CONTENTS

+ News

Job vacancy: Professor of sustainable resource use

US National Science Foundation

CIPRA Competition

Sustainability Award 2008

+ Upcoming Events

ISEE Conference in Nairobi

GRC on Industrial Ecology in New London, NH

+ New Projects

HANPP II

cc.alps

UNEP International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management

+ Public Outreach

Social Ecology in print media

+ Staff news

Habilitation Karlheinz Erb

Habilitation Kurt Kratena

Rigorosum Nina Eisenmenger

Research Award Veronika Gaube

Martin Schmid teaches in Brazil

Verena Winiwarter: Mentoring & Editorial Board

+ New publications

 

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+ News

 

Job vacancy: Professor of sustainable resource use

The Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, part of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies at Alps-Adria University, invites applications for the position of a Professor of sustainable resource use.

The position will be a full professor (according to § 98 UG) for an initial period of three years that may then be transformed into an unlimited contract.

The successful candidate for this position requires, on the basis of a natural science background (preferably biology), a thorough understanding of approaches from social sciences and the humanities and experience in directing interdisciplinary research projects in the field of sustainability science. He or she is expected to contribute to an existing team by developing formalized methods for the empirical analysis of system interrelations and long term trajectories in the societal use of materials, energy, water and land. The new position will be instrumental to advance research into integrated socioecological analysis and modelling and foster the integration of biophysical variables into macroeconomic models as part of international collaboration. The professor should help to establish international master and doctoral programmes in Human and Social Ecology by offering courses in English and by raising funds for doctoral candidates. Candidates should be able to teach in English and German, and have acquired a venia docendi (habilitation) or an equivalent. In case of equal qualification, female candidates will be preferred.

Letters of application can be sent until 23rd of July, 2008. Please find more details on the official announcement: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/career/inhalt/269_489.htm.

 

National Science Fund (USA): Preparing new research initiative “Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change”

At Washington DC, a preparatory workshop was organized by the NSF in May 2008. The goal of this workshop was generate a promising agenda for the sociology of climate change, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary. As only European representative Marina Fischer-Kowalski was asked to contribute.

Contact: Patricia E.White, Program Director Sociology, NSF (pwhite [at] nsf [dot] gov).

 

CIPRA Competition cc.alps: win prizes worth up to €20,000 each

In the course of the project cc.alps, CIPRA, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, is awarding prizes worth a total of €100,000 for exemplary response measures contributing to climate protection or to adapting to the consequences of climate change. The projects submitted will be posted on the internet after the closing date for the competition. The winning projects will be announced separately to the general public in autumn 2008. The closing date is 31 July 2008.

Details: http://www.cipra.org/en/cc.alps/competition

 

Sustainability Award 2008

IFF – the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies received the Sustainability Award 2008 given to institutions for higher education by the Austrian Ministry of Science each second year.

Details: http://www.umweltbildung.at/cgi-bin/cms/af.pl?contentid=11739

 

 

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+ Upcoming Events

 

At the Tenth ISEE Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 7-11, 2008

Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helga Weisz will give a joint keynote on “Transition to a Globally Sustainable Metabolism – Possible and Impossible Futures”.

Details: http://www.ecoeco.org/conference08/home.php

 

The Gordon Research Conference on INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY 2008 under the theme “Transforming The Use Of Energy, Materials, Water And Wastes”, August 17-22, 2008 will be chaired by Faye Duchin and Reid Lifset. Helga Weisz will lead the discussion on “Satisfying Strategic Material Requirements”.

Details: http://www.grc.org/

 

 

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+ New Projects

 

Analyzing global HANPP

In June 2008 the Institute of Social Ecology launched a large project funded by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF, see http://www.fwf.ac.at) aimed at comprehensively analyzing drivers of spatial and temporal patterns in the human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) on the global level. The project will conduct several country-level case studies of the evolution of HANPP over decadal or even centennial time scales. It will analyze long-term, cross-country and panel data to detect socioeconomic as well as natural determinants of HANPP. Causal models of HANPP will be developed as well as a high-resolution global HANPP time series for the period 1700-2005. The science will contribute to the Global Land Project (www.globallandproject.org) as well as to IIASA’s ongoing Global Energy Assessment. The project will run well into 2011.

Contact: Helmut [dot] Haberl [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at.

 

CC.ALPS

Since February 2008 the Institute of Social Ecology has been contributing to cc.alps, a project of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) funded by the swiss MAVA foundation. Cc.alps aims at ensuring that climate response measures are as much in harmony with the principles of sustainable development as possible. To this end, the project gathers, evaluates and communicates climate response measures already implemented in the alpine region. The Institute of Social Ecology is involved particularly in developing an evaluation scheme for the sustainability assessment of these measures. The project will run for 18 months in total and will be finished in June 2009.

