What does it take to feed a growing and more demanding global population while staying within planetary and social boundaries? And how do we get there - how do we minimize trade-offs and maximize synergies; how do we make sure that all voices are heard and represented?

I am a systems thinker and modeler with a passion for learning in and about food and other social-ecological systems. In my research, I explore the role that system dynamics analysis and modeling techniques play in facilitating transformation processes in social-ecological systems, such as the transition towards sustainable agri-food systems on local, national and international levels. My goal is to provide guidelines for learning about complex dynamic systems and for making information about climate change, agriculture and food security both accessible and relevant for action. I work both in Europe and in several sub-Saharan African countries.

I am particularly passionate about engaging with a wide range of stakeholders by creatively adapting proven tools and techniques from systems thinking and system dynamics modeling to advance decision-making in social ecological systems and to achieve breakthrough moments of understanding for those stakeholders to become champions of change towards resilience and sustainability.

2025. Women in Systems. Inspiring and Empowering Women in Systems. https://www.pacoaraujo.com/team/birgit-kopainsky

2024. NESC Energy Work Programme: Systems Workshop on 19/11/24. https://www.nesc.ie/news-events/events/nesc-energy-work-programme-systems-workshop-on-19-11-24/ 

2024. Studenter undersøkte potensialet for bildeling i Vestland. https://www.klimapartnere.no/studenter-undersokte-potensialet-for-bildeling-i-vestland/ 

2023. 12 questions to Birgit Kopainsky. GAIA. 32(4): 344-345. https://www.biomagazin.de/_files_media/zeitschriften/artikel/GAIA_2023_04_344.pdf

2023. Fra krisestemning til jubel: Fikk flere søkere til tross for studieavgift. https://khrono.no/fra-krisestemning-til-jubel-fikk-flere-sokere-til-tross-for-studieavgift/778368

2023. New tuition fees are coming: – We don’t think we will get a lot of international students next year. https://www.studvest.no/new-tuition-fees-are-coming-we-dont-think-we-will-get-a-lot-of-international-students-next-year/

2022.09.27. Panelist. BOOK LAUNCH: Systems Mapping: how to build and use causal models of systems by Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra Penn. https://www.cecan.ac.uk/events/book-launch-systems-mapping-how-to-build-and-use-causal-models-of-systems-by-pete-barbrook-johnson-and-alexandra-penn/

2022.08.30. Episode 6, Systems Science in Public Health podcast series. https://soundcloud.com/user-776545020/sets/systems-science-in-public 

2022. En mulighet for småbønder i Afrika. https://www.bistandsaktuelt.no/matsikkerhet-matvarepriser-tanzania/en-mulighet-for-smabonder-i-afrika/308328

2021. PhDs stepping up to policy brief call. https://www.uib.no/en/sdgbergen/146088/phds-stepping-policy-brief-call

2021. Practitioner Profile: Birgit Kopainsky, University of Bergen (UiB), Norway. System Dynamics Blog WiSDom. https://systemdynamics.org/practitioner-profile-birgit-kopainsky-university-of-bergen-uib-norway/

2021. Group Model Building Online. Experiences and Insights. System Dynamics Society Seminar Series. 10.03.2021:

• Recording, presentation and templates: https://systemdynamics.org/event/group-model-building-online-experiences-and-insights-seminar/.
• Follow-up blog post: https://systemdynamics.org/webinar-qa-group-model-building-online/

2020. Når systemet kollapser må system-tenkerne innovere – for å innovere. OPPkvikker - faglig frokostmøte med Universitetet i Bergen. Innovasjonsuken OPP. https://www.innovasjonsukenopp.no/arrangement/oppkvikker-faglig-frokostmoete-med-universitetet-i-bergen/

2019. A first of its kind (pioneer): PhD Interdisciplinary course at UiB. https://www.slate.uib.no/single-post/2019/10/23/A-first-of-its-kind-pioneer-PhD-Interdisciplinary-course-at-UiB.

