IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter Nr. 20 – September 2009

CONTENTS

+ News

– Job vacancy: Assistant Professor of Social Metabolism

– Special Section of Ecological Economics on HANPP

– Now online: Global Materials Extraction 1900-2005 Dataset

– New Book: Planet Austria

– Winter Semester 2009/10: Course information online

+ Upcoming Events

– World Resources Forum, Davos, September 2009

– IFF Lecture: Rudolf Stichweh, November 2009

+ Public Outreach

– Social Ecology in the Media

+ Staff news

– Awards and doctorate

– Visiting scientist

+ New publications

 

 

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+ News

 

– Job vacancy: Assistant Professor of Social Metabolism

The Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, part of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies at Alps-Adria University, invites applications for the position of an Assistant Professor of Social Metabolism (tenure track).

We are looking for an individual with a background in social sciences such as sociology, political science, anthropology, human geography and a broad perspective on social science theories and methods. We wish this candidate to be familiar with interdisciplinary fields such as human ecology, ecological economics, political ecology or industrial ecology, and open minded towards the natural sciences. Applicants should have experience with empirical research. We are seeking for a committed and creative person with intellectual curiosity, strong communicative skills and organizational talent, and enthusiasm for team work.

In case of equal qualification, female candidates will be preferred. Letters of application can be sent until 14^th of October, 2009.

Details at the official job announcement: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/career/inhalt/269_586.htm

 

– Special Section in Ecological Economics: HANPP

Analyzing the global human appropriation of net primary production – processes, trajectories, implications.

Guest editors: Erb, K.-H., Haberl, H. and Krausmann, F.

First articles are published online.

Watch out for data available online http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1088.htm

 

1. Erb, K.-H., Krausmann, F., Gaube, V., Gingrich, S., Bondeau, A., Fischer-Kowalski, M. and Haberl, H. Analyzing the global human appropriation of net primary production – processes, trajectories, implications. An introduction. – http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.07.001
2. Kastner, T. Trajectories in Human Domination of Ecosystems: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production in the Philippines throughout the 20th Century.
3. Musel, A. Human appropriation of net primary production in the United Kingdom, 1800 – 2000. Changes in society’s impact on ecological energy flows during the agrarian-industrial transition.
4. Schwarzlmüller, E. Human domination of ecosystem biomass flows in Spain: a HANPP time series, 1955-2003.
5. Kohlheb, N., Krausmann, F. Land use change, Biomass production and HANPP: The case of Hungary 1961-2005.
6. Lauk, C., and Erb, K.-H. Biomass consumed in global anthropogenic fires: patterns and processes.
7. Zika, M. and Erb, K.-H. The global loss of net primary production resulting from human-induced soil degradation in drylands.
8. O’Neill, D.W., and Abson D.J. To settle or protect? A global analysis of net primary production in parks and urban areas.
9. Erb, K.-H., Krausmann, F., Lucht, W., Haberl, H. Embodied HANPP: Mapping the spatial disconnect between global biomass production and consumption.

 

– Now online: Global Materials Extraction 1900-2005 dataset

Fridolin Krausmann and his team have quantified the growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century in the FWF funded project GLOMETRA – the global metabolic transition. The results are published in Ecological Economics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.05.007) and show that global materials use per year has increased from 7 billion tons to 60 billion tons in the last century. This dataset contains data on global materials extraction for the period 1900 to 2005 by main material groups. Mass flows are provided for biomass, fossil energy carriers, ores and industrial minerals and construction minerals.

Data are available online at: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1088.htm

 

– New Book „Planet Austria: Stones – Water – Life„

The national and international research programs of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have inspired the book project Planet Austria: Stein – Wasser – Leben (Planet Austria: Stones – Water – Life). The aim of this extensive volume is to present the broad spectrum of research being done at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in the fields of Alpine studies, geology, hydrology, and environmental and climate studies. In addition to textual descriptions, the volume also includes high-quality reproductions of photographs taken by one of the most famous photographers in Austria, Lois Lammerhuber. Helmut Haberl, Karlheinz Erb und Simone Gingrich are represented with their research projects on long term changes in Austria’s carbon metabolism and their effects on ecosystems.

