IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter Nr. 1 – September 2002

## New courses for Fall Semester 02/03 (KOVO)
++ Helmut Haberl as Head of Department until Sept. 2003
++ ÖGUT Conference on environmental fiscal reform
++ Research cooperation with the Nat. Univ. of Laos
++ New publication: „Handbook of Physical Accounting“
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# NEW COURSES for Fall Semester 02/03 (KOVO)
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# Our new course catalog („Kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis“)
# for the Fall semester is available on the web:
# http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/lehre/lehre_downloads/KoVoWS02.pdf
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# Information about our course programs is also available online.
# Environmental Studies & Doctoral Studies Programs:
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+ NEW HEAD OF DEPARTMENT for the coming year
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+ Marina Fischer-Kowalski, since 1987 Head of Department
+ at IFF Social Ecology, will be on sabbatical as Visiting Professor
+ at the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
+ and in Brazil, where she will be writing a book.
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+ Helmut Haberl will take over in Vienna as Head of Department
+ until September 2003.
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+ ÖGUT CONFERENCE on environmental fiscal reform
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+ „Harmonisation of an European Environmental Fiscal Reform“
+ Date:
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+ Organised by the Austrian Society for Environment and
+ Technology (ÖGUT) and supported by IFF Social Ecology
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+ Location: BAWAG, Hochholzer Hof 2-4, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
+ Information: henriette-gupfinger [at] oegut.at
+ http://www.oegut.at/
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+ RESEARCH COOPERATION with the Nat. Univ. of Laos
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+ We are proud to have two new visiting research fellows
+ at our department.
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+ Sithong Thongmanivong and Bounnam Pathoumthong from the
+ National University of Laos will be continuing their work
+ on „Southeast Asia in Transition“ (SEAtrans) in Vienna until
+ November of this year, and again from March to May of 2003.
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+ Nat. Univ. of Laos: http://www.canpub.com/nuol/
+ http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/projekte/seatrans.php
+ http://www.seatrans.net/
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+ NEW PUBLICATION „Handbook of Physical Accounting“
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+ IFF Social Ecology has authored the newly published
+ „Handbook of Physical Accounting: Measuring bio-physical
+ dimensions of socio-economic activities: MFA-EFA-HANPP.“
+ The handbook presents further developments as well as
+ methodological guidelines for physical accounting.
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+ This work was made possible by IFF Social Ecology’s long-standing
+ cooperation with the Department of Environmental Economics
+ and Energy of the Ministry for Environment, the Department
+ for Energy and Environmental Technology of the Ministry
+ for Transport, Innovation and Technology, and Statistik Austria.
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+ To order: 0800/240 260 (from Austria)
+ Tel. +43-1-51522-5044 (from abroad)
+ http://www.lebensministerium.at/publikationen/
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+ NEW IFF SOCIAL ECOLOGY WORKING PAPER
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+ Working Paper Number 68: Gesellschaftliche Stoffflüsse des
+ österreichischen Landwirtschaftssektors 1950-1995, Eine
+ humanökologische Untersuchung, Veronika Gaube (2002) 124 S.
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+ Our working papers can be ordered by mail or are available
+ as pdf-download: http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/publs/wpapers.php
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