2019. FN gir ph.d.-kandidatar ved UiB ei utfordring / Creative problem solving. The UN gives PhD candidates at UiB a challenge. University of Bergen Aktuelt / News. https://www.uib.no/svf/126248/fn-gir-phd-kandidatar-ved-uib-ei-utfordring / https://www.uib.no/en/svf/126252/un-gives-phd-candidates-uib-challenge

2017. Med blikk på bærekraften i europeisk landbruk / EU funding for climate dynamics project. University of Bergen Aktuelt / News (interview). http://www.uib.no/svf/104655/med-blikk-p%C3%A5-b%C3%A6rekraften-i-europeisk-landbruk / http://www.uib.no/en/svf/104634/eu-funding-climate-dynamics-project

2015. UiB-forskere lytter til afrikanske bønder / Listening to the voices of Africa's farmers. University of Bergen Aktuelt / News (interview). http://www.uib.no/aktuelt/92385/uib-forskere-lytter-til-afrikanske-b%C3%B8nder / http://www.uib.no/en/news/92401/listening-voices-africa%E2%80%99s-farmers

2014. På randen av en matkrise. HUBRO, 20-21. (interview)

2014. On the verge of a food crisis. The UiB Magazine, 2014/2015, 24-25. (interview)

2025

• Mohammad Mustafa; Jefferson K. Rajah; William Alexander Schoenberg et al. (2025). Developing an Interactive Learning Environment to teach the two-way coupling of climate-human system. (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; Birgit Kopainsky (2025). A systematic method to integrate co-produced causal loop diagrams based on feedback stories. (external link)
• Mahshid Zolfaghari; Biljana Meshkovska; Caroline Løvik Brandvik et al. (2025). A Systems Perspective on the Drivers of Adoption of the Norwegian School Fruit Scheme. (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; Benjamin Blanz; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2025). Modelling feedback-based dietary behavioural change in FRIDA v2.1 integrated assessment model. (external link)
• Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon; Birgit Kopainsky (2025). Bioeconomy enabler and threat: using a system’s perspective to explore potential scenarios. (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; Blanz, Benjamin; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2025). An endogenous modelling framework of dietary behavioural change in the fully coupled human-climate FRIDA v2.1 model. (external link)
• Mahshid Zolfaghari; Nanna Lien; Caroline Løvik Brandvik et al. (2025). Understanding the dynamics of implementing the Norwegian School Fruit Programme: integrating implementation science and system dynamics | Implementation Science Communications. (external link)
• Pei Shan Loo; Jefferson K. Rajah; Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon et al. (2025). A simulation-based policy analysis of anticipatory action for cholera outbreaks, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (external link)
• Angela Bearth; Birgit Kopainsky; Lowenna Jones et al. (2025). Exploring experiences of the regulatory toxicology system: system-level promoters and inhibitors of new approach methodologies. (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; Benjamin Blanz; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2025). A system dynamics modeling framework for endogenizing human behavior change in global-scale integrated assessment models. (external link)
• Adam Hulme; Duncan Radley; Andrew Brown et al. (2025). The Qualitative Systems Exploration Model (QSEM): A framework to support the structural analysis of Causal Loop Diagrams.. (external link)
• Lukas Bayer; Jefferson K. Rajah; Christina Gkini et al. (2025). The adoption of conservation tillage in Brandenburg, Germany. (external link)
• Anaely Aguiar; Jefferson K. Rajah; Kaitlin Conway-Moore et al. (2025). Converging perspectives on the processes exacerbating adolescent obesity: An integrative systems approach. (external link)

