug wissenschaftlichen Daten, um ihre Auswirkungen auf Nachhaltigkeit zu messen? Und wo sollte die Politik den Cursor platzieren, um die Entwicklungen der KI zu regulieren?Dies…
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WuPiG #2: Kiezblocks – Wem gehört die Stadt? Mit Almut Neumann und Dirk von Schneidemesser
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Barcelona, London und jetzt Berlin: die „Kiezblocks“ (Wohngebiete ohne Durchgangsverkehr) sind nicht mehr nur Experimente der Mobilitätspolitik, sie sind Realität geworden in mehreren europäischen Metropolen und ernten Lob und Kritik in der Bevölkerung. Welche Mobilitätswende ist in der Hauptstadt möglich?Dies ist das Thema der zweiten Episode des …
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WuPiG #1: Kann Demokratie Nachhaltigkeit? Mit Doris Fuchs und Andreas Jung
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Letzte Generation, Bauernproteste oder Einhaltung der Klimaziele: Es gibt viele Dossiers, um die nachhaltige Entwicklung auf die Agenda unserer politischen Vertreter und Verterinnen zu setzen. Aber ist der politische Rhythmus mit der Zeitskala kompatibel, in der die Herausforderungen unseres Planeten noch zu schaffen sind? Welche konkreten Vorschlä…
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WuPiG Trailer: Wissenschaft und Politik im Gespräch
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Willkommen bei "WuPig - Wissenschaft und Politik im Gespräch". Hier treffen sich Wissenschaftler:innen und Politiker:innen, um in gesellschaftlich relevante Themen einzutauchen.Hören Sie mit, wenn wir über die Kiezblöcke in Berlin plaudern oder uns den Herausforderungen einer nachhaltigen Digitalisierung stellen.Die Gespräche sollen den Forschenden…
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Jan-Claas Dajka - Turning the Tables on the Podcast Host
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In the new year, Kim Peters surprises podcast host Jan and turns the tables on him. She Interviews him on: what got him to HIFMB, a quick look into Jan's work on marine biodiversity at the science-policy interface, the wonderful people he got to learn from and work with, and even the Olympics 2028!! Happy 2024 everyone, enjoy!…
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Kristin Tietje - (Finally) Full-Time Science Coordinator
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Kristin (or Tine) Tietje has not only got a super Northern-German sounding name but also recently got a full-time position as the science coordinator of the Marine Governance Group here at HIFMB. She talks about the long winding road that she took to get here and tells us what it means to coordinate science and, more importantly, scientists - which…
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Merdeka Agus Saputra - Tinny Perspective Switcher
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Today, we hear from Merdeka, a PhD-student in the former Marine Political Ecology Group that is now part of the Marine Governance Group. He reports on his recent manuscript about tin mining by Indonesian divers and how he switches the perspectives in his writing to highlight topics that are otherwise forgotten about. Merdeka also reflects on what i…
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Anna Roik - Your Go-To Coral Microbiome Harnesser
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In a thunderous summer episode, we hear from Anna Roik - postdoc at HIFMB. Her work is centered around harnessing the microbiome (the collection of bacteria, viruses, fungi and their genes) on corals. She transplants the microbiome of more heat resistant corals onto that of heat susceptible ones to boost their resilience in the face of climate chan…
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Carbon Critique Episode #4: Usha Natarajan & Julia Dehm
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In the fourth and last episode of the first season of the Carbon Critique podcast series, we have two guests. Usha Natarajan is Edward W. Said Fellow at Columbia University and International Schulich Visiting Scholar at Dalhousie University. She employs postcolonial and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) in her interdisciplinary re…
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Jasmin Groß & Elena Schall - On the ”WissZeitVG” and Why There’s Need to Change the Changes
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Jasmin Groß and Elena Schall - both representatives of the Postdoc-Team a the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - bring a hot topic to the podcast: the recently proposed law reforms surrounding the "Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz". This is a "Law on Fixed-Term Contracts in Higher Education and Research" and it is due for a cha…
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Mita Mahato - On Art as Science Communication and Her Very Old Cat
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Mita Mahato is an artist who uses art to communicate environmental issues - especially via the use of comix - yes with an X! As our artist in residence in collaboration with the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Mita reflects on the work she has done during her time with us.By HIFMB
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Dorothee Hodapp - On Motivation and the Bigger Picture
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HIFMB postdoc Dorothee Hodapp is working on biodiversity change and is giving us insights into her recently published study in Global Change Biology. Here, she shows how climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species and predicts their ranges up to the year 2100. She further shares her recipe for successfully blending family life with two …
