Michael Hauser
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr. Michael Hauser
Institute of Development Research
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 76, 1190 Wien
Email michael.hauser@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93415
Research Focus
Since the beginning of my scientific career, I have been interested in how to develop design principles for transitions to sustainable land use that respect planetary boundaries and enable well-being for everyone.
My current research now examines how people and their organizations manage complex risks in agricultural and food systems. The focus of my research is on analysing events that can lead into and out of humanitarian crises. In addition, I examine the barriers to adaptation to climate and environmental change and identify psychological and institutional factors that promote cooperative behavior in times of crisis. I also research those deep changes in social systems that support building resilience and system transformation.
A central goal of my work is to develop tools and counselling approaches that enable people to safely navigate complex transitions in nature and society. These find applications in humanitarian aid, the restoration of degraded ecosystems, the integration of internally displaced persons and host communities, and the scaling of sustainable agriculture, agroforestry and rangeland management in fragile systems.
My work contributes to a broader scientific agenda aimed at understanding the relationships between fragility and social change.
Career
- 2024 Associate Professor, BOKU University, Vienna
- 2023 Resarch Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
- 2023 Senior Associate, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi
- 2022 - 2023 Principal Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi
- 2021 - 2022 Research Program Director (acting), Enabling Systems Transformation, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi
- 2017 - 2021 Principal Scientist, Theme Leader MIND (Market, Institutions, Nutrition, Diversity), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Nairobi
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting Scientist, WorldFish, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Penang, MalaysiaVisiting Scientist, Penang, Malaysia
- 2009 - 2017 Director, Centre for Development Research (now Institute of Development Resaerch), BOKU University, Vienna
- 2006 Visiting Scientist, Kasetsart University, Bangkok
- 2005 Doctorate (Dr.nat.techn.), BOKU University, Vienna
- 2000 - 2009 Assistant Professor, Institute of Organic Farming, BOKU University
- 1999 Graduate Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) in Agroecology (indiviudal degree protram at BOKU Vienna, the Universität of Vienna and the University of Reading)
Awards
- Year: 2023 Awards: MIT J-WAFS Water and Food Seed Grant
- Year: 2014 Awards: Preis der Wiener Vielfalt, Nominierung und Shortlist in der Kategorie „Wissenschaft“
- Year: 2012 Awards: BOKU Teaching Award 2012 (2. Preis)
- Year: 2010 Awards: Sustainability Award im Handlungsfeld Forschung - Auszeichnung der BOKU für das CDR
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Presentations
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- Thailand+' '+1
- Uganda+' '+2
- Vereinigte Staaten+' '+1
33 lecures found.
Year: 2018 - Power and politics in agri-food sustainability transitions
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: El Bilali, H; Hauser, M; Wurzinger, M; Melcher, A; Probst, L.
Event: 13th European IFSA Symposium 2018 - Farming systems: facing uncertainties and enhancing opportunities
Period: 01.07.2018 - 05.07.2018 | Location: Chania, Greece
Year: 2017 - Research on Transitions to Sustainable Agro-Food Sys- tems: Conceptual Insights and Research Needs from a Food and Nutrition Security Perspective
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: El Bilali, H; Probst, L; Wurzinger, M; Hauser, M; Melcher, A
Event: Sozial-o?kologische Transformationen. Perspektiven o?sterreichischer Entwicklungsforschung.
Period: 19.05.2017 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2017 - Rural livelihood transitions: towards an integration of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and the Multi-Level Perspective
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: El Bilali, H.; Hauser, M.; Berjan, S.; Miseckaite, O.; Probst, L.
Event: 8th International scientific conference Rural Development 2017
Period: 23.11.2017 - 24.11.2017 | Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
Year: 2015 - The new Agenda for Global Action: What it really takes to make agriculture more sustainable.
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M
Event: Sustainable development: the concept of sustainability in relation to agriculture and food systems.
Period: 11.06.2015 | Location: Milan, Italy
Year: 2015 - Innovation in family farming in Europe and Central Asia
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M
Event: FAO, ECA Regional panel discussion
Period: 22.09.2015 | Location: Budapest, Hungary
Year: 2014 - Habermas and the innovation platform: do multi- stakeholder interventions create communicative rationalities for innovation?
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Probst, L; Prehsler, S; Hauser, M
Event: System Innovation towards Sustainable Agriculture
Period: 22.05.2014 - 23.05.2014 | Location: Paris, France
Year: 2014 - Application of Scenario Planning in the Context of Rural Transformation: The Case of North West Ethiopia
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Gudeta, K. Braito, M., Penker, M., Wurzinger, M. Hauser, M.
Event: Tropentag 2014. Bridging the gap between increasing knowledge and decreasing resources
Period: 17.09.2014 - 19.09.2014 | Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 2013 - Bowling together. Networks and Partnerships of Universities in the European Union
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: 6TH AFRICA AGRICULTURE SCIENCE WEEK & FARA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Period: 15.07.2013 - 16.07.2013 | Location: Accra, Ghana
Year: 2013 - Networking of Agricultural Universities: AGRINATURA as a European Union case
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M
Event: Agriculture and Food Deans Meeting
Period: 21.11.2013 - 22.11.2013 | Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Year: 2012 - Green Agriculture - sustainable land use as basis for food security
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: Green Economy 2012 - Aspects of sustainable land use in Africa
Period: 12.06.2012 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2012 - Millennium Development Goals and a Vision of a Future without Hunger (panel title),
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M
Event: International CARITAS Conference 2012 - Future without Hunger
Period: 01.06.2012 - 02.06.2012 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2010 - The youth of today will constitute the innovation ecology of tomorrow. A challenge for research and tertiary education
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Probst, L.; Hauser, M.
Event: International Scientific-Practical Conference: Youth for Ecological Progress.
