Publications:

Matej, S., Kaufmann, L., Semenchuk, P., Dullinger, S., Essl, F., Haberl, H., Kalt, G., Kastner, T., Lauk, C., Krausmann, F.  & K.-H. Erb, 2024. Options for reducing a city’s global biodiversity footprint – The case of food consumption in Vienna. Journal of Cleaner Production 437, 140712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140712

Plank, C., Görg, C., Kalt, G., Kaufmann, L., Dullinger, S. & F. Krausmann, 2023. “Biomass from somewhere?” Governing the spatial mismatch of Viennese biomass consumption and its impact on biodiversity. Land Use Policy 131, 106693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106693

Reiter, K., Plutzar, C., Moser, D., Erb, K.-H., Essl, F., Gattringer, A., Haberl, H., Krausmann, F., Lenzner, B., Semenchuk, P., Wessely, J., Matej, S. & S. Dullinger, 2023. Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape-scale vertebrate richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32, 855-866,  https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13671

López Cifuentes, M., Penker, M., Kaufmann, L., Wittmann, F., Fiala, V., Gugerell, C., Lauk, C., Krausmann, F., Eder, M. & B. Freyer, 2023. Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets. Sustainability Science 18, 1613-1630, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01287-9

Semenchuk, P., Kalt, G., Kaufmann, L., Kastner, T., Matej, S., Bidoglio, G., Erb, K.-H., Essl, F., Haberl, H., Dullinger, S., & F. Krausmann, 2023. The global biodiversity footprint of urban consumption: A spatially explicit assessment for the city of Vienna. Science of the Total Environment 861, 160576, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160576

Semenchuk, P., Plutzar, C., Kastner, T., Matej, S., Bidoglio, G., Erb, K.-H., Essl, F., Haberl, H., Wessely, J., Krausmann, F., & S. Dullinger, 2022. Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity. Nature Communications 13, 615, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28245-4

Lauk, C., Kaufmann, L., Theurl, M. C., Wittmann, F., Eder, M., Hörtenhuber, S., Freyer, B. & F. Krausmann, 2022. Demand side options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the land footprint of urban food systems: A scenario analysis for the City of Vienna. Journal of Cleaner Production 359, 132064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132064

Kastner, T., Matej, S., Forrest, M., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., Hickler, T., Krausmann, F., Lasslop, G., Niedertscheider, M., Plutzar, C., Schwarzmüller, F., Steinkamp, J. & K.-H. Erb, 2022. Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century. Global Change Biology 28, 307-322, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15932

Kalt, G., Kaufmann, L., Kastner, T., & F. Krausmann, 2021. Tracing Austria's biomass consumption to source countries: A product-level comparison between bioenergy, food and material. Ecological Economics 188, 107129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107129

Marques, A., Martins, I.S., Kastner, T., Plutzar, C., Theurl, M.C., Eisenmenger, N., Huijbregts, M.A.J., Wood, R., Stadler, K., Bruckner, M., Canelas, J., Hilbers, J.P., Tukker, A., Erb, K. & H. M. Pereira, 2019. Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 628–637, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0824-3

 

Presentations:

Kaufmann, L.,  Semenchuk, P., Matej, S., Kalt, G., Kastner, T, Erb K.-H., Dullinger, S. & F. Krausmann, 2022. The urben biomass sprawl: An analysis of Vienna's biomass metabolism and its global environmental impacts. 14th ISIE SEM Conference: Transforming socio-economic metabolism in times of multiple crises, Session: Transforming urban metabolism, Vienna, 11.09.2022.  Download

Semenchuk, P., Moser, D., Plutzar, C., Kleinbauer, I., Essl, F. & S. Dullinger, 2019. Multi-scale analysis of the global biodiversity footprints of large cities. Presentation at the 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Project in Bern, 24.04.2019 - 26.04.2019. Video of the session

Haberl, H., Plank, C. & F. Krausmann, 2018. Vienna‘s Biodiversity Footprint. A multi-scale analysis outlining options to reduce urban pressures on biodiversity. Stakeholder Workshop mit Vertretern der Stadt Wien, Wien, 11.09.2018. Download

Organization Scientific Conferences

Special Session at the 14th Conference of the International Society of Industrial Ecology – Section Socio-economic Metabolism: Transforming socio-economic metabolism in times of multiple crises, 19-22 September 2021 in Vienna (organized by Fridolin Krausmann and Nina Eisenmenger)

Transforming Urban Metabolism

 

4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme: Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature, 24-26 April 2019 in Bern
 

Special Session at the 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme: Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature, 24-26 April 2019 in Bern (organized by Thomas Kastner and Alexandra Marquez)

Assessing and evaluating the impact of the consumption of land-based products on biodiversity and ecosystem services

In land systems, biodiversity is key to the maintenance of ecosystem functions, which in turn underpin the supply ecosystem services harnessed by human societies. While agricultural and forestry activities are essential for human survival and well-being, they are also one of the major drivers of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. Ultimately, the consumption of land-based products is the main force behind the demand for land and the intensity of land use. Increasing globalization and industrialization is telecoupling consumption in one place to production in remote regions. To devise land-use strategies that address both production and conservation targets, proper accounting tools that link consumption activities to their biodiversity impacts are essential. Main challenges in establishing such accounting tools include: quantifying different dimensions of biodiversity and its temporal trends at large scales; the attribution of these trends to individual land-based products and land-use processes; and the disentangling of complex international supply chains. These peculiarities are the main culprits why the development of consumption-based tools for biodiversity and ecosystem services lags behind recent advances in accounting of other environmental pressures and impacts. In this session, we bring to together researchers at the forefront of consumption-based accounting of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Recent developments will be discussed, highlighting the potential, robustness and limitations of different approaches. The potential of consumption-based accounting to contributing to an alignment of production and conservation targets in land systems and to minimize trade-offs between the two will be critically explored.

Video of the session, part 1
Video of the session, part 2