Category Archives: Integrated Strategies
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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Linking the Earth’s Future to Migration: Scenarios of Environmental Change and Possible Impacts on Forced Migration
Frühmann, J. and Jäger, J. (2010)
In: Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (2010): 247-262
This chapter discusses how to develop scenarios of environmental change to estimate future migration flows that are forced by environmental degradation. The methodology as well as the examples presented here was developed in the EU-funded project EACH-FOR ( www.each-for.eu ). [...]
Assessing social sustainability: social sustainability and its multicriteria assessment in a sustainability scenario for Germany
Spangenberg, J., Omann, I. (2006)
In: International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development 2006 – Vol. 1, No.4 pp. 318 – 348
Abstract
Social sustainability is a qualitative criterion, which has to be applied to different domains, i.e., the economy, society and the population. It is challenged by current political and economic developments. Based on [...]
Examining Processes or/and Outcomes? Evaluation Concepts in European Governance of Natural Resources
Rauschmayer, F., Berghöfer, A., Omann, I. and Zikos, D. (2009)
In: Environmental Policy and Governance, Env. Pol. Gov. 19, 159–173
Abstract
Effectively evaluating the governance of natural resources is a precondition for its improvement in contexts of change. In order to do so, one can use methods for evaluating (1) the outcome of a governance [...]
Perceiving biodiversity changes in daily life: Insights from an exploratory survey across Europe
Mauz, I., Fischer, A., Langers, F., Young, J., Bednar-Friedl, B., Grünberger, S. and Musceleanu, O. (2009)
In: eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research, 1 (2). 39-45.
Environmental problems are often constructed globally and through sophisticated instruments and methods. However, the extent to which these globally constructed problems correspond to ordinary citizens’ perceptions of [...]
