IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter No. 26 – July 2012

CONTENTS

+ News & RIO +20 Special

– Global Energy Assessment (GEA) Report presented in Rio

– Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5) launched in Rio

– UNCTAD Report urges Africa to avoid ‘grow now, clean up later’ approach

– Online platform “OpenScience4Sustainability” (German only)

– Rio+20: researchers and young people are taking stock

– Extinction debt of high-mountain plants in “Nature Climate Change”

+ Public Outreach (German only)

+ Staff news: open calls and congratulations

+ New publications

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We wish all friends, students, project and cooperation partners a fabulous summer!

All the best, Helmut Haberl

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+ NEWS & RIO +20 Special:

– Global Energy Assessment (GEA) Report presented in Rio

The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) was presented in Rio de Janeiro in June. The aim of this project which was coordinated by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), was to evaluate and summarize the current state of research on global energy issues in a policy relevant document. The GEA report comprises chapters on questions such as energy resources, climate-change mitigation, risks, scenarios as well as policy options and recommendations.

The Institute of Social Ecology (SEC) contributed to the three chapters on energy resources, trade-offs land and water and urban issues. SEC researchers involved were Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann, Christoph Plutzar, Julia Steinberger and Helga Weisz. GEA will be published as a book from Cambridge University Press which will become available in the course of July 2012.

IIASA press release: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/INF/PR/2012/2012-06-19.html

– Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5) launched in Rio

UNEP press release: “The fifth edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5), launched on the eve of the Rio+20 Summit, assessed 90 of the most-important environmental goals and objectives and found that significant progress had only been made in four. These are eliminating the production and use of substances that deplete the ozone layer, removal of lead from fuel, increasing access to improved water supplies and boosting research to reduce pollution of the marine environment.”

GEO-5 prominently quotes from research at the Institute of Social Ecology (SEC). Marina Fischer-Kowalski contributed as Scientific Peer-Reviewer.

The report features in various parts results from our database on global patterns and trends of material use in the last century by Krausmann et al. (Krausmann, F., Gingrich, S., Eisenmenger, N., Erb, K.H., Haberl, H. and Fischer-Kowalski, M. 2009. Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century. Ecological Economics 68, 2696–2705).

In the chapter “Land” a study on HANPP effects due to dryland degradation is discussed, which presents an innovative perspective on the important, but complex phenomenon of dryland degradation and desertification (Zika, M. and Erb, K.H. 2009. The global loss of net primary production resulting from humaninduced soil degradation in drylands. Ecological Economics 69, 310–318.)

Full report and materials: http://www.unep.org/geo/geo5.asp

– UNCTAD Report urges Africa to avoid ‘grow now, clean up later’ approach

UNCTAD press release: “Africa, a latecomer to establishing complex, modernized economies, should strive to do this in a way that uses the continent’s abundant natural resources in an efficient, “green” manner that both raises living standards and protects the environment, a new UNCTAD report urges. The Economic Development in Africa Report 2012, subtitled Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development in Africa, was released on June 13th, 2012. It focuses on the dilemma of accomplishing much-needed economic growth while protecting the environment.”

The Team Social Ecology has contributed substantially to this report with a commissioned report on HANPP in Africa and is cited as:

UNCTAD (2012a). Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production in Africa: Patterns, trajectories, processes and policy implications. Written by Fetzel T, Niedertscheider M, Erb K H, Gaube V, Gingrich H, Haberl H, Krausmann F, Lauk C and Plutzar C. Alpen-Adria University. Paper commissioned by UNCTAD. Geneva.

Find the report as free pdf at: http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=131

– Online platform “OpenScience4Sustainability” (German only)

Die Initiative „OpenScience4Sustainability”, kurz “OS4S”, wurde anlässlich des 20-jährigen Jubiläums der Rio Konferenz ins Leben gerufen. „OpenScience4Sustainability” ist eine Plattform, auf der Infos zum Thema Nachhaltigkeitsforschung angeboten werden. Im Vordergrund steht die Kommunikation zwischen Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit.

Neben Informationen zur UN Konferenz und Live Berichterstattung aus Rio, gibt es unter anderem eine digitale Galerie der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung mit Portraits von WissenschafterInnen. Interviews mit ForscherInnen des Instituts für Soziale Ökologie wie Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski und Verena Winiwarter sind nachzulesen.

Viel Vergnügen mit „OpenScience4Sustainability”: http://www.openscience4sustainability.at/

– Rio+20: researchers and young people are taking stock

To mark the 20th anniversary of the pioneering United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Federal Ministry of Research and Science will grant 365 young people the opportunity to gain insight into Austrian sustainability research. The four-week summer internships in Austrian research facilities are organised in the framework of the initiative “Rio+20 – Stocktaking by Researchers and Young People”. Together with scientists from prestigious research facilities, the pupils will learn more about successful and thrilling research results or product developments conforming to the objectives of Agenda 21.

Three pupils will visit the Institute of Social Ecology this summer and report on the research projects they find most interesting.

Details: http://www.youngscience.at/rioplus20/

– Extinction debt of high-mountain plants in “Nature Climate Change”

Quantitative estimates of the range loss of mountain plants under climate change have so far mostly relied on static geographical projections of species’ habitat shifts. In this paper a European research team used a hybrid model that combines such projections with simulations of demography and seed dispersal to forecast the climate-driven spatio-temporal dynamics of 150 high-mountain plant species across the European Alps. Alarmingly, species endemic to the Alps seem to face the highest range losses. These results caution against optimistic conclusions from moderate range size reductions observed during the twenty-first century as they are likely to belie more severe longer-term effects of climate warming on mountain plants.

