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
SynergyFund Workshop
Frankfurt
A workshop with the presentation of the SynergyFund projects and a discussion on the further development of RobustNature took place on December 8th 2022.
Conference "Business needs Nature"
Frankfurt
On November 29th, the conference "Business needs Nature - Towards a nature-positive Economy" took place at the Senckenberg Research Institute in the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt.
Bad Waldsee Project - Workshop
Frankfurt
The annual workshop of the interdisciplinary Bad Waldsee project "Effects of Medieval to Early Modern Urban Development on Water Bodies Using the Example of Bad Waldsee" took place from November 17th to 19th.