CONTENTS
+ News
– Verena Winiwarter is “Scientist of the Year 2013”
– Habilitationsvortrag von Martin Schmid
– Job reminder: Full Professor position at the Institute of Social Ecology
– Summer term 2014: Course information online
– Guest Professors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn and Prof. Richard Tucker,
– New journal: Anthropocene Review (Sage), co-edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski
– Regional Environmental Change co-editor: Helmut Haberl
– NCC article: Efforts to curb climate change require greater emphasis on livestock
– PlosOne article: A wake-up call about the economic reality of a green society
– World Social Science Report 2013
– Leaping over disciplinary shadows
– AAU and Humboldt University join forces
+ Sustainability events
– 12.3.2014: FWF Am Puls: Climate Change and Politics
– ’The Green Economy’
+ Research projects
– Erasmus Intensive Programme “SUSAKI
– Milestone in WWWforEurope
– EU project: ASOREE
– Marie Curie Grant: Water and Transition
– UNEP: Global Trade in Natural Resources
+ Public outreach / Media resonance
+ Staff news
+ New publications
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+ News

 

CONGRATULATIONS: Verena Winiwarter is “Scientist of the Year 2013”!
Environmental Historian Verena Winiwarter was elected by the Club of Education- and Science Journalists for “Scientist of the Year 2013”.
For more information: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/main/inhalt/uninews_42759.htm
For all media resonance on Verena Winiwarter as Scientist of the Year 2013, please visit:
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/3602.htm
Habilitationsvortrag von Martin Schmid: Umweltgeschichte als Verwandlung sozio-naturaler Schauplätze: Die Donau im Vergleich zu anderen Fluss-Umwelt-Geschichten
Habilitationsvortrag Dr. Martin Schmid,
Thursday, 20.2.2014, 14:00, IFF Wien, Schottenfeldgasse 29, Seminarraum 6 (6. Stock)

 

Job reminder: Full Professor position at the Institute of Social Ecology
The Institute of Social Ecology at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies & Continuing Education (IFF) of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Vienna campus) announces a full time position of a Full Professor of Social Ecology in accordance with Austrian university law (§ 98 Universitätsgesetz). The position is available as of October 1, 2014 and limited to an employment period of five years. The position can be converted into a permanent position afterwards. Place of work is the Vienna campus of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Deadline of applications: 26th February 2014.
Job description in English: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/career/inhalt/269_1051.htm

 

Summer term 2014: Course information online
Detailed information can be found on our website: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/downloads/KoVo-web-SS14.pdf
For further information please contact: mirjam [dot] weber [at] aau [dot] at

 

Guest Professors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn and Prof. Richard Tucker

Univ. Prof. Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn (University of Bath) has authored and edited several books as well as many journal articles on issues of social movements, Green Parties, socio-political theory and environmental policy. Course „Nachhaltigkeit und Demokratie“
https://campus.aau.at/studien/lvkarte.jsp?sprache_nr=35&rlvkey=78659

Prof. Richard Tucker (University of Michigan) is active in the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), where he was program chairman for the national conference in 2011, and is a member of the editorial board of its journal, Environmental History since 2006. In recent years he has concentrated on the global history of the environmental consequences of warfare and militarization; he is coordinator of its international research network. Course „Warfare and Environment through History“
https://campus.aau.at/studien/lvkarte.jsp?sprache_nr=35&rlvkey=77651

 

New journal: Anthropocene Review
Marina Fischer-Kowalski is Co-editor in the new SAGE Journal Anthropocene Review, and Author in the first Volume (presumably April 2014, online now)
The Anthropocene Review is a trans-disciplinary journal issued 3 times per year, bringing together peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of research pertaining to the Anthropocene, from earth and environmental sciences, social sciences, material sciences, and humanities. The journal provides a significant opportunity to communicate key scientific work to a wider audience.
For more information: http://ANR.sagepub.com/; http://anthropocenerev.blogspot.co.uk/
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Pallua, Irene 2014. A socio-metabolic reading of the Anthropocene: modes of subsistence, population size, and human impact on Earth. The Anthropocene Review 1/2014 (online first) http://anr.sagepub.com/content/early/recent
DOI:10.1177/2053019613518033

 

Regional Environmental Change editor: Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl has been appointed as senior handling editor of Regional Environmental Change (Springer; editor-in-chief: Wolfgang Cramer)
Environmental change is accelerating worldwide, posing significant challenges for humanity. Solutions are needed at the regional level, where physical features of the landscape, biological systems, and human institutions interact. The goal of Regional Environmental Change is to publish scientific research and opinion papers that improve our understanding of the extent of these changes, their causes, their impacts on people, and the options for society to respond. “Regional” refers to the full range of scales between local and global, including regions defined by natural criteria, such as watersheds and ecosystems, and those defined by human activities, such as urban areas and their hinterlands. For more information: http://www.springer.com/environment/global+change+-+climate+change/journal/10113

 

NCC article: Efforts to curb climate change require greater emphasis on livestock
A reduction in non-CO2 greenhouse gases will be required to abate climate change, the researchers said. Cutting releases of methane and nitrous oxide, two gases that pound-for-pound trap more heat than does CO2, should be considered alongside the challenge of reducing fossil fuel use. “Reducing demand for ruminant products could help to achieve substantial greenhouse gas reductions in the near-term,” said co-author Helmut Haberl, “but implementation of demand changes represent a considerable political challenge.” Haberl conducts research in the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna. The analysis, “Ruminants, climate change, and climate policy,” was published as an opinion commentary today in Nature Climate Change, a professional journal. William Ripple, professor in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, and co-authors from Scotland, Austria, Australia and the United States reached their conclusions on the basis of a synthesis of current scientific knowledge on greenhouse gases, climate change and food and environmental issues. They drew from a variety of sources including the Food and Agricultural Organization, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and recent peer-reviewed publications.
For more information: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/main/inhalt/uninews_42756.htm
PlosOne article: A wake-up call about the economic reality of a green society
Policymakers often talk about moving towards a green society, but in a new study a team of researchers from the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna (Fridolin Krausmann), Leeds University (Julia K. Steinberger) and CSIRO (Heinz Schandl) found that this would restrict economic growth. The study shows that, over the longer term, emerging and developing countries tend to have significantly larger material-economic coupling than mature industrialized economies (although this effect may be enhanced by trade patterns), but that the contrary is true for short-term coupling. Moreover, they demonstrate that absolute dematerialization limits economic growth rates, while the successful industrialization of developing countries inevitably requires a strong material component. Alternative development priorities are thus urgently needed both for mature and emerging economies: reducing absolute consumption levels for the former, and avoiding the trap of resource intensive economic and human development for the latter.
Steinberger, J.K., Krausmann, F., Getzner, M., Schandl, H., West, J. 2013. Development and dematerialization: an international study.  PLoS One, 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070385
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070385