2024

• Jefferson K. Rajah; Birgit Kopainsky (2024). Co-producing Models of (Pro-)Environmental Human Behaviour with Citizens: Feedback Stories Surrounding Meat Consumption. (external link)
• William Alexander Schoenberg; Jefferson K. Rajah; Birgit Kopainsky (2024). Teaching Loop Dominance Analysis and Leverage Point Identification in the Classroom Using Loops That Matter [Workshop]. (external link)
• Julija Metic; Daniel Guzzo; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2024). A simulation-based approach for investigating the dynamics of rebound effects in the circular economy: A case of use-oriented product/service system. (external link)
• Bárbara Soriano; Wim Paas; Pytrik Reidsma et al. (2024). Overcoming collapse of farming systems: shifting from vicious to virtuous circles in the extensive sheep farming system in Huesca (Spain). (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Ivan Dula; Christina Gkini (2024). Integrating distributive justice in system dynamics models of sustainability transitions. (external link)
• William J. Thompson; Varun Varma; Jonas Joerin et al. (2024). Correction to: Smallholder farmer resilience to extreme weather events in a global food value chain (Climatic Change, (2023), 176, 11, (152), 10.1007/s10584-023-03586-1). (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; Birgit Kopainsky (2024). Human behavioural drivers of meat consumption: Using group model building to capture lived realities.. (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; Benedikt Tusch; Gard Hammerseng et al. (2024). Towards Modelling (Pro-)Environmental Human Behaviour in Integrated Assessment Models from a Systems Approach. (external link)
• William Alexander Schoenberg; Jefferson K. Rajah; Birgit Kopainsky (2024). Teaching with Loops That Matter in the classroom. (external link)
• Robert Kordts; Birgit Kopainsky; Siegel Stefan T. (2024). Systemtenkning blant studenter på bærekraftsutdanninger: En pilotstudie [Systems thinking among students in sustainability programs: A pilot study]. (external link)
• Raquel Froese Buzogany; Birgit Kopainsky; Paulo Gonçalves (2024). Developing theoretically grounded causal maps to examine and improve policy narratives about global challenges. (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; Benedikt Tusch; Gard Hammerseng et al. (2024). Conceptualising an endogenous representation of human behaviour change in a feedback-based, global-scale integrated assessment model. (external link)

2018

• Hugo Herrera; Birgit Kopainsky; Franziska Appel et al. (2018). Impact Assessment Tool to Assess the Resilience of Farming Systems and their Delivery of Private and Public Goods. Deliverable 5.1. (external link)
• Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon; Birgit Kopainsky (2018). Public Policy Planning to Enhance the Resilience of Socio-Ecological Systems to Climate Change. Operationalising Resilience Concepts from a Dynamic Perspective. (external link)
• Erik Mathijs; Jo Deckers; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2018). Scenarios for EU Farming. Deliverable 1.2. (external link)
• Therese Bennich; Salim Belyazid; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2018). The bio-based economy: Dynamics governing transition pathways in the Swedish forestry sector. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2018). Synergies and trade-offs between healthy consumption and sustainable production. (external link)
• Pål Davidsen; Birgit Kopainsky; Erling Moxnes et al. (2018). A systems education at Bergen. (external link)
• Miranda Meuwissen; Wim Paas; Isabeau Coopmans et al. (2018). Report on Resilience Framework for EU Agriculture. Deliverable 1.1. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2018). Simulation-based field experiments to study dynamic decision making. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2018). On using system dynamics to build adaptive capacity with small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. (external link)
• Therese Bennich; Salim Belyazid; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2018). Understanding the transition to a bio-based economy: Exploring dynamics linked to the agricultural sector in Sweden. (external link)

2020

• Charles F. Nicholson; Birgit Kopainsky; Emma Stephens et al. (2020). Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security. (external link)
• Pytrik Reidsma; Wim Paas; Francesco Accatino et al. (2020). Impacts of improved strategies and policy options on the resilience of farming systems across the EU. D5.6. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2020). Crises as opportunities. Presidential address. (external link)
• Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon; Birgit Kopainsky (2020). Using system dynamics to support a participatory assessment of resilience. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2020). Working towards system dynamics modeling and simulation of policies in Co-Create. (external link)
• Louise Gallagher; Birgit Kopainsky; Andrea Marcello Bassi et al. (2020). Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus. (external link)
• Ingunn Johanne Ness; Birgit Kopainsky; Hiwa Målen et al. (2020). OPPkvikker - faglig frokostmøte med Universitetet i Bergen. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2020). Connecting the dots. Systems thinking as a unifying language in interdisciplinary work. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Daniel Kliem (2020). How can System Dynamics contribute to transformation in social-ecological systems?. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2020). Afterword. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Ingunn Johanne Ness; Hiwa Målen (2020). PhD for innovation. Experiences with the pilot version of a PhD course on interdisciplinary problem solving and creativity. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Anita Frehner; Adrian Müller (2020). Sustainable and healthy diets: Synergies and trade‐offs in Switzerland.. (external link)
• Brooke Wilkerson; Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez; Christina Gkini et al. (2020). Reflections on adapting group model building scripts into online workshops. (external link)
• Brooke Wilkerson; Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez; Christina Gkini et al. (2020). Reflections on adapting group model building scripts into online workshops. (external link)
• Francesco Accatino; Wim Paas; Hugo Herrera et al. (2020). Impacts of Future Scenarios on the Resilience of Farming Systems across the EU As-sessed with Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. D5.5. (external link)
• Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon; Birgit Kopainsky (2020). Do you bend or break? System Dynamics in resilience planning for food security. (external link)
• Michael C. Barton; Marina Alberti; Edmund Burke et al. (2020). Call for transparency of COVID-19 models. (external link)

