Wilhelm Ripl

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Wilhelm Ripl (born December 7, 1937 in Ybbsitz , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian landscape ecologist and limnologist (freshwater ecologist ) and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

Ripl studied technical chemistry in Vienna from 1956 to 1962 and worked for the Federal Ministry of Education in Vienna from 1960 to 1965 . From 1968 to 1979 he studied and worked at the Institute for Limnology at Lund University , where he received his doctorate and then qualified as a professor. From 1979 to 2003 he was head of the Limnology Department at the Institute for Ecology at the Technical University of Berlin.

Ripl is the head of the system institute Aquaterra e. V. He examines the earth's water cycle. The focus is on sustainable processes of circular economy and ecological land use according to the needs of nature, in particular alternative management of the soil and water strictly according to ecologically necessary conditions. He represents a systemic approach in ecology, in which not the individual organism (type) and its demands, but the processes of the ecological system are in the foreground.

"In order to renovate the landscape over a large area and thus automatically stabilize the increasingly out of control climate again, society has to rethink, the functioning of the entire system has to be understood."

In Ripl's opinion, it is a deficiency of the current climate models that they only take into account the atmosphere and not the surface of the earth and its by far most important cooling system, water and the water cycle. He calls for the introduction of an energy tax on non-renewable energy sources and the introduction of the polluter-pays principle for heavy transports. This is intended to achieve a locally oriented circular economy by regionalising the subsistence functions with special consideration of regenerative energy sources, which, however, should not be cultivated in extensive monoculture, but only in ecological mixed cultures with a high proportion of trees, in order to avoid further soil erosion and, in particular, local dehydration and overheating and so not to impair the cooling function of the agricultural areas. He also calls for consistent urban redevelopment measures to cool these large, overheated areas considerably, so that local turbulence and severe storms and floods are avoided.

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  1. ↑ home.arcor.de
  2. ↑ a b Europe's flower pot ecology must come to an end . Archived from the original on November 27, 2005 ; Retrieved November 22, 2008 . In: TU Berlin intern , No. 5, May 2003
personal data
SURNAME Ripl, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landscape ecologist, freshwater ecologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Ybbsitz , Lower Austria