Contact: Helmut [dot] Haberl [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at Details: http://www.cipra.org/en/cc.alps

 

UNEP International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management

Upon the initiative from China, the EU, Germany and Japan, the United Nations Environment Program has started an International Partnership for Sustainable Resource Management, chaired by Ernst U. v. Weizsaecker. The Austrian Ministry of the Environment finances scientific support for Marina Fischer-Kowalski in her expert role on the panel.

Contact: marina [dot] fischer-kowalski [at] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at.

 

 

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+ Public Outreach (German only)

 

Wie der Mensch im Ökosystem wirkt

Simron Singh und Veronika Gaube vom Institut für Soziale Ökologie der Universität Klagenfurt modellieren, wie Menschen mit ihren Entscheidungen das Ökosystem beeinflussen.

Universum, Juni 2008, Seite 96

 

Astrid Kuffner

Geistesblitz: Die Globalisierung erfassen

Der Sozialökologe Karlheinz Erb beschäftigt sich mit Landnutzung

Der Standard, 11.Juni 2008, Seite 22

 

Globale Landnutzung: Experten geht Datenbasis verloren

Für Ökologen Karlheinz Erb ist satellitengestützte Datensammlung „sehr wertvoll“, aber „nicht ausreichend“

APA, 30.Mai 2008

 

Helmut Haberl

Klimaschutzlüge „Biotreibstoff“

Der Standard, 11.April 2008, Kommentar der Anderen , Seite 34

 

Verena Winiwarter

Lyrisches Potenzial der Wissenschaftssprache

ORF on Science, 28. März 2008

http://science.orf.at/science/news/151164

 

Astrid Kuffner

Geistesblitz: Der Spurensucher

Fridolin Krausmann analysiert Mensch-Natur Interaktion bis 1800 zurück

Der Standard, 26.März 2008, Seite 18

 

 

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+ Staff News

 

Dr. Karlheinz Erb received his habilitation for Social Ecology after a lecture on „Landnutzung und globaler Wandel. Sozial-ökologische Dimensionen der Landnutzung“ on Monday, 28th April 2008.

 

Dr. Kurt Kratena received his habilitation for Environmental Economics after a lecture on “Das Bewertungsproblem in der Ökologischen VGR im Rahmen eines erweiterten Input-Output Ansatzes“ on Friday, 18th April 2008.

 

Nina Eisenmenger got her PhD on Social Ecology with a presentation on „Die biophysische Seite von internationalem Handel und der globalen Arbeitsteilung“ on Thursday, 17^th April 2008.

 

Veronika Gaube received an award for outstanding research activities of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration on 5^th March 2008.

 

Social Ecology teaches in Brazil

On May 26th Martin Schmid gave a postgraduate course at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro on „A História Ambiental e o Desenvolvimento Sustentável/Environmental History and Sustainable Development“

 

Verena Winiwarter has been asked to be a mentor in the German mentoring program „proProfessur”.

 

Verena Winiwarter is new member of the editorial board of the journal “Environmental History”.

 

 

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+ New Publications

 

Binder, Claudia, Steinberger, Julia K., Brundiers, Katja, Schmidt, Henrik, and Schmid, Alfons (2008): Nachhaltigkeit in der Schweizerischen Milchwertschöpfungskette (Schlussbericht). Social and Industrial Ecology, University of Zurich

Dirnböck, Thomas, Bezák, Peter, Dullinger, Stefan, Haberl, Helmut, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Mirtl, Michael, Peterseil, Johannes, Redpath, Steve, Sing, J. S., Travis, Justin, and Wijdeven, Sander. (2008): Scaling issues in long-term socio-ecological biodiversity research: A review of European cases. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 100).

Eisenmenger, Nina (2008): A Biophysical View on Trade and the International Division of Labour. Dissertation, Institute of Social Ecology, Klagenfurt University.

Eisenmenger, Nina, Krausmann, Fridolin, and Wiesinger, Michaela (2008): Materialflows in the Chinese economy, 1950 to 2005. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper).

Eisenmenger, Nina (2008): Ressourcenproduktivität als politisches Programm und seine Umsetzung in der Praxis. In: Hartard, Susanne et al. (Eds.): Ressourceneffizienz im Kontext der Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, pp. 47-62.

Erb, Karl-Heinz, Wiesinger, Michaela, Gaube, Veronika, Haberl, Helmut, Adensam, Heidi, and Gingrich, Simone (2008): Ecological Footprint Calculator Austria. Update 2007. Wien: Institut für Soziale Ökologie.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Erb, Karl-Heinz, and Singh, Simron J. (2008): Extending BRIM to BRIA: Social monitoring and integrated sustainability assessment. In: Chmielewski, Tadeusz (Ed.): Nature conservation management: From idea to practical results. Lublin: PWZN „Print 6“, pp. 208-219.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (2008): Wie kann Wissenschaft gesellschaftliche Veränderung bewirken? Eine Hommage an Alvin Gouldner, und ein Versuch, mit seinen Mitteln heutige Klimapolitik zu verstehen. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 102).