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Meren - About Mentoring in Academia and Average Bass Playing
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Today we have Meren on the show. He is the leader of our institute's Ecosystem Data Science Group and considers himself and his group to be placed at the intersection between microbiology and computer science. Mentorship is an imporant topic to him - we talk through his survey Mentorship in life sciences: voices of mentees, where he asked early car…
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Jana Massing - on Bacteria, Manifold Learning and Courage
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Back from our winter break, we have Jana Massing on the podcast. Jana is a PhD-student in the Biodiversity Theory group and introduces us to her work on marine bacteria. Amongst her many interests, including food webs, modelling, governance and science communication, we chat about her recent paper. There she applies a manifold learning technique, c…
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Christmas Special – A Slightly Different Christmas Story
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Gema Martínez Méndez reads her Scientific Fairytale "The Bremen Town Musicians set sail" from "Once Upon a Time – A Scientific Fairytale Vol. 1" that we introduced in Episode 11. Happy Holidays everyone!By HIFMB
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Andrea Franke – Making the UN Ocean Decade Work
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In this Episode, postdoc Andrea Franke showcases her latest paper from People and Nature on real-world labs. She also shares with us how she expanded her research from specialised experimental work on herring larvae to transdisciplinary work on the UN Ocean Decade. A great example on how to build interdisciplinary recognition!…
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Carbon Critique Podcast #3 FRENCH – Entretien avec le philosophe Maurizio Lazzarato
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Maurizio Lazzarato est sociologue et philosophe, chercheur au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et à l'Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Université Paris I). Il est également membre du Collège international de philosophie (CIPh). Lazzarato a mené une réflexion critique et écrit sur le capitalisme, la dette, le néolibéralisme, toujours…
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Carbon Critique Podcast #3 ENGLISH – A conversation with philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato
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Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and a philosopher, and a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (University Paris I). He is also a member of the Collège international de philosophie (CIPh). Lazzarato has been critically thinking and writing about capitalism, debt, neoliberalis…
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Lucie Kuczynski – Working on Artificial Islands in Exotic Germany Drinking French Wine
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Lucie Kuczynski is a community ecologist working on global change and what it implies for biodiversity. One of her recent studies shows why the biodiversity crisis is too nuanced to be tackled in the same way as global warming. She also enlightens us why French wine is the best, why La Rochelle is the best city and why Academia is not the only care…
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Haptic Hortus: Wasserpflanzen zum Klingen bringen
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Am ersten Abend der Berlin Science Week 2022 fand in der multisensorischen Installation "Haptic Hortus" von IASS Fellow und Anthropologin Susanne Schmitt ein Workshop mit Musikproduzent, Klangkünstler und Komponist Felix Classen statt. Das Berühren von Pflanzen wurde durch Hydrophone oder Lautsprecher akustisch hörbar. Klänge aus dem Botanischen Ga…
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Gema Martínez Méndez & Rebecca Borges – the Grimm Sisters for Scientific Fairytales
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Today, it’s all about science communication! And for the first time, we have two guests: Gema Martínez Méndez, marine scientist, and Rebecca Borges, marine ecologist. Both are involved in a sci-comm project called “Once upon a time… a scientific fairy tale” where scientific studies are communicated via the use of fairy tales. Definitely give this o…
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Lukas Meysick - About Seagrass Superpowers
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Lukas Meysick is a postdoc for seafloor ecology of the Wadden Sea. He also works on a recent project partnering with stakeholders from Tanzania and South Africa looking at how seagrass can assist in clearing polluted water. We further talk about his scientific career – in his PhD, seagrass also took centre stage. Enjoy this seagrass-themed episode …
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Soli Levi – on How to Add Emotion to Marine Governance
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In this episode, Soli Levi tells us about a very new and unexplored study field: emotions in marine governance. Soli is developing a theoretical framework to bring emotion into management decisions and talks about her plan with case studies in Ireland. We also talk about Soli’s multifaceted past as a turtle conservationist and working with NGOs in …
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Solomon Sebuliba – Inventor of the ”Bio Ocean”
