RIFS conducts research with the goal of understanding, advancing, and guiding processes of societal change towards sustainable development.
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Klaus Töpfer Professorship
A new interdisciplinary professorship for sustainable development is being created in memory of Klaus Töpfer, the founding director of the IASS (now RIFS). The call for applications will be published on the 1st anniversary of his death 8 June by TU Dortmund University, Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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KOSMOS Lecture by Mark Lawrence
In his KOSMOS Lecture at the Humboldt University of Berlin on 5 June, RIFS director Mark Lawrence will discuss the current debate on the term Anthropocene and propose an alternative.