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Caroline van Bers

Resource Management

Osnabrück University
Institute of Environmental Systems Research

Profile

Caroline van Bers is a guest researcher with the Institute of Environmental Systems Research at Osnabrück University, after working there for many years. Since March 2022 she coordinates an interfaculty programme at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Resilience@UT which focuses on promoting transdisciplinary research in resilience in three sectors, climate, safety and health care. She has been involved in environmental management and sustainable development with academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations in Europe and North America for over thirty years. This work, ranging from research to capacity development, has always been interdisciplinary and applied in nature. A particular focus has been the promotion of Integrated Assessment approaches and methods at the science-policy-practice interface particularly in her long-time management role with The Integrated Assessment Society co-founded by Prof. Claudia Pahl-Wostl in 2003. She now serves as the association's president.

Research Interests

Climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction
Adaptive water management
Sustainable food production and consumption
Food security
Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach
Stakeholder involvement and participatory processes
Integrated Assessment methods and tools especially scenario development, indicators and environmental & social impact assessment

Past Projects

The MEDUWA-Vecht(e) project ('MEDicines Unwanted in WAter') develops innovative solutions in the whole pharmaceutical chain to avoid emissions of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and multi-resistant micro-organisms in soil, (drinking) water, air and food, as much as possible at the source.
DAFNE Project: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and transboundary water resources systems of fast-growing developing countries. Funded by European Commission's Horizon 2020 Programme, 2016-2020.
Transformative management of the WEF nexus - Analysing Transformative Approaches for the Management of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Advancement of the SDGs in Sub-saharan Africa
Profillinie Mensch-Umwelt-Netzwerke (MUN) (German link)/ Human-environmental networks (English Link) The interdiscplinary researchers in this network from Osnabrück University and the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences are developing innovative research approaches and projects at the interfaces between natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. This goal is stimuated by the organisation of interdisciplinary lectures and seminars, and other events on environmental and sustainability issues with actors from science, business, politics and civil society.

Incremental adaptation versus transformation: Identifying pathways for transformation in governance towards sustainable food systems funded by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Research Program under CGIAR. Link to final scoping report.