Research Groups and Clusters
Research Groups
At the DKCC, three groups conduct research that promotes synergies on a regular basis of cooperation.
Research group "Attribution" (building on Cluster 1 "Decision Making"). This group brings together researchers from the fields of climate physics, philosophy and law. The aim is to understand which of the climate-relevant events can be attributed to human activity. The knowledge gained will be used for further research into climate-related legal disputes.
Research group "Climate-Hydrology" (building on Cluster 2 "Adaptation"). This group brings together researchers who deal with questions relating to hydro-meteorological changes and extremes. This includes the natural sciences as well as students investigating the socio-economic consequences of these events.
"Human Dimension" research group (building on Cluster 3 "Mitigation"). This group brings together researchers working on the topic of human behaviour in climate change - both in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation. At the heart of the research questions are human activities in the production and demand of goods and services, particularly in the areas of mobility and energy.
Clusters
Research in the DK is orientated around three clusters that complement each other. Each cluster relates to the main aspects of the common research questions. This approach enables young DK researchers to realise originality and innovation alongside their disciplinary research by engaging in interdisciplinary collaboration from the outset.
Cluster 1: Decision making under uncertainty-normative, legal and economic decision making under uncertainties including the limits of modelling the climate and extreme hydro-meteorological events: concerned with the scientific and empirical presuppositions and boundary conditions of normative, legal and economic decision-making, investigating also the limits and reliability of underlying empirical claims, with a focus on extreme event attribution, and implications for international climate finance;
Cluster 2: Adaptation-regionalclimate change and adaptation pathways towards a climate-robust economy and society: concerned with the scientific and socio-economic prerequisites of decision-making on adaptation when understood as an element of a transition to a sustainable society and economy;
Cluster 3: Mitigation-interdisciplinaryresearch for effective, fair and legitimate climate change mitigation: concerned with the ways in which developing a sustainable mitigation pathway will have to rely on an interdisciplinary understanding that includes scientific and socio-economic research as well as normative and legal scholarship.
