IFF Social Ecology e-Newsletter No. 19 – February 2009
CONTENTS
+ News
– Journal of Industrial Ecology – Special Issue
– New “Social Ecology Working Papers” Online
– Download Area – Social Ecology Data
– Summer semester 2009: Course information online
+ Upcoming Events
– World Resources Forum, Davos, September 2009
– International Symposium on “Society and Resource Management”, Vienna, July 2009
– International Conference on “Human Ecology”, Manchester, June 2009
– 2009 ISIE Conference, Lisboa, June 2009
– CIPRA: Cool minds in the greenhouse, Bolzano, April 2009
– 28th ZUG Minisymposium: Heike Weber, Vienna, March 2009
+ New Projects
– Adaptation Strategy
– CEECEC
– Exhibition Ardagger
– Global Biomass Scenarios
– Glometra
– Global Use of Ecosystems
– Green policies in the sustainability triangle
– Our environment has a history
– Sustainable Hospital – Transfer
– White Paper LTER
– Youth@Risk
+ Public Outreach
– Social Ecology in the media
+ Staff news
– Helga Weisz after Yale University to PIK Potsdam
– Guest professor: Lorenz Hilty
– Guest professor: Arild Vatn
– New professor for sustainable resource use – list
– Junior professor in environmental history – list
+ New publications
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+News
– Journal of Industrial Ecology – Special Issue
Helga Weisz, Heinz Schandl (guest eds.) 2008. Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures. Journal of Industrial Ecology 12(5-6): 629-819.
This special issue of the renowned “Journal of Industrial Ecology” assembles a must-read collection of papers on global socioeconomic metabolism. It contains several articles authored by scientists of the Institute of Social Ecology as well as papers from renowned material flow scholars across the world.
– New „Social Ecology Working Papers“ Online
10 new Social Ecology Working Papers including 7 diploma thesis can be ordered or downloaded at:
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1818.htm
– Download Area – Social Ecology Data
The Institute of Social Ecology’s download area provides a host of valuable data for free download, among them global HANPP, land-use and biomass flow data as well as data on the agrarian-industrial transition in the Czech republic. New data on C flows in Austria 1830-2000 will be added soon. Watch out! http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1088.htm
– Summer Semester 2009: 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: lehre [dot] socec [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
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+ Upcoming Events
– World Resources Forum, Davos, September 2009
An excellent occasion to raise the sustainable resource use issue in the context of the current economic crisis. Marina Fischer-Kowalski will act as a chair and keynote speaker.
Details: http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/
– International Symposium on “Society and Resource Management”, Vienna, July 2009
BOKU, Vienna, July 5-8, 2009
The 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management will be hosted by The University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) from July 5 – 8, 2009 in Vienna, Austria. The symposium will discuss methodological as well as practical issues of resource management. It will explore cultural and political influences on planning and decision making processes. The organizers stress the need for transdisciplinary and transboundary approaches.
Details: http://www.issrm09.info/
– International Conference on “Human Ecology”, Manchester, June 2009
The 2009 conference on “Human Ecology for an Urbanising world” will be jointly convened by the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council and the Society for Human Ecology and held in Manchester, UK, June 29th to July 3rd, 2009.
The Institute of Social Ecology is involved in organizing two potential sessions: “The urban metabolism approach” (contact anke [dot] schaffartzik [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at) and “Urbanization and land-system change” (contact helmut [dot] haberl [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at). Abstracts are welcome until May 1st, 2009. The session organizers will be glad to provide potential contributers with further information.
http://www.societyforhumanecology.org/
– 2009 ISIE Conference, Lisboa, June 2009
The 5th International Conference on Industrial Ecology on „Transitions Toward Sustainability” will be held on 21-24 June 2009, in Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal.
Details: http://www.isie2009.com/
– CIPRA: Cool minds in the greenhouse, Bolzano, April 2009
What do we do to respond to climate change? Do we know what effects our actions have on society, economy and environment? The international conference “Cool minds in the greenhouse – conscious action during climate change” gives answers to these questions.