 

 

World Social Science Report 2013
Scientists of the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna have participated in the World Social Science Report 2013 titled „Changing Global Environments“, which has been published recently. The Report issues an urgent call to action to the international social science community. Social scientists need to collaborate more effectively with colleagues from the natural, human and engineering sciences to deliver relevant, credible knowledge that can help to address the most pressing of today’s environmental problems and sustainability challenges. And they need to do so in close collaboration with decision-makers, practitioners and the other users of their research. WSSR2013 Report: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/reports/world-social-science-report-2013/
To the article form Prof. Ulrich Brand about socio-ecological responsibility of the social scienes: http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/wissenschaft-gesellschaft/detailansicht/artikel/sozial-oekologische-verantwortung-der-sozialwissenschaften/
Leaping over disciplinary shadows
Research increasingly crosses disciplinary boundaries and draws in outside stakeholders. Karl-Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube and Marina Fischer-Kowalski report from two decades of experience in inter- and transdisciplinary research at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, Austria. They advise on how to succeed in three not-so-easy steps.
Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gaube, Veronika, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2013): Leaping over disciplinary shadows. In: Global Change (81), pp. 36-39.
http://www.igbp.net/news/features/features/leapingoverdisciplinaryshadows.5.7815fd3f14373a7f24c1a.html
AAU and Humboldt University join forces
As a formal framework for the collaboration of the Institute of Social Ecology with IRI THESys on global land use research over the next years, the AAU and the Humboldt University have signed a collaboration agreement to facilitate exchange of researchers, students and lecturers, and to plan joint research activities and project development.

 

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+ Sustainability events

 

FWF Am Puls 12. March 2014: Climate Change and Politics
In September 2013 the first Chapter of the new IPCC Reports has been published: Basic of Natural Sciences and Climate Change. Next Chapters will be published in Spring 2014. The IPCC is a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations (UN). It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change.
Helmut Haberl as the lead autor of the topics of agriculture and forestry and land use will speak about the structure and history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also known as “Weltklimarat”. March 2014, 6 p.m., Albert Schweitzer Haus, Schwarzspanierstraße 13, 1090 Vienna. Free entrance!
For more information: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/aktuelles_detail.asp?N_ID=588

 

Summer school: ‘The Green Economy’
The Norwegian University of Life Sciences is organizing a summer school series in Environmental Governance. The course in 2014 is titled ‘The Green Economy’ and is running from June 16 to June 27. The summer school is directed towards PhDs. A few places will also be offered to young researchers in the field. More information is found at: umb.no/thor-heyerdahl-summer-school. Deadline for application for the 2014 course is February 20.

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+ Research projects

 

Erasmus Intensive Programme “SUSAKI”: Achieving sustainable development on an island. Social ecology concepts and methods in a real world context.
The course is designed as a 12-days excursion to the island of Samothraki in Greece with the aim to learn and apply social ecology approaches in a local setting while building synergy with an on-going UNESCO Man and Biosphere process. The objectives of the course are: (a) expose students to a search for solutions for sustainability and development challenges in a local setting by applying socioecological thinking, (b) be trained in a set of social science and natural science methods frequently used in socioecological research , and (c) allow students the experience of a transdisciplinary research process by learning to interact with stakeholders in a culturally challenging environment (translation will be provided by locals as far as required). The course will take place in May 2014 with students from 5 different universities (National University of Ireland, Galway, Lund University, University of the Aegean, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

 

Milestone in WWWforEurope: Developing Resource use Scenarios for Europe
The objective of the project is to provide the analytical basis for the need, the feasibility and the scope of a socio-ecological transition, to derive policy instruments for shifting Europe to a new “high road path”, and the institutional changes needed at all policy levels. The Institute of Social Ecology (SEC) is involved in two work packages: „Assessing Past Transitions“ and „Biophysical Scenarios for Resource Constraints“. In the second work package („Biophysical Scenarios for Resource Constraints“) SEC develops a set of scenarios for future resource use in Europe, with a close consideration of the biophysical constraints involved. These scenarios will then be implemented in macroeconomic models on the basis of which several different trajectories of European development can be forecast and compared. This comparison should provide the analytical basis for the development of effective policy tools to steer European development onto a more sustainable trajectory.
Research paper on resource use scenarios for Europe: Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Haas, Willi, Pallua, Irene, and Hausknost, Daniel (2013): Developing Resource use Scenarios for Europe. Work Package 204, MS 35 “Developing resource use scenarios for Europe”. Vienna: WWWforEurope – WelfareWealthWork.
http://www.foreurope.eu/index.php?id=686

 

EU project: ASOREE
The Europe 2020 Strategy, endorsed by the European Council in June 2010, establishes resource efficiency as one of its fundamental flagship initiatives for ensuring the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of Europe. The Resource efficiency flagship should “help the EU to prosper in a low-carbon, resource constrained world while preventing environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and unsustainable use of resources”. Renewable resources should not be degraded below sustainable levels, and non-renewable resources should not get depleted. The Flagship calls for the development of a Resource Efficient Europe roadmap that develops policy frameworks helping help to increase resource productivity and decouple resource use from economic growth. Final results of the ASOREE project will be presented at a conference in Brussels on 20 February 2014. At the Conference titled “Scenarios towards a resource efficient Europe. Resource efficiency improvements in the Built Environment” the study findings will be discussed with stakeholders and the European Commission.

 

Marie Curie Grant: Water and Transition
The Marie Curie Mobility Grant of the European Union supports Dr. Giacomo Parrinelli who investigates the historical transformation of river basins and water circulation in the urban-industrial age from perspective which integrates social and environmental sciences. The empirical case study is the Po river basin, which hosts one of the most developed urban-industrial region in the EU, and which is lacking of a comprehensive historical reconstruction. The project fills that void, retracing the genealogy of the present condition by looking at the interplays of social and environmental processes over the last two centuries. The four specific goals of the project are: 1) retracing the historical development of agricultural, urban, and industrial uses of Po basin water; as well as the main actors, projects, and phases of the transformation; 2) mapping the changing geographies of water metabolic circulation in the Po river basin, related to the historical transformation of water uses in the transition to the urban-industrial society; 3) studying the impact of the transformation in water uses and circulation on the river basin hydro-ecosystem, and the consequences of this on the various set of human activities over time; 4) identifying the most relevant characteristics that can qualify the transformation in water socio-ecological metabolism in the transition to the urban-industrial society. This research will provide a comprehensive historical account of the Po river basin transformation from an environmental point of view. It will also implement an interdisciplinary analytical framework on river systems transformations and metabolic exchanges with urban-industrial societies: a crucial issue for European research and policies. The project is hosted at SEC and coordinated by Fridolin Krausmann and will be carried out in close cooperation with Prof. Craig E. Colten at Louisiana State University.

