Friedrich Hinterberger

born 1959 in Schwanenstadt/Austria.

Studies in economics and statistics at the universities of Linz/Austria and Giessen/Germany

1993-2000
leader of the working group for Ecological Economics and Ecological Economic Policy at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Enviroment, Energy, in Germany.

since 1999 president of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute

Lecturer at various universities in Austria and Germany. Founding President of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) in Vienna.

Among many other functions: member of the administrative council of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), Versailles.

SERI-projects

• MacroSD
• Global Material Flows
• Environmental mediation
• Sustainability Website
• Traffic Congestion
• Italian National Environmental Development Plan

Other Projects

• European Policy Papers
• Arbeit und Ökologie
• Ecological Perspectives for the Austrian Economic Development
• ComPETE

Selected Publications

• Friedrich Hinterberger, Fred Luks and Marcus Stewen:
  Wie ökonomisch ist die Stoffstromökonomik? Eine Gegenkritik.
  The economics of dematerialisation: Is it an economic concept? A reply to Erik Gawel.
  (reply to his critique on the concept of an input-oriented economics, in German language) In: Konjunkturpolitik 4/1999
• Friedrich Hinterberger, Fred Luks, Marcus Stewen (author for correspondence), Jan van der Straaten:
  Environmental Policy in a Complex World
  Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 3 (2000)
• Economia, ecologia, politica - come rendere sostenibile il libero mercato attraverso la riduzione delle materie,
  di Friedrich Hinterberger, Fred Luks, Marcus Stewen
  (1999, lire 40.000, 250 pagine)
  
• Femia/Hinterberger/Renn
  Economic Growth with less Material Input? De-Composing the Empirical Trend of De-Linking; Paper prepared for the Symposium "Energetic and Material Metabolism" at the Conference on "Nature, Society and History. Long Term Dynamics of Social Metabolism", Wien, September 30th - October 2nd, 1999
• Material Flows vs. 'Natural Capital'. What makes an Economy Sustainable?, in: Ecological Economics Vol 23, No 1. (Oct. 1997) (mit Fred Luks and Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek)
• Reducing Material Throughput: A Contribution to the Measurement of Dematerialisation and Sustainable Human Development, (mitE.K. Seifert) in: van der Straaten, Jan and Andrew Tylecote (Hg./Eds.): Environment, Technology and Economic Growth: the Challange of Sustainable Development. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing1997, S. 75 - 92; (mit Beitr�gen von I.R�pke, J.Martinez-Alier, Ch.Freeman u. a.)
• Limited Knowledge and the Precautionary Principle: On the Feasibility of Environmental Policies, (mit G. Wegner) in: Jan van der Straaten and Jeroen van den Bergh (Eds.): Economy and Ecosystems in Change: Analytical and Historical Approaches. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing 1997, S. 344 - 358; (mit Beitr�gen vonK.Turner, S.Funtowicz, H.Opschoor u. a.)
• Material Flow Analysis, TMR and the mips-Concept: A Contribution to the Development of Indicators for Measuring Changes in Consumption and Production Patterns accepted for publication in Int. J. of Sustainable Development (IJSD), Vol 1/2, 1999 with Joachim Spangenberg, Stephan Moll and Helmut Sch�tz; WI/OIN-Policy-Paper-Serie zur Zukunft der EU nach Amsterdam
  

• Dematerialisation, Employment and Globalisation, Plenary Paper at the 5th Biannual Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), Santiago de Chile, November 1998 mit Fred Luks

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