Sophia Segler

Sophia Segler is a research associate and PhD candidate at the interdisciplinary graduate school "Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems" (ECORISK) at University Osnabrück. Her work is part of the cluster B „Human activites“ designated to the sub-project B4 "Understanding Non-Adaption to Systemic Risks: The case of farm-handovers," under the expert supervision of Prof. Hajo Holst at the Institute for Sociology and Economic/Industrial Sociology. 
In the context of this research project Sophia enquires the decisive phase of farm handovers and the farmers' decision to keep going with intensive agriculture and not to adapt and transfer the production to socio-ecologically sustainable farming. Based on biographical and expert interviews, discussions will be held with farm owners and workers who can report on their experiences and decisions for conventional farming at the „critical juncture“ when they became owners of their farms. Findings from the studies will help to better understand socio-economic barriers and to adress more targeted societal, ecological and economic challenges in this field.
Prior to her current role, Sophia contributed to two research projects at the University of Bremen: Biodiverse Cities at artec - Sustainability Research Center and "Exploring Society Together" (GINGER) at the Center for Work and Politics. In these roles, she made significant contributions to address complex, interdisciplinary challenges in the field of societal inclusion in governance, decision making and steering local quality-of-socio-ecological forms of life in urban areas. Furthermore, she developed digital and analogue approaches of extreme citizen sciences in social sciences.

Understanding Non-Adaption to Systemic Risks: The case of farm-handovers

Project affiliation:   B4