IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter Nr. 2 – December 2002

## Killing Kyoto: Lecture by Riley Dunlap
++ Simron Jit Singh new member Social Ecology
++ Societies in Transition: Ökologische Orientierungen
++ Lifecycle Approaches to Sustainable Consumption, IIASA
++ Scientific cooperation with Spain
++ Advances in Energy Studies, Porto Venere
++ New Media in Teaching, Business Meeting in Innsbruck
++ Southeast Asia in Transition, workshop in Vietnam
++ CARBON Feasibility study completed
++ New Publications
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# Invitation to Lecture by Prof. Dr. Riley Dunlap
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# Killing Kyoto: The American Right-Wing’s Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy
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# Wed., Dec. 11, 2002, 6-8 pm at IFF, Schottenfeldg. 29, 1070 Vienna
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# Riley E. Dunlap is currently Donner Professor at
# Åbo Akademi University in Finland, after recently
# resigning as Boeing Distinguished Professor of
# Environmental Sociology at Washington State Univ.
# One of the founders of Environmental Sociology, he
# is the author of several influential articles in
# the field and senior editor of the Handbook of
# Environmental Sociology (2002) and Sociological
# Theory and the Environment (2002).
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+ Department News:
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+ IFF Social Ecology welcomes Simron Jit Singh as a
+ new member of staff. Find details to his person and research under:
+ www.iff.ac.at/socec/staff/singh.php
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+ Societies in Transition:
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+ In the context of the course „Ökologische Orientierungen“
+ (Nov. 7-9, W. Haas and N. Schulz), a group of 16 people from
+ various disciplines and professional backgrounds met in Krems, Lower
+ Austria, to discuss inputs about villages in Thailand, the Nicobar
+ Islands and Austria. Focussing on Society-Nature interactions, key
+ transitions were identified.
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+ Lifecycle Approaches to Sustainable Consumption:
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+ European researchers foussing on this issue met on Nov. 22
+ at the IIASA in Laxenburg, Lower Austria. Approximately 30
+ ten-minute presentations gave an ovierview on the research
+ activities. Willi Haas delivered a presentation on „What do
+ Social Systems consume?“ using the example of a small
+ Austrian village to illustrate the level and composition of
+ consumption.
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+ Scientific cooperation with Spain
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+ „Acciones integradas“ is an initiative for scientific exchange
+ between Austria and Spain funded by the Austrian Exchange Service.
+ Nina Eisenmenger and Niels Schulz visited Prof. Martinez-Alier at
+ the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) in Spain, where they
+ presented recent research of the Team Social Ecology and worked on
+ joint publications.
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+ „Third Biennial Workshop ‚Advances in Energy Studies'“
+ Helmut Haberl, Workshop in Porto Venere
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+ This year’s edition of the biennial workshop series „Advances
+ in Energy Studies“ was held in Porto Venere, Italy, 24-28 Sept 2002.
+ The Dept. of Social Ecology presented a poster by H. Haberl,
+ K.H. Erb, F. Krausmann on the relation between
+ societal metabolism and land-use change, thus also contributing to
+ LUCC project No. 33, „Land Use Change and Socio-Economic
+ Metabolism“.
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+ Application of New Media in Teaching
+ November 29-30, Innsbruck
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+ As IFF delegate, Willi Haas attended the 5th Business Meeting of the
+ „Forum Neue Medien,“ where a discussion of the initiative’s future
+ took place. Willi Haas will participate for IFF in a task force to
+ develop strategic development options.
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+ Southeast Asia in Transition
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+ Heinz Schandl organized the 2. Workshop on „Southeast Asia in
+ Transition“ at the University for Social Sciences and Humanities
+ (USSH) in Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Vietnam. Participants from 10 partner
+ institutions (from 4 Asian and 3 European countries) met to discuss
+ methods and results of the Asian case studies. An interview with
+ Marina Fischer-Kowalski was published in the Saigon Times.
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+ CARBON Feasibility study completed:
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+ The feasibility study „Carbon household and societal change:
+ Changes in socioeconomic carbon metabolism and land-use
+ induced changes in carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems,
+ Austria 1830-1995“ was completed in early November 2002.
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+ This project is a feasibility study for a larger research programme
+ for the comprehensive analysis of relations between carbon flows and
+ societal change in Austria from 1830 to today. It aims at the
+ analysis of socio-economic driving forces for changes in Austria’s
+ carbon household currently only scarcely understood by
+ natural-science dominated approaches. We now hope that the main
+ study will be financed and can start in spring 2003.
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+ www.iff.ac.at/socec/affil/ihdp/htm/fslucmet.htm
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+ New Publications
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+ Krausmann, F., H. Haberl, N.B. Schulz, K.-H. Erb, E. Darge,
+ V. Gaube, 2003. Land-Use Change and Socioeconomic Metabolism
+ in Austria, Part I: Driving Forces of Land-Use Change 1950-1995.
+ Land Use Policy Vol. 20(1), 1-20.
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+ Haberl, H., Erb, K.-H., Krausmann, F., H. Adensam, N.B. Schulz,
+ 2003. Land-Use Change and Socioeconomic Metabolism in Austria, Part
+ II: Land-Use Scenarios for 2020. Land Use Policy Vol. 20(1), 21-39.
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# NEW ON OUR WEBSITE:
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# Project presentation CD-ROM „Rohstoff Landschaft“ available online!
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# www.iff.ac.at/socec/affil/rohstoff-landschaft/index.htm
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