Stefan Dullinger, Andreas Gattringer, Wilfried Thuiller, Dietmar Moser, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Antoine Guisan, Wolfgang Willner, Christoph Plutzar, Michael Leitner, Thomas Mang, Marco Caccianiga, Thomas Dirnböck, Siegrun Ertl, Anton Fischer, Jonathan Lenoir, Jens-Christian Svenning, Achilleas Psomas, Dirk R. Schmatz, Urban Silc, Pascal Vittoz, & Karl Hülber. Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change. Nature Climate Change. Published online 06 May 2012. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1514

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1514.html

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+ Public Outreach / Media resonance (German only)

Die Donau – Eine Sendung über die historische Lebensader der Stadt Wien
June 2012

Die Donau ist nicht nur schön und blau. Sie war über Jahrhunderte auch wild, unberechenbar und bedrohlich. Die Donau war auch immer schon ein vielfältiger und abwechslungsreicher Lebensraum – für Mensch und Tier. Ö1 Dimensionen von Wolfgang Slapansky mit starker Beteiligung der IFF (Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte am Institut für Soziale Ökologie) bereichtet über das derzeit laufende FWF-Projekt “ENVIEDAN – Umweltgeschichte der Wiener Donau 1500-1890”. Interview u. a. mit Projektleiterin Verena Winiwarter, Martin Schmid, Michael Neundlinger, Sylvia Gierlinger u. v. a.
Ö1 – Dimensionen
Montag, 25. Juni 2012, 19:05

Verena Winiwarter
Vom Gebären, Bilden und Ausbilden
Falter, heureka 25/12, Seite 3
Werner Reiter
Die vielen kleinen Bausteine nachhaltiger Lebensstile
Biorama Nr. 18, Mai 2012, Seite 73-74
Eva Linsinger und Edith Meinhart
Gefährlicher Wahnsinn Auto
Profil, Nr. 20, 14. Mai 2012, Seite 21

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+ Staff News: Open calls and Congratulations

Open call for a three year PhD position within EU project, see
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1.htm

Open call for a teaching administrator, see
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/career/inhalt/271_878.htm

Michael Neundlinger won research grant of the city of Vienna

Michael Neundlinger has won the „Research Grant“ awarded by the Cultural Department of Vienna (Förderungspreise der Stadt Wien – Kulturabteilung) due to his work on the Environmental History of the Viennese Sanitation System. Neundlinger and the SEC team (Fridolin Krausmann, Sylvia Gierlinger & Gudrun Pollack) have reconstructed grand phases of the development of Vienna´s Sanitation Regime from Roman to Modern Times. First results will be published in the internationally renowned series “A History of Water” (I.B. Tauris) in 2013.

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+ New Publications

Abadi, B., Gaube, V., and Shahvali, M. (2012): Agro-environmental systems and agent-based simulation: specific implications and an integrated baseline. In: Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 3(1), pp. 54-62

Coelho, S.T., Agbenyega, O., Agostini, A., Erb, K.-H., Haberl, H., Hoogwijk, M., Rattan, L., Dos Santos Lucon, O., Masera, O., Moreira, J.R., Björklund, G., Krausmann, F., Msangi, S:, and Plutzar, C. (2012). Land and Water: Linkages to Bionenergy. In: Gomez-Echeverri, L., Johansson, T.B., Nakicenovic, N. and Patwardhan, A. (Eds.), Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future. Laxenburg, Cambridge, UK: IIASA and Cambridge University Press, pp. 1459-1526

Erb, K.-H., Mayer, A., Kastner, T., Sallet, K.-E., and Haberl, H. (2012): The impact of Industrial Grain fed Livestock Production on Food Security:an extended literature review. Vienna: IFF-Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 136).

Erb, K.-H., Plutzar, C., and Haberl, H. (2012): Dependency of global primary bioenergy crop potentials in 2050 on food systems, yields, biodiversity conservation and political stability. In: Energy Policy 47, pp. 260-269.

Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Plutzar, C., Willner, W., and Rabitsch, W. (2011): Imprints of glacial history and current environment on correlations between endemic plant and invertebrate species richness. In: Journal of Biogeography 38(3), pp. 604-614.

Fetzel, T., Niedertscheider,M., Erb,K.-H., Gaube,V., Gingrich,S., Haberl,H., Krausmann,F., Lauk,C., and Plutzar,C. (2012): Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production in Africa: Patterns, trajectories, processes and policy implications. Paper commissioned by UNCTAD. Geneva: UNCTAD

Fischer-Kowalski, M., Haas,W., Wiedenhofer,D., Weisz,U., Pallua,I., Possanner,N., Behrens,A., Serio,G., Alessi,M., and Weis,E. (2012): Socio-ecological transitions: definition, dynamics and related global scenarios. Vienna, Brussels: Institute for Social Ecology – AAU, Centre for European Policy Studies

Grubler, A., Bai, X., Buettner, T., Dhakal, S., Fisk, D.J., Ichinose, T., Keirstead, J.E., Sammer, G., Satterthwaite, D., Schulz, N.B., Shah, N., Steinberger, J., and Weisz, H. (2012): Urban Energy Systems. In: Gomez-Echeverri, L. Johansson, T.B., Nakicenovic, N. and Patwardhan, A. (Eds.): Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future. Laxenburg, Cambridge, UK: IIASA and Cambridge University Press

Haberl, H., Steinberger, J., Plutzar, C., Erb, K.-H., Gaube, V., Gingrich, S., and Krausmann, F. (2012): Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators. In: Ecological Indicators 23, pp. 222-231.

