Category Archives: Conference proceedings and conference presentation
Compendium on resource efficiency and eco-innovation
Fritz Hinterberger [...] gave a keynote speech on “Resource efficiency and eco-innovation: Opportunities and challenges for Eastern Europe and the NIS region” at the UNIDO Europe and NIS Round Table on the theme Promoting innovative industries and technologies for a sustainable future in the Europe and NIS region, held on 30 November 2011 in Vienna, during
Quality of life and Sustainability. Links beteween sustainable behaviour, social capital and well-being
Grünberger S. & Omann I. (2011)
Presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE): “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis”
In this paper we assemble scientific research on the interrelations of subjective well-being and social capital in order to present how social capital influences subjective well-being on the [...]
THANCS – a process to address tensions that emerge in/with a transition towards sustainable development
Omann I. & Rauschmayer F. (2011)
Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecological
Economics (ESEE): “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis”
‘I want to bring my children safely to school. It is raining outside, we are late. They could go there by public transport. There is the car, [...]
When carbon is not enough: Comprehensive Ecological Rucksack Indicators for Products.
Burger, E., Hinterberger, F., Giljum, S., Manstein, C. (2009)
Paper presented at R’09 Twin World Congress in Davos.
Consumers increasingly demand more transparent information about the sustainability performance of products and services. Thus companies aim at measuring and communicating the environmental performance of products. But which indicators enable a consistent measurement of the environmental sustainability [...]
What kind of growth is sustainable? Presentation of arguments from a policy perspective.
Pirgmaier, E., Hinterberger, F., Giljum, S. (2009)
Presentation held at the 2nd European Congress of Conservation Biology on 3 September in Prague.
The presentation contains
1. Why Growth may not continue forever
2. Possible next steps
3. Current initiatives
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Participatory scenario development for integrated sustainability assessment
Bohunovsky, L., Omann, I. (2009)
Presentation held at the IARU International Scientific Congress on Climate Change from 10 to 12 March 2009 in Copenhagen.
The presentation includes
integrated sustainability assessment and climate change
participatory scenario development
project examples (ARTEMIS, ALARM, ECOCHANGE)
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Modelling Austrian Energy Scenarios for Renewables, Energy Efficiency and Behavioural Changes
Bohunovsky, L., Stocker, A. (2009)
Presentation held at the ESEE Conference, June 30th, 2009, Ljubljana
The presentation describes
e-co project
methods (e3.at model, participatory process)
scenarios
outlook
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The links of the ALARM scenarios and the socio-economy in Europe
Stocker, A., Omann, I., (2005)
The presentation was held at the at the 6th international conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics between June 14-17, 2005 in Lisbon.
The presentation includes
Ideas of socio-economic modelling
The macro-econometric model GINFORS
The socio-economic modelling process in ALARM
First modelling results
Links between socio-economic and natural scientific [...]