The conference will take place on April 2-3, 2009 in Bolzano, Italy, and will be held in all alpine languages (not in english). It is organised by CIPRA international and the City of Bolzano.
Details: http://www.cipra.org/de/cc.alps/090204Programm_d.pdf
– 28th ZUG Minisymposium: Heike Weber
„Am Ende des Warenstroms? – Zur Geschichte des Hausmülls im deutsch-französischen Vergleich“
Dr. Heike Weber, Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Berlin
IFF Wien, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien
Thursday, 26. March 2009, 18.00 – 20.00
Details: http://www.iff.ac.at/umweltgeschichte/
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+ New Projects
Adaptation Strategy – first action recommendations
Based on the project “Investigation of the actual state for the adaptation to climate change” (12/08 – 03/08) which supplies an overview of research activities and practical measures of the adaptation to climate change in Austria, the present project was supposed to identify first recommendations for action for selected areas for the adaptation to climate change in Austria. From 06/08 – 10/08 a survey with interviews of hundreds of experts, as well as 5 expert workshops with altogether about 50 experts was carried out to identify their recommendations for action for in the areas of agriculture, forestry, water management, energy-/electricity generation as well as tourism. In this context recommendations for action refer to gaps in knowledge, need for further research and essential framework development as well as proposals for concrete measures. The results were presented at the “3. Workshop on a strategy for climate change adaptation” hosted by the BMLFUW. The investigation will form the basis for future political agenda setting.
Both these projects were realized for AustroClim by order of the BMLFUW by the IFF Institute of Social Ecology, University of Klagenfurt, the Federal Environmental Agency and the Institute of Meteorology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna.
More information and downloads: http://umwelt.lebensministerium.at/article/articleview/71342/1/7073/
Contact: willi [dot] haas [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
CEECEC
Ecological Economics is a scientific community with a variety of methods to determine the impacts of civil initiatives on both the social system and the physical environment. These methods could be useful to NGOs/CSOs if they are conveyed to and applied by them in their work, at the same time they should be adapted to NGO/CSO needs. In turn NGOs can offer knowledge from practical experience, which could enable Ecological Economics to further develop its scientific concepts and tools and make them accessible to a broader community, as well as increasing its influence in terms of policy making. Within the present project, which is being funded by the EU’s RP7 program, such Ecological Economics – NGO/CSO cooperation is being put to the test based on different case studies. The project is being coordinated by the University of Barcelona (UAB – Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals) under the lead of Prof. Dr. Joan Martinez Alier and got underway at a kick-off meeting in Paris in mid April, 2008.
Project partners involved include scientists from 6 different research institutions, amongst them IFF, and representatives from 8 different NGOs/CSOs from all over the world. The case studies span from a study in Cameroon on the impacts of French logging on the livelihoods of the local people, to a case study in India about the possibilities provided by the Rural Employment Guarantee Act for the development of a local community. They further include studies in Italy, Brazil, Ecuador and Croatia on topics such as waste management, impacts of the Pan-European Corridor, infrastructure, forest protection, tourism, national park management etc. Key ecological economic tools and concepts that might be of use and applied in these cases range from environmental indicators such as Material Flow Accounting (MFA) and Human Apprpriation of Net-Primary Production (HANPP) to decision-making tools such as Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) and concepts such as ecosystem services, natural capital, resilience and so forth.
Case studies will be revised within a stepwise process, through conference between researchers and NGOs/CSOs and results put together in a handbook, which will be translated into different languages. This will be placed online as part of a practice-orientated platform, which will be devised, based on the lessons learned within the project. The intention behind this platform is not only to make ecological economic tools more accessible to NGOs/CSOs to use in their work but also to engage them in the Ecological Economic research community.
