This list only shows publications with contributions from DSSE doctoral candidates. Faculty-only publications are not included.

(Highlighted are DSSE doctoral candidates and faculty members) 

2025

Bertsch-Hoermann, B., Izakovičová, Z., T. do Rosário, I., Erb, K.H. Gaube, V. (2025) Assessing land-use communication networks: a comparative study in three European LTSER platforms.

Bisht, A., Chender, I., Krenmayr, N., Santos, C., Tsagkari, M., Hanaček, M., Roy, B. (2025) Dialogue on transversal structural transformations of degrowth. Ksenija Hanaček, Marula Tsagkari, Brototi Roy: “Dialogues for Degrowth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Sustainable and Inclusive Futures”. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Egger, C., Fichtinger, P., Bertsch‑Hörmann, B., Stocker‑Kiss, A., Brendle, C., Peterseil, J., Gaube, V. (2025) A comprehensive guide to socio-ecological data for the LTSER platform Eisenwurzen. Qual Quant. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-025-02193-9.

Egger, C., Weidinger, F., Matej, S., Smet, S., Gaube, V., Mayer, A., 2025. Synergiepotenziale von Landnutzung und Bestäuberinsekten am Beispiel der Eisenwurzen unter sozio- ökonomischen und Klimawandelszenarien. Austrian J. Agric. Econ. Rural Stud. 33, 95–102. https://doi.org/10.15203/OEGA 

Krenmayr, N., Austaller, M., Straßer, L. (2025) Just Friends: Intimate Relations in a Degrowth Future. Ksenija Hanaček, Marula Tsagkari, Brototi Roy: “Dialogues for Degrowth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Sustainable and Inclusive Futures. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Matej, S., Weidinger, F., Kaufmann, L., Roux, N., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., Krausmann, F., Erb, K.-H., 2025. A global land-use data cube 1992–2020 based on the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. Sci. Data 12, 511. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04788-1

Méndez, P.F., Adamescu, M., Bertsch-Hörmann, B., Clement, F. Cohen, M., Diaz-Delgado, R., Dick, J., Fajardo-Ortiz, D., Gaba, S., Gaube, V., Halada, L., Holzer, J., Izakovicova, Z., Orenstein, D.,  Oteros-Rozas, E., Palau-Salvador, G., do Rosário, I., Villamayor-Tomas, S. (2025) Averting lock-in risks in social-ecological systems: a roadmap for pluralistic research and governance.

Roux, N., Coenen, J., Fleischmann, B., Cotta, B., Dorninger, C., Erb, K.-H., Haberl, H., Kaufmann, L., Mayer, A., Newig, J. (2025) Integrating sufficiency in the trade and biodiversity agenda of the European Union. One Earth, 8(7), 101347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101347

2024

Brenner, A.-K., Haas, W., Krüger, T., Matej, S., Haberl, H., Schug, F., Wiedenhofer, D., Behnisch, M., Jaeger, J.A.G., Pichler, M. (2024) What drives densification and sprawl in cities? A spatially explicit assessment for Vienna, between 1984 and 2018. Land Use Policy 138, 107037. doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.107037

Duro, J.A., Perez‐Laborda, A., Löw, M., Matej, S., Plank, B., Krausmann, F., Wiedenhofer, D., Haberl, H. (2024) Spatial patterns of built structures co‐determine nations’ level of resource demand. J. Ind. Ecol. 28, 289–302. doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13470

Erb, K.H., Matej, S., Haberl, H., Gingrich, S. (2024) Sustainable land systems in the Anthropocene: Navigating the global land squeeze. One Earth 7, 1170–1186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.06.011

Erb, K.H. Jandl, R., Tappeiner, U., Baumgarten, A., Bertsch-Hörmann, B., Bethge, P., Bruckman, V., Gingrich, S., Glatzel, S., Kottusch, C., Kraxner, F., Lapin, K., Mehdi-Schulz, B., Raich, J., Schüler, S., Tasser, E., Tötzer, T., Zollitsch, W. (2024) Kapitel 9. Synopsis – Synergien, Zielkonflikte und Umsetzungsbarrieren von Klimaanpassungs- und Klimaschutzmaßnahmen. In: Jandl, R., Tappeiner, U., Foldal, C.B., Erb, K. (eds) APCC Special Report: Landnutzung und Klimawandel in Österreich. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67864-0_11

Haberl, H., Erb, K.-H., Gaube, V., Krausmann, F., Matej, S. (2024) Social Metabolism and Biodiversity, in: Scheiner, S.M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition). Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 526–542

Fleischmann, B., Mayer, A., Görg, C., Pichler, M. (2024) Negotiating biophysical limits in the European Union’s bioeconomy: A critical analysis of two conflicts over regulating biomass use in EU policy. Sustainability Science, 19(6), 1935–1948. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01543-0 

Grabher, H. F., Pichler, M., Rau, H. (2024) Social practices, gender, and materiality: Women’s agency in bioenergy-dependent households and communities in Ethiopia. Energy Research & Social Science, 117. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103736

Grabher, H. F., Erb, KH, Singh, S., Haberl, H. (2024) Household energy systems in the Global South: Tracing material flows from source to service. Ecological Economics, 217. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.108057

Ringeval, B., Demay, J., Goll, D.S., He, X., Wang, Y.-P., Hou, E., Matej, S., Erb, K.H., Wang, R., Augusto, L., Lun, F., Nesme, T., Borrelli, P., Helfenstein, J., McDowell, R.W., Pletnyakov, P., Pellerin, S. (2024) A global dataset on phosphorus in agricultural soils. Sci. Data 11, 17. doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02751-6

Stenzel, F., Braun, J., Breier, J., Erb, K.H., Gerten, D., Heinke, J., Matej, S., Ostberg, S., Schaphoff, S., Lucht, W. (2024) biospheremetrics v1.0.2: an R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators – human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk). Geosci. Model Dev. 17, 3235–3258. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3235-2024

Matej, S., Kaufmann, L., Semenchuk, P., Dullinger, S., Essl, F., Haberl, H., Kalt, G., Kastner, T., Lauk, C., Krausmann, F., Erb, K.H. (2024) Options for reducing a city’s global biodiversity footprint – The case of food consumption in Vienna. J. Clean. Prod. 437, 140712. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140712

Weidinger, F., Matej, S., Lukas Baumbach, et al. (2024) A Parsimonious Downscaling Method for Global Potential Net Primary Production: From 30arcmin to 30arcsec Resolution. ESS Open Archive. doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173109096.66379246/v1

Wiedenhofer, D., Baumgart, A., Matej, S., Virág, D., Kalt, G., Lanau, M., Tingley, D.D., Liu, Z., Guo, J., Tanikawa, H., Haberl, H. (2024) Mapping and modelling global mobility infrastructure stocks, material flows and their embodied greenhouse gas emissions. J. Clean. Prod. 434, 139742. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139742

Yang, X., Zuo, C., Erb, K.H., Matej, S., Fan, Y., Yao, Y., Guo, X., Xu, H., Tan, M. (2024) Tracing agricultural land carbon loss through transregional food consumption for fairness of responsibility allocation. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 206, 107662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.10766

2023

Egger, C., Mayer, A., Bertsch-Hörmann, B., Plutzar, C., Schindler, S., Tramberend, P., Haberl, H.,  Gaube, V. (2023) Effects of extreme events on land-use-related decisions of farmers in Eastern Austria: The role of learning. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 43(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-00890-z 

Grabher, H. F., Rau, H., Ledermann, S.T., Haberl, H. (2023) Beyond cooking: An energy services perspective on household energy use in low and middle income countries. Energy Research & Social Science, 97. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102946

Haberl, H., Löw, M., Perez-Laborda, A., Matej, S., Plank, B., Wiedenhofer, D., Creutzig, F., Erb, K.H., Duro, J.A. (2023) Built structures influence patterns of energy demand and CO2 emissions across countries. Nat. Commun. 14, 3898. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39728-3

Magerl, A., Gingrich, S., Matej, S., Cunfer, G., Forrest, M., Lauk, C., Schlaffer, S., Weidinger, F., Yuskiw, C., Erb, K. (2023) The Role of Wildfires in the Interplay of Forest Carbon Stocks and Wood Harvest in the Contiguous United States During the 20th Century. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 37, e2023GB007813. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007813

Roux, N., Kaufmann, L., Matej, S., Kastner, T., Bondeau, A., Haberl, H., Erb, K. (2023) Product level dataset on embodied human appropriation of net primary production. Data Brief 51, 109725. doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109725

Semenchuk, P., Kalt, G., Kaufmann, L., Kastner, T., Matej, S., Bidoglio, G., Erb, K.H., Essl, F., Haberl, H., Dullinger, S., Krausmann, F. (2023) The global biodiversity footprint of urban consumption: A spatially explicit assessment for the city of Vienna. Sci. Total Environ. 861, 160576. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160576

2022 

Kaufmann, L., Mayer, A., Matej, S., Kalt, G., Lauk, C., Theurl, M.C., Erb, K.-H. (2022) Regional self-sufficiency: A multi-dimensional analysis relating agricultural production and consumption in the European Union. Sustain. Prod. Consum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.08.014

Krenmayr N. (2022) From Waste to Resource? Obstacles and Leverage Points for a more Sustainable and Circular E-waste Management in the EU. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA.

Mayer, A., Kalt, G., Kaufmann, L., Röös, E., Muller, A., Weisshaidinger, R., Frehner, A., Roux, N., Smith, P., Theurl, M.C., Matej, S., Erb, K.H. (2022) Impacts of Scaling up Agroecology on the Sustainability of European Agriculture in 2050. EuroChoices, Special Issue on Insights into Transitions to Agroecological Farming 21, 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12373 

Röös, E., Mayer, A., Muller, A., Kalt, G., Ferguson, S., Erb, K.H., Hart, R., Matej, S., Kaufmann, L., Pfeifer, C., Frehner, A., Smith, P., Schwarz, G. (2022) Agroecological practices in combination with healthy diets can help meet EU food system policy targets. Sci. Total Environ. 847, 157612. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157612

Roux, N., Kaufmann, L., Bhan, M., Le Noe, J., Matej, S., Laroche, P., Kastner, T., Bondeau, A., Haberl, H., Erb, K.H. (2022) Embodied HANPP of feed and animal products: Tracing pressure on ecosystems along trilateral livestock supply chains 1986–2013. Sci. Total Environ. 851, 158198. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158198