Responsible travel in sustainability science: How to overcome our dilemma of studying global connections and the urge to travel less

# Blog
Travel-related emissions and the proportion of academia’s carbon-footprint has become a debated issue, especially among researchers working on sustainability. While some “walk the talk” and fly less individually, others urge for stronger collective government action. Blog by Louise Marie Busck Lumholt, Johanna Coenen, Perrine Laroche, Nicolas Roux, Kathrin Trommler from the European Innovative Training Network (ITN) COUPLED.
Fridolin Krausmann | Foto: Pilo Pichler

Fridolin Krausmann erklärt das Projekt "BIODIV VIENNA"

# Kurzfilm
Klicken Sie hier und lassen sie sich das vom WWTF geförderte Projekt "Vienna‘s Biodiversity Footprint: A multi-scale analysis outlining options to reduce urban pressures on biodiversity (Biodiv Vienna)" von Projekteiter Univ. Prof. Dr. Fridolin Krausmann in einem Kurzfilm erklären.

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Environmental and sustainability sciences require cooperation across the great divide, i.e. between natural and social sciences and humanities. The research focus of the Institute of Social Ecology (SEC) is positioned exactly on this interface. SEC is renown and international visible through its interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on the interaction between social and natural systems in the context of globalisation, global change and sustainable development in cooperation with diverse scientific communities and stakeholders from social, economic and political sectors of society.

SEC has played a significant role in shaping international sustainability discourse with the concepts of 'social metabolism' with material flow and energy flow analysis (MEFA); 'colonisation of natural systems' with land-use indicators (i.e. HANPP); socio-ecological systems modelling; and its focus on environmental history and socio-ecological transformations.

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 Christoph Görg
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Mag.phil. Dr.phil.
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