 

UNEP: Global Trade in Natural Resources
The biophysical dimensions of international trade, including their upstream requirements, will be subject of a next report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel. SEC in collaboration with a number of international partners has been preparing this report which is currently under review. The report finds apparent structural change: countries of the global South become much more dominant in resource trade not so much as providers, but as demanders of resources on the world market; while global demand for natural resources is rapidly rising, supply shows signs of exhaustion: petroleum and (wild) fishcatch stagnate since a decade, and the supply of several metals suffers from declining ore grades. For the first time in the last 100 years, there is a consistent trend of rising resource prices.

 

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+ Public Outreach / Media resonance (German and English)

 

Klaus Taschwer
“Porsches machen nicht unbedingt potenter”
Der Standard, Forschung Spezial, 8. Jänner 2014, Seite 14
zum Artikel…

Verena Winiwarter: Umweltgeschichte zum Angreifen
Apa, Natur & Technik/science.apa.at, 8. Jänner 2014
zum Artikel…

For all media resonance on Verena Winiwarter as Scientist of the Year 2013, please visit:
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/3602.htm

Verena Ahne
Im Wald verschwindet viel CO2
Die Presse, Wissenschaft, 18. Jänner 2014
http://diepresse.com/home/science/1550574/Im-Wald-verschwindet-viel-CO2

Angelika Wienerroither
“Upcycling”: Alten Dingen wieder Wert geben
Salzburger Nachrichten, 31. Dezember 2013, Seite 10
http://www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/oesterreich/chronik/sn/artikel/upcycling-alten-dingen-wieder-wert-geben-88381/

Martin Kugler
Die Gase der Tiere
Die Presse, Wissenschaft, 22. Dezember 2013, Seite 22
http://diepresse.com/home/science/1510330/Die-Gase-der-Tiere

Adam Vaughan
Tax meat to cut methane emissions, say scientists
theguardian.com, December 20, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/tax-meat-cut-methane-emissions-scientists

Martin Kugler
Wie Schifahren die Alpen prägte
Die Presse, Sonntag, 13. Dezember 2013
http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/oesterreich/1504511/Wie-Skifahren-die-Alpen-praegte

Hannah Hoag
Humans are becoming more carnivorous (Thomas Kastner was interviewed in Nature News.)
Nature, December 02, 2013
http://www.nature.com/news/humans-are-becoming-more-carnivorous-1.14282

Tobias Müller
Der Sprit im Strohhaufen
Der Standard, 23. Oktober 2013
http://derstandard.at/1381369489839/Der-Sprit-im-Strohhaufen

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+ Staff News

Helmut Haberl will intensively collaborate with the Integrative Research Institute on Transformation of Human-Environment System (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-University zu Berlin as research fellow over the next couple of months. The focus of his joint research with IRI THESys (see http://www.exzellenz.hu-berlin.de/integrative-research-institutes/iri-thesys) will be on global land-use competition. One of the concrete activities will be the preparation of the KOSMOS summery university on “FutureLand: Understanding land use competition under conditions of global change” to be held in September 2014 at Humboldt-University in Berlin.

Marina Fischer-Kowalski is President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and responsible for the ISEE conference in Reykjavik Aug. 2014,“Wellbeing and Equity within Planetary Boundaries”, http://www.isecoeco.org/tag/isee-conference-2014/.

Irene Pallua has finished her MA in Social Ecology with honours.

We welcome Christina Spitzbart, who works on the FWF project “Vienna´s Urban Waterscape 1683-1918. An Environmental History”, starting on February 3rd.

Wolfgang Deutsch will be on our Institute as temporary Teaching Administrator starting in March replacing Mirjam Weber, who will be on maternity leave.

Michael Neundlinger was invited for a two-month research sojourn at the Historical GIS Lab at University of Saskatchewan. From January until February 2014 Neundlinger benefited from the leading expertise of Dr. Geoff Cunfer and his team in Historical Geoinformation Systems and Environmental History. The visit strengthened cooperation between Canadian and Austrian researchers and contributed to the project aims of Sustainable Farm Systems: Long-Term Socio-Ecological Metabolism in Western Agriculture, 1700-2000.

 

International Guests:

Visiting scholar Zizi Moneer is from Egypt and does her PhD at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Politics of the University of Freiburg in Germany. She visitied the Institute of Social Ecology from 11 November to 20 December as part of a COST Action fellowship. In her PhD she analyses the causes of and possible solutions to environmental conflicts in protected areas in Egypt. Central to her project is the phenomenon of failed or ‘manipulative’ participation in the governance of protected areas and the ways to overcome it. During her stay Zizi Moneer is supervised by Dr. Daniel Hausknost and DI Willi Haas.

The Inst. of Social Ecology initiated a Joint Study Agreement between Alpen Adria University and the Graduate School of Environmental Studies of Nagoya University to advance academic exchange and research cooperation. In January 2014 Prof. Hiroki Tanikawa, Ass. Prof. Keijiro Okuoka and two phd students visited the Inst. of Social Ecology for a workshop on modelling global material stocks.

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+ New Publications

Brand, Ulrich, Achim Brunnengräber, Ines Omann, Uwe Schneidewind, Steinar Andresen, Peter Driessen, Helmut Haberl, Daniel Hausknost, Sebastian Helgenberger, Kirsten Hollaender, Jeppe Læssøe, Sebastian Oberthür, 2013. Debating transformation in multiple crises. In: International Social Science Council, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (eds.). World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments. OECD Publishing and UNESCO Publishing, Paris, pp. 480-484

 

Chertow, Marian, Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Conclusion. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 555-561.
Cunfer, Geoff and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. New York: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 269-296.

 

de Ruiter, Henri, Thomas Kastner, and Sanderine Nonhebel. “European Dietary Patterns and Their Associated Land Use: Variation Between and Within Countries.” Food Policy 44 (2014): 158-166.

 

Dirnböck, Thomas, Bezák, Peter, Dullinger, Stefan, Haberl, Helmut, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Mirtl, Michael, Peterseil, Johannes, Redpath, Steve, Singh, Simron J., Travis, Justin, and Wijdeven, Sander (2013): Critical scales for long-term socio-ecological biodiversity research. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, Lond: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 123-138.

 

Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gaube, Veronika, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2013): Leaping over disciplinary shadows. In: Global Change (81), pp. 36-39.

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Pallua, Irene 2014. A socio-metabolic reading of the Anthropocene: modes of subsistence, population size, and human impact on Earth. The Anthropocene Review 1/2014 (online first) http://anr.sagepub.com/content/early/recent

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Smetschka, Barbara (2013): Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies . In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society Nature Interactions across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, pp. 77-101.

