CONTENTS

+ News

• Fall Term 2014/15
• APCC Report
• Guest Professor: Laurence Lestel

+ Upcoming Events

• Premiere of the documentary film AFTERMATH
• New Book: Interdisziplinär und transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden.
• ZUG-Minisymposium: „At the Age of the Wild“
• Video link: IFF-Lecture with Morgan Grove, PhD

+ New Research projects

• HSRM Sustainable Development of the Danube
• BioTransform.at
• LTSER Concept
• Pasture Intensification
• Creating a Global MFA Database

+ Staff news

+ International Guests

+ New publications

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+ News

Fall term 2014/15: Course information online
Detailed information can be found on our website: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/255.htm
For further information please contact: wolfgang [dot] deutsch [at] aau [dot] at

APCC Report
Several researchers at the Institute of Social Ecology contributed to the Austrian Assessment Report 2014 published Sept 2014 by the Austrian Panel of Climate Change or APCC. Helmut Haberl acted as coordinating lead author for the chapter on climate-change mitigation and adaptation to climate change in agriculture, forestry, water management and biodiversity conservation; Veronika Gaube was lead author and Christoph Plutzar contributing author for the same chapter. Willi Haas and Ulli Weisz were lead authors for chapter climate change in Austria and impacts on anthroposphere.
For more information: http://www.apcc.ac.at/

Guest Professor: Laurence Lestel
Laurence Lestel, PhD is researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique –CNRS in France. After having worked in the Chemical Science Department in CNRS (1988-1999), she changed her research interests towards Environmental History in order to investigate environmental impacts of increasing industrialization and urbanization in France during the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research mainly focuses on environmental degradation and its perception and management by several actors e.g. state, experts, media. Currently, she works on the Seine river basin, in which she deals with water quality related to the anthropogenic influences. In winter term 2014/15 Laurence Lestel will give a seminar on “Environmental History of European Cities and their Rivers“.

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+ Events in Vienna

Premiere of the documentary film AFTERMATH
AFTERMATH is a documentary film directed by Raphael Barth. Over a period of seven years Raphael Barth has followed the fate of the Nicobarese in the wake of aid and development after the Tsunami. The film is a high profile international co-production made in India, the Nicobar Islands, Austria, Germany, and UK. Approaching the 10th anniversary of the Tsunami, the film offers unique insights into the lost culture of the Nicobar Islands. In never before seen images, Scientist Simron Jit Singh takes us onto an emotional journey with his video recordings of this mysterious ancient culture. Together with his friends, Journalist Denis Giles and Nicobari Prince Rasheed Yusuf, he is soon confronted with the suffocating pressure of aid and development. They decide to help in a different way: They raise their own money, they start their own aid organisation and they train their own activists from within the Nicobar Islands. A 60-minute documentary of AFTERMATH was first broadcast on Austrian national television (ORF) in December 2009. The final 92-minute film version is now ready for launch to mark the 10th anniversary of the tsunami. Aftermath is produced by acclaimed Golden Girls Filmproduktion, Wien (“Everyday Rebellion”, “Mama Illegal”, “Exile Family Movie” etc.).
Tuesday 21. October 2014, 18h30, Weltmuseum Wien, Neue Burg Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna.
Please reserve here: http://tinyurl.com/mqf8q7z

New Book: Interdisziplinär und transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden.
Societal problems, like demographic change, regional development, sustainable diet or energy safety are challenges, which can´t be solved within one discipline. Interdisciplinary research is important, but in order to find practicable solutions and a way to implement them partners from the relevant environment have to be involved. Each inter- and transdisciplinary team and project is confronted with the challenge to organise the research process in a way that ensures a good understanding as a fundament of cooperation.Based on thirty years of experience the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies published a book which concentrates on research practices and reflects, how projects start, proceed and end – in short: doing inter- and transdisziplinarity.
Dressel, G., Berger, W., Heimerl, K. Winiwarter, V. (Hrsg.) (2014). Interdisziplinär und transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transcript.
Book presentation: 19.11.2014; 18–19:30 h, Planetarium Wien.
For more information: http://www.vhs.at/kurs-details/vhs-wien-kurse/Krankenh%C3%A4user-verbessern%2C-Inseln-von-Ziegen-befreien%2C-und-Slow-Food-Netzwerke-st%C3%A4rken-Kurs/292328020.html

ZUG-Minisymposium: „At the Age of the Wild“ by Harriet Ritvo
The analogy between artificial selection and natural selection powerfully introduces Darwin’s argument in On the Origin of Species. The parallel between wild species and domesticated breeds was and is far from complete, however, and the combination of similarity and difference that made Darwin’s juxtaposition of wild and domesticated animals both effective and ambiguous still persists. Indeed, as human impact on the environment has become increasingly pervasive, the reciprocal resonance of these categories has intensified; the animal wild has become more appealing as it has become less available. And as the valence of wildness has altered, the stakes around its definition have increased, with implications for such varied enterprises as livestock breeding and environmental conservation. This talk will explore the shifting understandings of wildness in animals and the practices that these understandings have inspired and shaped over the past three centuries, as well as the shifts in societal values that have had important consequences for people, for other animals, and for the environments that we all inhabit.
IFF, 1070 Vienna, Schottenfeldgasse 29, Wednesday, 22. October 2014, 18.00 c.t.
For more information: http://www.umweltgeschichte.aau.at/index,8717,Kopie+63.+Minisymposium+am+22.10.2014.html

Video link: IFF-Lecture with Morgan Grove, PhD
Developments in Long Term Social Ecological Research
Details: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/iff/downloads/iff-lectures_Grove_25.3.2014.pdf
Watch the IFF-Lecture here: http://video.aau.at/video.php?video=/Iff-Wien/IFF-Lecture-Grove_25.03.2014.mp4

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+ Research projects

HSRM Sustainable Development of the Danube Region
is a cooperation project of AAU with BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) to further develop aspects of the Danube:Future Initiative, www.danubefuture.eu, a Flagship Project of Priority Area 7 of the EUSDR, the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region. AAU and BOKU together with the Universities of Trieste and Novi Sad, manage the initiative on behalf of the Danube Rectors Conference and the Alps-Adriatic Rectors Conference. In partnership with IDM, the permanent secretariat of the Danube Rector’s Conference, the project engages in capacity building for inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research in the Danube River Basin. Verena Winiwarter is Project Coordinator.
Contact: verena [dot] winiwarter [at] aau [dot] at

