CONTENTS

+ News

– Winter Semester 2009/10: Course information online

– Sustainability Studies: online

– ERC Starting Grant

– FP 7 project: Volante

– Rio +20

+ Upcoming Events

– Ester Boserup conference 2010, Vienna

– Alter Net conference 2010, Vienna

– CFA: ISIE 2011, Berkeley

– ZUG MiniSymposium, Vienna

+ Public Outreach

– START

– IPCC

– NKH

+ Staff news

+ New publications

 

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+ News

 

– Winter Semester 2010/11: Course information online

Detailed information can be found on our website: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/255.htm

For further information please contact: michael [dot] neundlinger [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at

 

– www.sustainabilitystudies.at: New website online!

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

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

 

– ERC Starting Grant for Karlheinz Erb

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

 

– New EU FP 7 project: VOLANTE

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

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+ Upcoming Events

 

– Ester Boserup Conference 2010 – A Centennial Tribute

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

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

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

 

– Alternet Conference 2010 in Vienna

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

 

– Call for Abstracts open: ISIE 2011

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

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

– 39. ZUG Minisymposium:: Tait Keller

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

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

IFF Vienna, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien

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

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

 

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

 

– IPCC: Klimarat stellt neue Expertenrunde auf

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

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

 

– ERC-Starting-Grant an Kärntner Sozialökologen

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

http://derstandard.at/1282273514645/Namen

 

– www.nachhaltigkeit.at

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

 

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+ Staff News

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

Lluís Parcerisas Benedé (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain),

Oana Musceleanu (University of Bucharest, Romania),

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

Radka Stružková (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic).

 

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+ New Publications

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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