Hauer, F., Gierlinger, S., Nagele, C., Albrecht, J., Uschmann, T., and Martsch, M. (2012): Die Wiener Verzehrungssteuer. Auswertung nach einzelnen Steuerposten (1830 – 1913). Vienna: IFF-Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 134).

Luyssaert, S., Abril, G., Andres, R., Bastviken, D., Bellassen, V., Bergamaschi, P., Bousquet, P., Chevallier, F., Ciais, P., Corazza, M., Dechow, R., Erb, K.-H., Etiope, G., Fortems-Cheiney, A., Grassi, G., Hartman, J., Jung, M., Lathiere, J., Lohila, A., Moosdorf, N., Njakou Djomo, S., Otto, J., Papale, D., Peters, W., Peylin, P., Raymond, P., Rödenbeck, C., Saarnio, S., Schulze, E. D., Szopa, S., Thompson, R., Verkerk, P. J., Vuichard, N., Wang, R., Wattenbach, M., and Zaehle, S. (2012): The European CO₂, CO, CH₄ and N₂O balance between 2001 and 2005. In: Biogeosciences Discussions 9(2), pp. 2005-2053.

Petridis, P. (2012): Perceptions, attitudes and involvement of local residents in the establishment ofa Samothraki Biosphere Reserve, Greece. In: eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research 4(1), pp. 59-63.

Rogner, H.-H., Aguilera, R. F., Archer, C. L., Bertani, R., Bhattacharya, S. C., Bryden, I., Charpentier, R. R., Dusseault, M. B., Gagnon, L., Goswami, Y., Haberl, H., Hoogwijk, M., Johnson, A., Odell, P., Wagner, H., Yakushev, V., Arent, D., Bryden, J., Krausmann, F., Schilling, C., and Shafiei, A. (2012): Energy Resources and Potentials. In: Gomez-Echeverri, L. Johansson, T.B., Nakicenovic, N. and Patwardhan, A. (Eds.): Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future. Laxenburg, Cambridge, UK: IIASA and Cambridge University Press, pp. 425-512.

Schmid, M. and Winiwarter, V. (2011): Umwelt Donau: Eine andere Geschichte. In: Der Donaulimes in Österreich (herausgegeben vom Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Projektleitung Andreas Schwarcz, Redaktion Sonja Jilek). Wien, pp. 32-35.

Schulze, E.-D., Körner, C., Law, B. E., Haberl, H., and Luyssaert, S. (2012): Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral. In: Global Change Biology – Bioenergy [online first: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01169.x.]

Singh, S. J. and Dudley, N. (2012): Ecosystem Services in Rural Areas and Natural Resource Management. In: Wittmer, H. and Gundimeda, H. (Eds.): The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity for Local and Regional Policy Makers. London: Routledge, Earthscan, TEEB – Publication series, pp. 81-104.

UNCTAD, Niedertscheider, M., Gingrich, S., and Erb, K.-H. (2012): Changes in land use in South Africa between 1961 and 2006: an integrated socio-ecological analysis based on the human appropriation of net primary production framework. In: Regional Environmental Change, [online first: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-012-0285-6].

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IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter No. 24 – August 2011

CONTENTS

+ News

– Job vacancy: Assistant “Social Metabolism”

– UNEP Report 2011

– Samothraki: Biosphere Reserve

– Winter Semester 2011/2012: Guest professors

+ Upcoming Events

– World Resources Forum 2011 in Davos

– td-conference 2011 in Berne

– 12. Austrian Climate Research Day in Vienna

+ Public Outreach (German only)

+ Staff news

+ New publications

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+News

– Job vacancy: Assistant “Social Metabolism”

The Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt is pleased to offer the position of Assistant “Social Metabolism” at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna. We invite applications for the position of Assistant of “Social Metabolism” (B1, 50%, with the possibility of full employment financed by project funds) starting in September 2011 and limited to four years.

The applicant will help to advance the understanding of interrelations in socio-ecological systems. He or she will contribute to research in social metabolism, modeling and scenario building in support of policy processes. We are looking for an individual with an interdisciplinary background (natural and social sciences) and experience in methods of industrial ecology. We are seeking a committed and creative person with intellectual curiosity, strong communicative skills, organizational talent and enthusiasm for team work.

Details at the official job announcement: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/career/inhalt/269_761.htm

– “Humanity Can and Must Do More with Less: UNEP experts warn: ‘Decouple’ resource consumption and economic growth rates”

By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled” from the rate of natural resource consumption, warns a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme.

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and International Resource Panel Co-Chair Ashok Khosla, together with lead authors Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Mark Swilling, launched the report 12 May 2011 at the 19th annual meetings of the Commission for Sustainable Development, UN Secretariat, New York.

The full report, “Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth,” is available at www.unep.org/resourcepanel/decoupling/

– Samothraki: Biosphere Reserve

Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Laz Xenidis and Simron J. Singh gladly announce that the municipality of the Island of Samothraki has submitted an application to UNESCO for becoming a Biosphere Reserve. This is an important milestone in a transdisciplinary project supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to create the first Biosphere Reserve in Greece. The Island of Samothraki is among the rare remaining examples of island natural beauty and rich biodiversity in the Aegean archipelago; most of its territory is mountainous, and there are numerous streams and waterfalls that flow all year round. Samothraki is also known for its rich archaeological heritage – the famous “Nike of Samothraki” is now exhibited in the Louvre, but the impressive remains of the “City of the Great Gods” where it came from attract many visitors. This project resulted from a collaborative effort of local NGOs, scientists and local administration directed at preserving the island from destruction by animal grazing and mass tourism, and seeking for a sustainable way of living for its inhabitants, which will be subject to a number of follow-up projects.

