Green Hour: Interdisciplinary Research: Challenges and Opportunities (Dr. Andrea Thorenz)

In this talk, we will reflect on the potential and challenges of interdisciplinary research: How can scholars from different academic fields work together to understand and address the complex vulnerabilities arising from climate change? What happens when distinct methods, perspectives, and academic cultures come together? And what new insights and possibilities can emerge from such encounters?

These questions will be explored through examples from interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Green Research Network Building Climate Resilience for a Vital Environment (BRaVE). Bringing together expertise from geosciences and economics to medicine, social sciences, politics, and law, BRaVE aims to identify climate-related vulnerabilities, develop indicators for the early detection of risks, and investigate pathways towards climate-resilient solutions.

Drawing on experiences from these projects, the talk will highlight both the practical and conceptual challenges of working across disciplinary boundaries, while also demonstrating how bringing different forms of knowledge into dialogue can generate new perspectives, approaches, and opportunities for addressing complex climate-related problems.

Location: WZU, Room 101 (Building U), Universitätsstr. 1a (innocube), 86159 Augsburg