Public Lecture by Karl Polany Visiting Professor Julia Steinberger / SEC Lecture, 30.05.2023

Living Well within Limits

Abstract:

This talk will report on the multiple research streams resulting from the Living Well Within Limits project. The Living Well Within Limits project investigates the energy requirements of well-being, from quantitative, participatory and provisioning systems perspectives. In this presentation, I will communicate individual and cross-cutting findings from the project, and their implications. In particular, I will share our most recent results on global energy footprint inequality, implications of redistribution, as well as modelling the minimum energy demand that would provide decent living standards for everyone on earth by 2050. I will show that achieving low-carbon well­being, both from the beneficiary ("consumer") and supply-chain ("producer") sides, involves strong distributional and political elements. Simply researching this area from a technical. social or economic lens is insufficient to draw out the reasons for poor outcomes and most promising avenues for positive change. I thus argue for the active involvement of the research community.

The lecture is available on YouTube

Welcome addresses

Jürgen Essletzbichler, Department for Socioeconomics, WU Vienna
Ulrich Brand, ÖFSE

Laudatio
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Official granting of the Vienna Karl Polanyi Guest Professorship
to Julia Steinberger, Professor of Ecological Economics at University of Lausanne

Keynote
Julia Steinberger on "Living Well within Limits"

Comment
Daniel Huppmann, IIASA

Discussion, open floor

Moderation
Andreas Novy, WU Vienna, IKPS

Time:Tuesday, May 30th, 2023, 06:30 p.m.

Place: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Ceremonial Hall or Livestream

More information:

Vienna University of Economics and Business

International Karl Polanyi Society