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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Registration for Summer School Samothraki (Greece)

Now open until April 15th

Foto: Barbara Plank mit Prüfungskommission

Congratulations Barbara Plank!

We warmly congratulate Barbara Plank on defending her doctoral thesis with distinction: From resource extraction to final consumption: Enhancing material flow accounting towards a better understanding of economic supply chains

Dissertation Defense

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.