Category Archives: Quality of life

“Sustainable Development: Capabilities, Needs and Well-being”: New paperback version out now!

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In October 2010 the book „Sustainable Development: Capabilities, Needs and Well-being“ co-edited by two SERI colleagues (Ines Omann and Johannes Frühmann) and Felix Rauschmayer has been published by Routledge. Contributors besides the editors are Paul-Marie Boulanger, Ivonne Cruz, Ortrud Lessmann, Manfred Max-Neef, Tell Muenzing, John O’Neill, Luc Van Ootegem, [...]

(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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(Deutsch) Ines Omann beim Workshop “Working with our cultural values to achieve a sustainable future”

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Ecosystems at our service – how can we benefit in a sustainable way?

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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

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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).

How can Europe move towards a One Planet Economy? Scenarios report published

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The new report “Scenarios towards a One Planet Economy in Europe” is a major outcome of the OPEN:EU project in which SERI was involved. The scenarios describe alternative, albeit not necessarily ideal visions of the transition toward a One Planet Economy in Europe by 2050. They present both an illustration of life [...]

CAPITAL-ADAPT – first series of workshops started!

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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.