2021

• Daniel Kliem; Alexander Scheidegger; Birgit Kopainsky (2021). Closing the mineral construction material cycle – An endogenous perspective on barriers in transition. (external link)
• Andreas Lindqvist; Rickard Fornell; Thomas Prade et al. (2021). Human-water dynamics and their role for seasonal water scarcity – a case study. (external link)
• Erica Rieder; Lincoln Larson; Michael 't Sas-Rolfes et al. (2021). Using participatory system dynamics modeling to address complex conservation prob-lems: Tiger farming as a case study. (external link)
• Charles F. Nicholson; Emma C. Stephens; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2021). Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Case examples and priority information needs. (external link)
• Katja Enberg; Yael Harlap; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2021). Institutional synergies for sustainability learning - the university as ecosystem and social actor. (external link)
• Charles F. Nicholson; Emma C. Stephens; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2021). Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Current status and recommended improvements. (external link)
• Kenza Benabderrazik; Birgit Kopainsky; L. Tazi et al. (2021). Agricultural intensification can no longer ignore water conservation – A systemic modelling approach to the case of tomato producers in Morocco. (external link)

2023

• Birgit Kopainsky (2023). 12 questions to Birgit Kopainsky. (external link)
• Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez; Mekdes Gebremariam; Eduard Romanenko et al. (2023). System dynamics simulation models on overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review. (external link)
• Pei Shan Loo; Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez; Birgit Kopainsky (2023). Simulation-Based Assessment of Cholera Epidemic Response: A Case Study of Al-Hudaydah, Yemen. (external link)
• Anaely Aguiar; Eduard Romanenko; Gaironeesa Hendricks et al. (2023). Mental health matters in obesity prevention: exploring the dynamic relationships between mental well-being and obesity-related behaviours in adolescents. (external link)
• Kerstin Potthoff; Birgit Kopainsky (2023). Norwegian low-intensity ovine and bovine farming systems—a resilience perspective. (external link)
• Jefferson K. Rajah; William Chernicoff; Christopher J. Hutchison et al. (2023). Enabling Mobility: A Simulation Model of the Health Care System for Major Lower-Limb Amputees to Assess the Impact of Digital Prosthetics Services. (external link)
• Katarzyna Wisiecka; Yuumi Konishi; Krzysztof Krejtz et al. (2023). Supporting Complex Decision-Making: Evidence from an Eye Tracking Study on In-Person and Remote Collaboration. (external link)
• Birgit Ursula Kopainsky; Florian Kapmeier (2023). Dynamic implications of the biological link between bovine milk and meat production for operationalizing the planetary health diet. (external link)
• William J. Thompson; Varun Varma; Jonas Jörin et al. (2023). Smallholder farmer resilience to extreme weather events in a global food value chain. (external link)
• Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez; Furkan Onal; Gaironeesa Hendricks et al. (2023). Understanding the dynamics emerging from the interplay among poor mental wellbeing, energy balance-related behaviors, and obesity prevalence in adolescents: A simulation-based study. (external link)
• Kaitlin Conway-Moore; Knai Cecile; Diane Finegood et al. (2023). Co-creating obesity prevention policies with youth: Policy ideas generated through the CO-CREATE project. (external link)

