Maximilian Spiegelberg

Maximilian Spiegelberg
University of Kassel · SDG+ Lab

PhD Environmental Management

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Introduction
Across boundaries of disciplines, cultures, and skills I've been engaging in questions of sustainability, environment, and humanity in various positions and countries. My interest lies with integrated & participatory approaches and science-policy-civil society interaction. With these angles my current topics of engagement are beekeepers & honeybees, informal/urban/civic food, and food futures with a degrowth/post-development angle.
Education
October 2013 - April 2017
Kyoto University
Field of study
  • Sustainable Rural Development
October 2006 - December 2008
Philipps University of Marburg
Field of study
  • Peace & Conflict Studies
October 2002 - September 2006
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg
Field of study
  • Environmental & Resource Management

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Publications (15)
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Can a city be turned into a more-than-human feast? Edible landscapes are increasingly valued for their multiple socio-ecological benefits. Here we propose that making the urban fabric fertile grounds for foraging by humans, birds, bees, and other inhabitants alike expands the potential of edible cities as a paradigm for sustainability transformatio...
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Can a city be turned into a more-than-human feast? Edible landscapes are increasingly valued for their multiple socio-ecological benefits. Here we propose that making the urban fabric fertile grounds for foraging by humans, birds, bees, and other inhabitants alike expands the potential of edible cities as a paradigm for sustainability transformatio...
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The concept of edible landscapes seeks to combine a participatory approach to food production with wider concerns about well-designed, sustainable human-landscape relationships. Despite its decade-long history and seeming potential for holistically addressing multiple intertwined socio-ecological crises, the concept has received much less attention...
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Imagining sustainable food futures is key to effectively transforming food systems. Yet even transdisciplinary approaches struggle to open up complex and highly segregated food policy governance for co-production and can fail to critically interrogate assumptions, worldviews, and values. In this Perspective we argue that transdisciplinary processes...
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Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective describes an agenda and examples for comprehensive agrifood system redesign according to principles of sufficiency,...
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Conventional policy approaches emphasize technical solutions and individual behavioral change, but practice-based policy approaches offer an alternative. This paper examines the operationalization of a practice-oriented futures policy development process. The process builds on practice theory to generate alternative sustainable future pathways and...
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Games offer unique possibilities for imagining and experimenting with new systems of governance for more sustainable futures – new rules and institutions, new roles, and new dynamic worlds. However, research on sustainability games has mostly investigated games as a type of futures method, largely divorced from its societal contexts. In this paper,...
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The challenge before environmental science is not simply to provide cogent information to spur action, but to stimulate the imagination of society to see possible futures that have been invisible. At the same time, policy development processes can be limited by their inabil- ity to span institutional structures and the needs and views of multiple s...
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Non-technical summary The sustainability concept seeks to balance how present and future generations of humans meet their needs. But because nature is viewed only as a resource, sustainability fails to recognize that humans and other living beings depend on each other for their well-being. We therefore argue that true sustainability can only be ach...
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This article presents the results of our research in the journal『土と健康』(Soil & Health) by the 日本有機農業研究会 (Japanese Society for Organic Agriculture).
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The sustainability concept in its current form suffers from reductionism. The common interpretation of “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” fails to explicitly recognize their interdependence with needs of current and future non-human generations. Here we argue that the fo...
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This short article published in the Journal 『農業と経済』(Agriculture & Economics) presents first results of the School Lunch 2050 project. From the 4 created scenarios the one representing a localized, climate-friendly future was the most popular with participants.
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Study region: This study explores the connectivity of upland farmers and downstream fishers through interlinkages of water, energy and food within the Dampalit sub-watershed of Laguna Lake, Philippines. Study focus: The aim of the study is to yield policy relevant results to improve the status of the water resources and food products and to reduce...
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This paper sets out to show how Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes (SEPL) are the natural stage for the sustainable development of the Water–Energy–Food Nexus (WEF-Nexus) of rural inhabitants enduring insecure livelihoods and facing climatic changes. Globally, about one billion people face water-insecurity, which is often interconnected with eq...

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Communities around the world have engaged in the discussion and implemented measures (actions/ policies/ etc.) supporting pollinators (beyond A. mellifera). Do you know of early adopters, success & failure stories, and methods of measuring those?
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In many rural areas of "developing countries" small scale agriculturalists (farmers/fishers/herders/...) see the necessity for (financial) investments, they have the capacities (social & human capital like social networks or (traditional) local knowledge) but often not the access to the financial sector to maintain or adapt their practices & lifestyle to changes. I am interested in ways how this gap has been bridged successfully in terms of improving the life of the people (as they desired) while keeping/improving the "natural capital" as well, so increasing the resilience in several dimensions.

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