Marina Fischer-Kowalski

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Marina Fischer-Kowalski (born January 15, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian sociologist , social ecologist and emeritus professor for social ecology at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and founder of the Institute for Social Ecology in Vienna.

Life

The daughter of the politician and writer Ernst Fischer and his wife from his first marriage, the political activist and cultural worker Ruth von Mayenburg , did her doctorate and habilitation in sociology . She initially worked as an academic at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna) and at the OECD (Paris), and as a visiting professor in Australia (Griffith), Denmark (Roskilde), USA (Yale) and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Her research fields include: social ecology , social metabolism, sustainability transitions, theories of social change , environmental sociology , social resource use and environmental information systems.

In addition to other functions, Fischer-Kowalski is currently Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE) and the magazine GAIA . From 2007 to 2009 she was President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), and from 2013 to 2015 President of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). In addition, she was (co) founder and long-time editor of the Austrian Journal for Sociology .

Scientific contribution

Fischer-Kowalski's research interests span various disciplines (including sociology, economics, biology, energetics, history) in which she works in team collaborations to find interdisciplinary solutions. Her work has contributed to the following research fields: the relationship between long-term social and ecological changes; Material and energy flow analyzes and resource efficiency ; socio-ecological system transitions; Energy, society and work as well as transdisciplinary approaches for socio-ecological sustainability transformations.

Fischer-Kowalski's most important successes are the establishment of theoretical foundations and a series of empirical studies in the field of social ecology on the one hand and the development of internationally recognized methodological standards and standardized databases for material and energy flow accounting (within the EU and in Japan as well as on global level). These data serve as a biophysical supplement to economic reporting and as a representation of the use of natural resources by economic activity.

Awards

In October 2015, Fischer-Kowalski was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class .

Publications

Author
  • Socioecological Transitions and Global Change . Edward Elgar 2007.
  • Social metabolism and colonization of nature . G&B 1997.
  • Youngsters in 1958, students in 1968. One generation and two rebellions. In: Ulf Preuss-Lausitz u. a. (Ed.): Children of war, children of consumption, children in crisis. On the history of socialization since the Second World War . 4th ed., Beltz, Weinheim 1990, pp. 53-70.
  • Great freedom for little monsters? Alternative schools and mainstream schools in comparison. Social criticism, Vienna 1990.
  • Of the virtues of femininity. Girls and women in the Austrian education system . Social criticism, Vienna 1986.
Editor
  • Social metabolism and colonization of nature. An attempt in social ecology. Gordon & Breach, Amsterdam 1997, ISBN 90-5708-018-4
  • Children's group children. Self-organized alternatives to kindergarten. Social criticism, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85115-136-4
  • Öko-Bilanz Austria State, developments, strategies. Falter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-462-01884-1
  • Living conditions in Austria. Classes and strata in the welfare state. Together with Josef Bucek. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1980, ISBN 3-593-32691-4

Source: Research information system of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