For pictures by a local photographer see http://samothrakisphotoblog.com/index.php?showimage=2661.

– Winter Semester 2011/2012: Guest professors

We are happy to announce two guest professors for the coming winter semester

An Environmental History of Fire

Geoff Cunfer, PhD; SE (1 SWS/2 ECTS)

Kick-off: 05.10.2011 from 14:00-15:00, blocked seminar: 19. Oct – 30. Nov 2011

Qualitative Approaches to Sustainability Research

in the Social Sciences

Henrike Rau, PhD & Dr. Ricca Edmondson; SE (1 SWS/2 ECTS)

Kick-off: 05.12.2011, blocked seminar: 5. Dec – 16. Dec 2011

Detailed information on course information can be found on our website in September: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/

For further information please contact: michael [dot] neundlinger [at] aau [dot] ac [dot] at

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+ Upcoming Events

– World Resources Forum, Davos, September 19-21, 2011

Shaping the Future of Natural Resources – Towards a Green Economy,
The World Resources Forum (WRF) is a science-based platform to exchange knowledge about the economic, political and environmental implications of global resource use. WRF promotes innovation for resource productivity by building bridges between researchers and policymakers, business, NGO’s and the public. Flagship activity is the bi-annual conference, held in Davos, Switzerland.

Marina Fischer-Kowalski will give a plenary talk on “Sociometabolic regimes, revolutions and transitions.“

Details: http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/program-overview

– td-conference 2011: Evaluation of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research

Berne, 14-16 September 2011

Workshop: Sustainability Sciences: Evaluating Strategies of Setting and Shifting Boundaries

Organizers: Willi Haas and Barbara Smetschka (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, SEC, Alpen-Adria University), Alexander Bogner (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Details: http://www.transdisciplinarity.ch/e/Conference/international/2011/

– 12. Austrian Climate Research Day (German only)

Forschung zu „Klima, Klimawandel, Auswirkungen und Anpassung“ in Österreich.

Zeit: Mittwoch, 21. September bis Donnerstag 22. September 2011

Ort: Exnerhaus der Universität für Bodenkultur, 1190 Wien, Peter Jordanstraße 82

Details: http://www.austroclim.at/index.php?id=klimatag2011

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+ Public Outreach / Media resonance (German only)

– Susanne Strnadl

Die Ökonomie als Organismus betrachtet

Der Standard, Wissenschaft/Forschung Spezial, Mittwoch, 29.Juni 2011, Seite 20

– Karin Krichmayr

Die Natur ist kein Handelspartner

Der Standard, Wissenschaft/Forschung Spezial, Mittwoch, 18.Mai 2011, Seite 30

– Josef Kirchengast

Vier Weltkriege, das Frühstück und ein Dorf in Oberösterreich

Der Standard, Crossover, Dienstag, 5.April 2011, Seite 8

– Sebastian Gilli

Hinter dir dein Fußabdruck

Der Standard, Kultur, Mittwoch, 30.März 2011, Seite 31

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+ Staff News

– Karlheinz Erb was elected junior member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) due to his ERC Starting grant.

– Marina Fischer-Kowalski was elected vice-president of the board of the European Society of Ecological Economics (ESEE).

– Marina Fischer-Kowalski has been coopted as a member of the ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant peer review panel for a third period.

– We welcome new team members Thomas Kastner (Human Ecology) and Christian Lauk (Social Ecology).

– Michael Neundlinger has finished his MA in Social Ecology with honours.

– Causing Ignition: Biofuels and Social Conflicts

Anke Schaffartzik was awarded a DocTeam fellowship for interdisciplinary teams by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for her PhD project on the potential of biofuels.

The potential to fuel future economies was ascribed to biofuels early in the public discourse. As of late, it seems that their spark ignites conflicts rather than engines.

Biofuels have been promoted as a solution to the multiple global crises of rising energy prices, climate change, and economic downturn. Internationally, economic powers such as the EU, the USA, Brazil, China, and India are determined to expand and develop the use of biofuels. Mandatory blending to motor fuels, most notably in the European Union, has created a strong demand for biofuels resulting in the emergence of a growing global market. Due to its strong impact on land use the production of biofuels is directly linked to cultural, ecological, economic, political, as well as social change.

– Prof. Geoff Cunfer has joined the Institute of Social Ecology as a visiting scientist from July to December 2011.

Prof. Cunfer is an environmental historian and Professor at the Department of History
and at the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He is investigating land use change and environmental change in the North American Great Planes region and links historical and ecological approaches in his work. In cooperation with Fridolin Krausmann he is currently engaged in building up a research network on “Sustainable farm systems: long-term socio-ecological metabolism in western agriculture”.

The “New York Times” issue (26^th of July 2011) includes an article about historical

GIS, including some discussion of Prof. Cunfers research about the history of the Dust

Bowl: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/geographic-information-systems-help-scholars-see-history.html

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+ New Publications

Bogner, Alexander, Gaube, Veronika, and Smetschka, Barbara (2011): Partizipative Modellierung. Beteiligungsexperimente in der sozialökologischen Forschung. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 36(2), pp. 74-97.

