A5044819597- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Environmental Science and Technology
- Economic and Social Issues
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Marine and environmental studies
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- German Literature and Culture Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2005-2024
BOKU University
2004-2021
University of Vienna
2001-2020
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
2018
University of Klagenfurt
2004-2018
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
2017
University of Zurich
2017
Institute for Social Anthropology
2001-2016
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities
2003-2015
Schott (Germany)
2004
Abstract Over the last two million years, humans have colonized almost entire biosphere on Earth, thereby creating socio‐ecological systems in which fundamental patterns and processes are co‐regulated by socio‐economic ecological processes. We postulate that evolution of coupled can be characterized a sequence relatively stable configurations, here denoted as ‘socio‐metabolic regimes’, comparatively rapid transitions between such regimes. discern three fundamentally different socio‐metabolic...
Haberl, H., V. Winiwarter, K. Andersson, R. U. Ayres, C. Boone, A. Castillo, G. Cunfer, M. Fischer-Kowalski, W. Freudenburg, E. Furman, Kaufmann, F. Krausmann, Langthaler, H. Lotze-Campen, Mirtl, L. Redman, Reenberg, Wardell, B. Warr, and Zechmeister 2006. From LTER to LTSER: conceptualizing the socioeconomic dimension of long-term socioecological research. Ecology Society 11(2): 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01786-110213
For most of history, few things have mattered more to human communities than their relations with soil, because soil provided food and nutrients. Accordingly, some the earliest written documents were agricultural manuals intended organize, preserve, impart knowledge. Indeed, ancient civilizations often worshipped as foundry life itself. past century or two, nothing has for soils communities, action inadvertently ratcheted up rates erosion and, both intentionally unintentionally, rerouted...
Societies use material and energy resources to build up, maintain utilize long-lasting structures such as buildings, infrastructures or machinery, i.e. entertain a 'social metabolism'. Nexus approaches provide useful heuristics for interdisciplinary analyses of (un)sustainable society-nature interactions, example by highlighting relations between different (e.g. land, water energy). Assuming that social metabolism is mainly motivated the aim deriving benefits from products services leads...
Medieval Vienna was situated at the main arm of swiftly flowing alpine Danube. From fourteenth century onwards, river gradually moved away from city. This marked beginning 500 years human intervention to prevent further displacement and preserve waterway as a vital supply line. Archival research GIS-based reconstruction past riverscape allow new view about co-evolution city river. Following major channel changes in 1565/1566, repeated attempts force into old bed were undertaken. By early...
Which insights can be gained from a long-term study for river management today? Vienna's layout and city budget are still influenced by interventions undertaken in the 19th century or even earlier. This introduction to thematic issue on Viennese Danube's environmental history 1500 1890 offers short overview of important events intertwined histories as well an study's conceptual basis summarizes main results, ranging method development floodplain evolution reconstruction settlement, sewage...
As part of an interdisciplinary project on the environmental history Viennese Danube, past river landscape was reconstructed. This article describes different types historical sources used for GIS-based reconstruction, underlying methodological approach and its limitations regarding reliability information value. The reconstruction based three cornerstones: (1) available sources; (2) knowledge about morphological processes typical Austrian Danube prior to regulation; (3) interpretation...
The English Agricultural Revolution began during a period of climate change in which temperatures decreased significantly. Lower meant less bacterial activity, slower release mineral nitrogen into cultivated soils, and shorter growing season for crops—a combination that tended to diminish yields. farmers reacted by increasing the flow organic matter manure soil, thus mitigating negative effect colder some extent. When rose again, faster mineralization soil led bountiful yields encouraged...
Grand challenges, Transformation, third mission: Wissenschaft und Universitäten sind zunehmend gefordert, gesellschaftlichen Wandel verantwortlich aktiv mitzugestalten. Immer häufiger wird deswegen transdisziplinär geforscht. Doch bislang fehlt eine systematische Beschreibung, Bewertung Anerkennung dieser wissenschaftlichen Leistungen. Scientific research aimed at transforming society has a normative basis. Here, we will examine the potential of transdisciplinary methods and what they have...
The nineteenth century was marked by a fundamental change in city-river relations. environmental history perspective employed this article illustrates how the complex interplay between diverse natural and societal endowment of four European cities (Brussels, Lyon, Munich, Vienna) shaped urban aquatic networks. Throughout long-term co-evolution urbanites their network, different sources waterpower had led to differences use transformation. In century, industrialization induced shift fossil...
What do transition processes in rural areas Thailand, biomass consumption nineteenth-century Austria and the ecology of hunter-gatherers have to with appropriation plant production global environmental change? More than one might think first place. They are part a scholarly discourse on our changing relations environment. We argue that change can be analysed terms transitions between major modes subsistence try document this several case studies.
The temporal dynamic of riverine ecosystems and their fish communities populations has been addressed in ecological theory management for several decades. A growing number case studies on the historic development especially European North American rivers have published. Nonetheless, a theoretical debate about contributions limits historical approaches interdisciplinary co-operation is lacking. This article presents brief overview role history river ecology suggests as scientific field that...
The development of cities and their rivers is closely intertwined. Urban environmental histories have explored river–city interactions in detail, but none has focused on an entire waterscape the ways its different hydro-morphological features influenced river uses urban development. Our research Vienna's aquatic environment examined how nature co-determined residents' utilization them. We combined in-depth reconstruction rivers, streams, canals with over time. Based three cases, we studied...