Institute for Sustainable Development

Density-dependent aggregation underlies spatial self-organization in coastal dunes

Across coastal ecosystems, habitat-forming organisms interact with wind and water to generate biogeomorphic feedbacks that produce spatially patterned landscapes. Such spatial patterns can emerge through different self-organizing mechanisms, with contrasting implications for ecos...

Policy-as-practice: exploring the ‘hidden sides’ of policy-making in sustainability transitions

While research on the politics of transitions has examined power dynamics, coalitions, and value contestations, the ‘hidden’ sides of operational governance, such as micro-political dynamics, strategies and tensions within decision-making spaces, remained largely underexplored. C...

Navigating regulatory scenarios for accelerating drug repurposing in rare diseases: a multi-stakeholder perspective on the challenges and opportunities

<title>Abstract</title> Background: The lack of treatments for patients with a rare disease calls for innovative approaches in drug development. A potential solution to accelerate therapy development is to find new therapeutic uses for existing drugs, i.e. drug repurposing. One w...

Lithological schematization of the Karnali fluvial fan (Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape) using electrical resistivity tomography as a basis for hydrogeological investigations

Abstract In the Nepalese and Indian Terai Arc Landscape (TAL), protected nature areas are supported by groundwater systems that have remained largely understudied. This study schematizes the lithology of the Karnali fluvial fan located in the Bardia district (Nepal) as a basis fo...