Eisenmenger, Nina, Schaffartzik, Anke, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Milota, Eva (2011): Ressourcennutzung in Österreich. Wien: Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2011): Analyzing sustainability transitions as a shift between socio-metabolic regimes. In: Environmental Innovation.and Societal.Transitions 1(1), pp. 152-159.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Mayer, Andreas, and Schaffartzik, Anke (2011): Zur sozialmetabolischen Transformation von Gesellschaft und Soziologie. In: Groß, Matthias (Ed.): Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 97-120.

Gaube, Veronika, Smetschka, Barbara and Lutz, Juliana (2011). Sozialkapital und Nachhaltigkeit am Beispiel transdisziplinär entwickelter Computermodelle. In: Stefan Vater, Wolfgang Kellner, Wolfgang Jütte (Hrsg.): Erwachsenenbildung und Sozialkapital (Studies in lifelong learning, Band 4). Berlin: Lit Verlag, pp. 133-143.

Gingrich, Simone (2011): Foreign trade and early industrialisation in the Habsburg Monarchy and the United Kingdom – Two extremes in comparison. In: Ecological Economics 70(7), pp. 1280-1288.

Gierlinger, Sylvia and Krausmann, Fridolin (2011): The physical economy of the United States of America: Extraction, trade and consumption of materials from 1870 to 2005. In: Krausmann, Fridolin (Ed.): The socio-metabolic transition.Long term historical trends and patternsin global material and energy. Social Ecology Working Paper 131. Vienna: IFF-Social Ecology, Social Ecology Working Paper

Haberl, Helmut (2011): Feeding & fueling the 9 billion – sustainably. In: Options Summer 2011, pp. 8-9.

Haberl, Helmut and Erb, Karl-Heinz (2011): Feeding and fuelling the world 2050 – a new perspective on the food versus fuel debate. In: GLP News 7, pp. 5-6.

Jirsa, Franz and Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Eingeweidewürmer in Galens Schriften. Intestinal Helminths in the works of Galen. In: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift 122(1), pp. 14-18.

Kastner, Thomas and Nonhebel, Sanderine (2010): Changes in land requirements for food in the Philippines: A historical analysis. In: Land Use Policy 27(3), pp. 853-863.

Kastner, Thomas, Erb, Karl-Heinz, and Nonhebel, Sanderine (2011): International wood trade and forest change: a global analysis. In: Global Environmental Change 21, pp. 947-956.

Kastner, Thomas, Kastner, Michael, and Nonhebel, Sanderine (2011): Tracing distant environmental impacts of agricultural products from a consumer perspective. In: Ecological Economics 70(6), pp. 1032-1040.

Krausmann, Fridolin (ed.) (2011): The socio-metabolic transition.Long term historical trends and patterns in global material and energy use. Vienna: IFF-Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 131).

Krausmann, Fridolin (2011): The global metabolic transition: a historical overview. In: Krausmann, Fridolin (Ed.): The socio-metabolic transition.Long term historical trends and patternsin global material and energy. Social Ecology Working Paper 131. Vienna: IFF-Social Ecology, Social Ecology Working Paper, pp. 74-102.

Krausmann, Fridolin, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Schaffartzik, Anke, Steinberger, Julia K., Eisenmenger, Nina, and Weisz, Ulli (2011): Trends and Developments of the Use of Natural Resources in the European Union. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 123).

Krausmann, Fridolin, Gingrich, Simone, and Nourbakhch-Sabet, Reza (2011): The metabolic transition in Japan: A material flow account for the period 1878 to 2005. In: Krausmann, Fridolin (Ed.): The socio-metabolic transition.Long term historical trends and patternsin global material and energy. Social Ecology Working Paper 131. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology, pp. 4-23.

Milota, Eva, Schaffartzik, Anke, and Eisenmenger, Nina (2011): Ressourcendaten – Verbesserung des statistischen Datenmaterials im Bereich natürliche Ressourcen. Projektbericht. Wien: Statistik Austria

Schaffartzik, Anke (2011): A Toe in America, a Heel in Asia? A Discussion of the Applicability of the Ecological Footprint to International Trade. In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 26(4), pp. 89-110.

Singh, Simron J. (2011): Introduction: The “nature” of development studies. In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 26(4), pp. 4-13.

Singh, Simron J. and Köhler, Bettina (eds.) (2011): Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (JEP) [Austrian Journal for Development Studies]: The “nature” of development studies. An ecological perspective on uneven development. Vienna: Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik an den österreichischen Universitäten26(4).

Singh, Simron J. and Haberl, Helmut (2011): Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) across Temporal and Spatial Scales. In: GLP News 7, pp. 15-16.

Steinberger, Julia K. and Krausmann, Fridolin (2010): What do economic resource productivities measure? In: Proceedings of the International Society for Ecological Economics conference: Advancing sustainability in a time of crisis, 22-25 August 2010, Oldenburg – Bremen, Germany. Oldenburg: ISEE, pp. 1-22.

UNEP (2011): Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth. A Report of the Working Group on Decoupling to the International Resource Use Panel. Fischer-Kowalski, M., Swilling, M., Weizsäcker, E.U., Ren, Y., Moriguchi, Y., Crane, W., Krausmann, F., Eisenmenger, N., Giljum, S., Hennicke, P., Romero Lankao, P., Siriban Manalang, A. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Singh, Simron J., Krausmann, Fridolin, Gingrich, Simone, Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl-Heinz, and Lanz, Peter (2011): India’s biophysical economy, 1961 – 2008. Sustainability in a national and global context. In: Krausmann, Fridolin (Ed.): The socio-metabolic transition.Long term historical trends and patternsin global material and energy. Social Ecology Working Paper 131. Vienna: IFF-Social Ecology, Social Ecology Working Paper, pp. 50-73.

