Ökodörfer als Gegennarrative für eine zukunftsfähige Lebensweise

By Roman Hausmann Ökodörfer sind eine Form von intentionalen und kollektiv organisierten Wohngemeinschaften, in denen Ressourcen, Fähigkeiten und Räumlichkeiten innerhalb der Gemeinschaft geteilt werden. Sie streben daher an, einen Raum für ein gutes Leben ihrer BewohnerInnen zu bieten, welches sozial...

What’s land got to with it? A case for consumption-based environmental accounts in investigating causes of globally distant Land Use Change

Tess Landon The article is inspired by her Master Thesis at the Vienna University of Economics and Policy (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien): “Review of consumption-based accounting methods for Agricultural Land Use Change emissions" Agricultural expansion – the growth of agricultural land area...

The Myth of the autonomous Consumer

“We buy things, we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like”Fight Club This statement from the movie Fight Club critically observes a pervasive trend in our consumer society: people buy things that they don’t really need. And indeed, who...

How to recognize upcoming existential crisis situations for Non-Profit Organisations? – Identifying Four Problem Areas

Crises may happen anytime, anywhere and may hit anyone. Researchers widely agree that no one can generally be immune to crises. However, there exists consensus, that certain entities are more vulnerable to experience a crisis than others, and that it...

Resisting globalized agribusiness. Lessons learned from the case of Mals.

Adam and EveFoto by Yelkrokovade The following article is based on the research of the Master Thesis by Christoph Ambach, Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy (SEEP), Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2019. An apple a day keeps the doctor away?!      ...

Financing Global Education

Education is an essential to human development. Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which included the right to education, there has been widespread acceptance for its imperative. Anyhow, development cooperation has long been focused...

The fertility transition in Ethiopia

The continuously high population growth in Ethiopia poses a major challenge to the governments’ ambition of lifting the country to middle-income status. What are the driving factors of fertility in Ethiopia, and can they be addressed by national policy makers?...

Thirsty Business: 9 lessons learnt while studying water scarcity in China’s northern powerhouse.

By Nandini Venkata This article is based on the Master thesis, "Averting a water crisis in China's northern powerhouse: How effective are China's measures to fight water scarcity in the Jing-Jin-Ji?" by Nandini Venkata, Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy (SEEP), Vienna...

Reconstructing, disaggregating and extending macroeconomic models

Starting point: Shortcomings of mainstream economic modelling and alternatives The financial crisis 2007-2008 has caused economic recessions all over the world. One of the main points of critique concerning the occurrence of this crisis was expressed towards economists and their...