BioTransform.at
BioTransform.at investigates the potential contribution of domestically produced biomass to the establishment of a low-carbon society in Austria. Using an integrated model, all types of current and potential biomass uses (food & feed, conventional material uses, advanced biomaterials and energy) are considered for the development of integrated biomass scenarios for Austria up to 2050. In the context of these scenarios, we analyze trade-offs and synergies resulting from competing and cascading uses of biomass, in particular related to greenhouse gas emissions related to land use and its mitigation. The societal dimension will be examined based on stakeholder interviews and a theoretical analysis of social and political implications of different transformation pathways.
Contact: christian [dot] lauk [at] aau [dot] at

LTSER Concept
Commissioned by „LTER Austria“, the Institute of Social Ecology is coordinating a process to conceptualise the research focus of the LTSER platform Eisenwurzen. A scientific board of researchers from various disciplines who are currently working in the region is holding a series of workshops. In these workshops, researchers present their current activities and identify the actual state of work being carried out in the region. This state of work is discussed in view of previous conceptual considerations on LTSER research in order to revise existing concepts and, based on an identification of current knowledge gaps, agree upon future research foci.
Contact: veronika [dot] gaube [at] aau [dot] at, martin [dot] schmid [at] aau [dot] at and simone [dot] gingrich [at] aau [dot] at

Pasture Intensification
The aim of the project is the assessment of output-intensification potentials for global pastures and meadows, e.g. by means of fostered cultivation of brachiaria sp. The project, commissioned by the World Resource Institute (Washington, USA), is conducted in close collaboration with the Chalmers University in Sweden, CSIRO in Australia, the International Livestock Institute in Kenya, IIASA in Austria, and the Colorado State University (USA). The role of the Institute of Social Ecology is to develop and provide global, spatially explicit information that allows to identify and assess areas suitable for intensification, compute land productivity (e.g. net primary production), and to estimate production increase potentials for ruminant livestock products. The overall goal of the project is to improve the understanding of option spaces for future developments in the livestock sectors, with a particular focus on land use competition and food security at the global scale. Contact: karlheinz [dot] erb [at] aau [dot] at

Creating a Global MFA Database
The purpose of this project is to form an international consortium of prime research institutes involved in establishing national material flow accounts with a global reach, to regularly report on material use and resource efficiency for the globe, for major world regions and for all countries, and to make data available online for academic researchers, government agencies and business leaders. An information base will be established on the history and state of global material use for all major natural resources – biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and industrial and construction minerals – with a particular level of detail for specific materials and a set of high level indicators for policy planning and policy evaluation. The global material flow and resource productivity accounts will be institutionalized under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to ensure regular updates and reporting on global trends for natural resource use. Contact: marina [dot] fischer-kowalski [at] aau [dot] at and nina [dot] eisenmenger [at] aau [dot] at

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+ Staff News

Ex SEC Staff member Helga Weisz, co-chair of PIK’s research domain Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods, was appointed professor for Industrial Ecology and Climate Change at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences in May. This professorship is assigned to both the Institute for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Social Sciences. “This unique combination of humanities, the social and the natural sciences, the latter being represented by PIK, in fact pursues a highly ambitious goal,” says Weisz. “It aims at understanding the role of natural resources for creating both the inertia and the transformation potential inherent in modern societies.”
A molecular biologist and cultural scientist by training, Weisz has held guest professorships at Yale University in the US and at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Before joining PIK, Weisz was associate professor at Alpen-Adria University in Vienna, where she is also habilitated in Social Ecology.

We welcome Stefan Nirschl, who started on June 16th in our finance department.

We welcome Nora Philadelphy, our student assistant for the winter term 2014/15

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+ International Guests

Thays Ricarte has complete an LL.M in Environmental Law and is currently a Ph.D candidate in Environmental Law at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. She has previously worked as a Judicial Assisted judge at State Court in Sergipe, Brazil. She has also an LLM in Procedural Civil Law in Brazil. Thays´s Ph.D thesis is on “Energy Transition as a Matrix to Sketch a New Global Governance”. She has been a Research Fellow for CEDAT with a specific focus on ecological debt, ecological economic, and environmental justice.
At our Institute, Thays pursues her interest in ecological economy, energy transition, energy democraticdeficit, social metabolism, the relation of energy poverty and natural resources, environmental justice with the focus of the institute.

Julian Fulton is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California Berkeley. His dissertation analyses recent historical trends in California’s water footprint, including direct use of local resources as well as indirectly via consumption of traded products such as food and energy. He has published on sustainability issues around California’s water footprint and more broadly on the topic of how embodied water in international trade relates to global water sustainability. At SEC he plans to further develop analytical and theoretical tools relating his work to social metabolism and sustainability transition studies.

Sara Bakhshaei is a PhD student in Agroecology at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. She is working in crop production and carbon footprinting of major crops in Iran. Apart from agricultural production, Sara is going to examine the whole supply chain including processing, storage and retailer facilities and transport.

International guests: SEC currently hosts two guest researchers from Nagoya University: Natsuko OKAZAKI develops a model of wood-biomass material flows in a Japanese region and investigates spatial patterns in carbon stocks in buildings and forest ecosystems. Shohei KURODA’s research focusses on global material stock distribution using nightlight data. In December and January Kento TAMURA from Ritsumeikan University will join the team at SEC. He investigates land constraints associated with future food and biofuel demands in Eastern and South Eastern Asia.

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+ New Publications

Arnold, Markus, Gaube, Veronika, and Wieser, Bernhard (2014): Interdisziplinär forschen. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 105-120.

Arnold, Markus and Schmid, Martin (2014): Science as Culture und Studium Integrale. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 287-296.

Balas, Maria, Baumann, Martin, Bruckner, Barbara, Gaube, Veronika, Haas, Willi, Kienberger, Stefan, König, Martin, Köppl, Angela, Kranzl, Lukas, Matzenberger, Julian, Mechler, Reinhard, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Omann, Ines, Prutsch, Andrea, Scharl, Arno, Steininger, Karl, Steurer, Reinhard, and Türk, Andreas (2014): Emissionsminderung und Anpassung an den Klimawandel. In: Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht Klimawandel 2014 (AAR14). Wien: Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bd. 3, pp. 109-316.

Berger, Wilhelm, Winiwarter, Verena, Dressel, Gert, and Heimerl, Kathrina (2014): Methoden und Praktiken interdisziplinärer und transdisziplinärer Wissenschaft. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 17-28.

Bustamante, Mercedes, Robledo-Abad, Carmenza, Harper, Richard, Mbow, Cheikh, Ravindranath, Nijavalli H., Sperling, Frank, Haberl, Helmut, de Siqueira Pinto, Alexandre, and Smith, Pete (2014): Co-benefits, trade-offs, barriers and policies for greenhouse gas mitigation in the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector. In: Global Change Biology 20(10), pp. 3270-3290.

