The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology focuses on the interrelationships between natural and human-made systems, looking into the deep past and distant future to examine how humanity has driven the emergence of the Anthropocene – the geological period in which human activities began significantly impacting our planet’s climate and ecosystems – and how we can still positively influence its course.
The transdisciplinary research at MPI-GEA will bring together research areas represented by all three scientific sections of the MPG: Biology & Medicine; Chemistry, Physics and Technology; and Human Sciences. Corresponding inter- and transdisciplinary research projects concern, for example, planetary urbanization, the global food system, and global material, energy and information flows.
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Kahlaische Straße 10
07745 Jena
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 686-601
E-Mail: kerpen(at)shh.mpg.de