Members of the Centre for Environmental History work on a broad range of topics in Austrian environmental history and beyond. Here we present current and completed core projects.

  • Climate-adapted forests: Insights based on historical tree distributions (funded by: Waldfonds - Portal Tirol - Maßnahme 8) project leader: Severin Hohensinner (Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) (duration: 10/2022-09/2024)
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  • Doing Energy Transition? A contribution to the History of Natural Gas Supply in Austria, 1945 to ca. 1980 (funded by: EVN AG) project leader: Georg Rigele (EVN AG) and Robert Groß (Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) (duration: 1/2022-12/2022)
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  • Historical development of the March-Thaya floodplain along the Austrian state border (funded by:Via Donau - Österreichische Wasserstraßen - Gesellschaft mbH) project leader: Severin Hohensinner, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (duration: 10/2021-01/2023)
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  • Reconstruction of the Viennese landscape evolution since the Bronze/Roman Age (funded by: Museen der Stadt Wien) project leader: Severin Hohensinner Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (duration  11/2021-07/2022)
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  • Changing debris cover on Eastern Alpine glaciers: Quantification and hydrological impacts (Hidden.ice), Work package 4: Glacier retreat and long-term changes in land cover and fluvial morphology (funded by: Earth System Sciences Program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences), project leader: Kay Helfricht, Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck; project leader WP 4: Severin Hohensinner, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (duration: 5/2019-4/2022)
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  • Integrated Flood Risk Management in Mountain Areas: Assessing Sectoral Interdependencies, Conflicts and Options for Policy Coordination (POCO-FLOOD), Work package 2: Reconstruction of historical land cover and river morphology (funded by: Earth System Sciences Program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences), project leader: Walter Seher, Institute of Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning and Land Rearrangement; project leader WP 2: Severin Hohensinner, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (duration: 4/2019-3/2022)
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  • Hidden Emissions of Forest Transitions: GHG effects of socio-metabolic processes reducing pressures on forests (HEFT) (funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (757995)), project leader: Simone Gingrich, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (duration: 4/2018-3/2023)
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  • The Role of the Marshall Plan for the Stock-Flow-Service Nexus in Industrial Societies (subproject of MAT_STOCKS: Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society (funded by H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC), Project ID: 741950), project leader Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (duration 3/2018-2/23)
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