Contact: willi [dot] haas [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
Exhibition Ardagger
The provincial government of Lower Austria has announced an exhibition about the environmental history of the Danube. It will be held from May-October, 2010 in the 18th century parish house in Ardagger-Markt, a small village adjacent to the Danube close to the Upper Austrian border. The Centre for Environmental History has been invited to submit a proposal and is now curating the exhibition. The show will feature historical artifacts on floods, river regulation, habitat changes and land-use in alluvial areas, to name but the most important themes. In cooperation with the University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources (BOKU), the Institute will provide not only the exhibit but also produce a catalogue with scholarly articles on the various subjects. In close co-operation with the provincial archive we hope to interest a wider public in the environmental history of the Danube, showing how humans have dealt with these highly dynamic ecosystems. Fishes and plants will be used to offer non-anthropocentric narratives which should allow visitors to reflect their own relationship to “nature”. The project is lead by Verena Winiwarter, with Martin Schmid as Co-Leader.
Contact: verena [dot] winiwarter [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
Global Biomass Scenarios
Population growth and increasing meat demand, above all in Southern and South-East Asia, contribute to a surge in biomass demand for food and fodder. Moreover, ambitious programmes aim at a promotion of bio-energy production and use. At the same time, more than three quarters of the global land area are already used more or less intensively by humans: as settlement, industrial or traffic areas, cropland, forestry or as grazing lands for livestock. This project aims at a global analysis of the following questions: To what extent can the aims of improving humanity’s food supply (qualitatively and quantitatively) and increasing bio-energy production be reconciled? What will be the impact of global climate change? What could be the contribution of changes in dietary patterns? What would be the impact of a promotion of organic agriculture?
Contact: helmut [dot] haberl [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
GLOMETRA – The global metabolic transition
The size of the physical economy has multiplied during industrialization. Socioeconomic material and energy flows have reached a volume that interferes with global biogeochemical cycles and increased the scope and complexity of environmental problems. The concept of social metabolism recognizes that all economic activity is based on a throughput of materials and energy and it relates, conceptually and methodologically, to the (monetary) system of national accounts and to ecosystem analysis. It allows the systematic treatment of sustainability problems occurring both at the input side (related to resource provision) and at the output side (related to wastes and emissions) of socio-economic systems and has emerged as a key concept in sustainability science.
This project takes a systemic and long term view upon global social metabolism and its transformations. It will provide a country-by-country comprehensive global database for socio-economic material and energy flows for at least ten points in time during the last 100 years. It will analyse temporal and cross country patterns of social metabolism and their underlying bio-geographical and socioeconomic drivers such as population and economic growth. Special attention will be given to the interrelation of energy use (and available energy services) and material flows. The project will establish a typology of countries with respect to their metabolic characteristics (metabolic profiles). Based on time series data, it will investigate metabolic transitions and identify differences in development pathways and trajectories, thus exploring potentials and limitations for shifts towards a more sustainable industrial metabolism.
This research will allow to draw conclusions on the characteristics of ongoing transition processes and the role of globalisation for changing patterns of resource use. It will show if newly industrializing countries are following the (resource intensive) path of industrialization observed historically or if also other, more sustainable paths are emerging. This provides important background information for the development of policies for sustainable resource use and the restructuring of industrial metabolism required for the protection of the climate system.
Contact: fridolin [dot] krausmann [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
Global Use of Ecosystems – GLP endorsed project
The project “Global Use of Ecosystems – Patterns, dynamics and implications of the global human use of terrestrial ecosystems” aims to enhance an integrated understanding of socioeconomic as well as of natural drivers and implications of the global human use of terrestrial ecosystems. It is focused on one major integrated socio-ecological indicator, the human appropriation of net primary production (abbreviated HANPP). Other measures of human use of ecosystems will be investigated as well, including human-induced changes in nutrient flows (above all N).