Period: 11.11.2010 - 12.11.2010 | Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Year: 2010 - Village Bylaws Strengthen the Sustainable management of Exclosures in the Drylands of Northern Ethiopia
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Mastewal Yami Degefa, Wolde Mekuria, Michael Hauser
Event: 8th Development Dialogue
Period: 21.06.2010 - 22.06.2010 | Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Year: 2010 - Enabling Rural Innovation: Forschung an der Theorie-Praxis-Schnittstelle
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: Dialog Entwicklungsforschung 2010 – EZA-Praxis
Period: 26.05.2010 - 27.05.2010 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2010 - The potentials of participatory video. Does participatory video enhance learning for local innovation?
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: A. H. Chowdhury, M. Hauser
Event: Innovation and sustainable development in Agriculture and Food
Period: 28.06.2010 - 01.07.2010 | Location: Montpellier, France
Year: 2010 - The Enabling Rural Innovation Approach
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: Regional Conference 'Rural Development - Natural Resource Management'
Period: 06.10.2010 - 08.10.2010 | Location: Masaka, Uganda
Year: 2009 - Harvested Rainwater, water scarcity and income generation in rural domestic households
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Baguma D, Loiskandl W, Jung H, Hauser M
Event: WATER POLICY 2009, Joint Conference of APLU and ICA 2009 - Water as a Vulnerable and Exhaustible Resource
Period: 23.06.2009 - 26.06.2009 | Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 2009 - Communication for change: Participatory video supports local seed innovation in Bangladesh
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Chowdhury Ataharul Huq, Hauser Michael
Event: Innovation Asia Pacific Symposium 2009
Period: 04.05.2009 - 07.05.2009 | Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
Year: 2009 - Welternährung und Ökolandbau
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, Michael
Event: Entwicklungspolitischer Arbeitskreises der ÖH BOKU 2009
Period: 01.01.2009 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2009 - Power accelerates organizational innovation: the role of ‚Machtpromotoren‘ for institutionalizing development research at an Austrian University
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: Internationalisierung und entwicklungspolitische Dimensionen an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen 2009
Period: 16.04.2009 - 17.04.2009 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2009 - Research for Development
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Loiskandl W, Hauser M,
Event: ÖAD-Tag Boku 2009
Period: 25.05.2009 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2009 - Contribution of farmer-to-farmer video to food security: Evidence from Bangladesh
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Chowdhury A.H., Van Mele P., Hauser M.
Event: Tropentag, International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development 2009 - Biophysical and socio-economic frame conditions for the sustainable management of natural resources
Period: 06.10.2009 - 08.10.2009 | Location: Hamburg, Germany
Year: 2009 - Challenges to achieve systemic interaction under new institutional arrangements of an agricultural development project: A case study in Bangladesh
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Chowdhury A.H., Leeuwis C., Hauser M.
Event: 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management ISSRM 2009 - Meet old and new worlds in Research, Planning and Management
Period: 05.07.2009 - 08.07.2009 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2009 - Comparing the effectiveness of informal and formal institutions in sustainable common pool resources management in sub Saharan Africa
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: M. Y. Degefa, C.R. Vogl & M. Hauser
Event: Tropentag, International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development 2009 - Biophysical and socio-economic frame conditions for the sustainable management of natural resources
Period: 06.10.2009 - 08.10.2009 | Location: Hamburg, Germany
Year: 2008 - Market Integration Shape Organic Farmers’ Organisation.
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Sultan, T., Mursal, A., Salem, S. G., Liu, Y., Oelofse, M., Knudsen M.T., El-Araby, A., Delve, R.J., Yuhiu, Q., Hauser, M., Kledal, P., Egelyng, H., Halberg, N.8 & Høgh-Jensen, H.
Event: 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress
Period: 16.06.2008 - 20.06.2008 | Location: Modena, Italy
Year: 2008 - Strategy on Organic Agriculture in the Austrian Development Co-operation.
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M
Event: UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16)
Period: 05.05.2008 - 16.05.2008 | Location: New York City, NY, USA
Year: 2007 - Research for Development. About gods, warlords and misunderstandings between both
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: Arbeitsgruppe Armut der Austrian Development Agency ADA 2007
Period: 27.06.2007 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2007 - Research for Development. About gods, warlords and misunderstandings between both.
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Hauser, M
Event: Arbeitsgruppe Armut der Austrian Development Agency ADA 2007
Period: 27.06.2007 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2006 - Can organic farming contribute to a better livelihood of small-scale farmers?
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, M., Walaga, C., Delve, R.
Event: Organic Agriculture in Development - the need for integrated production for food security
Period: 24.11.2006 | Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Year: 2006 - Food for all? Organic agriculture and the household food security equation in developing countries
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: 6th European Summer Academy on Organic Farming 2006
Period: 29.06.2006 - 01.07.2006 | Location: Lednice, Czech Republic
Year: 2006 - Enabling rural innovations through market-oriented organic agricultural extension
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, M.
Event: Rural poverty reduction through agricultural extension 2006
Period: 28.11.2006 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2006 - Changing the rules of the game: institutional innovation and change processes in organic agriculture
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hauser, M. Delve, R., Ssebunya, B., Mulindwa J., Byandala S.
Event: Innovation Africa Symposium
Period: 21.11.2006 - 23.11.2006 | Location: Kampala, Uganda
Year: 2005 - Impact of irrigation development on poverty and environment
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Loiskandl W., Seleshi B., Ruffeis D., Schönerklee M., Spendlingwimmer R., Strauss-Sieberth A., Hauser M.,
Event: KEF MDG+5 Workshop 2005 - A critical look at the role of research in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Period: 29.11.2005 - 09.11.2005 | Location: Vienna, Austria