Virgl, Christoph (2011): Protest in der Weltgesellschaft. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag

Weisz, Ulli, Gingrich, Simone, Winiwarter, Verena, Radits, Franz, Soukup-Altrichter, Katharina, Schmied, Christopher, Spranz, Astrid, Antic Aleksandar, Bosina, Christine, Ecker, Irene, Kalla, Maximilian J., Petrin, Walter, and Steinkellner, Gudrun (2011): Schüler(innen) auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln unserer Umweltprobleme. Umwelthistorische Forschung in technischen Schulen als Beitrag zur Bildung für nachhahaltige Entwicklung. In: GAIA 20(2), pp. 122-128.

Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Abordagens sobre a História Ambiental: um guia de campo para os seus conceitos. In: Abordagens Geográficas 1(1), pp. 1-21.

Winiwarter, Verena (2011): Rezension von Aloys Winterling (Hg.), Historische Anthropologie. (Basistexte 1, ed. Winterling), Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2006, 301 S., in: 2, 295-297.

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IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter No. 22 – October 2010

CONTENTS

+ News

– Winter Semester 2009/10: Course information online

– Sustainability Studies: online

– ERC Starting Grant

– FP 7 project: Volante

– Rio +20

+ Upcoming Events

– Ester Boserup conference 2010, Vienna

– Alter Net conference 2010, Vienna

– CFA: ISIE 2011, Berkeley

– ZUG MiniSymposium, Vienna

+ Public Outreach

– START

– IPCC

– NKH

+ Staff news

+ New publications

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– Winter Semester 2010/11: 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: michael [dot] neundlinger [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at

– www.sustainabilitystudies.at: New website online!

Society is facing multiple environmental challenges, climate change and global change as most demanding, this raises the need for scientific expertise in the field of Sustainability Studies. www.sustainabiliystudies.at is a platform designed to bridge scientific and institutional borders and publicize different courses within this field of study in Vienna.

Safe the date: Kick-off meeting on January 19th, 2011 at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna!

– ERC Starting Grant for Karlheinz Erb

Karlheinz Erb won an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant. The highly competitive Starting grants are awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) to research talents with proven potential and are aimed to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe. The research grant for the research project LUISE (“An integrated socioecological approach to land-use intensity: Analyzing and mapping biophysical stocks/flows and their socioeconomic drivers”) provides the excellent opportunity to establish an interdisciplinary research team and to contribute significantly to the field of global land-use research over the next 5-years.

– New EU FP 7 project: VOLANTE

VOLANTE aims to develop a new European land management paradigm, providing an integrated conceptual and operational platform which allows policy makers to develop pro-active and context-sensitive solutions to the challenges for the future, rather than to react on largely autonomous external land systems developments. Objective of VOLANTE is to provide European policy and land management with critical pathways defining the band width of possible land management policies for future European land use. Policy options will therefore be identified in time and space and their consequences in terms of states of the land system (provisioning of ecosystem goods and services) will be evaluated, leading to a ROADMAP FOR FUTURE LAND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE. SEC is in member of the core coordination team of VOLANTE, with Karheinz Erb acting as a work-package leader and Helmut Haberl as work module leader.

– “PREMISES FOR A NEW ECONOMY: AN AGENDA FOR RIO + 20” co-signed by Marina Fischer-Kowalski and colleagues

Joint statement prepared by Stephen Marglin and signed by many participants of the workshop “The challenge of sustainability: towards Rio+20”, organized by the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development on May 8-10, 2010 in New York can be found at:

www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_sdkp/sdkp_pdf/sdkp_workshop_0510/joint_statement.pdf

http://www.euroecolecon.org/newsletter-autumn10.htm

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+ Upcoming Events

– Ester Boserup Conference 2010 – A Centennial Tribute

Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment

From November 15th to 17th, 2010, the Institute of Social Ecology will bring together numerous international researchers in Vienna to explore “Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment” during the Ester Boserup Conference. A forthcoming retrospective of Boserup’s life and work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by B. L. Turner II and Marina Fischer-Kowalski is a sign of the high-profile attention this conference is receiving.

We cordially invite you to participate in the Ester Boserup Conference and to join us in discussing the legacy of one of the pioneers of modern sustainability sciences. The detailed conference programme, access to the registration tool and further useful information are available at www.boserup-conference.org.

– Alternet Conference 2010 in Vienna

ALTER-Net conference “Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: what is the link between the two?” will be held at Palais Clam-Gallas of the Vienna French Cultural Institute, Vienna, 3 & 4 November 2010. Prof. Verena Winiwarter, Dean of IFF, will be giving a keynote, while Prof. Helmut Haberl and Dr. Simron Jit Singh will hold plenary presentations. Participation is open and gratis. More information: www.alter-net.info

– Call for Abstracts open: ISIE 2011

The International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) will hold its 6th International Conference (ISIE 2011) between June 7 and 10, 2011 in Berkeley, California.