2016

• Ana Lucia Avila Alarcon; Birgit Kopainsky (2016). Subsistence Farming Household. Dynamic Profile.. (external link)
• Jonas Jörin; Samuel Hauenstein; Danielle Tendall et al. (2016). Resilience in food systems: The case of tef in Ethiopia. (external link)
• Biruktavit Tadesse; Birgit Kopainsky (2016). Farmers' Decision Making and Food Insecurity: The Case of Ethiopian Households A System Dynamics Approach. (external link)
• Natalia Brzezina; Birgit Kopainsky; Erik Mathijs (2016). Can organic farming reduce vulnerabilities and enhance the resilience of the European food system? A critical assessment using system dynamics structural thinking tools. (external link)
• Sebastian Derwish; Piergiuseppe Morone; Katharine Tröger et al. (2016). Investigating the drivers of innovation diffusion in a low income country context. The case of adoption of improved maize seed in Malawi. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Andreas Größler (2016). 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 2016. (external link)

2022

• Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon; Birgit Kopainsky (2022). Using microworlds for policymaking in the context of resilient farming systems. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2022). Discussant; Second Open Plenary Discussion. (external link)
• Mahshid Zolfaghari; Biljana Meshkovska; Anna Banik et al. (2022). Applying a systems perspective to understand the mechanisms of the European School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme. (external link)
• William D. Thompson; Wilma Blaser-Hart; Jonas Jörin et al. (2022). Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa. (external link)
• Kenza Benabderrazik; Birgit Kopainsky; Elena Monastyrnaya et al. (2022). Climate resilience and the human-water dynamics. The case of tomato production in Morocco. (external link)
• Kenza Benabderrazik; Laurence Jeangros; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2022). Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market. (external link)
• Andreas Lindqvist; Rickard Fornell; Thomas Prade et al. (2022). Impacts of future climate on local water supply and demand – A socio-hydrological case study in the Nordic region. (external link)
• Synnøve S. Beitnes; Birgit Kopainsky; Kerstin Potthoff (2022). Climate change adaptation processes seen through a resilience lens: Norwegian farmers’ handling of the dry summer of 2018. (external link)
• Christina Gkini; Jefferson K. Rajah; Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez et al. (2022). Integrating diverse perspectives: meaning-making process in participatory system dynamics. (external link)
• Manuel Hempel; Birgit Kopainsky (2022). An outlook on the Future of Agricultural Policy: Experiences from Norway. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon (2022). workshop i SYNAGRI. (external link)
• Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon; Lilli Schütz; Wim Paas et al. (2022). Understanding resilience of farming systems: Insights from system dynamics modelling for an arable farming system in the Netherlands. (external link)
• Charles Nicholson; Keenan McRoberts; Besir Suleyman Öz et al. (2022). A dynamic systems analysis of factors affecting success of identitypreserved products: the case of high-oleic soybeans. (external link)