Details: http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/6627-6

 

– Winter Semester 2009/10: 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: gabriela [dot] miechtner [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at

 

 

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+ Upcoming Events

 

– World Resources Forum, Davos, September 2009

An excellent occasion to draw attention to sustainable resource use in the context of the current economic crisis:

World Resources Forum (WRF) „Shaping the Future of Natural Resources” and the associated R’09 World Congress on „Resource Management and Technology for Material and Energy Efficiency“ will take place in Davos/Switzerland from September 14-16, 2009.

Dennis Meadows, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Timo Mäkelä, Anders Wijkman, and Helga Weisz are among the keynote speakers.

Details: http://www.worldresourcesforum.org and http://www.r2009.org/,

– IFF Lecture and Guest Professorship: Rudolf Stichweh

Prof. Rudolf Stichweh, rector of the University of Luceren, Switzerland, will visit the Institute of Social Ecology for a Guest Professorship on “Evolution and Ecology of Social Systems” this winter term. He will give a public IFF lecture during his visit in Vienna.

Details: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/3212.htm

 

 

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+ Public Outreach

 

Astrid Kuffner

Viele Wege führen zum Paradeiser

Der Standard, Wissenschaft /Forschung Spezial, 20./21. Mai 2009, Seite 21

http://derstandard.at/fs/1242316300714/Viele-Wege-fuehren-zum-Paradeiser

 

Christopher Le Coq

„We are already using a high proportion of biomass production in the ecosystem.” Interview with Karl-Heinz Erb

Scitizen, 2008

http://scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=14&idContribution=809

 

 

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+ Staff News

 

Congratulations! We are very proud of the following national and international awards for members of the Institute:

 

Veronika Gaube got her PhD in Social Ecology with a presentation on „Regionale Umsetzung des Nachhaltigkeitskonzeptes – eine methodische Herausforderung“ on Thursday, 7th of May, 2009.

 

Anke Schaffartzik graduated in Social and Human Ecology with her thesis on „Berechnung und Analyse des Ökologischen Fußabdrucks auf subnationaler Ebene am Beispiel der Steiermark 2003“.

 

Nina Eisenmenger received the dissertation award 2009 of the Privatstiftung Kärntner Sparkasse for her dissertation on “A Biophysical View on Trade and the International Division of Labour.”

 

Karlheinz Erb and Veronika Gaube got “Best Feedback” from students for their seminar on “Material- und Energieflüsse und nachhaltige Entwicklung“.

 

Anita Hipfinger received one of this year’s science awards of the Theodor Körner Fonds for her project “Regulierte Lebenswelten? Zum Verhältnis von Obrigkeit und Untertanen am Beispiel der Herrschaft Wilfersdorf in der Frühen Neuzeit.”

 

Simron Jit Singh received the Royal Anthropological Fellowship award in Urgent Anthropology for the year 2009 for his research on the Nicobar Islands.

 

Venkat Ramanujam, PhD student of Social Ecology gained a full-financed fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

 

We welcome Szu-Hua Wang as guest scientist. She is a Taiwanese PhD student at the Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, National Taipei University in Taipei. Her research focus is “Integrated Ecosystem Model and Agent-Based Model for Simulating Peri-Urban Land Use Change”. She will join our Institute until Apirl 2010 and participate in our research project on “Analyzing Global HANPP.”

 

 

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+ New Publications

Binder, Claudia, Steinberger, Julia K., Schmidt, Henrik, and Schmid, Alfons (2009): Sustainability Solution Space for the Swiss milk value added chain: Combing LCA data with socio-economic indicators. In: Nemecek, Thomas and Gaillard, Gérard (Eds.): Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on LCA in the Agri-Food Sector – Towards a sustainable management of the Food chain. November 12-14, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland. Zürich: Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, pp. 219-227.

