Clemens Arvay

Clemens G. Arvay (2017)

Clemens G. Arvay (born July 22, 1980 in Graz ) is an Austrian biologist and author specializing in health ecology.

Life

Arvay was born in Graz in 1980. In an interview, he described the fact that his parents “took him to the mountains almost every weekend” as defining his childhood and youth. After graduating from high school, Arvay first studied landscape ecology at the University of Graz until 2005 . In 2007 he also completed his second degree in applied plant sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna . Arvay then worked, among other things, as a quality manager for the organic brand "Back to the origin" of the Hofer supermarket chain . After that, in 2011 he briefly joined the Austrian environmental protection organization Global 2000 and has been working exclusively as a freelance non-fiction and specialist book author since 2012. Arvay is a member of the Expert Council of the Austrian Science & Environment Forum.

Create

In 2011 Arvay published his first non-fiction book on forgotten vegetables. The author became known to a broader public through his second book entitled "The Great Bio-Schmäh": In the work published in 2012, Arvay provided a "look behind the scenes of the ideal organic world", which was "calm and therefore also credible" be. In a few weeks, the book made it onto the bestseller list for non-fiction books of the Central Association of the Austrian Book Trade . In 2013, Arvay spoke out in another book in favor of curbing the “hunger for power of the food companies” in favor of regional, small-scale agriculture. In 2014 Arvay and Roland Düringer published a book in which they both discuss the “great philosophical questions in life”. As an experiment, Düringer renounced modern achievements and led a life like it did 40 years ago. In the further course of his writing activity, Arvay dealt again with the effects of industrial agriculture, in his book published in 2014 primarily with the artificial standardization of food by politics and business as well as the workings of large seed companies.

In “Der Biophilia-Effekt” (2015) and “Das Biophilia-Training” (2016) the author analyzed the healing properties of the forest . In it, Arvay proclaimed the “best fitness studio in the world” and the books became bestsellers . Under the title "The healing code of nature" the author devoted himself again to this topic. Specifically, he dealt with the positive effects of plants and animals on the human immune system . Among other things, Bunte praised the book as a “great introduction to human-nature medicine”. Another work is “Biophilia in der Stadt”, which deals with the effects of urban natural areas on the health of city dwellers. The foreword to this book was written by the brain researcher Gerald Hüther .

The following book by the author is entitled "With the trees we grow into the sky: Supporting autistic children with the healing power of the forest" (2019). Arvay is himself the father of an autistic child.

Works

Books

• Fruit vegetables . Old varieties and unusual species rediscovered. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 2011, ISBN 978-3-7020-1307-3 .
• The great organic humiliation . How the food companies are fooling us. Ueberreuter Verlag , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-8000-7528-7 .
• Eat or die . How we can break the food companies' thirst for power and feed ourselves better. Ecowin Verlag , Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7110-0030-9 .
• Farewell, land of milk and honey . The art of omission. Edition a , Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99001-065-5 .
• Help, our food is standardized! How EU bureaucrats and industry tell us what to grow and eat. Redline Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86881-522-1 .
• The Biophilia Effect . Healing from the forest. Edition a, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99001-113-3 .
• The biophilia training . Fitness out of the woods. Edition a, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99001-160-7 .
• Nature's healing code . Discover the hidden powers of plants and animals. Riemann Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-570-50201-3 .
• Biophilia in the city . How we bring the healing power of nature into our cities. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-31482-9 .
• With the trees we grow into the sky . Support autistic children with the healing power of the forest. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-15989-5 .

Others

• Updating the biophilia hypothesis in the context of forest medicine . In: Qing Li (Ed.): International Handbook of Forest Therapy . Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5275-3955-6 (English).
• Eco-Psychosomatics - the link between natural habitats and human health . In: Qing Li (Ed.): International Handbook of Forest Therapy . Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5275-3955-6 (English).

Web links

Commons : Clemens Arvay  - Collection of Images

• Clemens G. Arvay homepage
• ResearchGate Clemens Arvays official website at ResearchGate

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Clemens G. Arvay: Vita. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 13, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Moments: The very private interview with Clemens G. Arvay. In: PranaHaus. Retrieved April 4, 2017 . 
3. ↑ "Organic can't be cheap" . In: The press . February 5, 2012, p. 35 .
4. ↑ Austrian press agency: Global 2000 employee presents: "Fruit vegetables" . October 6, 2011.
5. ↑ Clemens G. Arvay: The Biophilia Effect. Healing from the forest . Ullstein, 2016, ISBN 978-3-548-37659-2 , pp. 139 .
6. ↑ Experts and their topics | science & environment forum. Accessed June 19, 2020 (German). 
7. ^ Upper Austrian news . April 20, 2011, p. 3 .
8. ↑ ^{a b} Agricultural biologist warns against standardized food. In: The Standard. April 16, 2014, accessed June 19, 2018 . 
9. ↑ A look behind the scenes of the ideal organic world . In: Small newspaper . February 26, 2012, p. 19 .
10. ↑ Green washed . A new book takes a look behind the scenes of the organic idyll. In: Profile . January 30, 2012, p. 73 .
11. ↑ Karin Schuh: The hype about the discovery books . In: The press . February 5, 2012, p. 35 .
12. ↑ "Only regional, small-scale agriculture is crisis-proof" . In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . 11th March 2013.
13. ↑ Daniela Herger: "Farewell, land of milk and honey". Roland Düringer's renunciation experiment. In: Vienna Online. February 11, 2014, accessed April 4, 2017 . 
14. ^ Düringer with a new book on the waiver experiment. In: Today. November 10, 2013, accessed April 4, 2017 . 
15. ↑ A walk in the woods beats wellness . In: Kronen Zeitung . April 12, 2015, p. 44 .
16. ↑ Julia Pflig: The best fitness studio in the world . In: Courier . April 24, 2016, p. 34 .
17. ↑ Roland R. Ropers: Healing from the forest. "The Biophilia Effect" storms the charts. November 1, 2015, accessed April 4, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Top 10 non-fiction books from the Amazon bestseller list . In: Berliner Morgenpost . June 23, 2015, p. 18 .
19. ↑ Claudia Richter: Help from the forest: Trees as medicine . September 4, 2016, p. 34 .
20. ↑ Clemens Arvay, biologist. In: SWR1 Baden-Württemberg. August 12, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2017 . 
21. ↑ Kati Sprung: The healing power of the forest . In: Bunte . August 25, 2016, p. 76 .
22. ↑ Sonja Saurugger: " Rock- hard concrete surfaces trigger chronic stress". Kleine Zeitung, July 17, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 . 
23. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved June 8, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Clemens G. Arvay. SWR , accessed on August 6, 2019 .