Work Packages

Lead: University of Kassel
Ensures project administration, communication, and scientific integration.
Includes bilingual website, podcasts, and stakeholder meetings.

Leads: NUM & UKAS
Studies mining impacts on vegetation, biomass, and animal drinking water quality through satellite imagery and field sampling.

Leads: MOFALI, MULS & UKAS
Assesses how mining affects livestock productivity, animal health, and herder management strategies.

Leads: MULS & UGOE
Explores how mining alters household economies, labor organization, and market integration in herder communities.

Leads: NUM, MOFALI & UKAS
Maps mining sites across Mongolia and evaluates their overlap with pastoral lands and environmental regulations.

All partners
Develops a proposal for a DAAD-funded interdisciplinary graduate school to train future land use specialists.