Biodiv Vienna - Vienna‘s Biodiversity Footprint: A multi-scale analysis outlining options to reduce urban pressures on biodiversity

Krausmann Fridolin

Institute of Social Ecology (SEC)

01.03.2018 - 30.11.2022

Research project (§ 26 & § 27)

Program Environmental Systems Research

Funder National: Institutions under Public Law

Competencies

Ressourcen und gesellschaftliche Dynamik

Abstract

Urban governments are increasingly engaging in biodiversity conservation within their own city’s territories. While these conservation efforts are important, cities exert much higher pressures on biodiversity beyond their own territories related to the provision of resources to supply urban populations with food, energy and other products. This project develops an approach to quantify, map and predict the “biodiversity footprint” of large cities by combining methods from socio-ecological sustainability science (material flow analysis, human appropriation of net primary production) and biodiversity research (macro-ecological modelling). It goes beyond existing research on teleconnections which has focussed at the national scale or individual products. Here we calculate and map the national and global biodiversity footprint of Vienna’s consumption of biomass-based products (food, fiber, bioenergy) for a recent year and explore possible reductions of the city’s biodiversity footprint resulting from changes in consumption and increased efficiency in the biomass provision chains. The project will involve participatory tools to prioritize potential options for policy interventions based on the experience of policy makers and stakeholders from civil society organizations (producer and consumer organizations and environmental groups). It will contribute to the exploration of options that exploit the considerable potential of cities towards UN sustainable development goals.

Publications

Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth

Autoren: Marques, A; Martins, IS; Kastner, T; Plutzar, C; Theurl, MC; Eisenmenger, N; Huijbregts, MAJ; Wood, R; Stadler, K; Bruckner, M; Canelas, J; Hilbers, JP; Tukker, A; Erb, K; Pereira, HM Jahr: 2019

Journal articles
Food regimes and their trade links: A socio-ecological perspective

Autoren: Krausmann, F; Langthaler, E Jahr: 2019

Journal articles
Introductory talk to the session on social metabolism and land-system science

Autoren: Haberl, H; Krausmann, F Jahr: 2019

Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Food regimes, global trade flows and natural resource use 1850–2016

Autoren: Krausmann, F; Langthaler, E Jahr: 2019

Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Quantifying and analysing global spatio-temporal patterns of land-use change: the role of natural vs. anthropogenic changes for the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

Autoren: Matej, S; Kastner, T; Niedertscheider, M; Forrest, M; Hickler, T; Steinkamp, J; Lauk, C; Plutzar, C; Gingrich, S; Haberl, H; Krausmann, F; Erb, KH Jahr: 2019

Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Biodiversity models need to represent land-use intensity more comprehensively

Autoren: Dullinger, I; Essl, F; Moser, D; Erb, K; Haberl, H; Dullinger, S Jahr: 2021

Journal articles
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective

Autoren: Dorninger, C; von Wehrden, H; Krausmann, F; Bruckner, M; Feng, KS; Hubacek, K; Erb, KH; Abson, DJ Jahr: 2021

Journal articles
Tracing Austria's biomass consumption to source countries: A product-level comparison between bioenergy, food and material

Autoren: Kalt, G; Kaufmann, L; Kastner, T; Krausmann, F Jahr: 2021

Journal articles
Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century.

Autoren: Kastner, T; Matej, S; Forrest, M; Gingrich, S; Haberl, H; Hickler, T; Krausmann, F; Lasslop, G; Niedertscheider, M; Plutzar, C; Schwarzmüller, F; Steinkamp, J; Erb, KH; Jahr: 2022

Journal articles
Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition

Autoren: Kastner, T; Chaudhary, A; Gingrich, S; Marques, A; Persson, UM; Bidoglio, G; Le Provost, G; Schwarzmuller, F Jahr: 2021

Journal articles
Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity

Autoren: Semenchuk, P; Plutzar, C; Kastner, T; Matej, S; Bidoglio, G; Erb, KH; Essl, F; Haberl, H; Wessely, J; Krausmann, F; Dullinger, S Jahr: 2022

Journal articles
Demand side options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the land footprint of urban food systems: A scenario analysis for the City of Vienna

Autoren: Lauk, C; Kaufmann, L; Theurl, MC; Wittmann, F; Eder, M; Hortenhuber, S; Freyer, B; Krausmann, F Jahr: 2022

Journal articles
The global biodiversity footprint of urban consumption: A spatially explicit assessment for the city of Vienna

Autoren: Philipp Semenchuk; Gerald Kalt; Lisa Kaufmann; Thomas Kastner; Sarah Matej; Giorgio Bidoglio; Karl-Heinz Erb; Franz Essl; Helmut Haberl; Stefan Dullinger; Fridolin Krausmann Jahr: 2023

Journal articles
"Biomass from somewhere?" Governing the spatial mismatch of Viennese biomass consumption and its impact on biodiversity

Autoren: Plank, C; Gorg, C; Kalt, G; Kaufmann, L; Dullinger, S; Krausmann, F Jahr: 2023

Journal articles
Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape-scale vertebrate richness

Autoren: Karina Reiter; Christoph Plutzar; Dietmar Moser; Philipp Semenchuk; Karl-Heinz Erb; Franz Essl; Andreas Gattringer; Helmut Haberl; Fridolin Krausmann; Bernd Lenzner; Johannes Wessely; Sarah Matej; Robin Pouteau; Stefan Dullinger Jahr: 2023

Journal articles

01.03.2018 - 30.11.2022

BOKU partners

Institute of Social Ecology (SEC)

role coordinator

External partners

Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research

none

partner

University of Vienna

none

partner

Biodiv Vienna - Vienna‘s Biodiversity Footprint: A multi-scale analysis outlining options to reduce urban pressures on biodiversity

Abstract

Publications

Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth

Food regimes and their trade links: A socio-ecological perspective

Introductory talk to the session on social metabolism and land-system science

Food regimes, global trade flows and natural resource use 1850–2016

Quantifying and analysing global spatio-temporal patterns of land-use change: the role of natural vs. anthropogenic changes for the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

Biodiversity models need to represent land-use intensity more comprehensively

The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective

Tracing Austria's biomass consumption to source countries: A product-level comparison between bioenergy, food and material

Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century.

Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition

Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity

Demand side options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the land footprint of urban food systems: A scenario analysis for the City of Vienna

The global biodiversity footprint of urban consumption: A spatially explicit assessment for the city of Vienna

"Biomass from somewhere?" Governing the spatial mismatch of Viennese biomass consumption and its impact on biodiversity

Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape-scale vertebrate richness

Project staff

BOKU partners

External partners

Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research

University of Vienna