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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Institution
Section overview
Description
At PIK researchers in the natural and social sciences work together to study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social systems. They examine the Earth system's capacity for withstanding human interventions and devise strategies for a sustainable development of humankind and nature.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
Networks
Coordinated projects
- Carbon and Timber stock of the German forest - Improvement of projections of current and future CO2 stock by means of ecophysiological and empirical forest growth models
- CC LandStraD, Subproject 4: Consequences of land use changes for the water and matter balance
- Climate resilient cultivation methods for risk optimization – with special consideration of the goals of the arable farming strategy and their regional requirements - subproject PIK
- Collaborative project: Optimizing agricultural cropping strategies and measures for climate adaptation – analysis and assessment at the landscape level with special regard to their interactions with plant protection, productivity, cropping structure and greenhouse gas emissions - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Proactive phytosanitary risk analysis through modelling and monitoring: Adaptation to long-term risks caused by climate sensitive plant pests - subproject 2
- Food security at household level under climatic influences and different adaptation scenarios
- ForestValue: Innovative forest management strategies for a resilient bioeconomy under climate change and disturbances, data provisioning, management scenarios, model calibration and simulation
- Indicators of climate-related vulnerability of the German wine to pathogens in the period 2010-2050 (INKLIV.2050)
- Integration of nutrition and health aspects in agroforestry projects of development co-operation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a feasibility analysis
- Joint project: Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass - part 4
- KULUNDA: How to prevent the next »Global Dust Bowl«? Ecological and economic strategies for sustainable land management in the Russian steppes: A potential solution to climate change. Subproject 9: Carbon modelling
- Study on interrelations between environmental indicators in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Planetary Boundaries of Stress
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
Involved in research projects
- Analysis of potentials land use changes due to global change relieving the environment
- CC-LandStraD: Climate Change - Land Use Strategies Germany; Subproject: Economic valuation of various forestry land use options with regard to their carbon storage under different environmental conditions
- Climate change impact assessment and adaptation options in vulnerable agro-landscapes in East Africa (CLIMATE CHANGE)
- GLOWA - Elbe: Integrated Analysis of the Impacts of the Environment and Society in the Elbe Basin
- Impacts of summer drought of Forest condition and Silviculture
- Implications of climate change on the sustainability goals in the use of pesticides - Study on the efficiency and adequacy of the measures taken by the Federal Government for the achievement of environmental objectives for a sustainable use of plant protection products
- Influence of climate change on the transmission of vectors (here: Ixodidae) (UFOPLAN research and development project FKZ 3708 49 400)
- Integrated analyses of impacts of global change on the environment and society in the Elbe catchment - Analyses of impacts of agricultural and environmental measures regarding the implementation of the EU water framework directive.
- Interdependencies between Land use and Climate Change – Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany
- Joint project: Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass - part 3
- Joint project: Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass - Part Project 1
- Joint project: Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass - Subproject 2
- Model studies on effects of climate change on wheat-aphid-predators (coccinellids)
- Potential effects of climate change on the dynamics of Hantavirus rodent reservoir population
- Re-thinking water storage for climate change adaptation for sub-Saharan Africa (CLIMATE CHANGE)
- Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Targeting the Most Vulnerable (CLIMATE CHANGE)
- Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists to climatic change in West and Southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach (CLIMATE CHANGE)
- Sustainable Land Management in the North German lowlands under changing environmental, ecological and social conditions (NaLaMa-nT). Subproject L3: development of agricultural production
Contact
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
(PIK)
Telegraphenberg A 31
D-14473 Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany
Phone: +49 331 288-2500
Fax: +49 331 288-2600
Email: press(@)pik-potsdam.de