Robustness and Resilience of Nature-Society Systems
in the Developing Anthropocene
Excellence Initiative RobustNature

Our aims
- Process understanding of robustness and resilience in a multi-scale approach
- Understanding the interactions between chemical stress, biodiversity loss and climate change
- Transformation research - from knowledge to action
Our approach
- Multi- and transdisciplinary research on the topics of water, organismic interaction and systemic risks from molecule to ecosystem as well as between natural and social sciences
Our consortium
- We are a consortium of various departments at Goethe University Frankfurt, which, together with national and international partners, has a great deal of expertise in biology, geosciences, environmental sciences, social sciences, law, economics and medicine
RobustNature Workshop "Chemical Pollution and Biodiversity Loss", 04. & 05. July 2023
Transdisciplinary Stakeholder Workshop on Chemical Pollution and Biodiversity Loss held at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe
RobustNature seminar series: Dr. Stefan Scholz, UFZ Leipzig
Title: "A mechanistic approach to identify and predict the adverse effects of chemicals in the zebrafish embryo model"
Joint publication on linking chemical pollution and biodiversity loss
"Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss", Sylvester et al. 2023, Nature Ecology and Evolution