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Project
Nexus between biodiversity, agriculture, water, climate and health at regional to global scales (NEXUS)
Nexus between biodiversity, agriculture, water, climate and health at regional to global scales (NEXUS)
Biodiversity, agriculture, water, health and climate are tightly interconnected. Changes in any single component can activate or reinforce changes in other components resulting in a complex network of interconnected and compounding risks and opportunities – the nexus. Better understanding how nexus interlinkages and interdependencies unfold and how components interact across systems, sectors and scales is essential to make integrated and adaptive decisions that help seize synergies and minimise undesired trade-offs. Indigenous and local knowledge is vital for understanding and managing nexus interlinkages highlighting that all knowledge systems need to be integrated to inform decision making and design effective actions. Indigenous and local knowledge is crucial for understanding and managing interdependencies. This underscores the need to integrate all knowledge systems in order to make informed decisions and design effective actions.
Background and Objective
This project synthesises insights on nexus interactions to guide decision making and actions:
- Conceptualisation of nexus interactions and mapping to conceptual framework of IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)
- Identification of challenges and opportunities that influence the uptake of nexus perspectives in decision making, policy design and implementation of actions
- Road map for nexus actions for tackling coupled biodiversity, food, water, health and climate change crises
Thünen-Contact
Duration
Permanent task 1.2023
More Information
Project status:
ongoing
Publications
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Sietz D, Niamir A, Müller D, Hickler T, Kanemoto K, Moran DD, Thonicke K (2025) Mapping human-nature archetypes to guide global biodiversity, food security, and land-use policy. One Earth 8(8):101416, DOI:10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101416
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Harrison PA, McElwee PD, Phang SC, Zambrana-Torrelio C, Enrico L, Giraudoux P, Jarvis RM, Karim PG, Luque S, Prescott GW, Rivera-Ferre MG, Sietz D, Turetta APD, Obura D (2024) Chapter 1: Introducing the nexus. In: McElwee PD, Harrison PA, van Huysen TL (eds) Thematic assessment report on the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Bonn: IPBES secretariat, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.13850293
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McElwee PD, Sitas N, Ley D, Glavovic BC, Herrero M, Biber-Freudenberger L, Campbell D, Cavanagh CJ, Cherubini F, Dasgupta P, Eriksen SH, Harrison PA, Jarvis RM, Kuiken T, Luque S, Lynch AJ, Mangalagiu D, McFarlane RA, Phang SC, Sietz D, et al (2024) Chapter 7: Summary and synthesis of options, knowledge and technology gaps and capacity development. In: McElwee PD, Harrison PA, van Huysen TL (eds) Thematic assessment report on the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Bonn: IPBES secretariat, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.13850355
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Orozco R, Meyer-Jürshof M, Vergara-Rodríguez K, Václavík T, Sietz D (2024) Dynamic archetypes of agricultural land systems in Germany from 1992 to 2019. Land Use Pol 145:107281, DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107281
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Sietz D, Neudert R (2022) Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate [online]. Environ Res Lett 17(11):113004, zu finden in <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9a5c> [zitiert am 25.10.2022], DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac9a5c