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Haas, Willi, Pallua, Irene, and Hausknost, Daniel (2013):. WWWforEurope Working Papers, Milestone 36: Documentation of scenarios implemented and used by macroeconomic models, pp. 1-72, http://www.foreurope.eu/fileadmin/documents/pdf/Workingpapers/WWWforEurope_WPS_no025_MS35.pdf

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Mayer, Andreas, and Hausknost, Daniel (2013): Umwelt und Soziale Ökologie. In: Flicker, Eva and Forster, Rudolf (Eds.):  Forschungs- und Anwendungsfelder der Soziologie. Wien: Facultas, WUV, pp. 251-267.

 

Gaube, Veronika and Remesch, Alexander (2013): Impact of urban planning on household’s residential decisions and energy use: An agent-based simulation model for Vienna. In: Environmental Modelling & Software. 45(July 2013), pp. 92-103.

 

Gaube, Veronika and Haberl, Helmut (2013): Using integrated models to analyze socio-ecological system dynamics in Long-Term Socio-ecological Research – Austrian Experiences. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 53-75.

 

Gingrich, Simone, Schmid, Martin, Gradwohl, Markus, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): How Material and Energy Flows Change Socio-natural Arrangements: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 297-313.

 

Haas, Willi, Singh, Simron J., Erschbamer, Brigitta, Reiter, Karl, and Walz, Ariane (2013): Integrated Monitoring and Sustainability Assessment in the Tyrolean Alps: Experiences in Transdisciplinarity. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 527-554.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Mbow, Cheik, Deng, Xiangzheng, Irwin, Elena G., Kerr, Suzi, Kuemmerle, Tobias, Mertz, Ole, Meyfroidt, Patrick, and Turner II, Billie L. (2013): Finite Land Resources and Competition. In: Karen Seto, Anette Reenberg (eds.), Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era. MIT Press, pp. 33-67.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl H., and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. In: Victor, Peter (Ed.):  The Costs of Economic Growth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Cheltenham [reprinted from the Online Encyclopaedia of Ecological Economics, International Society for Ecological Economics, http://www.ecoeco.org/pdf/2007_march_hanpp.pdf], pp. 304-318.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl H., Gingrich, Simone, Kastner, Thomas, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production, Stocks and Flows of Carbon, and Biodiversity. In: Lal, Rattan et al. (Eds.):  Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere. Berlin: Springer, pp. 313-331.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl H., Gaube, Veronika, Gingrich, Simone, and Singh, Simron J. (2013): Socioeconomic Metabolism and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold for LTSER? In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 29-52.

 

Haberl, Helmut (2013): Sozialökologische Transitionen und nachhaltige Entwicklung. In: Herzog, Eva M. et al. (Eds.):  Blickpunkt: Biologische Vielfalt. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, pp. 87-110.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Körner, Christian, Lauk, Christian, Schmid-Staiger, Ulrike, Smetacek, Victor, Schulze, Ernst D., Thauer, Rudolf K., Weiland, Peter, and Wilson, Karen (2013): Verfügbarkeit und Nachhaltigkeit von pflanzlicher Biomasse als Energiequelle. In: Stellungnahme: Bioenergie, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen.  Halle and der Saale: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften.  pp. 10-50  (übersetzte und überarbeitete Ausgabe der Stellungnahme „Bioenergy – Chances and Limits”, 2012).

 

Haidvogl, Gertrud, Guthyne-Horwath, Marianna, Gierlinger, Sylvia, Hohensinner, Severin, and Sonnlechner, Christoph (2013): Urban land for a growing city at the banks of a moving river: Vienna’s spread into the Danube island Unterer Werd from the late 17th to the beginning of the 20th century. In:  Water History Thematic Issue 2013, pp. 195-217.

 

Hohensinner, Severin, Lager, Bernhard, Sonnlechner, Christoph, Haidvogl, Gertrud, Schmid, Martin, Gierlinger, Sylvia, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Winiwarter, Verena (2013): Changes in water and land: the reconstructed Viennese riverscape 1500 to the present. In: Water History (Thematic Issue 2013), pp. 145-172.

 

Hohensinner, Severin, Drescher, Anton, Eckmüller, Otto, Egger, Gregory, Gierlinger, Sylvia, Hager, Herbert, Haidvogl, Gertrud, and Jungwirth, Mathias (2013): Genug Holz für Stadt und Fluss? Wiens Holzressourcen in dynamischen Donau-Auen. Intitut für Hydrobiologie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien.

 

Kallis, G., P. Petridis, and Iliosporoi (Eds.), (2013): Πέρα από το δίλημμα λιτότητα ή ανάπτυξη: 11 κείμενα για την Αποανάπτυξη (Beyond the dilemma austerity or growth: 11 essays on degrowth), Iliosporoi Editions, 194pp. (in Greek), online first, available at http://www.iliosporoi.net/images/pdf/11%20keimena%20gia%20tin%20APOANAPTYKSI.pdf [accessed: 13 Dec. 2013]

 

Kallis, G. and P. Petridis, (2013): “Συμπεράσματα: αποανάπτυξη, Ελλάδα και κρίση (Conclusions: degrowth, Greece and crisis)”, In: Kallis, G., P. Petridis, and Iliosporoi (Eds.), 2013. Πέρα από το δίλημμα λιτότητα ή ανάπτυξη: 11 κείμενα για την Αποανάπτυξη (Beyond the dilemma austerity or growth: 11 essays on degrowth), Iliosporoi Editions, pp. 169-186.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): A city and its Hinterland: Vienna’s Energy Metabolism 1800-2006. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society Nature Interactions across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, pp. 247-268.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel. Langfristige Trends und räumliche Muster in der Ressourcennutzung. In: Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur, pp. 61-72.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin, Schaffartzik, Anke, Mayer, Andreas, Gingrich, Simone and Eisenmenger, Nina (2013): Global trends and patterns in material use. MRS Online Proceedings Library, 1545, mrss13-1545-k04-03 doi:10.1557/opl.2013.1075.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2013): Global socio-metabolic transitions. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 339-365.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): The social metabolism of European industrialization: Changes in the relation of energy and land use from eighteenth to the twentieth century. In: Unger, Richard W. (Ed.):  Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change. Munich: Rachel Carson Centre, RCC perspectives 2013/02, pp. 31-36.

 

Lutz, Juliana (2013): Lokale Lebensmittelnetzwerke. Kollektives Engagement für Veränderung. Soziale Technik, 4, 5-7.

 

Lutz, Juliana and Schachinger, Judith (2013): Do Local Food Networks Foster Socio-Ecological Transitions towards Food Sovereignty? Learning from Real Place Experiences. Sustainability, 5(11), 4778-4796

 

Peterseil, Johannes, Neuner, Angelika, Stocker-Kiss, Andrea, Gaube, Veronika, and Mirtl, Michael (2013): The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) – Implementation and Services. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.  Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 461-484.