Contact: helmut [dot] haberl [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
Green policies in the sustainability triangle
Considering economic, ecological, and social dimensions in an integrated manner is important if we want to move towards sustainable development. This could hardly have been proven more starkly than by the food crisis of 2008. A series of feedback loops between stock market trends, changes in farming practices, and rising crop prices led to acute social crises in many parts of the world. Can politics adequately react to such multi-dimensional problems? Together with the Austrian Green Foundation for Education (Grüne Bildungswerkstatt GBW), a team from the Institute of Social Ecology is pursuing this question in relation to sustainable development. The conceptual model used to inform this cooperation between science and politics is the “sustainability triangle”: It allows for the depiction of positive and negative feedback loops between the economic, the ecological, and the social sphere. Both for the grass roots of the Austrian Greens and its politicians, the application of this model enables a more holistic policy assessment, for example allowing for the analysis of the ecological and social effects which economic measures might have. The workshops jointly organised by the Institute of Social Ecology and the GBW provide an opportunity for in-depth political reflection of policy alternatives for which there is often hardly time in the day-to-day bustle of party politics.
Contact: marina [dot] fischer-kowalski [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at, anke [dot] schaffartzik [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
Our environment has a history – Sparkling Science project
„Our environment has a history“ supports students of a technical secondary school in independent scholarly research on Austrian environmental history. Students are introduced to scholarly research and issues of environmental history in several excursions. On the basis of these experiences, and supported by environmental historians and didacticists the students develop research questions and research designs. Thus, they introduce new topics to environmental history which are relevant to young people interested in technology. The students conduct their research primarily during the „project week“, held in the school each February. The products of the project distribute the results in schools and the scholarly community.
The project is monitored by didactics: Didacticists facilitate common workshops and thus foster successful communication between school and academic scholarship. Concomitant research during the project week yields insights for future cooperation between schools and science. In addition, accompanying evaluation serves as quality control during the course of the project.
In order to ensure lasting effects of the projects, teaching materials on environmental history are developed and provided online for free download. Continuing education seminars for teachers on environmental history are prepared during the project. A university course will introduce the supervision of environmental history school projects into academic teaching.
Contact: verena [dot] winiwarter [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at, simone [dot] gingrich [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
Sustainable Hospital – Transfer
Following two successful “Fabrik der Zukunft” projects on the theme of sustainable hospitals (“Feasibility study” 2004-2005 and “Testing the sustainable hospital” 2006-2008) the cross-disciplinary team aims for distributing the results and key findings from the four-year cross-disciplinary cooperation beyond the pilot hospital itself to the Viennese hospital association (Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund) and its hospitals, the national and international networks of Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) as well as to hospital management, health promotion and transdisciplinary research communities. The contents of the transfer strategy include a “sustainable hospital instruction” which will be designed to look like a medicine packet complete with an instruction leaflet.
The project “The sustainable hospital – transfer” (10/2008-03/2010; funded by the BMVIT Fabrik der Zukunft) is a cooperation involving the Viennese Otto Wagner Hospital, the Vienna Hospital Association and the Berlin Immanuel Diakonie Group with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Institute of Social Ecology and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research.
Contact: ulli [dot] weisz [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
White Paper LTER
LTER Austria, the Austrian research association for Long-Term Ecological Research, is currently developing a so called “White Paper” elaborating its research strategy. LTER Austria combines the research capacity in Austria in the research fields Long-Term Ecosystem Research, Long-Term Biodiversity Research and Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research covers environmental history as well as historical sustainability science. The Institute of Social Ecology is intensively involved in the preparation of the White Paper by delivering and refining the conceptual framework of the Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER). The project is led by the Austrian Environmental Agency.
Contact: helmut [dot] haberl [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at, veronika [dot] gaube [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
Youth@Risk – Sparkling Science project
The main focus of the project “Youth@Risk: Risk Perception and Young People” is the exploration of risk perception of adolescents in a research process involving young people actively. In an research-education-cooperation students of the secondary school ‚Gymnasium Schlierbach‘ will investigate risk perception together with researchers of the Institute for Pharmaeconomic Research, the Austrian Institute of Ecology and the Institute for Social Ecology. The risks young people perceive will be analyzed in relation to urban/rural differences, scientific knowledge on and media coverage of risks.
