Category Archives: Allgemeines
Ecosystems at our service – how can we benefit in a sustainable way?
SERI´s research group “Quality of Life and Integrated Strategies” investigates how we can achieve a good life for ourselves and future generations. This implies that we have to take care of the ecosystems we depend on and use their resources in a sustainable way.
This highlight aims to show how we – as human beings with individual knowledge, skills, networks and relationships– make decisions on how to benefit from ecosystems.
Methods and Tools for Integrated Sustainability Assessment – Project Summary
Jäger, J., Bohunovsky, L. and Binder, J. (2008)
In response to the challenge of unsustainability, the MATISSE project was designed to propose procedures, methods and tools for better integrating sustainability into policy development processes and institutions. It did so by developing, testing and refining a conceptual framework for Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA).
ISA is a [...]
(Deutsch) “Who feeds the World”: Vortrag am 12. Oktober
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Eva Burger and Julia Wesely at the 12th Austrian Climate Days
On September 21st , Eva Burger presented results of the EVES project, which dealt with the ecological impacts of the last mile of groceries, textiles and electronic devices in Austria. Her second presentation on September 22nd concerned the project EcoFIT, which calculated the ecological footprint of a [...]
SERI @ World Resources Forum (5)
On the second day of the World Resources Forum in Davos one of our Studies was presented in a session on “Assessment Methods, Resource Use Indicators and Targets”. Julia Haslinger’s presentation on “Calculating the Ecological Footprint of a Data Centre to identify Hot-Spots of Energy and Resource use” can be downloaded here.
Communicating the Idea
Sustainable development is increasingly dependent on ideas rather than information. This means that empirical data is often not enough on our way to a sustainable society. Year after year, scientific research creates thousands of pages of environmental data supporting the assumption that our current western lifestyles have reached a level of resource and [...]
(Deutsch) Brownbag mit Raimund Dietz am 27. September am SERI
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SERI @ the World Resources Forum (1): Workshop on Resource-efficient companies
Over 400 participants gather from 18-21. September 2011 in Davos for the 2nd World Resources Forum.
Together with the Wuppertal Institute für Climate, Envionment, and Energy and two other organisations, SERI organizes a Workshop mainly designed for the business community.
After the short introduction by Fritz Hinterberger [...]
(Deutsch) SERI gewinnt das Goodball-Turnier 2011
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(Deutsch) Ines Omann bei “Im Zeitraum”
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