Erb, Karl-Heinz, Haberl, Helmut, Gingrich, Simone, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2009): Integrated assessment of carbon in Austria 1830-2000 reveals strong feedbacks between socioeconomic and ecological drivers. In: GLP News 5, pp. 16-17.

Erb, Karl-Heinz, Haberl, Helmut, and Gingrich, Simone (2009): Kohlenstoff. In: Köck, Günter et al. (Eds.): Planet Austria. Wien: Edition Lammerhuber, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bd. 26, pp. 330-337.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, and Sieferle, Rolf Peter (2009). 12 Fragen an… Marina Fischer-Kowalski. GAIA 18 (3):190-191.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2009): Den Zusammenbruch von Zivilisationen konzeptualisieren? Plädoyer für eine sozialökologische Gesellschaftstheorie. In: GAIA 18(1), pp. 13-14.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Rotmans, Jan (2009): Conceptualizing, Observing and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions. In: Ecology and Society 14(2)3. – http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol4/iss2/art3

Gaube, Veronika (2009): Regionale Umsetzung des Nachhaltigkeitskonzeptes – eine methodische Herausforderung. Empirische Untersuchungen zu Landnutzung und nachhaltiger Entwicklung in Regionen Österreichs mit Hilfe von „Institutionenanalyse“ und „Integrierter Modellierung“. Dissertation, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Graz-Wien.

Giljum, Stefan and Eisenmenger, Nina (2008): North-south trade and the distribution of environmental goods and burdens: a biophysical perspective, Journal of Environment and Development 13(1), 73-100. In: Martinez-Alier, Joan and Roepke, Inge (Eds.): Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Volume I. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 383-410.

Haas, Willi, Reiter, Karl, Ertl, Sigrun, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Mayer, Roland, Ackermann, Mirjam, and Walz, Ariane (2009): Footprints, MaB Biosphärenpark Ötztal – Future/Past/Present. Endbericht an das MAB Nationalkomitee der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wien: IFF Soziale Ökologie

Haberl, Helmut (2008): 12 Questions to… Joan Martinéz-Alier. In: GAIA 17(4), pp. 334-335.

Haberl, Helmut, Plutzar, Christof, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gaube, Veronika, Pollheimer, Martin, and Schulz, Niels B. (2008): Human appropriation of net primary production as determinant of avifauna diversity in Austria. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 110, 119-31. In: Martinez-Alier, Joan and Roepke, Inge (Eds.): Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Volume I. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 323-335.

Haberl, Helmut, Weisz, Helga, Amann, Christof, Bondeau, Alberte, Eisenmenger, Nina, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2008): The Energetic Metabolism of the European Union and the United States: Decadal Energy Input Time-Series with an Emphasis on Biomass. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 10(4), pp. 151-171.

Haberl, Helmut (2008): Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy by Mark Jaccard. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 12(5-6), pp. 799-801.

Haberl, Helmut, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Martinez-Alier, Joan, and Winiwarter, Verena (2009): A sociometabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation. In: Sustainable Development online first.

Haberl, Helmut, Gaube, Veronika, Díaz-Delgado, Riccardo, Krauze, Kinga, Neuner, Angelika, Peterseil, Johannes, Singh, Simron J., and Vadineanu, Angheluta (2009): Towards an integrated model of socioeconomic biodiversity drivers, pressures and impacts. A feasibility study based on three European long-term socio-ecological research platforms. In: Ecological Economics 68(6), pp. 1797-1812.

Haberl, Helmut (2009): Bioenergie nachhaltig nutzen. – http://science.orf.at/science/news/154578

Krausmann, Fridolin, Gingrich, Simone, Eisenmenger, Nina, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Haberl, Helmut, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2009): Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century. In: Ecological Economics 68(10), pp. 2696-2705.

Le Toan, Thuy, Baltzer, Heiko, Paillou, P., Papathanassiou, Kostas, Plummer, S., Quegan, S, Rocca, F., Ulander, L., Saatchi, S. S., Shugart, H., Freeman, H., Erb, Karl-Heinz, Schaphoff, Sibyll, Lucht, Wolfgang, and Davidson, Malcolm (2008): Candidate Earth Explorer Core Mission: Biomass. Report for Assessment, November 2008. Nordwijk, The Netherlands: ESA Communication Production.

