IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter Nr. 12 – January 2006

We wish you all a happy and successful New Year 2006

 

CONTENTS

+ Upcoming Events:

“Physique Sociale” Symposium, 14 January 2006

“Social Metabolism and Ecological Engineering” Workshop, February 2006

“Dematerialization across scales” ConAccount Conference, September 2006

+ New Publication

The Nicobar Islands

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+ Upcoming Events:

 

The IFF-Institute for Social Ecology and Klagenfurt University are pleased to invite you to the symposium

„Physique sociale“: Marina Fischer-Kowalski and the formation of Social Ecology”

on Saturday, 14 January 2006, 14-17h

Heiligenkreuzerhof, 1010 Vienna

In 1987 Univ. Prof. Dr. Marina Fischer-Kowalski initiated a new research programme at the IFF in Vienna, starting as a one-woman group. The goal she had in mind was quite unfamiliar to both natural and social science communities in those days. Her vision was to understand the physical interrelations between social and natural systems in a way which would eventually allow the forging of paths towards sustainable social development. This would require nothing less than a new theory of society, a „physique sociale,“ and a joint effort by researchers on both sides of the „great divide.“

Today Marina’s vision has developed into the research area of social ecology, recognized among sustainability sciences around the world, and an institute of some 20 researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds. On the occasion of Marina’s „big 0“ birthday we  have asked colleagues to express their personal views on the history, the significance and the prospects of social ecology.

 

The Institute of Social Ecology of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF), Klagenfurt University, Austria, and the Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT), Japan

organize a joint workshop on

“Social Metabolism and Ecological Engineering”

on February 5-6, 2005-12-28

at the IFF-Vienna, Schottenfeldgasse 29

 

ConAccount conference 2006! SAVE THE DATE!

The tradition of bi-annual ConAccount conferences will in 2006 be continued by a meeting in Vienna September 13-14, 2006, Vienna  Austria at IFF.

Theme: “dematerialization across scales: measurement, empirical evidence, future options”

Back to back with a policy dialogue “dematerialization why and how?”

September 15, 2006

Conference chairs: Helga Weisz, Heinz Schandl, Paul H. Brunner, Helmut Rechberger

Further details will soon be available on

http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/conaccount2006

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+ New Publication

 

Singh, Simron Jit (2005). The Nicobar Islands. Cultural Choices in the Aftermath of the Tsunami. Wien: Czernin Verlag.

“The Nicobar Islands” by Simron Jit Singh, published by Oliver Lehmann, is a first extensive collection of photographs showing the every day life and rituals of the Nicobarese prior to the Tsunami. It also gives insights into the living conditions the Nicobarese have to face after the destruction of the Tsunami. The Austrian President Heinz Fischer handed over the newly published book to a group of Nicobarese leaders during their stay in Austria in September 2005.

 

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