2017

• David C. Lane; Birgit Kopainsky (2017). Natural resource management: Contributions of system dynamics to research, policy and implementation. Selected papers from the Seventh European System Dynamics Workshop, at University of Bergen, Norway. (external link)
• David Lara Arango; Andreas Gerber; Progress Nyanga et al. (2017). Cournot markets in the field: The case of Zambian farmers. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Samuel T. Ledermann; Theresa Tribaldos (2017). A Food Systems Perspective for Food and Nutrition Security beyond the Post-2015 Development Agenda. (external link)
• Andreas Gerber; David Lara Arango; Progress Nyanga et al. (2017). Evidence about dynamic decision-making based on a field experiment with African farmers. (external link)
• Natalia Brzezina; Birgit Kopainsky; Erik Mathijs (2017). Designing robust policy for sustainable development of organic farming in Switzerland: A simulation-based approach. (external link)
• Yann de Mey; Miranda Meuwissen; Erik Mathijs et al. (2017). SURE-Farm: Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems. (external link)
• Christine Brombach; Stefan Flückiger; Sabine Rohrmann et al. (2017). Experts’ opinion about the interaction of sustainable nutrition, health and future of agricultural systems in Switzerland. (external link)
• Andreas Gerber; Birgit Kopainsky (2017). The Dynamics of Food Availability in sub-Saharan Africa: An Endogenous Perspective on Food Production Systems. (external link)
• Krystyna Stave; Birgit Kopainsky (2017). System dynamics as a framework for understanding human-environment dynamics. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Andreas Gerber; David Lara Arango et al. (2017). Evidence about dynamic decision-making based on a field experiment with African farmers. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Gerid Hager; Hugo Herrera et al. (2017). Transforming food systems at local levels: using participatory system dynamics in an interactive manner to refine small-scale farmers’ mental models. (external link)
• Krystyna Stave; Birgit Kopainsky; Aklilu Tilahun Tadesse et al. (2017). Participatory system dynamics mapping for collaboration and socioecological integration in the Lake Tana region. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2017). Ökonomische und ökologische Wirkungen der Schweizer Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft: Bestandsaufnahme und mögliche kritische Faktoren in der Zukunft. (external link)
• Natalia Brzezina; Katharina Biely; Ariella Helfgott et al. (2017). Development of organic farming in Europe at the crossroads: Looking for the way forward through system archetype lenses. (external link)
• Natalia Brzezina; Katharina Biely; Ariella Helfgott et al. (2017). Development of organic farming in Europe at the crossroads: Looking for the way forward through system archetypes lenses. (external link)

2019

• Birgit Kopainsky (2019). On using system dynamics to build adaptive capacity with small-scale farmers in developing countries. (external link)
• William Thompson; B. Curcio; Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez et al. (2019). DR-UK Banana Producer Resilience Assessment. Understanding preparation, impacts and recovery responses to hurricane-induced flooding for smallholder banana producers. (external link)
• Ingunn Johanne Ness; Birgit Kopainsky; Hiwa Målen (2019). PhD for Innovation: Interdisciplinary problem solving and creativity. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2019). Sustainable and healthy diets. Synergies and trade-offs in Switzerland. (external link)
• Charles F. Nicholson; Emma Stephens; A.D. Jones et al. (2019). Setting Priorities to Address the Research Gaps Between Agricultural Systems Analysis and Food Security Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Andreas Gerber; David Lara Arango et al. (2019). Short-term versus long-term decision trade-offs: Evidence from a model-based observational experiment with African small-scale farmers. (external link)
• Matteo Pedercini; Holger Maxmilian Kleemann; Nombuso Dlamini et al. (2019). Integrated simulation for national development planning. (external link)
• William Thompson; Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez; S. Bonhilla-Duarte et al. (2019). DR-UK Banana Value Chain Climate Resilience Workshop. Forming a transdisciplinary platform to generate stakeholder designed strategies to enhance climate resilience. (external link)
• Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez; Mekdes Kebede Gebremariam; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2019). Review of existing system dynamics models on overweight/obesity in children and ado-lescents. D7.1 H2020 project CoCREATE. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2019). System Dynamics at Sixty: The Path Forward. (external link)
• Christian Kimmich; Louise Gallagher; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2019). Participatory modelling updates expectations for individuals and groups, catalyzing behavior change and collective action in water‐energy‐food nexus governance. (external link)
• Miranda Meuwissen; Peter Feindt; Alisa Spiegel et al. (2019). A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2019). Navigating between analytical rigor and inclusiveness in participatory systems modeling. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2019). #foodcanfixit. How food and system dynamics have given me a career. (external link)

2012

• Stephen M. Alessi; Birgit Kopainsky; Erling Moxnes (2012). Teaching resource management with web-based models and multi-player games. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2012). Food for all. Recommendations for enhancing the implementation of food security and sustainable agriculture and food systems. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Katharine Tröger; Sebastian Derwisch et al. (2012). Designing sustainable food security policies in sub-Saharan African countries: how social dynamics over-ride utility evaluations for good and bad. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2012). Sustainable agriculture and climate change. Policy analysis and design using system dynamics. (external link)
• Eric Momanyi; Sharon Penderis; Birgit Kopainsky (2012). Dynamics of Poverty Traps in Kenya. Modelling Food Security, Population Growth and the Poverty Trap. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Pablo Pirnay-Dummerb; Stephen M. Alessic (2012). Automated assessment of learners' understanding in complex dynamic systems. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Maria Saldarriaga (2012). Assessing understanding and learning about dynamic systems. (external link)

