Category Archives: Integrated Strategies
(Deutsch) EcoChange Workshop in Aarau, Schweiz
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(Deutsch) BürgerInnenbeteiligung ist gefragt
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(Deutsch) Auftaktveranstaltung des Projekts LebensKlima in Finkenstein
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Final call for participation: Multinational Knowledge Brokerage Event on “Sustainable Food Consumption”
Food is a fundamental necessity of life. It is also one of the consumption areas with the greatest environmental impacts. The debates over sustainable food production and consumption, both in academia and politics, have spurred over the last decade. Growth policies in the food and agriculture sector pay attention to increasing productivity and providing enough [...]
New tool launched to help EU policies go beyond resource efficiency
The One Planet Economy Network EU project (OPEN:EU) has just launched a unique new tool for mapping ecological carbon and water footprint data across all the 27 EU member states.
Over the past 2 years the project, in which SERI was one of 8 partners, has carried out evidence gathering, software [...]
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.
Pilot Project Finkenstein: Exploring people‘s needs for a sustainable lifestyle
Finkenstein am Faaker See will serve as a pilot project community for the European research project InContext.
SERI will conduct one of the three pilot projects in the community of Finkenstein (Carinthia, Austria). The other two will take place in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and in Wolfshagen (Germany).
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 [...]
CAPITAL-ADAPT – first series of workshops started!
Für den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel und die Möglichkeiten der Anpassung spielen neben technischen Aspekten auch Wissen und Information, Bildung, Gesundheit, das Netz an sozialen Beziehungen und Engagement im Gemeindeleben eine bedeutsame Rolle. Diese Aspekte stehen im Zentrum des KlimaNetz Projekts (www.klimanetz.at), welches das Hauptaugenmerk auf die Rolle von Human- und Sozialkapital bezüglich Anpassung an und Umgang mit Klimawandel legt. Am 7. und 14.10.2011 fanden in den Projektgemeinden Virgen und Klosterneuburg die ersten Projekt-Workshops statt.
Using Environmental Tax Reform to Support Sustainable Development in Transition Economies: the case of the Czech Republic
Barker, A., Bohunovsky, L.,Jäger, J., Kovanda, J.,van de Sand,I., (2008)
This paper summarises the analysis undertaken within the MATISSE project on the role that environmental tax reform (ETR) could play in future sustainable development in the EU and the Czech Republic in particular, and points debated in discussions with key Czech stakeholders.
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