The adolescents are learning to apply social sciences methods (e.g. social simulation, questionnaires, media monitoring) in cooperation with the researchers. So, teachers and pupils are getting to know methods, which can be integrated in other school work and activities.
The project will be evaluated by the Institute for Development of Education and School. The results should be embedded in the configuration of long term cooperations between schools and researchers on the one hand, and in the integration of the research-education-cooperation into the mission statement of ‚Gymnasium Schlierbach‘ on the other hand.
Contact: willi [dot] haas [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at
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+ Public Outreach (German only)
Helmut Haberl
Bioenergie: Ja, aber richtig!
ORF on Science, 20. Februar 2009, http://science.orf.at/science/news/154578
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+ Staff News
Helga Weisz, after returning from her guest professorship at Yale University, has accepted a call from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) to become co-chair of the research domain climate impacts & vulnerability by April this year. We understand that this is a very interesting new challenge and opportunity for her, and wish her all the best for this new step in her career – even if we will badly miss her.
Lorenz Hilty from EMPA (St. Gallen) has now returned to his workplace after spending a semester with us as a guest professor and highly esteemed research fellow during his sabbatical. We have enjoyed his company very much, both intellectually and personally.
Arild Vatn from the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Norway will visit the Institute of Social Ecology for a Guest Professorship on „Institutional Perspectives on Environmental Governance“ from April 21 to 23, 2009.
For the Institute’s new professorship for sustainable resource use, after reviewing many and highly qualified candidates, the commission has submitted the following list to the Rector of Klagenfurt University: 1. Edgar Hertwich, 2. Fridolin Krausmann, 3. Claudia Binder.
Martin Schmid is listed (place 2) for the position of a Junior Professor in environmental history at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany.
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+ New Publications
Darnhofer, Ika, Auer, Ingeborg, Eckmüllner, Otto, Gaube, Veronika, Kirchengast, Anna, Loibl, Wolfgang, Pröbstl, Ulrike, Prutsch, Andrea, Seebacher, Ulrike, Vospernik, Sonja, and Weigelhofer, Gabriele (2008): Forschungs-Bildungs-Kooperation – Erste Erfahrungen aus transdisziplinärer Forschung mit Kindern und Jugendlichen. In: International Journal of Sustainability Communication 2, pp. 45-59.
Eisenmenger, Nina, Haas, Willi, Krausmann, Fridolin, Moll, Stephan, Schütz, Helmut, and Weisz, Helga (2008): Development of material use in the EU-25 time series. Final Report to Eurostat. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology.
Eisenmenger, Nina, Gaube, Veronika, Mayer, Andreas, and Do Nascimento, Fernanda S. (2008): IARU – Integrated Assessment of Resource Use in Lençóis Maranhenses, Northeast Brazil. Final report to the ÖNB Jubiläumsfonds. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology.
Erb, Karl-Heinz and Klein Goldewijk, Kees (2008): Global land use mapping workshop. Vienna, Austria, May 22 – 23th 2008. In: GLP News 4, pp. 31-31.
Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gingrich, Simone, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Haberl, Helmut (2008): Industrialization, fossil fuels and the transformation of land use: An integrated analysis of carbon flows in Austria 1830-2000. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 12(5-6), pp. 686-703.
Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gingrich, Simone, Gaube, Veronika, Gavrilova, Olga, Haberl, Helmut, Kastner, Thomas, Krausmann, Fridolin, Weisz, Helga, and Zandl, Stefan (2008): Kohlenstoffhaushalt und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Zusammenhänge von Kohlenstoffflüssen und sozioökonomischer Dynamik in Österreich 1830-2000. Endbericht an die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wien: IFF Soziale Ökologie.
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2008): Book review: Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems by Vaclav Smil, MIT Press, Cambridge. In: Regional Environmental Change 8(4), published online: 10 October 2008.