 

Petridis, Panos, (2013): “Από τον οικονομισμό στην αυτονομία: η ελληνική κρίση και το πρόταγμα της αποανάπτυξης. (From economism to autonomy: the Greek crisis and the project of degrowth)”, In: Kallis, G., P. Petridis, and Iliosporoi (Eds.), 2013. Πέρα από το δίλημμα λιτότητα ή ανάπτυξη: 11 κείμενα για την Αποανάπτυξη (Beyond the dilemma austerity or growth: 11 essays on degrowth), Iliosporoi Editions, pp.156-168.

 

Pollack, Gudrun (2013): Verschmutzt – Verbaut – Vergessen. Eine Umweltgeschichte des Wienflusses von 1780 bis 1910. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper 138)

 

Ringhofer, Lisa, Singh, Simron Jit, and Smetschka, Barbara (2013): Climate Change Mitigation in Latin America: A Mapping of Current Policies, Plans and Programs. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 143).

 

Ripple, William J., Pete Smith, Helmut Haberl, Stephen A. Montzka, Clive MacAlpine, Douglas H. Boucher, 2014. Ruminants, climate change, and climate policy. Nature Climate Change, 4, 2-5.

 

Schmid, Martin (2013): Book Review: Stéphane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden (eds.): Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America. In: Water History January 2013, pp. 1-3.

 

Schmid, Martin (2013): Stadt am Fluss: Wiener Häfen als sozio-naturale Schauplätze von der Frühen Neuzeit bis nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. In: Morscher, Lukas et al. (Eds.):  Orte der Stadt im Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Gegenwart: Treffpunkte, Verkehr und Fürsorge . Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Studienverlag, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Städte Mitteleuropas , Bd. 24, pp. 275-312.

 

Schmid, Martin (2013): Towards an Environmental History of the Danube: Understanding a great European river through its transformation as a socio-natural site, c. 1500-2000., Habilitation, Environmental History, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Graz, IFF Vienna.

 

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Chertow, Marian, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Introduction. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 1-26.

 

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Chertow, Marian, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society Nature Interactions across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer (Human – Environment Interactions; 2)

 

Steinberger, Julia K., Krausmann, Fridolin, Getzner, Michael, Schandl, Heinz, West, Jim (2013): Development and dematerialization: an international study.  PLoS One, 8, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070385

 

Verburg, Peter H., Erb, Karl H., Mertz, Ole, and Espindola, G. (guest editors), (2013): Land System Science: between global challenges and local realities. Special issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5(5), pp. 433-534.

 

Weisz, Ulli and Possanner, Nikolaus (2013): Arbeit und Energie. Perspektiven für Österreich. Wien: Endbericht an das BMLFUW, Abt. Umweltökonomie und Energie.

 

Weisz, Ulli, Wegleitner, Klaus-Jürgen, Haas, Willi, Heimerl, Kathrina, and Reitinger, Elisabeth (2013): Nachhaltige Entwicklung in Konzepten von Gesundheitsförderung und Palliative Care: für ein gutes Leben für alle – bis zuletzt. Ergebnisse eines inter- und transdisziplinären Experiments (TREX) der IFF Institut für Soziale Ökologie (SEC) und Palliative Care und Organisationsethik (PallOrg). Gefördert durch die IFF.

 

Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Lenzen, Manfred, and Steinberger, Julia (2013): Energy Requirements of Consumption: Urban Form, Climatic and Socio-Economic Factors, Rebounds and Their Policy Implications. In: Energy Policy 63, pp. 696-707.

 

Winiwarter, Verena, Rüpke, Jörg, and Stagl, Justin (2013): Formen des Wissens über die Zukunft. In: Saeculum, Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 12(2), pp. 183-187.

 

Winiwarter, Verena (2013): Gesellschaft-Natur-Verhältnisse in langfristiger Betrachtung. In: Gebhardt, Hans et al. (Eds.): Europa – eine Geographie. Heidelberg, pp. 28-29.

 

Winiwarter, Verena, Schmid, Martin, Hohensinner, Severin, and Haidvogl, Gertrud (2013): The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.):  Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 103-122.

 

Winiwarter, Verena (2013): The View from Below: On Energy in Soils (and Food).  In: Unger, Richard W. (Ed.):  Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change. Munich: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, RCC Perspectives, Bd. 2013-2, pp. 43-48.
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CONTENTS

+ News

• New Book LTSER
• Summer Term 2013
• Global SCP Clearinghouse
• Job announcements
• Guest Professors

+ Upcoming Events

• ZUG-Minisymposium: „A Daughter of the Rhine“
• ZUG-Minisymposium: „Learning to Live with the Danube“
• Austrian Climate Research Day
• WWWforEurope conference on Modelling “Growth and Socio-ecological Transition”
• ESEH Conference 2013 “Circulating Natures: Water – Food – Energy”

+ New Research projects

• IRP Trade (UNEP 2012): Trade, development and pressures upon the environment
• Workshop “Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730) and the Contemporary Fascination for

the Telluric Reign: Transdisciplinary Perspectives from History to Science”

+ Public outreach / Media resonance (German only)

+ Staff news

• International Guests
• Incoming and Outgoing Students
• Research Stay and Field Studies

+ New publications

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+ News

 

New Book: Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER):
How to Study Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.
Edited by Simron Jit Singh, Helmut Haberl, Marian R. Chertow, Michael Mirtl, Martin Schmid, Springer, 2013.
Over the last half century, exceptional changes in the environment have placed renewed importance on the study of society-nature interactions. Around the globe, ever increasing human demands on ecosystems not only harm the environment, but also induce great potential for social conflict. In this sense sustainability problems are not only “ecological” but “socio-ecological” since the ways societies interact with the environment affects both ecosystems and social systems.
The emerging interdisciplinary field of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) is primarily concerned with questions of global environmental change and sustainability. It aims to conceptualise, observe, analyse, and model changes in coupled socio-ecological systems over generations. Tracking these changes over extended periods is accomplished in research traditions that include social and human ecology, industrial ecology, environmental history, human geography and anthropology. LTSER aims to provide a knowledge base that helps reorient socioeconomic trajectories towards more sustainable pathways.
The authors of the just published volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. Contributions from Europe and North America review the development of LTSER since its inception and assess its current state. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what needs to be done to engage in and make meaning from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.
For more information: http://www.springer.com/environment/sustainable+development/book/978-94-007-1176-1

Wolfgang Cramer recommends our new book in his article: „ Regional Environmental Change refocuses on sustainability and the human–environment relationship“, with the words „new quality of rigorous investigations into the human–environment relationship at the regional level“. See: http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/369/art%253A10.1007%252Fs10113-013-0404-z.pdf?auth66=1362739226_a7d6f55a497c8bdedede9f8c0e3257c3&ext=.pdf

 

Summer Term 2013: Course information online
Detailed information can be found on our website: https://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/downloads/KoVo-SS-13-web.pdf
For further information please contact: mirjam [dot] weber [at] aau [dot] at

 

