Sustainable Resource Use
The research focus of «Sustainable Resource Use» is on promoting efficient and sustainable use of natural resources in order to secure the availability of food, animal feed and renewable raw materials while maintaining soil fertility and the supply of clean drinking water.
The researchers investigate the underlying processes which are essential for the sustainable use of resources – from the molecular scales up to the level of ecosystems and landscapes – as well as their resilience against changing abiotic and anthropogenic influences. This is done through a combination of research approaches from the fields of biophysics, engineering, socio-economics and political science.
In addition, they are researching how resistant these processes are to rapidly changing external influences. For this purpose, natural sciences, engineering and political science are combined with socio-economic research approaches.