Dearing, John A., Wang, Rong, Zhang, Ke, Dyke, James G., Haberl, Helmut, Hossain, Sarwar S., Langdon, Peter G., Lenton, Timothy M., Raworth, Kate, Brown, Sally, Carstensen, Jacob, Cole, Megan J., Cornell, Sarah E., Dawson, Terese P., Doncaster, C. P., Eigenbrod, Felix, Flörke, Martina, Jeffers, Elisabeth, Mackay, Anson W., Nykvist, Björn, and Poppy, Guy M. (2014): Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems. In: Global Environmental Change 28(September 2014), pp. 227-238.

Dressel, Gert, Heimerl, Kathrina, Berger, Wilhelm, and Winiwarter, Verena (2014): Interdisziplinäres und transdisziplinäres Forschen organisieren. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 207-212.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Haas, Willi (2014): Exlporing the Transformation of Human Labour in Relation to Socio-Ecological Transitions. In: Beblavý, Miroslav et al. (Eds.): Let’s get to Work! The Future of Labour in Europe. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, pp. 56-84.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Wiedenhofer, Dominik (2014): Policy Brief: An optimal policy mix for resource use. European Comission, pp. 1-21

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Pallua, Irene, Xenidis, Lazaros, and Singh, Simron J. (2014): Samothraki. Die Geschichte einer griechischen Insel, die sich aufmachte, ein UNESCO-Biosphärenreservat zu werden. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 239-246.

Fishman, T., Schandl, Heinz, Tanikawa, H., Walker, P., and Krausmann, Fridolin (2014): Accounting for the material stocks of nations. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 18(3), pp. 407-420.

Haas, Willi and Hellmer, Silvia (2014): Differenzen wahrnehmen und erfahren. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 51-64.

Haidvogl, Gertrud, Lajus, Dmitry, Pont, Didier, Schmid, Martin, Jungwirth, Mathias, and Lajus, Julia (2014): Reconstructing historical changes of riverine fish: Typology of historical sources and the reconstruction of long-term historical changes of riverine fish: a case study of the Austrian Danube and northern Russian rivers. In: Ecology of Freshwater Fish 23/4 (October 2014), pp. 489-515.

Heimerl, Kathrina, Zepke, Georg, Heller, Andreas, and Schmid, Martin (2014): Abschiede. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 193-206.

Heimerl, Kathrina, Dressel, Gert, Winiwarter, Verena, and Berger, Wilhelm (2014): Doing Inter- und Transdisziplinarität. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 297-312.

Jonas, Matthias, Ometto, J. P., Batistella, M., Franklin, O., Hall, M., Lapola, D. M., Moran, E. F., Tramberend, S., Lanza Queiroz, B., Schaffartzik, Anke, Shvidenko, A., Nilsson, S. B., and Nobre, C. A. (2014): Sustaining ecosystem services: Overcoming the dilemma posed by local actions and planetary boundaries. In: Earth’s Future 2(8), pp. 407-420.

König, M., Loibl, W., Steiger, R., Aspöck, H., Bednar-Friedl, B., Brunner, K. M., Haas, Willi, Höferl, K. M., Huttenlau, M., Walochnik, J., and Weisz, Ulli (2014): Der Einfluss des Klimawandels auf die Antroposphäre. In: Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht Klimawandel 2014 (AAR14). Wien: Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 641-704.

Krainer, Larissa and Smetschka, Barbara (2014): Ein Forschungsteam finden. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 65-78.

Krausmann, Fridolin, Richter, R., and Eisenmenger, Nina (2014): Resource use in small Island states: Material flows in Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago 1961-2008. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 18(2), pp. 294-305.

Martinez-Alier, Joan, Anguelovski, I., Bond, P., Del Ben, D., Demaria, F., Gerber, Julien F., Greyl, L., Haas, Willi, Healy, Hali, Marin-Burgos, V., Ojo, G., Porto, M., Rijnhout, L., Rodrigez-Labajos, B., Spangenberg, Joachim, Temper, L., Warlenius, R., and Yanez, I. (2014): Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations. In: Journal of Political Ecology 21, pp. 19-60.

Neundlinger, Michael, Gierlinger, Sylvia, Pollack, Gudrun, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2014): An Environmenal History of the Viennese Sanitation System – From Roman to Modern Times. In: Tvedt, Terje and Oestigaard, Terie (Eds.): From Jericho to Cities in the Seas. A History of Urbanization and Water Systems. London: I.B. Tauris, A History of Water Series, pp. 325-350.

Schaffartzik, Anke, Sachs, M., Wiedenhofer, Dominik, and Eisenmenger, Nina (2014): Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis. Wien: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 154).

Schmid, Martin (2014): The Environmental History of Rivers in the Early Modern Period. In: Knoll, Martin and Reith, Reinhold (Eds.): An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period – Experiments und Perspectives . Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT-Verlag, Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft – Geschichte, Bd. 10, pp. 19-25.

Veselková, Marcela, Beblavý, Miroslav, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Haas, Willi, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Weisz, Ulli, Pallua, Irene, Possanner, Nikolaus, Weis, Ekke, Behrens, Arno, Serio, Giulia, and Alessi, Monica (2014): Emerging megatrends and scenarios in the socio-ecological transitions. In: Beblavý, Miroslav et al. (Eds.): Let’s get to Work! The Future of Labour in Europe. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, pp. 14-28.

Weisz, Ulli, Karner, Sandra, Grossmann, Ralph, and Heintel, Peter (2014): Zwischen Welten. Transdisziplinäre Forschungsprozesse realisieren. In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 121-137.

West, J., Schandl, Heinz, Krausmann, Fridolin, Kovanda, Jan, and Hak, Tomas (2014): Patterns of change in material use and material efficiency in the successor states of the former Soviet Union. In: Ecological Economics 105(September 2014), pp. 211-219.

Winiwarter, Verena and Haidvogl, Gertrud (2014): Danube:Future. Herausforderung für interdisziplinäre Geisteswissenschaften. In: INFOEuropa.Informationen über den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa 04(2014), pp. 16-17.

Winiwarter, Verena (2014): Die Donau als Umwelt. Neue Blicke auf die Geschichte eines europäischen Stroms. In: INFOEuropa.Informationen über den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa 04(2014), pp. 14-15.