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Schaffartzik, Anke (2008): Arbeit, gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel und nachhaltige Entwicklung. In: Füllsack, Manfred (Ed.): Verwerfungen moderner Arbeit. Zum Formwandel des Produktiven. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 65-82.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Weisz, Helga (2008): Das industrielle sozialökologische Regime und globale Transitionen. In: Gleich, Arnim v. and Gößling-Reisemann, Stefan (Eds.): Industrial Ecology: Erfolgreiche Wege zu nachhaltigen industriellen Systemen. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, pp. 181-201.

Gingrich, Simone, Balas, Maria, Drack, Andreas, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Formayer, Herbert, Haberl, Helmut, Hackl, Josef, Kromp-Kolb, Helga, Mayer, Sabine, Pazdernik, Karin, Radunsky, Klaus, and Schwarzl, Ingeborg (2008): Anpassungsstudie – Ist-Stand-Erhebung zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Österreich. Wien: Institut für Soziale Ökologie, Umweltbundesamt, Institut für Meteorologie der Universität für Bodenkultur, OÖ Akademie für Umwelt und Natur für AustroClim.

Haberl, Helmut, 2008. Energy in the Alps. In: CIPRA (ed.) Alps Know How. CIPRA International, Schaan, Liechtenstein (on CD).

Haberl, Helmut (2008): Measuring humanity’s draw on terrestrial ecosystems – the HANPP approach. In: GLP News (3), pp. 6-7.

Haberl, Helmut, 2008. Terrestrische Ökosysteme. Nachwachsende Rohstoffe – Mitteilungen der Fachbereichsarbeitsgruppe. Nr. 48, S. 3.

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, Karl-Heinz, and Krausmann, Fridolin (2008): Global human appropriation of net primary production. In: Earth Portal (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Earth. [online] http://www.eoearth.org/.

Haberl, Helmut (2008): Klimaschutzlüge „Biokraftstoff“. In: Der Standard. pp. 34-34.

Krausmann, Fridolin, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gingrich, Simone, Lauk, Christian, and Haberl, Helmut (2008): Global patterns of socioeconomic biomass flows in the year 2000: A comprehensive assessment of supply, consumption and constraints. In: Ecological Economics 65(3), pp. 471-487.

Krausmann, Fridolin, Schandl, Heinz, and Sieferle, Rolf P. (2008): Socio-ecological regime transitions in Austria and the United Kingdom. In: Ecological Economics 65(1), pp. 187-201.

Krausmann, Fridolin and Schneider, Petra (2008): Transformationen. Das moderne Energiesystem. In: Wissenschaft und Umwelt Interdisziplinär 11, pp. 104-110.

Krausmann, Fridolin (2008): Land Use and Socio-economic Metabolism in Pre-industrial Agricultural Systems: Four 19th Century Austrian Villages in Comparison. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 72).

Pimentel, David, Patzek, Ted, Siegert, Florian, Giampietro, Mario, and Haberl, Helmut (2008): Biofuel in question. In: New Scientist 197(2369), pp. 18-18.

Schwarzlmüller, Elmar (2008): Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) in Spain, 1955-2003: a social-ecological analysis. Vienna: IFF Social Ecology (Social Ecology Working Paper; 99).

Smetschka, Barbara, Gaube, Veronika, and Lutz, Juliana (2008): Gender als forschungsleitendes Prinzip in der transdisziplinären Nachhaltigkeitsforschung. In: Reitinger, Elisabeth (Ed.): Transdisziplinäre Praxis. Heidelberg: Carl-Auer Verlag, pp. 23-34.

Winiwarter, Verena (2008): Nationalized Nature on Picture Postcards: Subtexts of Tourism from an Environmental Perspective. In: Global Environment 1, pp. 164-187.

Winiwarter, Verena and Schmid, Martin (2008): Umweltgeschichte als Untersuchung sozionaturaler Schauplätze? Ein Versuch, Johannes Colers „Oeconomia“ umwelthistorisch zu interpretieren. In: Knopf, Thomas (Ed.): Umweltverhalten in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Vergleichende Ansätze. Göttingen: Attempto, pp. 158-173.

Winiwarter,Verena and Blum,Winfried E. H. (2008): From marl to rock powder: On the history of soil fertility management by rock materials. In: Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 171,3, pp. 316-324.

Winiwarter, Verena (2008): Sozialökologische Perspektiven auf die Geschichte der Landwirtschaft. In: Markus Cerman, Ilja Steffelbauer, Sven Tost (eds.), Agrarrevolutionen. Verhältnisse in der Landwirtschaft vom Neolithikum zur Globalisierung. (= Querschnitte, Bd. 24) Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen, Studienverlag, pp. 227-248.

Winiwarter, Verena (2008): Umweltberichte: Viel hilft viel? Editorial. In: GAIA 17 (2), 177.

Winiwarter, Verena (2008): Rezension von Catrin GERSDORF, Sylvia MAYER (eds.), Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, 2006. In: Environmental History 13 (1), 2008, 182-183.

 

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