Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Socio-ecological Transformation in Brandenburg

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David Löw Beer

Dr. David Löw-Beer

Research Group Leader
Victoria Luh

Victoria Luh

Research Associate
RIFS researcher Viola Gerlach speaks with businessman Max Küsters about how climate change is changing agriculture in Brandenburg.
RIFS researcher Viola Gerlach speaks with businessman Max Küsters about how climate change is changing agriculture in Brandenburg.

How guidelines, funding programmes, and strategies for socio-ecological transformations are implemented - and the resistance they encounter - can be best understood at the local and regional levels. This research aims to identify the conditions for success and obstacles to socio-ecological transformations in Brandenburg across eight projects, their common features, and the implications for efforts to support transformations and related communications activities. The projects examined in this research are closely linked to sustainability policy priorities in Brandenburg, including the bioeconomy, digitalisation, and moorland conservation. Researchers work closely with relevant stakeholders to present different perspectives from politics, public administration, the business community, cultural institutions, civil society, and citizens.

Podcast: "Negotiating Change. Sustainability in Brandenburg"

The project communicates its work to the wider public in podcasts professionally producing by Akustikwerk. Each episode features content recorded on location in Brandenburg to encourage listener identification. The podcast appeals to a broad audience by presenting different views of transformations unfolding in Brandenburg and considering developments from a scientific perspective.

Taking a facts-forward approach, the podcast presents diverse positions, interests and views on different transformation fields, providing robust information to counter conspiracy thinking and long-standing and emerging myths. Research findings on socio-ecological transformations in Brandenburg and communication efforts will also be presented in the podcast. Negotiating Change will be available across all leading platforms and episodes will be released on the following dates (all podcasts will be in German only):

  • (1) Car-free Inner Cities (15/10/2024)
  • (2) Entrepreneurial Approaches for More Biodiversity (15/10/2024)
  • (3) Sharing the Financial Benefits of the Energy Transition: the Wind Energy Levy (29/10/2024)
  • (4) The Heat Transition (12/11/2024)
  • (5) Climate-friendly Cultural Events? A Snapshot of Brandenburg (26/11/2024)
  • (6) Community Farming (10/12/2024)
  • (7) Rethinking and Designing Landscapes as Carbon Reservoirs. Different Perspectives on the Climate-friendly Transformation of Moorlands (24/12/2024)
  • (8) Region-specific Obstacles and Success Factors for Sustainable Digitalisation (07/01/2025)

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David Löw Beer

Dr. David Löw-Beer

Research Group Leader
Scientific Project Leader
Dr. Grischa Beier

Prof. Dr. Grischa Beier

Research Group Leader
Research Associate
Franziska Mey

Dr. Franziska Mey

Research Group Leader
Research Associate
Manuel Rivera

Dr. Manuel Rivera

Research Group Leader
Research Associate
Dr. Erika von Schneidemesser

Dr. Erika von Schneidemesser

Research Group Leader
Research Associate
Kathleen A. Mar

Dr. Kathleen A. Mar

Scientific Head
Research Associate
Katharina Beyerl

Dr. Katharina Beyerl

Scientific Project Leader
Research Associate
Silke Niehoff

Silke Niehoff

Senior Research Associate
Research Associate
Germán Bersalli

Dr. Germán Bersalli

Research Associate
Research Associate
Alexandre Caseiro

Dr. Alexandre Caseiro

Research Associate
Research Associate
Victoria Luh

Victoria Luh

Research Associate
Research Associate
Dr. Bianca Schröder

Dr. Bianca Schröder

Press and Communications Officer
Press and Communications Officer
Doris Fuchs Leitungsteam RIFS

Prof. Dr. Doris Fuchs

Scientific Director
Scientific Director
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