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Schaffartzik, Anke (2008): Ökologisierung der Arbeit? Arbeit, gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel und nachhaltige Entwicklung. In: Washietl, Engelbert and Pfisterer, Eva (Eds.): Arbeit – der Mensch zwischen Fremd- und Selbstbestimmung. Wien: LIT Verlag, pp. 131-145.
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Mayer, Andreas (2008): Umwelt und Ökologie. In: Forster, Rudolf (Ed.): Forschungs- und Anwendungsbereiche der Soziologie. Wien: Facultas Verlag, pp. 266-281.
Fritsch, Michaela and Haberl, Helmut (2008): Menschliche Landnutzung beansprucht Ökosysteme. Auswirkungen der globalen Nutzung über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahrhunderten untersucht. In: Wasser, Luft und Boden – Zeitschrift für Umwelttechnik (9), pp. 23-24.
Gaube, Veronika, Kaiser, Christina, Wildenberg, Martin, Adensam, Heidelinde, Fleissner, Peter, Kobler, Johannes, Lutz, Juliana, Smetschka, Barbara, Wolf, Angelika, Richter, Andreas, and Haberl, Helmut (2008): Ein integriertes Modell für Reichraming. Partizipative Entwicklung von Szenarien für die Gemeinde Reichraming (Eisenwurzen) mit Hilfe eines agentenbasierten Landnutzungsmodells. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 106).
Gaube, Veronika, Adensam, Heidi, Gingrich, Simone, Haberl, Helmut, Kaiser, Christina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Lutz, Juliana, Richter, Andreas, Smetschka, Barbara, and Wildenberg, Martin (2008): LTSER Eisenwurzen – Integrierte Modellierung von gesellschaftlichen und ökosystemaren Stoff- und Materialflüssen. Endbericht an das BMWF, proVISION Programm. Wien: IFF Soziale Ökologie.
Gingrich, Simone and Krausmann, Fridolin (2008): Der soziale Metabolismus lokaler Produktionssysteme. Reichraming in der oberösterreichischen Eisenwurzen 1830-2000. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 107).
Gingrich, Simone (2008): Historical sustainability research: Past processes and current challenges. In: Szabo, Péter and Hédl, Radim (Eds.): Human Nature: Studies in Historical Ecology and Environmental History. Brno: Institute of Botany of the ASCR, pp. 28-35.
Haas, Willi and Weisz, Ulli (2008): Das nachhaltige Krankenhaus. Eine wirtschaftsbezogene Grundlagenforschung zur praktischen Erprobung in einem Pilotkrankenhaus. Endbericht an den FFG. Wien: IFF Soziale Ökologie.
Haas, Willi, Weisz, Ulli, Pelikan, Jürgen, Schmid, Hermann, Purzner, Karl, Hartl, Sylvia, and Himpelmann, Monika (2008): Das nachhaltige Krankenhaus. Eine wirtschaftsbezogene Grundlagenforschung zur Erprobung in einem Pilotkrankenhaus. Endbericht an das BMVIT, Programmlinie Fabrik der Zukunft. Wien: IFF Soziale Ökologie.
Haas, Willi, Weber, Mirjam, Reiter, Karl, Wrbka, Thomas, Prinz, Martin, Kaufmann, Rüdiger, and Erschbamer, Brigitta (2008): Footprints, MaB Biosphärenpark Ötztal, Phase 2. Endbericht an das Nationalkomitee der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.
Haas, Willi, Weisz, Ulli, Balas, Maria, McCallum, Sabine, Lexer, Wolfgang, Pazdernik, Wolfgang, Prutsch, Andrea, Radunsky, Klaus, Formayer, Herbert, Kromp-Kolb, Helga, and Schwarzl, Ingeborg (2008): Identifikation von Handlungsempfehlungen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Österreich. Erste Phase. Bericht für AustroClim im Auftrag des Lebensministeriums. Wien: IFF Soziale Ökologie.
Haberl, Helmut (2008): Ein weiter Weg zur Nachhaltigkeit: Analysen sozialökologischer Übergänge zeigen das Ausmaß nötiger Veränderungen auf. In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 24(3), pp. 36-55.