For more information, visit: http://isie2011.berkeley.edu

– 39. ZUG Minisymposium:: Tait Keller

“Great War, Mighty Mountain: The Environmental Legacy of the First World War in the Alps”

Dr. Tait Keller, Rhodes College, Department of History, Memphis, USA

IFF Vienna, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien

Wednesday, 27. Oktober 2010, 18:00-20.00

Details: http://www.iff.ac.at/umweltgeschichte/

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+ Public Outreach / Media resonance (selection, German only)

– IPCC: Klimarat stellt neue Expertenrunde auf

Der Standard, Wirtschaft, 10./11. Juli 2010, Seite 17

http://derstandard.at/1277337800292/13-aus-Oesterreich-Klimarat-stellt-neue-Expertenrunde-auf

– ERC-Starting-Grant an Kärntner Sozialökologen

Der Standard, Wissenschaft Spezial, 25. August, Seite 15

http://derstandard.at/1282273514645/Namen

– www.nachhaltigkeit.at

In spring 2010 the project series “the sustainable hospital” was elected as “flagship innovation and dissemination project” by an international Fabrik der Zukunft jury. In August 2010 the project website www.das-nachhaltige-krankenhaus.at became website of the week on the Austrian sustainability internetportal www.nachhaltigkeit.at.

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+ Staff News

– Alexander Bogner has successfully completed his “habilitation” in sociology with a presentation on “Die Ethisierung von Wissenschaft und Technik. Studien zu Expertise, Partizipation und Politik” at the University of Vienna. Congratulations!

– Karlheinz Erb was nominated to act as member of the scientific steering committee (SSC) of the Global Land Project (GLP). The Global Land Project is a joint research project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), and represents the international research framework for land systems research. http://www.globallandproject.org/index.shtml

– Martin Schmid has been invited as Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum, where he will work on the environmental history of the Danube since 1500 during his stay from March to August 2011.

– We welcome 3 international PhD and 2 Erasmus students for this winter semester:

Juan Infante Amate (University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain),

Lluís Parcerisas Benedé (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain),

Oana Musceleanu (University of Bucharest, Romania),

Jitka Straková (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic) and

Radka Stružková (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic).

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+ New Publications

Haidvogl, Gertrud and Gingrich, Simone (2010): Wasserstraße Donau: Transport und Handel im Machland und auf der Donau im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. In: Winiwarter, Verena and Schmid, Martin (Eds.): Umwelt Donau: Eine andere Geschichte. Katalog zur Ausstellung des Niederösterreichischen Landesarchivs im ehemaligen Pfarrhof in Ardagger Markt. Sankt Pölten: NÖ Institut für Landeskunde, pp. 91-103.

Krausmann, Fridolin and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2010): Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse: Globale Transformationen der Energie- und Materialflüsse. In: Sieder, Reinhard and Langthaler, Ernst (Eds.): Globalgeschichte 1800-2010. Wien: Böhlau, pp. 38-66.

Marglin, Stephen, Ackermann, Frank, Barber, Lois, Brown, Peter, Costanza, Robert, Ekins, Paul, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Göpel, Maja, Jackson, Tim, Khosla, Ashok, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Raskin, Paul, Rees, William, Sachs, Wolfgang, Schor, Juliet B., Speth, Gus, Victor, Peter A., and Weizsäcker, Ernst U. v. (2010): Premises for a new economy: an agenda for Rio +20. Joint statement at “The Challenge of Sustainability: A Workshop in Preparation for Rio+20”. 8 – 10 May 2010. New York. United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

Schmid, Martin A. (2010): Herrschaft und Kolonisierung von Natur: Ein umwelthistorischer Versuch zur Integration von Materiellem und Symbolischem. In: Burger, Paul et al. (Eds.): Macht, Recht und Natur: Mensch-Natur Beziehungen im Spannungsfeld ihrer rechtlichen, sozialen, ökonomischen, historischen und wissenschaftlichen Konstituiertheit. Basel: Edition Gesowip, pp. 93-118.

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Gaube, Veronika, Grünbühel, Clemens M., Lisievici, P., Lutz, Juliana, Matthews, Robin, Mirtl, Michael, Vadineanu, Angheluta, and Wildenberg, Martin (2010): Conceptualising Long-Term Socio-ecological Research (LTSER): Integrating the Social Dimension. In: Müller, Felix et al. (Eds.): Long-Term Ecological Research, Between Theory and Application. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, pp. 377-398.

Warr, Benjamin, Ayres, Robert U., Eisenmenger, Nina, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Schandl, Heinz (2010): Energy use and economic development: A comparative analysis of useful work supply in Austria, Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA during 100 years of economic growth. In: Ecological Economics 69(10), pp. 1904-1917.

Weisz, Helga and Steinberger, Julia K. (2010): Reducing energy and materials flows in cities. In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2(3), pp. 185-192.

Winiwarter, Verena, Schmid, Martin (Eds.) (2010): Umwelt Donau: Eine andere Geschichte. Katalog zur Ausstellung des Niederösterreichischen Landesarchivs im ehemaligen Pfarrhof in Ardagger Markt. Sankt Pölten: NÖ Institut für Landeskunde

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IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter No. 21 – June 2010

CONTENTS

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+ Upcoming Events

+ Public Outreach

+ Staff news

+ New publications

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Call for Paper – International Ester Boserup Conference 2010

From November 15th – 17th, 2010, the Institute of Social Ecology will host the International Ester Boserup Conference. For all those who want to participate but have not yet submitted an abstract, there is good news: The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to July 12, 2010!

Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial of her birth. The international Boserup conference “Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment” wishes to pay tribute to her work and to her intellectual heritage.

