IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter Nr. 23 – February 2011
CONTENTS
+ News
– Summer Semester 2011: Course information online
– NOW ONLINE: Download Publications
– Job vacancies: Senior scientist and Assistant
+ Upcoming Events
– IFF Lecture: Donald Worster, March 31
– 41. ZUG MiniSymposium: Heike Krause, Martin Mosser, March 23
+ Public Outreach (German only)
– Boserup conference 2010 in Standard
– Homo oecologicus in Standard
– Water issues in past, present and future in Ö1
+ Staff news
+ New publications
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+News
– Summer Semester 2011: 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
– NOW ONLINE: Download Publications
Preprints of many scientific articles by SEC members are now freely available for download at
http://uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/3932.htm.
We are glad to send reprints on request (please contact the respective corresponding author via email).
– 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 March 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_708.htm
– Job vacancy: Temporary replacement Senior Scientist “Environmental History”
The Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt is pleased to offer the position of Senior Scientist “Environmental History”at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna. We invite applications for the position of a Senior Scientist “Environmental History” (B1) starting in March 2011 and limited to one year.
Details at the official job announcement: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/career/inhalt/269_707.htm
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+ Upcoming Events
– IFF Lecture: Donald Worster, March, 31st, 18:00
Prof. Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of U.S. History, University of Kansas (U.S.) and Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany, one of the world’s leading environmental historians, has embarked on a new project. He investigates the history of the seminal, ‘Limits to Growth’: Abundance or Scarcity? The Limits to Growth Debate Revisited
The best selling environmental book in the postwar period was The Limits to Growth, by Donella and Dennis Meadows et al (1972). It touched off a firestorm of protests and rebuttals, for it called into question assumptions about the earth that had been made since Columbus discovered for Europe the New World. It seemed at the time that the economists and business interests effectively answered the book and that economic growth could continue without restraint. But with the vantage of nearly forty years it is now possible to see that the book‘s main argument has, if anything, survived and strengthened and that the book marked a critical turning point in modern history. Increasingly, the natural sciences have demonstrated the vulnerability of global systems to disturbance, so that now even many economists have begun to acknowledge the seriousness of environmental problems. Have we reached a new era – as called – as called for in the book – a time for a “new Copernican revolution?”
http://www.history.ku.edu/faculty/index2.shtml#worster
– 41st ZUG Minisymposium: Heike Krause, Martin Mosser, March 23
„Zur Umweltgeschichte der Wiener Donau: Beiträge der stadtarchäologischen Forschung“
Mag. Heike Krause und Mag. Martin Mosser, Stadtarchäologie Wien
IFF Wien, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien
Wednesday, 23. March 2011, 18.00 – 20.00
http://umweltgeschichte.uni-klu.ac.at/home.php
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+ Public Outreach / Media resonance (German only)
– Karin Krichmayr
Entwicklungsforscherin mit Weitblick
Der Standard Wissenschaft/Forschung Spezial, Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2010, Seite 14
http://derstandard.at/1292462387780/Ester-Boserup-Entwicklungsforscherin-mit-Weitblick
– Susanne Strnadl
Der Mensch, ein Sorgenkind
Der Standard Wissenschaft/Forschung Spezial, Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2010, Seite 14
http://derstandard.at/1292462376142/Der-Mensch-ein-Sorgenkind
– On January, 21st, Verena Winiwarter spoke at a public symposium of the Austrian Academy of Sciences about the environmental history of water. The slides are available at
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kioes/wasser.htm
On January, 20th, she was interviewed on public radio about water issues in past, present and future, the broadcast is available for download at:
http://apasfftp1.apa.at/oe1/programm/0000C05E.MP3
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+ Staff News
– Julia Steinberger started a lectureship in ecological economics at the Sustainability Research Institute of the University of Leeds in January. At the end of January, she participated in an „ideas sandpit“ of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and is now preparing proposals based on two successful project ideas! The first is on Multi-Utility Service Companies and their role in infrastructure integration and efficiency, the other is on more precise and effective infrastructure materials modelling.
– Alexander Bogner has accepted a call from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Technology Assessment. We wish him all the best for this new step in his career.
– Ulli Weisz spent two months as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra (October-December 2010). She was invited by Prof. Tony Capon from the National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH).
– Martin Schmid leaves the Institute of Social Ecology on March, 1st for a six- month senior fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) in Munich where he will work on his „Environmental History of the Danube 1500-1900“.
– Simone Gingrich was granted an „Award of Excellence 2010“ by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research for her dissertation „A social ecology of European industrialisation: energy, materials, carbon and the socio-ecological transition“. Congratulations!
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+ New Publications
Essl, Franz, Dullinger, Stefan, Rabitsch, Wolfgang, Hulme, P. E., Hülber, Karl, Jarosik, V., Kleinbauer, I., Krausmann, Fridolin, Kühn, Ingolf, Nentwig, Wolfgang, Vila, Montserrat, Genovesi, P., Gherardi, F., Desprez-Lusteau, A., Roques, A., and Pysek, Petr (2011): Socio-economic legacy yields an invasion debt. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(1), pp. 203-207.
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2010): Energy in Nature and Society. General Energetics of Complex Systems, by Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-262-69356-1 2008, 512 pp., (Paper). In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 14(6), pp. 980-981.
