Institute of Social Ecology (SEC)

Habilitation Colloquium

MMag. Dr. Melanie Pichler

Public Habilitation Colloquium of MMag. Dr. Melanie Pichler

Time/Place: Tuesday, 20.06.2023, 16:30 h, Seminar room 01, Mendelhaus Erdgeschoß

Applications for the position of a Full Professor of Social Ecology

Application deadline: 15.09.2023

The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Department of Economics and Social Sciences, seeks to appoint a Full Professor of Social Ecology with 1st December 2023. The position is offered in accordance with §98 of the 2002 Universities Act in the form of an ongoing contract.

ESG-Icon-Konzept in den Händen von jungen Frauen für Umwelt, Gesellschaft und Governance SG ESG Waldschutz Konzept Umwelt, Soziales und Governance Konzepte

Global change, sustainability, and human well-being

Exploring research contributions to urgent societal challenges

International Syposium, Austrian Academy of Sciences, June 19, 2023, 14:00

Land under Pressure. Ways to Climate-Neutrality

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Erb (BOKU Wien) and Prof. Sonali Shukla McDermid, Ph.D. (NYU) | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz (LMU)

Open Letter published all over Europe on day 1 of the EP Beyond Growth Conference (15 May 2023)

A post-growth Europe critical to survive and thrive, urge over 400 civil society groups and experts. Barbara Smetschka and Helmut Haberl have signed.

Dissertation Defense

Claudine Egger

The impacts of climate change on mountain agriculture in Europe: future socio-ecological trajectories

Time / Place: 13.07.2023, 14:00 / Institute of Social Ecology, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, SR 3a

Dissertation Defense

Doris Virág

The materiality of mobility. Infrastructure stocks, resource flows and the link to mobility services and well-being

Time / Place: 13.07.2023, 14:00 / Institute of Social Ecology, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, SR 3a

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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.