Oekom publishing house
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1989 |
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Munich , Bavaria Germany
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| management | Jacob Radloff |
| Number of employees | 25 (2014) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.oekom.de |
The Oekom-Verlag (proper spelling: oekom verlag) is a German specialist publisher of ecology and sustainability, based in Munich . The publisher's declared aim is to implement and anchor the model of sustainability in society. The publishing program includes books, magazines and brochures that prepare the topic from different perspectives and for different target groups: from popular non-fiction books to specialist media for social-ecological research .
Publishing history
Oekom-Verlag emerged from the "Communication Office for Ecology and Communication (oekom)" founded by Jacob Radloff in 1989. This was primarily dedicated to the production and distribution of the journal political ecology . In 1993 the communications office was renamed "Gesellschaft für Ökologische Kommunikation mbH (oekom)", a publisher for ecologically oriented publications. In the following years, six specialist magazines were added, which were either taken over and redesigned or developed in-house: Ökologisches Wirtschaften , GAIA , 21 , Der Umweltbeauftragte , Ökologie & Landbau and umwelt aktuell . The environmental rating division, which was previously integrated into the company, was spun off to oekom research AG in 1996.
In 2005 Oekom-Verlag started a specialist book program in which around 30 to 40 scientific titles are published annually. In 2008 he launched a popular non-fiction program with around 15 titles per year. In 2009 the publishing house entered into a sales cooperation with Carl Hanser Verlag . With "Dreck" by David R. Montgomery , the publisher also published translations for the first time in 2010; Licensed titles were added in the following years, such as “Prosperity without growth” by Tim Jackson (2011) or “2052. The new report to the Club of Rome ”by Jørgen Randers (2012). In 2013 the publisher published a new bibliophile edition of the work "Sylvicultura oeconomica" by Hans Carl von Carlowitz, originally published in 1713 . The non-fiction books are expanded to include the thematic focus on “Responsible Nutrition”.
The publisher is a member of the German Book Trade Association .
Publisher's magazines
The publisher publishes the following journals (publisher in brackets):
- political ecology (oekom e.V.)
- GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society (Gaia Association)
- Ecology & Agriculture ( Foundation Ecology & Agriculture )
- Ecological Economy ( Institute for Ecological Economic Research ) and ( Association for Ecological Economic Research )
- Umwelt aktuell ( German Nature Conservation Ring )
- The environmental officer
- Letters on interdisciplinarity (Andrea von Braun Foundation)
- National Park (Association of National Park Friends)
- Slow Food Magazin ( Slow Food Germany e.V. )
- Dreipunktnull (magazine) ( Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin )
Book authors and editors (selection)
The following authors or editors (selection) have published with Oekom-Verlag:
- Ugo Bardi , chemist
- Michael Braungart , chemist
- Weert Canzler , social scientist and mobility researcher
- Alexander Dill , journalist and sociologist, Commens researcher
- William McDonough , architect, designer and author
- Andrea Fink-Keßler , Head of the Office for Agricultural and Regional Development
- Peter Finke , science theorist
- Karlheinz Geißler , social and economic scientist
- Ulrich Grober , journalist, publicist and author
- Joachim Hamberger , forest scientist
- Rob Hopkins , lecturer and environmental activist
- Mike Hulme , geographer and climatologist
- Tim Jackson , British economist
- Andreas Knie , social scientist and mobility researcher
- Jens Mecklenburg , food journalist
- Niko Paech , economist and growth critic
- Michael Pollan , journalist
- Joachim Radkau , historian
- Jørgen Randers , lecturer, author and futurologist
- Ute Scheub , publicist, political scientist and author
- Uwe Schneidewind , economist
- Ernst Friedrich Schumacher , economist
- Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth , entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of organic food production
- Pavan Sukhdev, lecturer and economist
- Angelika Zahrnt , economist and conservationist
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The origin: How it all began. Retrieved May 23, 2013 .
- ↑ see article about Radloff, Franz Kotteder: Everything started on Schlittenberg , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung July 18, 2014, page R 6
- ↑ employee (s). Retrieved March 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Three-point zero (magazine). Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ^ Authors from A to Z. Accessed March 12, 2014 .