2015

• Birgit Kopainsky; Conrad Steinhilber (2015). The Maize Value Chain in Zambia: Dynamics and Resilience Towards Production Shocks. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Aurora Birbilaj (2015). Dynamic Decision-Making About Natural Resource Use In Ethiopia. (external link)
• Hugo Herrera; Birgit Kopainsky (2015). Rethinking agriculture in a shrinking world: Operationalization of resilience with a System Dynamics perspective. (external link)
• Danielle Tendall; Jonas Jörin; Birgit Kopainsky et al. (2015). Food system resilience: Defining the concept. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Stephen M. Alessi (2015). Effects of structural transparency in system dynamics simulators on performance and understanding. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Jacynta Spicer (2015). Representation and Dynamic Implications of Mental Models of Food Systems: A case study of dynamic decision making of smallscale farmers in Zambia. (external link)
• Krystyna Stave; Birgit Kopainsky (2015). A system dynamics approach for examining mechanisms and pathways of food supply vulnerability. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Charles F. Nicholson (2015). System dynamics and sustainable intensification of food systems: Complementarities and challenges. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Stephen M. Alessi; Matteo Pedercini et al. (2015). The effect of prior exploration as an instructional strategy in system dynamics learning environments. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Eduardo E. Bou Schreiber (2015). Maize Losses During Storage: A System Dynamics approach to the Food Reserve Agency Case in Zambia. (external link)
• Krystyna Stave; Birgit Kopainsky (2015). Dynamic decision making in coupled social ecological systems. Integration of small-scale farmers’ goals, resources and strategies for natural resource manage-ment in Amhara region, Ethiopia. (external link)
• Stephen M. Alessi; Birgit Kopainsky (2015). System dynamics and simulation-gaming: Overview. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Robert Huber; Matteo Pedercini (2015). Food provision and environmental goals in the Swiss agri-food system: System dynamics and the social-ecological systems framework. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2015). System Dynamics zur Verbesserung der Nahrungsmittel-Versorgungssicherheit in Afrika. (external link)
• Helen Fischer; Florian Kapmeier; Mihaela Tabacaru et al. (2015). The more you see the less you “get”: On the importance of a higher-level perspective for understanding dynamic systems. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2015). Dynamic simulation modeling in social-ecological systems. (external link)
• Gerid Hager; Progress H. Nyanga; Birgit Kopainsky (2015). Learning as conceptual change during community based group interventions. A case study with smallholder farmers in Zambia. (external link)
• Gerid Hager; Birgit Kopainsky; Progress H. Nyanga (2015). Filling the cups: Learning about systems through community-based processes. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2015). Was heisst nachhaltige Intensivierung für die europäische Landwirtschaft?. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Gerid Hager (2015). LEARNING ABOUT SYSTEMS THROUGH INTERACTION: A CASE STUDY WITH SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN ZAMBIA. (external link)
• Krystyna Stave; Birgit Kopainsky (2015). A system dynamics framework to promote sustainability in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia social-ecological system. (external link)

2014

• Krystyna Stave; Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Strengthening Links between Policy and Research for Sustainable Development in the Lake Tana Basin. (external link)
• Dea Fitri Amelia; Birgit Kopainsky; Progress H. Nyanga (2014). Exploratory model of conservation agriculture adoption and diffusion in Zambia: A dynamic perspective. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Using system dynamics in food security projects. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2014). På randen av en matkrise. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Dea Fitri Amelia (2014). Exploring Policies to Enhance the Difffusion of Conservation Agriculture in Zambia through Understanding Dynamic Behavior. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Sustainable Development Goals and Targets on Food and Nutrition Security through Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in the Post-2015 Agenda. Background Paper.. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2014). On the verge of a food crisis. (external link)
• MELAK MESFIN AYENEW; Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Food insecurity in Ethiopia: Population, food production and market. (external link)
• Krystyna Stave; Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Dynamic thinking about food system vulnerabilities in highly developed countries: Issues and initial analytic structure. (external link)
• Maria Saldarriaga; Progress H. Nyanga; Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Dynamic decision making in coupled social-ecological systems. Smallholder farmers’ goals, resources and constraints in improving food security and adapting to climate change in Zambia. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Ernährungssicherheit und Ressourceneffizienz in der Schweiz – Ein Widerspruch?. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2014). Good governance in a complex world. System dynamics for agriculture and food security. (external link)
• David Wheat; Birgit Kopainsky; Pål Davidsen et al. (2014). Systems Education at Bergen. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2014). A conceptual framework for the discussion of targets and indicators for a post-2015 goal on food and nutrition security through sustainable agriculture and food systems. (external link)

2010

• Birgit Kopainsky; Matteo Pedercini; Pål Davidsen et al. (2010). A Blend of Planning and Learning Simplifying a Simulation Model of National Development. (external link)

2008

• Birgit Kopainsky; Luis F. Luna-Reyes (2008). Closing the Loop: Promoting Synergies with Other Theory Building Approaches to Improve System Dynamics Practice. (external link)
• Agata Sawicka; Birgit Kopainsky; Jose J. Gonzalez (2008). Learning about Dynamic Problems with Computer Simulators: A Case of System Dynamics Simulation Models. (external link)

2013

• Birgit Kopainsky (2013). Synergies and trade-offs between environmental and economic outcomes in agri-food systems. A system dynamics approach to scenario and policy analysis. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2013). The challenges of modeling agriculture. Experiences from a system-dynamics based application in Switzerland. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2013). Panelist comments to “A practitioner’s guide to green economy modeling tools.”. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Gunda Züllich; Santiago Movilla (2013). Adaptation to climate change in sub Saharan Africa. A multi-sector impact analysis for Burkina Faso. (external link)
• Marc Zoss; Birgit Kopainsky; Barbara Becker (2013). Implications of trends in global food and nutrition security at national level – The example of Switzerland. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Katharine Tröger; Sebastian Derwisch et al. (2013). Social Dynamics Overriding Utility Evaluations for Good and Bad: Implications for the Design of Sustainable Food Security Policies in Sub-Saharan African Countries. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Robert Huber; Matteo Pedercini (2013). Exploring synergies between system dynamics and a social-ecological systems framework. The case of the Swiss agri-food system between production, environmental and public health goals. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2013). Planificación para la adaptación al cambio climático con la ayuda de modelos de simulación. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2013). The complexity of the world food system. Integrated analyses of food system outcomes. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2013). Using system dynamics in food security projects. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky (2013). Planificación para la adaptación al cambio climático con la ayuda de modelos de simulación. Experiencias y lecciones de Burkina Faso en África. (external link)
• Maria Saldarriaga; Birgit Kopainsky; Stephen Alessi (2013). Knowledge analysis in coupled social-ecological systems. What do stakeholders in sub Saharan Africa know about the dynamic complexity of climate change, agriculture and food security?. (external link)

2026

• Jefferson K. Rajah; Birgit Kopainsky; William Alexander Schoenberg (2026). Using Loops That Matter for Feedback Analysis: A Structured Curriculum for Building Systems Understanding. (external link)
• Adam Hulme; Duncan Radley; Andrew D. Brown et al. (2026). The Qualitative Systems Exploration Model (QSEM): A New Framework to Support the Structural Analysis of Causal Loop Diagrams Within Participatory System Dynamics. (external link)

2011

• Matteo Pedercini; Santiago Movilla Blanco; Birgit Kopainsky (2011). Application of the Malaria Management Model to the Analysis of Costs and Benefits of DDT versus Non-DDT Malaria Control. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Stephen M. Alessi; Pål Davidsen (2011). Measuring knowledge acquisition in dynamic decision making tasks. (external link)
• Birgit Kopainsky; Agata Sawicka (2011). Simulator-supported descriptions of complex dynamic problems: experimental results on task performance and system understanding. (external link)

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