Winiwarter, Verena (2014): Ein historischer Blick auf die Gegenwart. In: VIEL.FALT / Jugend & Wort.Die brandneue Schulzeitung für ganz Kärnten Schwerpunkt: Intelligenz&Fleiß(Juni 2014), pp. 12-12.

Winiwarter, Verena (2014): Land Use and Agrarian Knowledge as Topics of Early-Modern Environmental History. In: Knoll, Martin and Reith, Reinhold (Eds.): An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period: Experiments and Perspectives. Wien-Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 55-60.

Winiwarter, Verena (2014): Nichts ist so zuverlässig falsch wie Prognosen. In: Klima- und Energiefonds (Ed.): energy2121. Bilder zur Energiezukunft. Bad Vöslau: omninum, pp. 32-38.

Winiwarter, Verena (2014): Von Ewigkeitslasten und Nebenwirkungen. Der Beitrag der Umweltgeschichte zu einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft. In: Soziale Technik 03(2014), pp. 2-4.

Winiwarter, Verena (2014): Wege finden, beteiligt zu sein … In: Dressel, Gert et al. (Eds.): Interdisziplinär und Transdisziplinär forschen. Praktiken und Methoden. Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, pp. 11-12.

Winiwarter, Verena and Groß, Robert (2014): Winteralpenglück? Umweltgeschichte des Schitourismus. In: Bergauf – Das Magazin des Österreichischen Alpenvereins 02(2014), pp. 10-12.

 

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CONTENTS
+ News
– Verena Winiwarter is „Scientist of the Year 2013“
– Habilitationsvortrag von Martin Schmid
– Job reminder: Full Professor position at the Institute of Social Ecology
– Summer term 2014: Course information online
– Guest Professors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn and Prof. Richard Tucker,
– New journal: Anthropocene Review (Sage), co-edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski
– Regional Environmental Change co-editor: Helmut Haberl
– NCC article: Efforts to curb climate change require greater emphasis on livestock
– PlosOne article: A wake-up call about the economic reality of a green society
– World Social Science Report 2013
– Leaping over disciplinary shadows
– AAU and Humboldt University join forces
+ Sustainability events
– 12.3.2014: FWF Am Puls: Climate Change and Politics
– ’The Green Economy’
+ Research projects
– Erasmus Intensive Programme “SUSAKI
– Milestone in WWWforEurope
– EU project: ASOREE
– Marie Curie Grant: Water and Transition
– UNEP: Global Trade in Natural Resources
+ Public outreach / Media resonance
+ Staff news
+ New publications
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CONGRATULATIONS: Verena Winiwarter is „Scientist of the Year 2013“!
Environmental Historian Verena Winiwarter was elected by the Club of Education- and Science Journalists for „Scientist of the Year 2013“.
For more information: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/main/inhalt/uninews_42759.htm
For all media resonance on Verena Winiwarter as Scientist of the Year 2013, please visit:
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/3602.htm
Habilitationsvortrag von Martin Schmid: Umweltgeschichte als Verwandlung sozio-naturaler Schauplätze: Die Donau im Vergleich zu anderen Fluss-Umwelt-Geschichten
Habilitationsvortrag Dr. Martin Schmid,
Thursday, 20.2.2014, 14:00, IFF Wien, Schottenfeldgasse 29, Seminarraum 6 (6. Stock)

 

Job reminder: Full Professor position at the Institute of Social Ecology
The Institute of Social Ecology at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies & Continuing Education (IFF) of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Vienna campus) announces a full time position of a Full Professor of Social Ecology in accordance with Austrian university law (§ 98 Universitätsgesetz). The position is available as of October 1, 2014 and limited to an employment period of five years. The position can be converted into a permanent position afterwards. Place of work is the Vienna campus of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Deadline of applications: 26th February 2014.
Job description in English: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/career/inhalt/269_1051.htm

 

Summer term 2014: Course information online
Detailed information can be found on our website: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/downloads/KoVo-web-SS14.pdf
For further information please contact: mirjam [dot] weber [at] aau [dot] at

 

Guest Professors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn and Prof. Richard Tucker

Univ. Prof. Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn (University of Bath) has authored and edited several books as well as many journal articles on issues of social movements, Green Parties, socio-political theory and environmental policy. Course „Nachhaltigkeit und Demokratie“
https://campus.aau.at/studien/lvkarte.jsp?sprache_nr=35&rlvkey=78659

Prof. Richard Tucker (University of Michigan) is active in the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), where he was program chairman for the national conference in 2011, and is a member of the editorial board of its journal, Environmental History since 2006. In recent years he has concentrated on the global history of the environmental consequences of warfare and militarization; he is coordinator of its international research network. Course „Warfare and Environment through History“
https://campus.aau.at/studien/lvkarte.jsp?sprache_nr=35&rlvkey=77651

 

New journal: Anthropocene Review
Marina Fischer-Kowalski is Co-editor in the new SAGE Journal Anthropocene Review, and Author in the first Volume (presumably April 2014, online now)
The Anthropocene Review is a trans-disciplinary journal issued 3 times per year, bringing together peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of research pertaining to the Anthropocene, from earth and environmental sciences, social sciences, material sciences, and humanities. The journal provides a significant opportunity to communicate key scientific work to a wider audience.
For more information: http://ANR.sagepub.com/; http://anthropocenerev.blogspot.co.uk/
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Pallua, Irene 2014. A socio-metabolic reading of the Anthropocene: modes of subsistence, population size, and human impact on Earth. The Anthropocene Review 1/2014 (online first) http://anr.sagepub.com/content/early/recent
DOI:10.1177/2053019613518033

 

Regional Environmental Change editor: Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl has been appointed as senior handling editor of Regional Environmental Change (Springer; editor-in-chief: Wolfgang Cramer)
Environmental change is accelerating worldwide, posing significant challenges for humanity. Solutions are needed at the regional level, where physical features of the landscape, biological systems, and human institutions interact. The goal of Regional Environmental Change is to publish scientific research and opinion papers that improve our understanding of the extent of these changes, their causes, their impacts on people, and the options for society to respond. „Regional“ refers to the full range of scales between local and global, including regions defined by natural criteria, such as watersheds and ecosystems, and those defined by human activities, such as urban areas and their hinterlands. For more information: http://www.springer.com/environment/global+change+-+climate+change/journal/10113

 

