Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel

http://www.cesr.de

WHO WE ARE

• The Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR) was founded in 1994 as an interdisciplinary research unit of the University of Kassel. 
• The goals of CESR are to contribute to an improved understanding of the functioning of environmental systems and the interplay between society and the environment and to develop strategies of sustainable development including the adaptation to systems changes. 
• We are organised in three research groups focusing on modelling of global and regional land and water dynamics (GRID), research on human-environment interactions (SESAM) and sustainable resource management and industrial ecology (SURF). 

WHAT OUR EXPERIENCE IS

Assessment of global environmental change processes and analysis of their impacts. This includes: 

• Assessment of water resources under global change - modelling of water quantity and quality on a global and regional scale;
• Land use change issues - simulation of the global and regional changes in land cover type and land use patterns;
• Earth systems modelling - water, soil and ecosystem functioning;
• Vulnerability analyses – model-based analysis of the societal challenges caused by sensitivity and exposure to global change;
• Strategies of sustainable development - scenario development and analysis;
• Stakeholder engagement – planning and execution of scenario workshops.

WHAT WE DO IN IMPRESSIONS

• WP2: Development and analysis of integrated, multi-scale scenarios.
• WP3: Global modelling of water resources and further development of the water-related modelling within the IMPRESSIONS Integrated Assessment Model for Europe.
• WP4 & WP5: Analysis of impacts and modelling of adaptation strategies in order to assess risks and opportunities as well as trade-offs and synergies of adaptation pathways.

WE ARE ALSO INVOLVED IN

• CLIMSAVE
• Water Futures and Solutions
• eartH2Observe (FP7-ENV2013)
• GLOWA Jordan River

PARTNER'S POSTER

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	Dr. Martina Flörke Head of research group on water at CESR Coordination of working groups in several international projects Contributing author of UNEP‘s Global Environment Outlook Reports Research interests Assessing the impacts of climate and socio-economic changes on freshwater resources Scenario development and application in science
	Florian Wimmer Research associate at CESR Developer of the water resources and water use meta-models applied in the CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform Research interests Hydrological modelling and land-use modelling Assessment of global change impacts on water and land resources Global change adaptation
	Dr. Janina Onigkeit Senior scientist at CESR Manager of GLOWA JR scenario project Expert in model applications at science –policy interface Research interests Environmental modelling and land-use modelling Combining scenario analysis and simulation studies as a means to communicate science to policy

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