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PIK Flagship Projects in RD II

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RF1 Flagship projects in Research Field 1:
Biosphere by 2100

WATERFORCE - Water as a Force of Change in Biosphere and Agrosphere

  • Water-related and biospheric climate change impacts metrics

  • Ordered burning ember diagrams and impact mappings

  • Global freshwater crisis and implications

  • Agricultural water and nutrient flows and their management

 

ELIS - Exploring Land use Choices and Sustainability

  • Global bioenergy scenarios and trade-offs

  • Alternatives pathways to industrialization of agriculture

  • Non-economic choices in global change trade-offs

  • Vernadskian seminar on biosphere-anthroposphere co-evolution


RF 2 Flagship projects in Research Field 2:
North-South Project

TripleWin - Mitigation, Adaptation and Sustainability

  • Development alternatives for regions with high environmental risks

  • Characterisation of the urban/rural gradient

  • Sustainability from development with clean technology

  • Reconciling the livelihoods of societies with adaptation and mitigation

 

InfraDyn-C - Infrastructural Dynamics under Climate Change

  • Cities under climate change, city-based options for mitigation

  • Development paths of western/southern cities, future city construction

  • Interaction of urban infrastructure with the rural environment

  • Typologies of sustainable cities, theoretical concepts, modelling


RF3 Flagship projects in Research Field 3:
Regional impacts and Strategies

CLIMREG - Climate Impacts Register for Germany

  • Multi-sectoral impact analysis for Germany under change trends/variability

  • Comprehensive stakeholder-oriented risk analysis

  • Regional case studies

 

RECCWEX - Regional Climate Change and Extremes

  • Development of STAR and -regional climate analysis/modeling

  • Linking of STAR/CCLM to SWIM (and other models), feedback analyses

  • Regional hotspots of extremes, focus on droughts and flooding

  • Hydrological landscape management

 

SBB - Strategy Brandenburg and other Federal States

  • Strategies of sustainability, mitigation and adaptation on the state level

  • Policy advice and strategic knowledge transfer

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