NCC article: Efforts to curb climate change require greater emphasis on livestock
A reduction in non-CO2 greenhouse gases will be required to abate climate change, the researchers said. Cutting releases of methane and nitrous oxide, two gases that pound-for-pound trap more heat than does CO2, should be considered alongside the challenge of reducing fossil fuel use. “Reducing demand for ruminant products could help to achieve substantial greenhouse gas reductions in the near-term,” said co-author Helmut Haberl, “but implementation of demand changes represent a considerable political challenge.” Haberl conducts research in the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna. The analysis, “Ruminants, climate change, and climate policy,” was published as an opinion commentary today in Nature Climate Change, a professional journal. William Ripple, professor in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, and co-authors from Scotland, Austria, Australia and the United States reached their conclusions on the basis of a synthesis of current scientific knowledge on greenhouse gases, climate change and food and environmental issues. They drew from a variety of sources including the Food and Agricultural Organization, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and recent peer-reviewed publications.
For more information: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/main/inhalt/uninews_42756.htm
PlosOne article: A wake-up call about the economic reality of a green society
Policymakers often talk about moving towards a green society, but in a new study a team of researchers from the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna (Fridolin Krausmann), Leeds University (Julia K. Steinberger) and CSIRO (Heinz Schandl) found that this would restrict economic growth. The study shows that, over the longer term, emerging and developing countries tend to have significantly larger material-economic coupling than mature industrialized economies (although this effect may be enhanced by trade patterns), but that the contrary is true for short-term coupling. Moreover, they demonstrate that absolute dematerialization limits economic growth rates, while the successful industrialization of developing countries inevitably requires a strong material component. Alternative development priorities are thus urgently needed both for mature and emerging economies: reducing absolute consumption levels for the former, and avoiding the trap of resource intensive economic and human development for the latter.
Steinberger, J.K., Krausmann, F., Getzner, M., Schandl, H., West, J. 2013. Development and dematerialization: an international study.  PLoS One, 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070385
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070385

 

 

World Social Science Report 2013
Scientists of the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna have participated in the World Social Science Report 2013 titled „Changing Global Environments“, which has been published recently. The Report issues an urgent call to action to the international social science community. Social scientists need to collaborate more effectively with colleagues from the natural, human and engineering sciences to deliver relevant, credible knowledge that can help to address the most pressing of today’s environmental problems and sustainability challenges. And they need to do so in close collaboration with decision-makers, practitioners and the other users of their research. WSSR2013 Report: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/reports/world-social-science-report-2013/
To the article form Prof. Ulrich Brand about socio-ecological responsibility of the social scienes: http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/wissenschaft-gesellschaft/detailansicht/artikel/sozial-oekologische-verantwortung-der-sozialwissenschaften/
Leaping over disciplinary shadows
Research increasingly crosses disciplinary boundaries and draws in outside stakeholders. Karl-Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube and Marina Fischer-Kowalski report from two decades of experience in inter- and transdisciplinary research at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, Austria. They advise on how to succeed in three not-so-easy steps.
Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gaube, Veronika, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2013): Leaping over disciplinary shadows. In: Global Change (81), pp. 36-39.
http://www.igbp.net/news/features/features/leapingoverdisciplinaryshadows.5.7815fd3f14373a7f24c1a.html
AAU and Humboldt University join forces
As a formal framework for the collaboration of the Institute of Social Ecology with IRI THESys on global land use research over the next years, the AAU and the Humboldt University have signed a collaboration agreement to facilitate exchange of researchers, students and lecturers, and to plan joint research activities and project development.

 

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+ Sustainability events

 

FWF Am Puls 12. March 2014: Climate Change and Politics
In September 2013 the first Chapter of the new IPCC Reports has been published: Basic of Natural Sciences and Climate Change. Next Chapters will be published in Spring 2014. The IPCC is a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations (UN). It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change.
Helmut Haberl as the lead autor of the topics of agriculture and forestry and land use will speak about the structure and history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also known as „Weltklimarat“. March 2014, 6 p.m., Albert Schweitzer Haus, Schwarzspanierstraße 13, 1090 Vienna. Free entrance!
For more information: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/aktuelles_detail.asp?N_ID=588

 

Summer school: ‚The Green Economy‘
The Norwegian University of Life Sciences is organizing a summer school series in Environmental Governance. The course in 2014 is titled ‚The Green Economy‘ and is running from June 16 to June 27. The summer school is directed towards PhDs. A few places will also be offered to young researchers in the field. More information is found at: umb.no/thor-heyerdahl-summer-school. Deadline for application for the 2014 course is February 20.

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+ Research projects

 

Erasmus Intensive Programme “SUSAKI”: Achieving sustainable development on an island. Social ecology concepts and methods in a real world context.
The course is designed as a 12-days excursion to the island of Samothraki in Greece with the aim to learn and apply social ecology approaches in a local setting while building synergy with an on-going UNESCO Man and Biosphere process. The objectives of the course are: (a) expose students to a search for solutions for sustainability and development challenges in a local setting by applying socioecological thinking, (b) be trained in a set of social science and natural science methods frequently used in socioecological research , and (c) allow students the experience of a transdisciplinary research process by learning to interact with stakeholders in a culturally challenging environment (translation will be provided by locals as far as required). The course will take place in May 2014 with students from 5 different universities (National University of Ireland, Galway, Lund University, University of the Aegean, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

 

Milestone in WWWforEurope: Developing Resource use Scenarios for Europe
The objective of the project is to provide the analytical basis for the need, the feasibility and the scope of a socio-ecological transition, to derive policy instruments for shifting Europe to a new „high road path“, and the institutional changes needed at all policy levels. The Institute of Social Ecology (SEC) is involved in two work packages: „Assessing Past Transitions“ and „Biophysical Scenarios for Resource Constraints“. In the second work package („Biophysical Scenarios for Resource Constraints“) SEC develops a set of scenarios for future resource use in Europe, with a close consideration of the biophysical constraints involved. These scenarios will then be implemented in macroeconomic models on the basis of which several different trajectories of European development can be forecast and compared. This comparison should provide the analytical basis for the development of effective policy tools to steer European development onto a more sustainable trajectory.
Research paper on resource use scenarios for Europe: Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Haas, Willi, Pallua, Irene, and Hausknost, Daniel (2013): Developing Resource use Scenarios for Europe. Work Package 204, MS 35 „Developing resource use scenarios for Europe“. Vienna: WWWforEurope – WelfareWealthWork.
http://www.foreurope.eu/index.php?id=686

 

EU project: ASOREE
The Europe 2020 Strategy, endorsed by the European Council in June 2010, establishes resource efficiency as one of its fundamental flagship initiatives for ensuring the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of Europe. The Resource efficiency flagship should „help the EU to prosper in a low-carbon, resource constrained world while preventing environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and unsustainable use of resources“. Renewable resources should not be degraded below sustainable levels, and non-renewable resources should not get depleted. The Flagship calls for the development of a Resource Efficient Europe roadmap that develops policy frameworks helping help to increase resource productivity and decouple resource use from economic growth. Final results of the ASOREE project will be presented at a conference in Brussels on 20 February 2014. At the Conference titled “Scenarios towards a resource efficient Europe. Resource efficiency improvements in the Built Environment” the study findings will be discussed with stakeholders and the European Commission.