The detailed conference call as well as session abstracts and further information are available at http://www.boserup-conference.org

UN Workshop: RIO 20+

THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABILITY:

A WORKSHOP IN PREPARATION FOR RIO + 20

NEW YORK, MAY 8-10, 2010

2 UN PLAZA, NEW YORK NY 10017

Marina Fischer-Kowalski gave her talk “The world economy’s use of natural resources: history, dynamics, drivers and future perspectives” on May 8^th, 2010.

Find the final statement of the workshop at:

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_sdkp/sdkp_pdf/sdkp_workshop_0510/joint_statement.pdf

Helmut Haberl invited as IPCC lead author

Helmut Haberl was invited as ‘lead author’ for the IPCC’s 5^th assessment report scheduled for 2014. He will be part of the Working Group III (Adaptation and Mitigation), chapter 11 ‘ Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses’.

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GLP 2010 Open Science Meeting

The Global Land Project (GLP) is pleased to announce the GLP 2010 Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM), to be held 17-19 October 2010 at Arizona State University. This Meeting is organized in close cooperation with IHDP’s Urbanization and Global Environmental Change project (UGEC). UGEC will hold its 1st International Science and Practice Conference from the 15-17 October, with the 17 October organized jointly with GLP.

The aim of the GLP OSM on ‘Land Systems, Global Change and Sustainability’ is to bring together large parts of the international research community working on land change issues, showcase the width and scope of ongoing research, help build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field, inspire new research and facilitate review, theory building and extrapolation.

Please visit: http://www.glp2010.org/

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Helmut Haberl’s view on Bioenergy was quoted in an article in NewScientist:

Andy Coghlan

Intensive farming „massively slowed“ global warming

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19042-intensive-farming-massively-slowed-global-warming.html

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We welcome Dr. Alexander Bogner, a sociologist and STS expert, as new member of our team.

Congratulations:

Simone Gingrich graduated with a PhD in Social Ecology with a presentation on „A social ecology of European industrialisation: energy, materials, carbon and the socio-ecological transition”, 11^th June 2010.

Christoph Plutzar graduated with a PhD in Social Ecology with a presentation on „Biodiversität und Gesellschaft: Mensch-Natur-Interaktionen auf unterschiedlichen maßstäblichen Ebenen“ on Thursday, 17^th June 2010.

Christoph Virgl graduated with a PhD in Political Sciences with a presentation on „Protest in der Weltgesellschaft“ on Friday, 18^th June 2010.

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+ New Publications 2010

Binder, Claudia R., Feola, Giuseppe, and Steinberger, Julia K. (2010): Considering the normative, systemic and procedural dimensions in indicator-based sustainability assessments in agriculture. In: Environmental Impact Assessment Review 30, pp. 71-81.

Cunfer, G. and Krausmann, Fridolin (2010): Sustaining soil fertility. Agricultural practice in the old and new worlds. In: Global Environment 4, pp. 9-43.

Erb, Karl-Heinz and Gingrich, Simone (2010): Die Industrialisierung der Landschaft. Der österreichische Kohlenstoffhaushalt in Gesellschaft und Natur 1830-2000. In: Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur (mit Geographie) 54(2), pp. 134-145.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Steinberger, Julia, and Ayres, Robert U. (2010): Towards a low carbon society: Setting targets for a reduction of global resource use. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 115).

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Singh, Simron Jit, Ringhofer, Lisa, Grünbühel, Clemens M., Lauk, Christian, and Remesch, Alexander (2010): Sociometabolic regimes in indigenous communities and the crucial role of working time: A comparision of case studies. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 121).

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Steinberger, Julia K. (2010): Social Metabolism and hybrid structures

Gavrilova, Olga, Jonas, Matthias, Erb, Karl-Heinz, and Haberl, Helmut (2010): International trade and Austria’s livestock system: direct and hidden carbon emission flows associated with production and consumption of products. In: Ecological Economics 69, pp. 920-929.

Haberl, Helmut and Erb, Karl-Heinz (2010): Global HANPP – Processes, Trajectories and Application. In: GLP News 6, pp. 19-20.

Kennedy, Christopher, Steinberger, Julia K., Gasson, Barrie, Hansen, Yvonne, Hillman, Tim, Havranek, Miroslav, Pataki, Diane E., Phdungsilp, Aumnad, Ramaswami, Anuradha, and Villalba Mendez, Gara (2010): Methodology for inventorying greenhouse gas emissions from global cities. In: Energy Policy 38(9), pp. 4828-4837.

Krausmann, Fridolin, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, and Schandl, Heinz (2010): Out of the frying pan into the fire: Industrialization as a socio-ecological transition process. In: McNeill, John R. et al. (Eds.): Environmental History: As if Nature Existed. Ecological Economics and Human Well-Being. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 26-48.

Krausmann, Fridolin and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2010): Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse: Energiequellen und die globale Transformation des gesellschaftlichen Stoffwechsels. Wien: IFF-Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 117).

Sedlacek, Sabine and Gaube, Veronika (2010): Regions on their way to sustainability: The role of institutions in fostering (sustainable) development at the regional level. In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 12(1), pp. 117-134.

Singh, Simron Jit, Ringhofer, Lisa, Haas, Willi, Krausmann, Fridolin, Lauk, Christian, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2010): Local Studies Manual: A researcher’s guide for investigating the social metabolism of rural systems. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 120).

Steinberger, Julia K., Krausmann, Fridolin, and Eisenmenger, Nina (2010): Global patterns of material use: a socioeconomic and geophysical analysis. In: Ecological Economics 69(5), pp. 1148-1158.

Swilling, Mark and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2010): Decoupling and Sustainabel Resource Management: Scoping the challenges. Paris: UNEP International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management

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