Global SCP Clearinghouse
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as the Secretariat of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, is starting a one-stop hub dedicated to advancing Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) worldwide. The Global SCP Clearinghouse is a harmonized and dynamic information and knowledge platform that will facilitate and trigger more innovation and cooperation towards SCP implementation. Today, in a context of increasing environmental degradation and climate change, it is clear that a systemic change is needed to move towards resource efficient and sustainable lifestyles. This requires the participation and action of all: governments to the business sector, civil society and citizens. During the pre-launching phase (till May) you can: Sign up and become a member to be among the first ones connected to the Global SCP Clearinghouse; Register as an expert or resource person; Share information about your SCP initiatives – policies, partnerships, projects, etc. to feed the worldwide SCP initiatives database.
Take a virtual tour on www.start.scpclearinghouse.org

 

Job announcements
We are providing a new service for our current and former students, and persons with similar educational backround, by posting job announcements from our project partners and several scientific communities we are involved in, on our website. If you are interested, please feel invited to visit us under following link: https://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/4789.htm

 

Guest Professors

Mikko Jalas PhD (Aalto School of Helsinki) currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of management and international business at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. His research concentrates on sustainable consumption, everyday rhythms, practice-theory and social aspects of time, temporality and business. Currently he is also conducting research on the implementation of technologies for distributed energy production and on the institutional development of business in new energy solutions in response to climate change. In summer term 2013 Mikko Jalas will give a seminar on “Sustainable Consumption, everyday rhythms and eco-social time policy”.

PD Dr. Martin Knoll (Habilitation at TU Darmstadt) is associate professor at the TU Darmstadt and visiting senior fellow at the Institute of Social Ecology, especially in co-operation with ZUG (Center of Environmental History). In summer 2013 Martin Knoll will give an excursion on “Environment in the view of arts”.

Martina Schulte-Derne, Dr. Michael Schulte-Derne are professional coaches at Conecta, their key activities are: advisory skills for managers, conflict management, supervision and coaching, mediation. In summer term 2013 they will give a seminar on „Advisory Skills as Complementary Qualification for Sustainability Researcher“.

 

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+ Upcoming Events

 

54. ZUG- Minisymposium: Ellen Arnold
Ellen Arnold, Assistant Professor of History, Ohio Wesleyan University will give a talk on „A Daughter of the Rhine“: Rivers and Identity in Gallo-Roman Poetry“
Abstract: „This presentation will attempt to assess the “environmental imagination” of the early middle ages in Gaul by examining the poems, letters, and religious writings of three men. Ausonius, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Venantius Fortunatus. They were all active writers and also political and religious figures during the 300s-500s, and all members of what we now call the “Gallo-Roman elite.” All three of these men lived for much or most of their adult lives in Gaul, and all found themselves at least partially pulled between the culture of distant Rome and the immediacy, vibrancy, and beauty of Gaul – the “New Frontier” of Late Antiquity. Finally, all three wrote poems, letters, and other works that explicitly describe, discuss, and praise the natural and built environments of Gaul, and especially its rivers.
I will discuss the ways in which the poets described and used rivers in their writings, and how rivers helped them to present and negotiate complex issues of ethnic, cultural, and political identity. The rivers of Gaul, on the one hand fixed and permanent, on the other always shifting and changing their courses, came to stand in for the problems of defining, marking, and bounding the many ethnicities of the Roman and post-Roman world.“
IFF, 1070 Wien, Schottenfeldgasse 29, Thursday, 21st March 2013, 18.00 c.t. – 20.00
Details: http://www.umweltgeschichte.uni-klu.ac.at/index,5595,54.+Minisymposium+am+21.3.2013.html

 

55. ZUG-Minisymposium: Robert W. B. Gray
Dr. Robert W. B. Gray, Keele University will give a talk on „Learning to Live with the Danube:
Local Institutions and Community Knowledge in the Gemenc and Sárköz regions of Hungary in the Nineteenth Century“
Abstract: „The control of riparian resources along the Danube formed an essential part of Hungarian rural life since the thirteenth century. In a land dominated by water, the reed-beds, water-meadows, alluvial forests and side channels that characterized the extensive flood plains provided both a vital supplement to the peasants’ regular holdings and a significant source of income for their lords. Access to these common resources were regulated by village and estates institutions and governed by a complex mix of practice, custom and statute law. Following the revolution of 1848 and the end of Hungary’s old rural order, traditional means of regulation that emphasised communal rights were supplanted by statute laws and state institutions. Furthermore, as river regulation gathered speed from the late eighteenth century, first under the auspices of the ‘enlightened absolutist’ rulers in Vienna and subsequently the reformist government in Pest-Buda, local concerns were threatened by the wider interests of state and nation. This paper will investigate how communities within the Gemenc and Sárköz region of Hungary adapted their everyday practices, institutions and customs to account for the shifting riparian environment of the Danube. In this, it will reveal how customary practices and institutions – the repositories of community knowledge – adapted to and were accommodated within the competing interests of lords, state officials and experts during the breakdown of Hungary’s old rural order in the nineteenth century.“
IFF, 1070 Wien, Schottenfeldgasse 29, Monday, 22nd April 2013, 18.00 c.t. – 20.00

 

14th Austrian Climate Research Day
Austrian climate research, including climate impact, adaptation and mitigation research, will be discussed at the 14th Austrian Climate Research Day that will take place on 4th and 5th April 2013 at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna.
See: http://ccca.boku.ac.at/?page_id=880

 

WWWforEurope conference on Modelling “Growth and Socio-ecological Transition”
The aim of the WWWforEurope modelling conference in Vienna, March 12-13, is to promote the exchange of ideas among researchers active in the broad field of applied modelling, taking into account smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The availability of models incorporating the social and the environmental dimension is an important prerequisite to objectively and realistically evaluate the potential consequences of a socio-ecological transition.
For more information: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/eng/downloads/wwwforeuropeconference2013.pdf

 

ESEH Conference 2013 “Circulating Natures: Water – Food – Energy”
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) will hold its biannual conference this year in Munich, August, 20-24. Our Center for Environmental History (ZUG) is strongly represented in the program. The program committee accepted all the c. 10 panels (co-)organised by ZUG-members, covering a wide range of such diverse topics as the environmental histories of rivers, of tourism, of war, on the circulation of food, feed and fertilizers in the past, on historical fish ecology, and on sustainable farm systems. In a special session for early career researchers alumni of our master program (G. Pollack, M. Neundlinger and S. Gierlinger) will present their research.
More information: http://eseh2013.org

 

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+ New Research projects

 