 

Marie Curie Grant: Water and Transition
The Marie Curie Mobility Grant of the European Union supports Dr. Giacomo Parrinelli who investigates the historical transformation of river basins and water circulation in the urban-industrial age from perspective which integrates social and environmental sciences. The empirical case study is the Po river basin, which hosts one of the most developed urban-industrial region in the EU, and which is lacking of a comprehensive historical reconstruction. The project fills that void, retracing the genealogy of the present condition by looking at the interplays of social and environmental processes over the last two centuries. The four specific goals of the project are: 1) retracing the historical development of agricultural, urban, and industrial uses of Po basin water; as well as the main actors, projects, and phases of the transformation; 2) mapping the changing geographies of water metabolic circulation in the Po river basin, related to the historical transformation of water uses in the transition to the urban-industrial society; 3) studying the impact of the transformation in water uses and circulation on the river basin hydro-ecosystem, and the consequences of this on the various set of human activities over time; 4) identifying the most relevant characteristics that can qualify the transformation in water socio-ecological metabolism in the transition to the urban-industrial society. This research will provide a comprehensive historical account of the Po river basin transformation from an environmental point of view. It will also implement an interdisciplinary analytical framework on river systems transformations and metabolic exchanges with urban-industrial societies: a crucial issue for European research and policies. The project is hosted at SEC and coordinated by Fridolin Krausmann and will be carried out in close cooperation with Prof. Craig E. Colten at Louisiana State University.

 

UNEP: Global Trade in Natural Resources
The biophysical dimensions of international trade, including their upstream requirements, will be subject of a next report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel. SEC in collaboration with a number of international partners has been preparing this report which is currently under review. The report finds apparent structural change: countries of the global South become much more dominant in resource trade not so much as providers, but as demanders of resources on the world market; while global demand for natural resources is rapidly rising, supply shows signs of exhaustion: petroleum and (wild) fishcatch stagnate since a decade, and the supply of several metals suffers from declining ore grades. For the first time in the last 100 years, there is a consistent trend of rising resource prices.

 

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+ Public Outreach / Media resonance (German and English)

 

Klaus Taschwer
„Porsches machen nicht unbedingt potenter“
Der Standard, Forschung Spezial, 8. Jänner 2014, Seite 14
zum Artikel…

Verena Winiwarter: Umweltgeschichte zum Angreifen
Apa, Natur & Technik/science.apa.at, 8. Jänner 2014
zum Artikel…

For all media resonance on Verena Winiwarter as Scientist of the Year 2013, please visit:
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/3602.htm

Verena Ahne
Im Wald verschwindet viel CO2
Die Presse, Wissenschaft, 18. Jänner 2014
http://diepresse.com/home/science/1550574/Im-Wald-verschwindet-viel-CO2

Angelika Wienerroither
„Upcycling“: Alten Dingen wieder Wert geben
Salzburger Nachrichten, 31. Dezember 2013, Seite 10
http://www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/oesterreich/chronik/sn/artikel/upcycling-alten-dingen-wieder-wert-geben-88381/

Martin Kugler
Die Gase der Tiere
Die Presse, Wissenschaft, 22. Dezember 2013, Seite 22
http://diepresse.com/home/science/1510330/Die-Gase-der-Tiere

Adam Vaughan
Tax meat to cut methane emissions, say scientists
theguardian.com, December 20, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/tax-meat-cut-methane-emissions-scientists

Martin Kugler
Wie Schifahren die Alpen prägte
Die Presse, Sonntag, 13. Dezember 2013
http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/oesterreich/1504511/Wie-Skifahren-die-Alpen-praegte

Hannah Hoag
Humans are becoming more carnivorous (Thomas Kastner was interviewed in Nature News.)
Nature, December 02, 2013
http://www.nature.com/news/humans-are-becoming-more-carnivorous-1.14282

Tobias Müller
Der Sprit im Strohhaufen
Der Standard, 23. Oktober 2013
http://derstandard.at/1381369489839/Der-Sprit-im-Strohhaufen

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+ Staff News

Helmut Haberl will intensively collaborate with the Integrative Research Institute on Transformation of Human-Environment System (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-University zu Berlin as research fellow over the next couple of months. The focus of his joint research with IRI THESys (see http://www.exzellenz.hu-berlin.de/integrative-research-institutes/iri-thesys) will be on global land-use competition. One of the concrete activities will be the preparation of the KOSMOS summery university on “FutureLand: Understanding land use competition under conditions of global change” to be held in September 2014 at Humboldt-University in Berlin.

Marina Fischer-Kowalski is President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and responsible for the ISEE conference in Reykjavik Aug. 2014,“Wellbeing and Equity within Planetary Boundaries”, http://www.isecoeco.org/tag/isee-conference-2014/.

Irene Pallua has finished her MA in Social Ecology with honours.

We welcome Christina Spitzbart, who works on the FWF project “Vienna´s Urban Waterscape 1683-1918. An Environmental History”, starting on February 3rd.

Wolfgang Deutsch will be on our Institute as temporary Teaching Administrator starting in March replacing Mirjam Weber, who will be on maternity leave.

Michael Neundlinger was invited for a two-month research sojourn at the Historical GIS Lab at University of Saskatchewan. From January until February 2014 Neundlinger benefited from the leading expertise of Dr. Geoff Cunfer and his team in Historical Geoinformation Systems and Environmental History. The visit strengthened cooperation between Canadian and Austrian researchers and contributed to the project aims of Sustainable Farm Systems: Long-Term Socio-Ecological Metabolism in Western Agriculture, 1700-2000.

 

International Guests:

Visiting scholar Zizi Moneer is from Egypt and does her PhD at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Politics of the University of Freiburg in Germany. She visitied the Institute of Social Ecology from 11 November to 20 December as part of a COST Action fellowship. In her PhD she analyses the causes of and possible solutions to environmental conflicts in protected areas in Egypt. Central to her project is the phenomenon of failed or ‘manipulative’ participation in the governance of protected areas and the ways to overcome it. During her stay Zizi Moneer is supervised by Dr. Daniel Hausknost and DI Willi Haas.