literature

  • Martin Schmid: Fischer-Kowalski, Marina , in: Ilse Korotin, Nastasjsa Stupnicki: Biographies of important Austrian scientists . Böhlau, Wien et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20238-7 , pp. 227–242, with a detailed list of publications ( open access publication )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marina Fischer-Kowalski. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, November 15, 2018, accessed on February 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c curriculum vitae. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, November 15, 2018, accessed on February 10, 2019 .
  3. ^ Reichmann, W. (2011). 35 years of ÖZS - a quantitative inventory. Austrian Journal for Sociology, 36 (3), 7. doi: 10.1007 / s11614-011-0047-6
  4. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M., Rovenskaya, E., Krausmann, F., Pallua, I. and Mc Neill, JR (2018). Energy transitions and social revolutions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. (In Press) doi : 10.1016 / j.techfore.2018.08.010
  5. ^ Fischer-Kowalski, M., Krausmann, F., & Pallua, I. (2014). A sociometabolic reading of the Anthropocene: Modes of subsistence, population size and human impact on Earth. The Anthropocene Review, 1 (1), 8-33. doi : 10.1177 / 2053019613518033
  6. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M., & Haberl, H. (2015). Social metabolism: A metric for biophysical growth and degrowth (pp. 100-138). In: Martinez-Alier, J. and Muradian, R., (Eds.) Handbook of Ecological Economics, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA: Edward Elgar. pp. 100-138. doi : 10.4337 / 9781783471416
  7. ^ International Resource Panel, 2016. Global material flows and resource productivity. Authors: Schandl H., Fischer-Kowalski, M., West, J., Giljum, S., Dittrich, M., Eisenmenger, N., Geschke, A., Lieber, M., Wieland, HP, Schaffartzik, A ., Krausmann, F., Gierlinger, S., Hosking, K., Lenzen, M., Tanikawa, H., Miatto, A., Fishman, T. UNEP, Paris.
  8. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M., Swilling, M., Weizsäcker, EU v., Ren, Y., Moriguchi, Y., Crane, W., Krausmann, F., Eisenmenger, N., Giljum, S., Hennicke , P., Kemp, R., Romero L., Paty, and Siriban-Manalang, Anna, B. (2011): Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Program.
  9. ↑ Turner, BL, & Fischer-Kowalski, M. (2010). Ester Boserup: An interdisciplinary visionary relevant for sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (51), 21963-21965. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1013972108
  10. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M., Reenberg, A., Schaffartzik, A. and Mayer, A. (eds.) (2014). Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability - Orientations for Contemporary Research, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer.
  11. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M. and Schaffartzik, A. (2015) Energy availability and energy sources as determinants of societal development in a long-term perspective. MRS Energy & Sustainability: A Review Journal 2, 1-14.
  12. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M., Xenidis, L., Singh, Simron J., and Pallua, I. (2011): Transforming the Greek Island of Samothraki into a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. An Experience in Transdisciplinarity. In: GAIA 20 (3), pp. 181-190. http://www.oekom.de/fileadmin/zeitschriften/gaia_leseproben/GAIA_2011_3_FischerKowalski.pdf
  13. ^ Fischer-Kowalski, M. and Weisz, H. (1999): Society as Hybrid Between Material and Symbolic Realms. Toward a Theoretical Framework of Society-Nature Interrelation. In: Advances in Human Ecology 8, pp. 215-251.
  14. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M., Weisz, H., 2016. The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School, in: Haberl, H., Fischer-Kowalski, M., Krausmann, F., Winiwarter, V . (Eds.), Social Ecology. Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space. Springer, Cham, pp. 3-28.
  15. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M. and Haberl, H. (2007): Socioecological transitions and global change: Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar.
  16. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M. (2015) Social Ecology. In: Wright, J., (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, second edition, pp. 254-262. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  17. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M. and Haberl, H. (2015) Social Metabolism: A metrics for biophysical growth and degrowth. In: Martinez-Alier, J. and Muradian, R., (Eds.) Handbook of Ecological Economics, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA: Edward Elgar. pp. 100-138.
  18. ↑ Schandl, H., Fischer-Kowalski, M., West, J., Giljum, S., Dittrich, M., Eisenmenger, N., Geschke, A., Lieber, M., Wieland, HP, Schaffartzik, A ., Krausmann, F., Gierlinger, S., Hosking, K., Lenzen, M., Tanikawa, H., Miatto, A., Fishman, T. (2018). Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity. Forty Years of Evidence. Journal of Industrial Ecology vol. 22 no 4, pp. 827-838. doi : 10.1111 / jiec.12626
  19. ↑ Fischer-Kowalski, M., Swilling, M., Weizsäcker, EU v., Ren, Y., Moriguchi, Y., Crane, W., Krausmann, F., Eisenmenger, N., Giljum, S., Hennicke , P., Kemp, R., Romero L., Paty, and Siriban-Manalang, Anna, B. (2011): Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Program.
  20. ↑ Schandl H., Fischer-Kowalski, M., West, J., Giljum, S., Dittrich, M., Eisenmenger, N., Geschke, A., Lieber, M., Wieland, HP, Schaffartzik, A. , Krausmann, F., Gierlinger, S., Hosking, K., Lenzen, M., Tanikawa, H., Miatto, A., Fishman, T. 2016. Global material flows and resource productivity. UNEP, International Resource Panel Paris.
  21. ^ Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt | Marina Fischer-Kowalski receives the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class. In: www.aau.at. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Publications . University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer-Kowalski, Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna