Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo)

Sustainable management...

... of scarce natural resources and environmental goods
Scientific analysis...

... of economic, political and social processes, as well as technological and social innovations
Bioeconomy...

... knowledge-based production and use of biological resources for a sustainable economy
Our courses...

... cover economic, social, political and legal sciences
Integration...

... of approaches from economic and social sciences with natural sciences and engineering
Understanding consumer behaviour...

... for satisfied customers and innovative products

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3rd Coffee Research Talk – What is in your morning coffee:

True prices, quality standards, realities and authentic connections? 29 September 2023

Opportunity to share with Jennifer Valbuena (La Red de Productores Ecológicos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia), Josinta Kabugho (Bukonzo Organic Farmers Cooperative Union, Uganda), Allan Mubiru (Kaffee Kooperative.de, Rwanda/Germany), Austrian-based roasters, BOKU student Florian Schanznig and Xiomara F. Quiñones Ruiz (Postdoc researcher at BOKU); followed by a discussion over coffee and ending with an informal tasting (cupping) of diverse coffee origins

Cover: Book by Richard C. Hoffmann "The Catch"

Three European Fisheries Evolutions of the Later Middle Ages

280. Institutsseminar des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte und dem Institut für Hydrobiologie und Gewässermanagement der BOKU
Vortrag: Prof. Richard C. Hoffmann / Moderation: Gertrud Haidvogl

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Dissertation Defense

Sonja Bauernschuster

The nexus between climate change mitigation and development in Laos

Time / Place: 24.10.2023, 10:00 / Institute of Social Ecology, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien, SR 4c

Who we are

The Department accommodates all research and teaching activities in economics, social sciences, humanities and law at BOKU. We are a unique academic organisation in this field in Austria. We synthesize economic, political, social, ecological and ethical aspects. Innovation, inter- and transdisciplinarity as well as internationality define our department culture.

The fields of teaching and research are:

Economics, policy and law of the agricultural, food, forestry, energy and transport sectors,
Sustainable development and social transformation,
Bio-resources management, environmental policy and environmental history,
Economics, political sciences, sociology and law of climate change,
Sociology and rural development,
Management strategies of value chains of food and biomass,
Optimisation and (e)valuation of managerial and economic processes in agriculture, forestry, timber industry, environmental and food sector,
Social ecology and social metabolism.