The Inst. of Social Ecology initiated a Joint Study Agreement between Alpen Adria University and the Graduate School of Environmental Studies of Nagoya University to advance academic exchange and research cooperation. In January 2014 Prof. Hiroki Tanikawa, Ass. Prof. Keijiro Okuoka and two phd students visited the Inst. of Social Ecology for a workshop on modelling global material stocks.

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+ New Publications

Brand, Ulrich, Achim Brunnengräber, Ines Omann, Uwe Schneidewind, Steinar Andresen, Peter Driessen, Helmut Haberl, Daniel Hausknost, Sebastian Helgenberger, Kirsten Hollaender, Jeppe Læssøe, Sebastian Oberthür, 2013. Debating transformation in multiple crises. In: International Social Science Council, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (eds.). World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments. OECD Publishing and UNESCO Publishing, Paris, pp. 480-484

 

Chertow, Marian, Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Conclusion. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 555-561.
Cunfer, Geoff and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. New York: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 269-296.

 

de Ruiter, Henri, Thomas Kastner, and Sanderine Nonhebel. “European Dietary Patterns and Their Associated Land Use: Variation Between and Within Countries.” Food Policy 44 (2014): 158-166.

 

Dirnböck, Thomas, Bezák, Peter, Dullinger, Stefan, Haberl, Helmut, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Mirtl, Michael, Peterseil, Johannes, Redpath, Steve, Singh, Simron J., Travis, Justin, and Wijdeven, Sander (2013): Critical scales for long-term socio-ecological biodiversity research. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, Lond: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 123-138.

 

Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gaube, Veronika, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2013): Leaping over disciplinary shadows. In: Global Change (81), pp. 36-39.

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Pallua, Irene 2014. A socio-metabolic reading of the Anthropocene: modes of subsistence, population size, and human impact on Earth. The Anthropocene Review 1/2014 (online first) http://anr.sagepub.com/content/early/recent

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Smetschka, Barbara (2013): Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies . In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society Nature Interactions across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, pp. 77-101.

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Haas, Willi, Pallua, Irene, and Hausknost, Daniel (2013):. WWWforEurope Working Papers, Milestone 36: Documentation of scenarios implemented and used by macroeconomic models, pp. 1-72, http://www.foreurope.eu/fileadmin/documents/pdf/Workingpapers/WWWforEurope_WPS_no025_MS35.pdf

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Mayer, Andreas, and Hausknost, Daniel (2013): Umwelt und Soziale Ökologie. In: Flicker, Eva and Forster, Rudolf (Eds.):  Forschungs- und Anwendungsfelder der Soziologie. Wien: Facultas, WUV, pp. 251-267.

 

Gaube, Veronika and Remesch, Alexander (2013): Impact of urban planning on household’s residential decisions and energy use: An agent-based simulation model for Vienna. In: Environmental Modelling & Software. 45(July 2013), pp. 92-103.

 

Gaube, Veronika and Haberl, Helmut (2013): Using integrated models to analyze socio-ecological system dynamics in Long-Term Socio-ecological Research – Austrian Experiences. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 53-75.

 

Gingrich, Simone, Schmid, Martin, Gradwohl, Markus, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): How Material and Energy Flows Change Socio-natural Arrangements: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 297-313.

 

Haas, Willi, Singh, Simron J., Erschbamer, Brigitta, Reiter, Karl, and Walz, Ariane (2013): Integrated Monitoring and Sustainability Assessment in the Tyrolean Alps: Experiences in Transdisciplinarity. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 527-554.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Mbow, Cheik, Deng, Xiangzheng, Irwin, Elena G., Kerr, Suzi, Kuemmerle, Tobias, Mertz, Ole, Meyfroidt, Patrick, and Turner II, Billie L. (2013): Finite Land Resources and Competition. In: Karen Seto, Anette Reenberg (eds.), Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era. MIT Press, pp. 33-67.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl H., and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. In: Victor, Peter (Ed.):  The Costs of Economic Growth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Cheltenham [reprinted from the Online Encyclopaedia of Ecological Economics, International Society for Ecological Economics, http://www.ecoeco.org/pdf/2007_march_hanpp.pdf], pp. 304-318.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl H., Gingrich, Simone, Kastner, Thomas, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production, Stocks and Flows of Carbon, and Biodiversity. In: Lal, Rattan et al. (Eds.):  Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere. Berlin: Springer, pp. 313-331.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl H., Gaube, Veronika, Gingrich, Simone, and Singh, Simron J. (2013): Socioeconomic Metabolism and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold for LTSER? In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 29-52.

 

Haberl, Helmut (2013): Sozialökologische Transitionen und nachhaltige Entwicklung. In: Herzog, Eva M. et al. (Eds.):  Blickpunkt: Biologische Vielfalt. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, pp. 87-110.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Körner, Christian, Lauk, Christian, Schmid-Staiger, Ulrike, Smetacek, Victor, Schulze, Ernst D., Thauer, Rudolf K., Weiland, Peter, and Wilson, Karen (2013): Verfügbarkeit und Nachhaltigkeit von pflanzlicher Biomasse als Energiequelle. In: Stellungnahme: Bioenergie, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen.  Halle and der Saale: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften.  pp. 10-50  (übersetzte und überarbeitete Ausgabe der Stellungnahme „Bioenergy – Chances and Limits“, 2012).

 

Haidvogl, Gertrud, Guthyne-Horwath, Marianna, Gierlinger, Sylvia, Hohensinner, Severin, and Sonnlechner, Christoph (2013): Urban land for a growing city at the banks of a moving river: Vienna’s spread into the Danube island Unterer Werd from the late 17th to the beginning of the 20th century. In:  Water History Thematic Issue 2013, pp. 195-217.

 

Hohensinner, Severin, Lager, Bernhard, Sonnlechner, Christoph, Haidvogl, Gertrud, Schmid, Martin, Gierlinger, Sylvia, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Winiwarter, Verena (2013): Changes in water and land: the reconstructed Viennese riverscape 1500 to the present. In: Water History (Thematic Issue 2013), pp. 145-172.

 

Hohensinner, Severin, Drescher, Anton, Eckmüller, Otto, Egger, Gregory, Gierlinger, Sylvia, Hager, Herbert, Haidvogl, Gertrud, and Jungwirth, Mathias (2013): Genug Holz für Stadt und Fluss? Wiens Holzressourcen in dynamischen Donau-Auen. Intitut für Hydrobiologie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien.