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Solomon Sebuliba considers himself a conservation biologist turned political ecologist who, in his PhD at HIFMB, looks at biodiversity as a concept. Specifically, he considers the inherent power that terms like “biodiversity” or “biological diversity” have. Through this, he came up with his own concept, the “Bio Ocean”. We also talk about Solomon’s…
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Carbon Critique Podcast #2: Timothy Mitchell – Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
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Timothy Mitchell is a political science Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His areas of interest include colonialism, political economy, the politics of energy, and the making of expert knowledge. Much of his work blends the study of the built world, technical devices, ecological …
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Nina Tombers – Genetics Guru and Sound Smoothener
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Master’s student and our very own podcast editor Nina Tombers chats about her experience of the Master’s career stage. We chat about her Thesis work on population genetics at the Centre for Marine Tropical Ecology (ZMT) in Bremen and her student assistant job here at HIFMB. She gives us a look into the behind the scenes of podcasting, Switzerland, …
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Sharlene Fechter – Searching for Stakeholders in Antarctica and a PhD in Australia
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In this Episode, Sharlene Fechter talks about being a Master’s student at HIFMB. She covers her thesis work on stakeholders of the Weddel Sea in Antarctica and how she built a diverse skillset to jumpstart an interdisciplinary career in science. We also talk about how becoming a young mother early in her career motivated her even further and how sh…
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Carbon Critique Podcast #1: Cara New Daggett – The Birth of Energy
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In the first episode of the Carbon Critique podcast series, we talked to Cara New Daggett, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, about her book “The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work.” 📲 https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-birth-of-energyIn this book, Cara traces back the genea…
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Irene Roca – Whistling Killer Whales on SD-Cards and More Soundscape Stories
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First up: Apologies for the month of radio-silence. After the first in-person conference in two years, holidays and some production issues, we're back with a banger of an episode! HIFMB-Postdoc Irene Roca talks about her career as an ecoacoustician and introduces us to the fascinating world of soundscape ecology. And yes, this includes audio snippe…
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Amelie Luhede – Interdisiciplinary Facilitator in Decision Making
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In this one, we have interdisciplinary PhD student Amelie Luhede. She splits her PhD between the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Bielefeld and HIFMB to combine aspects of economics and environmental management. Through her quite young career, Amelie has switched fields often and has thus learned to appreciate switchi…
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Ravi Ranjan – on Competition, Coexistence and Cold Winters
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Today on the HIFMB Podcast, we have postdoctoral researcher Ravi Ranjan – a community ecologist working on complex models that explore the generation and maintenance of diversity. Ravi has a strong maths-background and applies it here to multi-species competition in phytoplankton communities. We talk about the history of species competition models,…
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Kimberley Peters – About Fortune, Failure and Something Special
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In this episode, Jan-Claas Dajka interviews Prof Kimberley Peters, Professor for Marine Governance at HIFMB. She gives us insights into her vision for her newly formed Marine Governance group at the institute and dives (pun intended) into her most recent book publication, the Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space. Through that, she discusses the value …
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Alica Ohnesorge – Species Detective Without Sorrow
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In our second episode, Jan-Claas Dajka interviews biological oceanographer Alica Ohnesorge. Alica is a PhD-student in her final year and works on eDNA, a powerful method that collects DNA from seawater samples rather than from organisms themselves. With this method, Alica is able to tell which organism has been present in the water column at a give…
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Josie Antonucci Di Carvalho – Snake Milker and Plankton Harmoniser
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In our first episode of the HIFMB-Podcast, Jan-Claas Dajka interviews ecologist Josie Antonucci Di Carvalho. Josie works on the harmonisation of how phytoplankton is sampled in the German and Dutch Wadden Sea and we discuss her recent work in this EU-funded subsidy programme called “INTERREG”. Josie also has an exciting career path that led her out…
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hör mal - lausitz #4: Kunst, Kultur & Wissenschaft: Wie passt das zusammen?