Haberl, Helmut (2008): Kosmetik als Anti-Inflations-Strategie? In: Der Standard. S. 34.
Haidvogl, Gertrud and Schmid, Martin (2008): Towards and environmental history of the Danube: Long-term socio-ecological research on a European watershed. In: Teodorovic, Ivana et al. (Eds.): The Danube River in a Changing World. 37th IAD Conference, Chisinau, Moldowa, 29.10.-1.11.2008. Limnological Reports 37 Proceedings. Chisinau, pp. 204-209.
Kitzes, Justin A., Galli, Allessandro, Bagliani, Marco, Barrett, John, Dige, Gorm, Ede, Sharon, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Giljum, Stefan, Haberl, Helmut, Hails, Chris, Jolia-Ferrier, Laurent, Jungwirth, Sally, Lenzen, Manfred, Lewis, Kevin, Loh, Jonathan, Marchettini, Nadia, Messinger, Hans, Milne, Krista, Moles, Richard, Monfreda, Chad, Moran, Dan, Nakano, Katsura, Pyhälä, Aili, Rees, William, Simmons, Craig, Wackernagel, Mathis, Wada, Yoshihiko, Walsh, Connor, and Wiedmann, Thomas (2008): A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts. In: Ecological Economics, published online 31.8.2008.
Krausmann, Fridolin (2008): Die Landwirtschaft Niederösterreichs in sozialökologischer Perspektive. In: Melichar, Peter et al. (Eds.): Niederösterreich im 20. Jahrhundert. Band 2: Wirtschaft. Wien: Böhlau, pp. 261-269.
Krausmann, Fridolin, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Schandl, Heinz, and Eisenmenger, Nina (2008): The global socio-metabolic transition: past and present metabolic profiles and their future trajectories. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology 12(5/6), pp. 637-656.
Krausmann, Fridolin, Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Wiesinger, Michaela, Gaube, Veronika and Gingrich, Simone (2009): What determines geographical patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production? Journal of Land Use Science 4 (1):15-34.
Kuskova, Petra, Gingrich, Simone, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2008): Long term changes in social metabolism and land use in Czechoslovakia, 1830-2000: An energy transition under changing political regimes. In: Ecological Economics 68(1-2), pp. 394-407.
Newig, Jens, Haberl, Helmut, Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, and Rothman, Dale (2008): Formalised and Non-Formalised Methods in Resource Management, Knowledge and Learning in Participatory Processes. Special Issue of Systemic Practice and Action Research 21(6), 381-515.
Newig, Jens, Haberl, Helmut, Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, and Rothman, Dale (2008): Formalised and Non-Formalised Methods in Resource Management, Knowledge and Learning in Participatory Processes. An Introduction. In: Systemic Practice and Action Research 21(6), pp. 381-387.
Newig, Jens, Gaube, Veronika, Berkhoff, Karin, Kaldrack, Kai, Kastens, Britta, Lutz, Juliana, Schlußmeier, Bianca, Adensam, Heidelinde, and Haberl, Helmut (2008): The Role of Formalisation, Participation and Context in the Success of Public Involvement Mechanisms in Resource Management. In: Systemic Practice and Action Research 21(6), pp. 423-441.
Ornetzeder, Michael, Hertwich, Edgar G., Hubacek, Klaus, Korytarova, Katharina, and Haas, Willi (2008): The environmental effect of car-free housing: A case in Vienna. In: Ecological Economics 65(3), pp. 516-530.
Schandl, Heinz, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Grünbühel, Clemens M., and Krausmann, Fridolin (2008): Socio-metabolic transitions in developing Asia. In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change 76(2), pp. 267-281.
Schmid, Martin and Haidvogl, Gertrud (2008): Coupling the long-term dynamics of natural and social systems: Towards an environmental history of the Danube. In: Szábo, Peter and Hédl, Radim (Eds.): Human Nature: Studies in Historical Ecology and Environmental History. Brno, pp. 64-73.
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