IRP Trade (UNEP 2012): Trade, development and pressures upon the environment
We wish to understand the impact of world trade on the size and distribution of environmental pressures, and therefore focus on the physical dimensions of trade. From a global perspective, it would be desirable that all resources were extracted and commodities were produced where they exert the least environmental pressure. If international trade were structured in a way that supports this optimally, it would support the decoupling of resource use and environmental impacts from economic activity on a global level (UNEP, 2011). If international trade, by contrast, were structured mainly by relations of economic and political power, it would concentrate also the environmental benefits with the high income nations, and externalize the environmental pressures to low income peripheries. World trade would then be creating structures far from a global optimum of minimal environmental pressure. This is the key distributional question we will pursue throughout this assessment for the International Resource Panel of UNEP, and we will look at the international structures of direct trade in material terms as well as at the upstream requirements of trade flows in material resources, energy and CO2 emissions, human appropriation of net primary production, and land. Contact: marina [dot] fischer-kowalski [at] aau [dot] at

 

Workshop “Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730) and the Contemporary Fascination for the Telluric Reign: Transdisciplinary Perspectives from History to Science”
This project aimed at bridging the gap between sciences and humanities, creating a unique interdisciplinary platform where the manifold early modern manifestations of interest in the telluric world were discussed in their biophysical and socio-cultural historical contexts. Luigi Ferdinando Marsili offered an excellent example for such an endeavour. A workshop funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and held in Vienna in April 2012 explored the environmental, scientific, economic, and imaginary dimensions of historical thinking about the soil and the subterranean. This project was led by Martin Schmid together with Rengenier Rittersma, a historian of science and food from the Netherlands.

 

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

 

Zu viel und zu wenig Dünger
Die Presse, Sonntag, 3. März, Seite 22-23
http://diepresse.com/home/science/1351176/Zu-viel-und-zu-wenig-Duenger?_vl_backlink=/home/science/index.do

 

Grenzen der Leistungsfähigkeit der Ökosysteme
In einem aktuellen „Letter to SCIENCE“ in der gleichnamigen Fachzeitschrift diskutiert Karl-Heinz Erb vom Institut für Soziale Ökologie mit Co-AutorInnen, wie wir mit der Messung von Biomasseproduktion und -verbrauch die Grenzen der “Produktivkraft der Ökosysteme” besser verstehen können.
For more information: https://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/downloads/Pressetext2012_12_Leistungsfaehigkeit.pdf

 

Wachsende Wälder teuer erkauft
Apa, Kultur & Gesellschaft/science.apa.at, 22. Februar 2013
http://science.apa.at/site/kultur_und_gesellschaft/detail.html?key=SCI_20130222_SCI39351351611582744

 

Wien und die Donau: Eine Scheinehe
Die Presse, Sonntag, 3.2.2013
http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/oesterreich/1340303/Wien-und-die-Donau_Eine-Scheinehe?from=suche.intern.portal

 

Astrid Kuffner
Kunstschnee, Alm und Landwirtschaft
Der Standard, Forschung Spezial, Mittwoch, 30. Jänner 2013, Seite 13
http://derstandard.at/1358305071313/Kunstschnee-Alm-und-Landwirtschaft

 

Wie Österreich von Biomasse leben könnte
science.orf.at, 07. November 2012
http://science.orf.at/stories/1707569/

 

Was soll wachsen?
Ö1 – Radiokolleg – 3. Jänner 2013, 09:05
http://oe1.orf.at/programm/324582

 

Fleischkonsum
BR – IQ – Wissenschaft und Forschung – Magazin – 09.01.2013
Brauchen wir eine Steuer auf Fleisch? – Über die ökologischen Folgen des übermäßigen Konsums http://www.br-online.de/podcast/mp3-download/bayern2/mp3-download-podcast-iq.shtml

 

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+ Staff News

 

Christian Lauk (SEC) finished his PhD in Social Ecology with his thesis on “Global Aspects of the Socioeconomic Metabolism”, on February 04, 2013. Congratulations!

 

We welcome Michaela Theurl at SEC. Michaela studied ecology at the University of Vienna and holds a degree in human ecology/plant physiology. In her diploma thesis at the Institute of Social Ecology, she specialized in Carbon Footprinting. Since 2010, she has been working on food production systems and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the different projects at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL).

 

International Guests

Enric Tello is spending his sabbatical from January to June 2013 at SEC.
He is Full Professor and former Head of the Department of Economic History and Institutions (http://www.ub.edu/histeco/eng/inici.htm) in the Economics and Business Faculty at the University of Barcelona .
Besides collaborating with Fridolin Krausmann and all the members of the IFF group working in environmental history, and involved in the international research project “Sustainable farm systems: long-term socio-ecological metabolism in western agriculture”, the main project of my stay as a visiting professor at the IFF is to start writing a book on Socio-ecological transitions in Spanish agriculture (1850-2010): Resource use, Landscape Change and Biodiversity (provisional title) co-edited with Manuel González de Molina (Pablo de Olavide University in Seville) and co-authored with all the members of our coordinated research groups working in social metabolism of agricultural systems from a historical standpoint in Spain.

 

Incoming and Outgoing Students, Erasmus exchange

Marcela Stuker-Kropf is a PhD Student from Brazil (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (Seropedica city, Brazil) http://r1.ufrrj.br/wp/ppgcaf/ , staying at SEC from January to April 2013.
Marcela is focusing on transboundary protected areas with an interdisciplinary approach: environmental history, policy and management. At SEC, Marcela is having the opportunity to talk to experts on this subject and to visit the Austrian transboundary national parks. This internship should lead to compare the management benefits and challenges of these transboundary national parks in Europe with the ones in Brazil.

Jitka Strakova from the Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science , University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovic, http://www.prf.jcu.cz/en/ visited SEC the second time from January to Februar 2013 to work on her PhD thesis with the title: “Drivers of agricultural abandonment in the Czech marginalized regions: A case study from the Šumava Mountains.”

Heidi Astikainen from the University of Helsinki will spend her summer semester at the SEC.

Monika Sperrer and Severin Ettl will spend their summer semester at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in Germany.

Maria Niedertscheider (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland) will work on her PhD-project which is about analysing the Trajectories of Land use Intensity and Yield Gaps from a Multi-Level Perspective.

Robert Groß (Aalborg University, Denmark) will work on his PhD-project which is about the environmental history of winter tourism in Voralberg/Austria from 1920 – 2010.

 

Research Stay and Field Studies

The research project of Dominik Wiedenhofer at the Nagoya University in Japan aims to make use of an existing database of global resource use in order to develop a model for the long term evolution of global material stocks on the level of six world regions, from 1900 – 2010. This provides the basis for estimating future resource demand, impact of changes to service lifetimes, material efficiency and recycling potentials.

During her field study in Turkana (Kenia) Rebekka Fischer will focus on generating a time-use study of a family which lives in Turkana.
Lara Esther Bartels conducted her research on “The grazing system of pastoralists in northern Tanzania – A HANPP based Case Study” at the Tanzania Natural Rsource Forum (TNRF). TNRF is an organization with the goal to promote the improvement of natural resource governance in Tanzania by linking policies and practices.