 

Kallis, G., P. Petridis, and Iliosporoi (Eds.), (2013): Πέρα από το δίλημμα λιτότητα ή ανάπτυξη: 11 κείμενα για την Αποανάπτυξη (Beyond the dilemma austerity or growth: 11 essays on degrowth), Iliosporoi Editions, 194pp. (in Greek), online first, available at http://www.iliosporoi.net/images/pdf/11%20keimena%20gia%20tin%20APOANAPTYKSI.pdf [accessed: 13 Dec. 2013]

 

Kallis, G. and P. Petridis, (2013): “Συμπεράσματα: αποανάπτυξη, Ελλάδα και κρίση (Conclusions: degrowth, Greece and crisis)”, In: Kallis, G., P. Petridis, and Iliosporoi (Eds.), 2013. Πέρα από το δίλημμα λιτότητα ή ανάπτυξη: 11 κείμενα για την Αποανάπτυξη (Beyond the dilemma austerity or growth: 11 essays on degrowth), Iliosporoi Editions, pp. 169-186.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): A city and its Hinterland: Vienna’s Energy Metabolism 1800-2006. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society Nature Interactions across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, pp. 247-268.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel. Langfristige Trends und räumliche Muster in der Ressourcennutzung. In: Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur, pp. 61-72.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin, Schaffartzik, Anke, Mayer, Andreas, Gingrich, Simone and Eisenmenger, Nina (2013): Global trends and patterns in material use. MRS Online Proceedings Library, 1545, mrss13-1545-k04-03 doi:10.1557/opl.2013.1075.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2013): Global socio-metabolic transitions. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 339-365.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): The social metabolism of European industrialization: Changes in the relation of energy and land use from eighteenth to the twentieth century. In: Unger, Richard W. (Ed.):  Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change. Munich: Rachel Carson Centre, RCC perspectives 2013/02, pp. 31-36.

 

Lutz, Juliana (2013): Lokale Lebensmittelnetzwerke. Kollektives Engagement für Veränderung. Soziale Technik, 4, 5-7.

 

Lutz, Juliana and Schachinger, Judith (2013): Do Local Food Networks Foster Socio-Ecological Transitions towards Food Sovereignty? Learning from Real Place Experiences. Sustainability, 5(11), 4778-4796

 

Peterseil, Johannes, Neuner, Angelika, Stocker-Kiss, Andrea, Gaube, Veronika, and Mirtl, Michael (2013): The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) – Implementation and Services. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 461-484.

 

Petridis, Panos, (2013): “Από τον οικονομισμό στην αυτονομία: η ελληνική κρίση και το πρόταγμα της αποανάπτυξης. (From economism to autonomy: the Greek crisis and the project of degrowth)”, In: Kallis, G., P. Petridis, and Iliosporoi (Eds.), 2013. Πέρα από το δίλημμα λιτότητα ή ανάπτυξη: 11 κείμενα για την Αποανάπτυξη (Beyond the dilemma austerity or growth: 11 essays on degrowth), Iliosporoi Editions, pp.156-168.

 

Pollack, Gudrun (2013): Verschmutzt – Verbaut – Vergessen. Eine Umweltgeschichte des Wienflusses von 1780 bis 1910. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper 138)

 

Ringhofer, Lisa, Singh, Simron Jit, and Smetschka, Barbara (2013): Climate Change Mitigation in Latin America: A Mapping of Current Policies, Plans and Programs. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 143).

 

Ripple, William J., Pete Smith, Helmut Haberl, Stephen A. Montzka, Clive MacAlpine, Douglas H. Boucher, 2014. Ruminants, climate change, and climate policy. Nature Climate Change, 4, 2-5.

 

Schmid, Martin (2013): Book Review: Stéphane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden (eds.): Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America. In: Water History January 2013, pp. 1-3.

 

Schmid, Martin (2013): Stadt am Fluss: Wiener Häfen als sozio-naturale Schauplätze von der Frühen Neuzeit bis nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. In: Morscher, Lukas et al. (Eds.):  Orte der Stadt im Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Gegenwart: Treffpunkte, Verkehr und Fürsorge . Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Studienverlag, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Städte Mitteleuropas , Bd. 24, pp. 275-312.

 

Schmid, Martin (2013): Towards an Environmental History of the Danube: Understanding a great European river through its transformation as a socio-natural site, c. 1500-2000., Habilitation, Environmental History, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Graz, IFF Vienna.

 

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Chertow, Marian, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Introduction. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 1-26.

 

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Chertow, Marian, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society Nature Interactions across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer (Human – Environment Interactions; 2)

 

Steinberger, Julia K., Krausmann, Fridolin, Getzner, Michael, Schandl, Heinz, West, Jim (2013): Development and dematerialization: an international study.  PLoS One, 8, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070385

 

Verburg, Peter H., Erb, Karl H., Mertz, Ole, and Espindola, G. (guest editors), (2013): Land System Science: between global challenges and local realities. Special issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5(5), pp. 433-534.

 

Weisz, Ulli and Possanner, Nikolaus (2013): Arbeit und Energie. Perspektiven für Österreich. Wien: Endbericht an das BMLFUW, Abt. Umweltökonomie und Energie.

 

Weisz, Ulli, Wegleitner, Klaus-Jürgen, Haas, Willi, Heimerl, Kathrina, and Reitinger, Elisabeth (2013): Nachhaltige Entwicklung in Konzepten von Gesundheitsförderung und Palliative Care: für ein gutes Leben für alle – bis zuletzt. Ergebnisse eines inter- und transdisziplinären Experiments (TREX) der IFF Institut für Soziale Ökologie (SEC) und Palliative Care und Organisationsethik (PallOrg). Gefördert durch die IFF.

 

Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Lenzen, Manfred, and Steinberger, Julia (2013): Energy Requirements of Consumption: Urban Form, Climatic and Socio-Economic Factors, Rebounds and Their Policy Implications. In: Energy Policy 63, pp. 696-707.

 

Winiwarter, Verena, Rüpke, Jörg, and Stagl, Justin (2013): Formen des Wissens über die Zukunft. In: Saeculum, Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 12(2), pp. 183-187.

 

Winiwarter, Verena (2013): Gesellschaft-Natur-Verhältnisse in langfristiger Betrachtung. In: Gebhardt, Hans et al. (Eds.): Europa – eine Geographie. Heidelberg, pp. 28-29.

 

Winiwarter, Verena, Schmid, Martin, Hohensinner, Severin, and Haidvogl, Gertrud (2013): The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 103-122.

 

Winiwarter, Verena (2013): The View from Below: On Energy in Soils (and Food).  In: Unger, Richard W. (Ed.):  Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change. Munich: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, RCC Perspectives, Bd. 2013-2, pp. 43-48.
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