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Resources, Conservation & Recycling 2020 - Best Paper Awards

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A team lead by Willi Haas from the Institute of Social Ecology has received a Best Paper in 2020 prize from the Journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling.

Haas, W., Krausmann, F., Wiedenhofer, D., Lauk, C., & Mayer, A. (2020). Spaceship earth's odyssey to a circular economy-a century long perspective. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 163, 105076. The paper is Open Access.

Transformations towards sustainability? Novel perspectives from Social Ecology.

Online lecture series.

The world is facing critical challenges, from climate change to the overuse of natural resources and the loss of natural habitats. Societies will need to undergo important transformations to become more sustainable. Leading these transformations requires a better understanding of nature-society interactions, as well as innovative ideas to apply scientific knowledge. This lecture series, offered by young scholars working at the Institute for Social Ecology, will reveal cutting edge results from the field of social ecology, and provide reflections and solutions on how this knowledge can contribute to a more sustainable society.

The future of the European agro-food system in the light of the “Land-sparing vs land-sharing” debate

# SEC Lecture, 11.03.2021

Presentation: Dr. Gilles Billen, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Moderation: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Simone Gingrich, Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte, Institut für Soziale Ökologie, BOKU Wien

Time/Place: 11 March, 18:15 on Zoom

Registration at umweltgeschichte@boku.ac.at is required.

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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.