Nikolaus Ludwiczek has received an invitation from the Instituto Giramundo Mutuando in Brazil where he will work on his PhD-project. The Instituto Giramundo Mutuando is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable local development in the agriculture.

 

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+ New Publications

 

Andraschek-Holzer, Ralph, Schmid, Martin (2012): Umweltgeschichte und Topographische Ansichten: Zur Transformation eines österreichischen Donau-Abschnitts in der Neuzeit. In: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung Jg. 120 (1), Wien, pp. 80-115.

 

Cunfer, Geoff and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. New York: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 269-296.

 

Dirnböck, Thomas, Bezák, Peter, Dullinger, Stefan, Haberl, Helmut, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Mirtl, Michael, Peterseil, Johannes, Redpath, Steve, Singh, Simron J., Travis, Justin, and Wijdeven, Sander. (2013): Critical scales for long-term socio-ecological biodiversity research. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 123-138.

 

Egner, Heike and Schmid, Martin (2012): Wissensproduktion jenseits traditioneller Wissenschaft – eine Herausforderung für Wissenschaft und für Gesellschaft. In: Egner, Heike, Schmid, Martin (Eds.), Jenseits traditioneller Wissenschaft? Zur Rolle von Wissenschaft in einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft, München: oekom, Seite 7-26.

 

Egner, Heike and Schmid, Martin (Eds.) (2012): Jenseits traditioneller Wissenschaft? Zur Rolle von Wissenschaft in einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft, München: oekom.

 

Fetzel, Tamara, Niedertscheider, Maria, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gaube, Veronika, Gingrich, Simone, Haberl, Helmut, Krausmann, Fridolin, Lauk, Christian, and Plutzar, Christoph (2012): Human appropriation of net primary production in Africa: Patterns, trajectories, processes and policy implications. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 137).

 

Fischer, Roland, Schendl, Georg, Schmid, Martin, Veichtlbauer, Ortrun, Winiwarter, Verena (2012): Grundsätzliche Überlegungen zu einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft und der Rolle von Wissenschaft. In: Egner, Heike, Schmid, Martin (Eds.), Jenseits traditioneller Wissenschaft? Zur Rolle von Wissenschaft in einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft, München: oekom, pp. 49-70.

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2012): Über die Bedingungen der Macht von Wissenschaft als kollektiver gesellschaftlicher Akteurin. Ein Versuch im Rückgriff auf die Klassentheorie Alvin Gouldners. In: Egner, Heike and Schmid, Martin (Eds.): Jenseits traditioneller Wissenschaft? Zur Rolle von Wissenschaft in einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft. München: OEKOM, pp. 159-174.

 

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Smetschka, Barbara (2013): Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies . In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society Nature Interactions across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 77-101.

 

Gaube, Veronika and Haberl, Helmut (2013): Using integrated models to analyze socio-ecological system dynamics in LTSER regions. Farm households, agrarian subsidies, time use, land-use change and substance flows. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 53-75.

 

Gaube, Veronika and Remesch, Alexander (2013): Impact of urban planning on household’s residential decisions and energy use: An agent-based simulation model for Vienna. In: Environmental Modelling & Software, online first: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.11.012.

 

Gingrich, Simone, Schmid, Martin, Gradwohl, Markus, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): How material and energy flows change human practices and environments: The transformation of agriculture in the Eisenwurzen region, 1860-2000. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 297-313.

 

Haas, Willi, Singh, Simron J., Erschbamer, Brigitta, Reiter, Karl, and Walz, Ariane (2013): Integrated Monitoring and Sustainability Assessment in the Tyrolean Alps: Experiences in Transdisciplinarity. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 527-554.

 

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gaube, Veronika, Gingrich, Simone, and Singh, Simron J. (2013): Socioeconomic Metabolism and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold for LTSER? In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 29-52.

 

Haselsteiner, Edeltraud, Gaube, Veronika, Remesch, Alexander, Smetschka, Barbara, and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2012): Urban Time and Energy (UTE): Time-space-energy Scenarios in Urban Areas. Re-mixing the city. Towards Sustainability and Resilience? Proceedings REAL CORP 2012.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin (2013): A city and its Hinterland: Vienna’s Energy Metabolism 1800-2006. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. New York: Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 247-268.

 

Krausmann, Fridolin and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2013): Global socio-metabolic transitions. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 339-365.

 

Peterseil, Johannes, Neuner, Angelika, Stocker-Kiss, Andrea, Gaube, Veronika, and Mirtl, Michael (2013): The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) – Implementation and Services. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 461-484.

 

Schmid, Martin (2013): Book Review: Stéphane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden (eds.): Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America. In: Water History (January 2013), pp. 1-3.

 

Schmid, Martin and Egner, Heike (2012): Zur Rolle von Wissenschaft in einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft: Ein Resümee voller Gemeinsamkeiten, Widerprüche und Perspektiven. In: Egner, Heike, Schmid, Martin (Hg.), Jenseits traditioneller Wissenschaft? Zur Rolle von Wissenschaft in einer vorsorgenden Gesellschaft, München: oekom, Seite 229-240.

 

Schmid, Martin and Rittersma, Rengenier (2012): Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730) and the Contemporary Fascination for the Telluric Reign: Transdisciplinary Perspectives from History to Science (TELLUREXPLOR), Workshop Vienna, 19–21 April 2012, Schlußbericht an die Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. Wien und Rotterdam.

 

Schriefl, E., Lauk, Christian, Kalt, G., and Kranzl, L. (2012): Can Austria „feed” itself in a post-fossil world? Proceedings of the 15th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production, 2-4 May 2012, Bregenz, Austria

 

Singh, Simron J. and Haas, Willi (2013): Aid, metabolism and social conflicts in the Nicobar Islands. In: Healy, Hali et al. (Eds.): Ecological Economics from the Ground Up. Earthscan | Routledge, pp. 35-54.

 

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Chertow, Marian, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Conclusion. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 555-562.

 

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Chertow, Marian, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (2013): Introduction. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 1-26.

 

Singh, Simron J., Haberl, Helmut, Chertow, Marian, Mirtl, Michael, and Schmid, Martin (Eds.) (2013): Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in society – nature interactions across spatial and temporal scales (= Human – Environment Interactions, series edited by Emilio Moran, Volume 2)

 

Qiang, W., Liu, A., Cheng, S., Kastner, T., Xie, G., 2013. Agricultural trade and virtual land use: The case of China’s crop trade. Land Use Policy 33, 141–150.

 

Winiwarter, Verena, Schmid, Martin, Hohensinner, Severin, and Haidvogl, Gertrud (2013): The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research. In: Singh, Simron J. et al. (Eds.): Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society – Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. Springer, Human – Environment Interactions, Bd. 2, pp. 103-122.

 

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