Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza Leitung Unit Landsysteme und Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung Landsysteme und Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung Telefon +41 31 684 38 60 E-Mail chinwe.ifejika.speranza@unibe.ch Büro 109 Postadresse Universität Bern Geographisches Institut Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung Hallerstrasse 12 CH-3012 Bern Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung
Forschung Forschungsschwerpunkte Sustainable Land Management Land use and land cover analysis Climate variability and climate change adaptation and mitigation Ecosystem services / natural resources Agricultural landscapes / agro-ecology Social-ecological resilience Environmental performance Environmental justice Environmental stewardship / Environmental policy Conceptual and methodological development Projekte SUSTAINFORESTS Land Degradation and its impacts on ecosystem services in the Nigerian Savannah Exploring pathways for transformation to sustainability using the safe and just operating space concept at the regional level (SUccESS) Food Systems Caravan West Africa Soil spectroscopy for measuring sustainable land management Social-ecological systems modelling and Sustainable Land Management (SSLM) Sustainable governance of food systems: optimising the coexistence of large- and small-scale food producers in South America and Africa. Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development Resilient agriculture-based livelihoods and resilient agricultural landscapes? Adaptation to climate change in African agriculture (RESALL) Beendete Projekte Agricultural Climate Resilience to El-Nino in sub-Saharan Africa (ACRES) Live with Water; Project within the UK DFID Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Programme
Lehre Bachelor Geographien der Nachhaltigkeit - Vorlesung und Übungen (2020 - ) Sustainability in the Anthropocene - Vorlesung/Podcast (2020 - ) Integrative Geographie und Nachhaltigkeit - Vorlesung und Übungen (2016 - 2019) Globale Entwicklungs und Umweltfragen - Vorlesung/Podcast (2016 - 2019) Initiativen zur Restaurierung von Land und Land Ressourcen - Proseminar (2019) «Land Degradation Neutrality»: Konzeption, Operationalisierung und Implikationen für die Erreichung der nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele - Proseminar (2017) Betreuung Bachelorarbeiten in der Abteilung Landsysteme und Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung Forschungspraktikum Bachelorarbeit Master Sustainable Land Management - Vorlesung/Podcast (2016 - ) Sustainability - Forum/Podcast (2016 - ) Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management – Land management variables and their applications across scales in Switzerland - Seminar (2020) Challenges in Geography - Vorlesung (2016 - 2020) Methods Seminar on Sustainable Development - System dynamics modelling of social-ecological systems - Seminar (2019) Environmental Justice: multi-dimensional and multi-scale perspectives - Seminar (2018) System dynamics for understanding the sustainability challenges of social-ecological systems - Seminar (2018) Feldkurs Kaukasus in Georgien - Exkursion (2017) Resilience in Sustainable Land Management and Land Systems; Der Resilienz-Ansatz in der nachhaltigen Nutzung von Land und natürlichen Ressourcen - Seminar (2016) Alpen und Gebirge - Vorlesung (2016) Betreuung Masterarbeiten in der Abteilung Landsysteme und Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung Kolloquium Masterarbeit PhD Kolloquium PhD International graduate School North-South Betreuung Doktorarbeiten Pascal Bircher: Erosion risk modelling and monitoring, Switzerland (finalising 03/2020) Donia Jendoubi: Land degradation in Northwest Tunisia (abgeschlossen 2020) Emily Mutea: Livelihoods and food security (2017-2020) Ademola Adenle: Land Degradation and Its Impacts on Ecosystem Services in Nigeria (2017-2020) Simon Oberholzer: Monitoring sustainable soil management in Switzerland (2019-2022) Franziska Mohr: Historical analysis of landscape change in Europe (2019-2022)
Mitgliedschaften & Engagement Member, Board of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) Member of the Scientific Committee of the Future Earth core-project, the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS). Centre for Training and Integrated Research in Arid and Semi-arid Lands Development (CETRAD), Nanyuki, Kenya Member, International Board of Directors of the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) Member, Independent Steering Committee (ISC) of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) The Swiss Society for African Studies / Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien African Studies Association in Germany / Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (e.V.) Member Advisory Board, Bern Society of Natural Sciences (Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Bern (NGB) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie-Arbeitskreis Subsaharisches Afrika (AKSA, Research Group on Sub-Saharan Africa of the German Geographical Society) Geographische Gesellschaft Bern Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich (GEGZ, Geographical-Ethnographical Society of Zurich) German Development Institute (DIE) Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya Network for the Evaluation of One Health (NEOH): Enable evaluations of One Health activities and comparison of initiatives as well as informed decision-making and resource allocation. Gutachterin für Environmental Science & Policy Regional Environmental Change Mountain Research & Development Environment, Development & Sustainability European Journal of Development Research Swiss National Science Foundation Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Global Change System for Analysis, Research & Training (START) IFS, International Foundation for Science, Sweden UK Economic and Social Research Council Publikationen 2020 Ifejika Speranza C. (2020) Gemeinsam für eine Landwirtschaft, die Zukunft sichert (Together for an agriculture that secures the future). Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung. Ausgabe 04.2020. https://www.kirchenzeitung.ch/article/gemeinsam-fuer-eine-landwirtschaft-die-zukunft-sichert-20393 2019 Tom Arnold (chair); Kees Blokland; Albert Engel; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza; Bruno Losch; Baudouin Michel; Francesco Rampa; Christine Wieck; Mashiri Zvarimwa (2019): AN AFRICA-EUROPE AGENDA FOR RURAL TRANSFORMATION, Report by the Task Force Rural Africa. Agriculture and Rural Development. European Commission, European Union. https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/food-farming-fisheries/farming/documents/report-tfra_mar2019_en.pdf
