Natural and Social Science Interface

Special NSSI Colloquium on "Perspectives of Research on Human-Environment Systems"

NSSI has worked successfully on the interfaces of human and environment systems (HES), research and practice (transdisciplinarity) and natural and social sciences. Meanwhile the research fields at these interfaces matured and eight NSSI alumni became professors at universities in different countries.

This NSSI colloquium is a chance for looking back and forth: All eight NSSI alumni will give insights in key aspects of human-environment systems research and will show how they advanced the field in the last few years. Further, the colloquium provides room and opportunity to delineate future research perspectives.

For more information see programme (PDF, 152 kB).

The Chair of Environmental Sciences – Natural and Social Science Interface (NSSI) is headed by Prof. Dr. Roland W. Scholz.

NSSI is part of the Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED) and was founded in 1993 under two missions:

• Organizing interdisciplinary research regarding cause-impact relationships of environmental problems and developing strategies for integrated approaches in investigating processes at the human and environment interface.
• Conducting large scale transdisciplinary Case Studies in cooperation with other professors of the department, neighboring universities and research institutes as well as with the corporate world.

For this purpose our work and research units are genuinely inter- and transdisciplinary.

The NSSI group in May 2009. By clicking on a head you may reach the person's personal home page.