Projects
Our initiative has an a extensive history of research in the environmental humanities and social sciences. Here is an overview of our members’ third party funded projects.
![Projects 1 Logo of HESCOR](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Logo_Hescor.png)
Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human & Earth System Coupled Research
2023-26
![Projects 2 https://www.cultural-climate-models.org/](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCM-300x212.png)
Just futures: An Interdisciplinary approach to cultural climate models
2023-25
![Projects 3 investigating the commodification of the Wild](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/comodifying-the-wild-for-sapp-projects.avif-300x141.png)
S(m)elling the ‘wild’: the political ecology of arboreal essential oils and the making of olfactory resources
2023-25
![Projects 4 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AvH_Logo_rgb-300x141.png)
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
2022-27
![Projects 5 Rewilding Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/rewilding-logo-darkblue-300x82.png)
Rewilding the Anthropocene
2022-26
Mobile mosquitoes - Understanding the entangled mobilities of Aedes Mosquitoes and humans in India, Mexico, Tanzania and Germany
2022-26
Post-Global Aesthetics: World creation and exhaustion in 21st Century Latin American literatures
2022-24
Spring School: The Agrarian Question and Contested Rural Futures in Africa funded by the VW Foundation
2022
![Projects 9 https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBROQaHKPNx-fz3zw28Y-w0xuOv0Xm8-o3MEgdPmNN&s](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/aa-logo2-1-300x62.png)
Connecting – Excluding. Cultural dynamics beyond globalized net works
2021-26
![Projects 10 afas logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/csm_AFAS_Logo_BIG_PNG_1265324983-300x124.png)
African Climate and Environment Center – Future African Savannas (AFAS)
2021-25
Rare Earths in the Just Transition: Connecting Global Inequalities in REE Commodity Chains
2021-22
![Projects 12 https://mecila.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/logo.png](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Mecila-300x66.webp)
Maria Sibylla Merian Center: Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (MECILA)
2020-26
![Projects 13 ccl logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/csm_CCL_1_13a6e1d2a6.jpg)
Climate Change Literacy
2020-21
Heisenberg Professorship Media Ecology
2019-24
Empathy and resilience. Phenomenological investigations into the resilience potentials of interpersonal resonance
2019-23
A future without forest? Future-making, environmental change and socio-economic transformations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
2019-23
Driving factors for and societal effects of sea-level rise and delta flooding in the Ayeyarwady Delta (Myanmar) - Lessons from the past for disaster governance in the future
2019-25
![Projects 18 Nam tip Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/institutelogo-300x135.png)
Nam-Tip: Social and cultural implications of desertification tipping points in the Namibian East Communal rangelands. Sub-Project 3 of BioTip. Understanding and managing desertification tipping points in dryland social-ecological systems (Bollig)
2019-22
Between enclaves and integration – Chinese and African Special Economic Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa
2019-22
![Projects 20 future rural africa logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/crc-trr228-future-rural-africa-300x87.jpg)
CRC-TRR 228: Future rural Africa. Future-making and social-ecological transformation (with Bonn University)
2018-25
Heisenberg Professorship for Phenomenology and Anthropology
2018-23
![Projects 22 MYrisk: Multiple risks management of extreme events in fast growing (mega)cities in Myanmar Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/logo-myrisk-2-300x94.png)
MYrisk: Multiple risks management of extreme events in fast growing (mega)cities in Myanmar
2017-25
Standards 2.0. Livelihoods of Indian smallholder farmers between global and domestic value chains for organic and fair trade agri-food products
2016-20
Gateway cities and their hinterland: Global cities from the Global South as nodes in global commodity chains
2015-19
Reading global: Constructions of World Literature and Latin America
2015-21
![Projects 26 Remapping the Global South: Teaching-Researching-Exchanging Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DAAD-logo200x200.png)
Remapping the Global South: Teaching-Researching-Exchanging
2015-18
![Projects 27 http://www.real-project.eu/](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Real12-002-e1693464308212-300x290.jpg)
Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)
2013-17
![Projects 28 wetlands globE logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wetlands-logo-300x119.jpg)
GlobE consortium: Wetlands in East Africa
2013-16
Local Institutions in Globalized Societies (LINGS)
2010-19
SPP 1448 Adaptation and Creativity in Africa
2010-14
Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in Social-Ecological Systems of East- and South Africa’s Savannahs
2010-17
![Projects 32 Megacities-Megachallenge Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Logo_SPP_sm.png)
SPP Megacities Megachallenge
2006-16
![Projects 33 ForUM Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/csm_Logo_CMYK_web_3f95cde218-300x117.jpg)
ForUm for Urban Future in Southeast Asia
2005 -
ongoing
![Projects 34 https://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geographie/pearlpune/images/titel_neu.gif](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/titel_neu-300x56.gif)
Governing emerging megacities
2005-08
![Projects 35 IMPETUS: Integratives Management-Projekt für einen effizienten und tragfähigen Umgang mit Süßwasser in Westafrika Logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/top_left_de-300x70.gif)
IMPETUS: Integratives Management-Projekt für einen effizienten und tragfähigen Umgang mit Süßwasser in Westafrika
2005-08
![Projects 36 acacia logo](https://sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/schrift_acacia-300x21.gif)
SFB/CRC 389 Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa (ACACIA)
1995-07