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Unsere letzte Etappe starten wir im Brandenburgischen Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst in Cottbus. Hier sprechen wir mit Direktorin Ulrike Kremeier und lassen uns von dem Fotografen und Künstler Sven Gatter die Ausstellung „EchoTektur“ näherbringen. Apropos (Archi)-tektur: Lars Scharnholz vom Institut für neue Industriekultur erzählt uns, warum alte …
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hör mal: Lausitz #3: Kinder- und Jugendbeteiligung im Strukturwandel
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Mit den Folgen der strukturpolitischen Entscheidungen in der Lausitz müssen besonders jene umgehen, die heute Kinder und Jugendliche sind. Wie fühlt sich Strukturwandel für diese Generation an? In dieser Folge geht es um Vorstellungen und Wünsche junger Menschen im Strukturwandel und warum man sie unbedingt am Strukturwandel beteiligen sollte. Wir …
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hör mal - lausitz #2: Vom Konkurrieren zum Kooperieren – Politik im Strukturwandel
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Politische Akteure stehen im Strukturwandel ziemlich unter Druck. Die Entscheidung, aus der Kohle auszusteigen und Mittel für den Strukturwandel bereitzustellen, wurde auf der Bundesebene getroffen. Umsetzen müssen den Strukturwandel aber die Länder und Kommunen. Die sind bei aller Konkurrenz um Gelder und Ideen darauf angewiesen, gemeinsame Strate…
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Energiewende funktioniert – wie Bürgerenergie wirken kann
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Podcast Erneuerbare Energien der Energieagentur.NRWEnergiewende funktioniert! Wenn möglichst alle mitmachen. Wie das wiederum gelingen kann, erklärt Prof. Dr. Dr. Ortwin Renn. Er ist unter anderem wissenschaftlicher Direktor des Instituts für Transformative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (IASS) in Potsdam.Und er sagt: Vier Faktoren sind wichtig, damit di…
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hör mal - lausitz #1: Mit Moos noch mehr los – Zivilgesellschaft im Strukturwandel
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Strukturwandel kann nur mit den Menschen vor Ort verstanden und gestaltet werden. Wie und wo finden wir die klugen Ideen, das beeindruckende Engagement und die belastbaren Netzwerke? Die Lausitzer Zivilgesellschaft: Ausgangspunkt für unsere Spurensuche transdisziplinärer Forschung im Strukturwandel. Wir treffen Soziologin Julia Gabler an der Hochsc…
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Wachstum oder Glück: Was messen wir eigentlich?
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Bhutan macht es vor, aber Deutschland hat so was auch: Einen Index, der nicht nur wirtschaftliches Wachstum misst, sondern auch den Ressourcenverbrauch abzieht, um das Glück der Menschen besser abzubilden. Doch was taugt ein solcher Index? Wir sprechen heute darüber mit zwei Volkswirten am IASS, Jörg Mayer-Ries und Armin Hass. Craig Morris leitet d…
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Potsdam Summer School Podcast, Episode 6: Arctic and Antarctic - polar opposites
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Would sustainability be easier if people’s needs didn’t need to be taken into consideration? The way laws and rules are made in the Arctic (where many people live) and the Antarctic (where no one does permanently) sheds light on the role that social sciences play in policymaking, explains IASS Fellow Craig Morris in the final episode of his Potsdam…
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Potsdam Summer School Podcast, Episode 5: Risk perception and citizen participation
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In these days of “fake news,” the public’s judgement is being called into doubt. But we all make incorrect assumptions about lots of things. On the other hand, in a democracy, why is public participation needed when we could just elect experts to make decisions based on science, asks IASS Senior Fellow Craig Morris.…
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