In a joint paper with the ILS – Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, now published in the Journal of Rural Studies, Annett Steinführer, Aura Moldovan, and Joachim Kreis analyse how internal migration patterns in Germany have changed and which reasons are decisive move to rural…
Reducing food waste together: Leading agricultural scientists are also meeting on the margins of the G20 summit to develop strategies against food waste, for example. Support comes from the Thünen Institute.
Increasing drought is threatening harvests, even in our latitudes. Where will plants get water to grow and thrive in the future? From the subsoil, for example. Unused water and nutrient reserves lie dormant there.
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Anders T, Hetzer J, Knapp N, Forrest M, Langan L, Tölle MH, Wellbrock N, Hickler T (2025) Modelling past and future impacts of droughts on tree mortality and carbon storage in Norway spruce stands in Germany. Ecol Model 501:110987, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110987
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Gava O, Vanni F, Schwarz G, Guisepelli E, Vincent A, Prazan J, Weisshaidinger R, Frick R, Hrabalová A, Carolus J, Iragui Yoldi U, Pyysiäinen J, Smyrniotopoulou A, Vlahos G, Balazs K, Szilágyi AJ, Jegelevicius G, Miksyte E, Zilans A, Fratila M, et al (2025) Governance networks for agroecology transitions in rural Europe. J Rural Studies 114:103482, DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103482
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Bösch M (2025) What explains the uneven uptake of forest certification at the global level? New evidence from a panel-data analysis. World Dev 188:106890, DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106890
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Keim-Klärner S, Klärner A, Knabe A, Berger PA (2025) Soziale Folgen von Bildungsarmut. In: Quenzel G, Hurrelmann K, Groß Ophoff J, Weber C (eds) Handbuch Bildungsarmut. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-44698-7_20-1
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Bialozyt RB, Roß-Nickoll M, Ottermanns R, Jetzkowitz J (2025) The different ways to operationalise the social in applied models and simulations of sustainability science: A contribution for the enhancement of good modelling practices. Ecol Model 500:110952, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110952