Lekan, Thomas, Brantz, Dorothee, Gißibl, Bernhard, Warde, Paul, Winiwarter, Verena, and Zeller, Thomas (2009): Forum: The Nature of German Environmental History. In: German History 27(1), pp. 113-130.

Morrison, Keith D. and Singh, Simron J. (2009): Adaptation and indigenous knowledge as a bridge to sustainability. In: Begossi, Albina and Lopes, Priscilla (Eds.): Current Trends in Human Ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 125-155.

Schaffartzik, Anke (2009): Berechnung und Analyse des Ökologischen Fußabdrucks auf subnationaler Ebene am Beispiel der Steiermark 2003. Master thesis, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Graz-Wien.

Schandl, Heinz, Poldy, Franzi, Turner, Graham, Measham, Thomas G., Walker, Daniel H., and Eisenmenger, Nina (2008): Australia’s Resource Use Trajectories. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 12(5/6), pp. 669-686.

Sedlacek, Sabine and Gaube, Veronika (2009): Regions on their way to sustainability: The role of institutions in fostering (sustainable) development at the regional level. In: Environment, Development and Sustainability online 13th Jan 2009.

Singh, Simron J. (2009): Complex disasters: the Nicobar Islands in the grip of humanitarian aid. In: Geographische Rundschau – International Edition 5(3), pp. 48-56.

Smetschka, Barbara, Gaube, Veronika, and Lutz, Juliana (2009): Integration der Genderperspektive im Nachhaltigkeitsdreieck mittels Zeitverwendung. In: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie 18(2), pp. 135-148.

Steinberger, Julia K. and Roberts, J. Timmons (2009): Across a Moving Threshold: energy, carbon and the efficiency of meeting global human development needs. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 114).

Steinberger, Julia K., Friot, Damien, Jolliet, Olivier, and Erkman, Suren (2009): A spatially explicit life cycle inventory of the global textile chain. In: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 14(5), pp. 443-455.

Wätzold, Frank, Haberl, Helmut, Svarstadt, Hanne, van Reeth, Wouter, and White Rehema (2009): Integrating knowledge from social and natural sciences for biodiversity management: the asymmetric information trap. Leipzig: Department Ökonomie.

Weisz, Helga (2008): Combining social metabolism and input-output analyses to account for ecologically unequal trade, in Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill and Joan Martinez-Alier (eds.), Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 289-306. In: Martinez-Alier, Joan and Roepke, Inge (Eds.): Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Volume I. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 427-444.

Weisz, Helga, Krausmann, Fridolin, Amann, Christof, Eisenmenger, Nina, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Hubacek, Klaus, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2008): The physical economy of the European Union: cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption, Ecological Economics 58, 676-98. In: Martinez-Alier, Joan and Roepke, Inge (Eds.): Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Volume I. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 300-322.

Winiwarter, Verena, Haidvogl, Gertrud, Knoll, Martin, and Schmid, Martin (2008): ESF Exploratory Workshop on Long Term Socio-Ecological Research of a European Watershed – Towards an Environmental History of the Danube’s Riverine Landscape (ENVIRDANUBE), Vienna, Austria, 20-24 February. Wien: IFF Soziale Ökologie

Winiwarter, Verena and Haberl, Helmut (2009): Verlorene an der Peripherie: Eine humanökologische Betrachtung von Joseph Roths Roman Das falsche Gewicht. In: Lughofer, Johann G. (Ed.): Im Prisma: Joseph Roths Romane. Wien: Edition Art Science, pp. 388-399.

Winiwarter, Verena (2009): Von der gemessenen zur gesellschaftlich bedeutenden Wissenschaft. Eine Utopie. In: Ehalt, Hubert C. et al. (Eds.): Kritik und Utopie. Positionen und Perspektiven. Wien, Berlin: Lit Verlag, pp. 438-441.

 

 

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