Lecture - Earth System Science & Anthropocene

Lecture dates and topics:

Lecture: Tuesday, 14.15-15.45h, Potsdam Golm, House 5, Room 1.03

Tutorials: Tuesday, 16:00-17:30h, Potsdam Golm, House 5, Room 1.03

Provisional topics of the lectures:

  1. 18.04.2023 - Introduction to the module & The Anthropocene
  2. 25.04.2023 - The planetary boundaries framework
  3. 02.05.2023 - Climate and World-Earth system modeling
  4. 09.05.2023 - Climate tipping elements, their interactions and quantitative modeling
  5. 16.05.2023 - Conceptual models for World-Earth system analysis I
  6. 23.05.2023 - Milestone presentations
  7. 30.05.2023 - Conceptual models for World-Earth system analysis II
  8. 06.06.2023 - Planetary boundaries of the freshwater and phosphorus/nitrogen boundary
  9. 13.06.2023 - Planetary boundaries in policy and transformations for reaching safe climate landing zones
  10. 20.06.2023 - Interactions of climate tipping elements and early warning signals
  11. 27.06.2023 - Complex systems methods for studying complex climate and socio-ecological systems: safe operating space, viability theory and topology of sustainable management
  12. 04.07.2023 - From problems to solutions - social tipping processes for sustainability
  13. 11.07.2023 - Introduction to working at PIK and presentations on current research from the ERAlab FutureLab group
  14. 18.07.2023 - Theory, measurement and modeling of Earth system resilience
  15. 25.07.2023 - Final presentations of tutorial projects

Lecture slides, tutorial projects and additional literature will be stored in the PIK-Cloud and are linked here: https://cloud.pik-potsdam.de/index.php/s/3jMFYibRAKA3WYD.

Tutorials

Niklas Kitzmann