Gingrich, Simone, Kuskova, Petra, and Steinberger, Julia K. (2011): Long-term changes in CO2-emissions in Austria and Czechoslovakia – identifying the drivers of environmental pressures. In: Energy Policy 39(2), pp. 535-543.
Haberl, Helmut, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Martinez-Alier, Joan, and Winiwarter, Verena (2011): A socio-metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation. In: Sustainable Development 19(1), pp. 1-14.
Haberl, Helmut, Beringer, Tim, Bhattacharya, Sribas C., Erb, Karl-Heinz, and Hoogwijk, Monique (2010): The global technical potential of bio-energy in 2050 considering sustainability constraints. In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2(6), pp. 394-403.
Hoffmann, Richard C. and Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Making Land and Water Meet: Cycling of nutrients between fields and ponds in Pre-Modern Europe. In: Agricultural History 84(3), pp. 352-380.
Hutter, H-P., Kuni, M., Moshammer, H., Haas, W., Weisz, U., Niederkrotenthaler, T., Wallner, P. (2011): Anpassungsmaßnahmen zur Reduktion von Klimawandel-induzierten Gesundheitsrisiken in Österreich. Schwerpunkt Extremwetterereignisse. In: Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. Online First, January 2011. Springer Verlag
Krausmann, Fridolin (2010): Vom Solarzeitalter zur fossilen Energieversorgung. Der Stoffwechsel der Industriegesellschaft. In: Stiftung Brandenburger Tor (Ed.): Energie gleich Arbeit. Nachdenken über das, was die Welt in Bewegung hält Acht Essays zum Thema Energie. Berlin: Nicolai Verlag, pp. 22-28.
Mayer, Andreas (2010): Resource use and material flows in the Brazilian economy, 1960-2005. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 118).
Mirtl, Michael, Bahn, Michael, Battin, Tom, Borsdorf, Axel, Englisch, Michael, Gaube, Veronika, Grabherr, Georg, Gratzer, Georg, Kreiner, D., Haberl, Helmut, Richter, Andreas, Schindler, Stephan, Tappeiner, Ulrike, and Winiwarter, Verena (2010): LTER-Austria White Paper – „Next Generation LTER“ in Austria, On the status and orientation of process oriented ecosystem research, biodiversity and conservation research and socio-ecological research in Austria. LTER- Austria Series, Vol. 1. Vienna: LTER Austria.: http://www.lter-austria.at (available also in German)
Ribeiro de Oliveira, Rogerio and Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Toiling in Paradise: Knowledge Acquisition in the context of colonial agriculture in Brazil’s atlantic forest. In: Environment and History 16, pp. 483-508.
Scheidel, Arnim and Krausmann, Fridolin (2011): Diet, trade and land use: A socio-ecological analysis of the transformation of the olive oil system. In: Land Use Policy 28(1), pp. 47-56.
Schmid, Martin, Winiwarter, Verena, and Haidvogl, Gertrud (2010): Legacies from the past: The Danube’s riverine landscapes as socio-natural sites. In: Danube News: Bulletin of the International Association for Danube Research IAD 21, pp. 2-5.
Singh, Simron J. and Dudley, Nigel (2010): Ecosystem Services in Rural Areas and Natural Resource Management. In: The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity (TEEB). D2 for Local and Regional Policy Makers. Bonn: TEEB, pp. 83-104.
Singh, Simron J. and Ramunjam, R. V. (2010): Exploring ecological unequal exchange using land and labour appropriation: trade in the Nicobar Islands, 1880-2000. In: Hornborg, Alf (Ed.): International Trade and Environmental Justice: Toward a Global Political Ecology. New York: Nova Science, pp. 19-48.
Singh, Simron J. (2010): Vom Überfluss zur Knappheit. Handel und Geld auf den Nikobaren. Trade and Money in the Nicobar Islands). In: Polylog 23, pp. 17-43.
Steinberger, Julia K. and Roberts, J. T. (2010): From constraint to sufficiency: the decoupling of energy and carbon from human needs, 1975-2005. In: Ecological Economics 70(2), pp. 425-433.
Steinberger, Julia K. and Krausmann, Fridolin (2011): Material and energy productivity. In: Environmental Science and Technology 45(4), pp. 1169-1176.
Turner II, Billie L. and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2010): Ester Boserup: An interdisciplinary visionary relevant for sustainability. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(51), pp. 21963-21965.
Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Mahlers bodenlose Erde. In: Kosmos Österreich 36, pp. 13-17.
Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Rezension von Christof MAUCH, Christian PFISTER (Hg.), Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses. Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History. International Environmental History Publications of the German Historical Institute, Lanham MD 2009. In: Geschichte-Transnational , pp. 1-1.
Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Soil Concepts and Soil Amendments in Late Medieval Agricultural Literature. In: Avista Forum Journal.Medieval Technology, Science and Art.Kalamazoo Roundup , pp. 87-88.
Winiwarter, Verena (2010): Telling interactive stories: Animals and their remains in environmental history. In: Pluskowski, Aleksander G. et al. (Eds.): Bestial Mirrors – Using Animals to construct human Identities in medieval Europe. Wien: Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages, pp. 8-14.
Winiwarter, Verena (2010): The Art of Making the Earth Fruitful: Medieval and Early Modern Improvements of Soil Fertility. In: Bruce, Scott G. (Ed.): Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, Brill’s Series in the History of the Environment, pp. 93-116.
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