I am a PhD student in the Earth Resilience Science Unit at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. I have a background in Cognitive Science, Environmental Systems Science and Resource Management, and work on understanding transitions to Regenerative Agriculture using a Social-Ecological Systems (SES) lens.
In the scope of my PhD project, I am part of a team conceptualizing and building a novel kind of integrated Social-Ecological/World-Earth model consisting of an agent-based and a dynamic global vegetation model component. In addition to simulation modeling, I use qualitative empirical methods, theoretical and conceptual approaches.
FutureLab / Science Unit
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14412 Potsdam
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Schwarz, L., Janssen, C., & Halbe, J. (2025). Pineapple production and visions of regeneration–contrasting Costa Rican (agri) cultural paradigms. Revista Académica Arjé, 8(1), 1-32.
Klein, A., Unverzagt, K., Alba, R., Donges, J. F., Hertz, T., Krueger, T., ..., Schwarz, L., ... & Wijermans, N. (2024). From situated knowledges to situated modelling: a relational framework for simulation modelling. Ecosystems and people, 20(1), 2361706.
Bechthold, M., Barfuss, W., Butz, A., Breier, J., Constantino, S. M., Heitzig, J., ..., Schwarz, L., ... & Donges, J. F. (2024). Social norms and groups structure safe operating spaces in renewable resource use in a social-ecological multi-layer network model. EGUsphere, 2024, 1-43.
Martin, M. A., Boakye, E. A., Boyd, E., Broadgate, W., Bustamante, M., Canadell, J. G., ..., Schwarz, L., ... & Zhao, Z. J. (2022). Ten new insights in climate science 2022. Global Sustainability, 5, e20.
Schwarz, L., Breier, J., Prawitz, H., Constantino, S., Bechthold, M., Gerten, D., ... & Donges, J. (2025). Investigating transitions to regenerative agriculture using the InSEEDS World-Earth model–foundations, first results, and research directions. Oral presentation, EGU25, Vienna (EGU25-19136).
Breier, J., Müller, C., Schwarz, L., Prawitz, H., von Bloh, W., Bechthold, M., ... & Donges, J. (2025). copan: LPJmL: A new hybrid DGVM-based modeling framework for dynamic land use and agricultural management. Oral presentation, EGU25, Vienna (No. EGU25-19244).
Breier, J., Schwarz, L., Prawitz, H., von Bloh, W., Müller, C., Constantino, S., ... & Bechthold, M. (2024). Modeling Resilient Land Use in the Anthropocene: Integrating Global Biogeophysical and Social Systems with the InSEEDS Model. Oral presentation, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Washington D.C. (Vol. 2024, pp. GC01-8).
Schwarz, L., Breier, J., Donges, J., and Rockström, J. (2024). Exploring the transformation to regenerative agricultural systems using empirical case studies and a coupled social-ecological model. Poster presentation, Social Simulations Conference 2024, Cracow
Schwarz, L. & Prawitz, H. (2024). Multi-Level Transformation Towards Regenerative (Agri-)culture. Symposium co-organization and oral presentation, PECS-3: Pathways to Sustainability Conference, Montreal
Tuninetti, M., Giordano, V., Constantino, S., Perri, S., Rocha, J., Schwarz, L., ... & Levin, S. (2024). Positive Tipping Points in the Food Systems: the Role of Scales. Oral presentation, EGU25, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 22274).
Schwarz, L. (2024). Modeling Resilient Land Use in the Anthropocene: Integrating Global Biogeophysical and Social Systems with the InSEEDS Model. Oral presentation, Earth Resilience Sustainability Initiative, Critical Transitions in Social-Ecological Systems Workshop, Stockholm
Schwarz, L. & Donges, J (2023). Exploring the transformation to more regenerative agricultural systems using empirical case studies and a coupled social-ecological model. Oral presentation, European Conference on Ecological Modeling, Leipzig
Breier, J., Schwarz, L., Donges, J. F., Gerten, D., & Rockström, J. (2023). Regenerative agriculture for food security and ecological resilience: illustrating global biophysical and social spreading potentials. EARTH4ALL: DEEP-DIVE PAPER, 13.
Schwarz, L. (2023). Towards understanding the transition to regenerative (agri-)cultural systems - an integrated social-ecological modeling approach. Oral presentation at LOOPS-4 workshop, Stockholm
Schwarz, L. (2023) Systems Modeling to Foster Understanding of the Transition to Regenerative Agriculture - a Mulit-Level Criticality Perspective. Oral presentation, Earth Resilience Sustainability Initiative, Critical Transitions in Social-Ecological Systems Workshop, Princeton
