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
Joint publication on investigation of the development of biodiversity, climate change and chemical pollution over a period of 100 years using an AI-based framework
"100 years of anthropogenic impact causes changes in freshwater functional biodiversity", Eastwood et al. 2023, eLife
NORMAN Workshop and General Assembly
Frankfurt
On 6 Dezember 2023 the NORMAN Biodiversity workshop “Innovative Approaches for Environmental Monitoring of Chemical Pollution and Biodiversity – Linking Biodiversity Loss and Chemical Pollution" will take place in Frankfurt.
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