Marina Fischer-Kowalski
em.Univ.Prof. Dr. Marina Fischer-Kowalski
Status Currently not employed at BOKU
ORCID: 0000-0003-3345-4538, opens in new window.
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Career
- 2018 Transfer Institute of Social Ecology to University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- 2018 prof. em. and senior scientist at the Institute of Social Ecology, BOKU Vienna
- 2003 - 2014 full professor of Social Ecology at the Alpen-Adria-University
- 2003 visiting professor at the University Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 2002 visiting professor at the Faculty for Forestry and the Environment, Yale University, USA
- 2000 - 2003 director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities (IFF)
- 1997 visiting professor at Roskilde University, Denmark
- 1996 visiting fellow at Griffith University, Australia
- 1992 guest lecturer at the Institute for Global Governance, London School of Economics
- 1991 - 1999 lecturer in Environmental System Sciences at the University of Graz
- 1987 - 1991 lecturer for gender relations at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Vienna and Innsbruck
- 1987 - 1994 vice director and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities (IFF)
- 1986 - 2019 lecturer for sociology at the University of Vienna
- 1986 - 2011 founder and head of the Institute of Social Ecology at the Faculty (resp. Institute) for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF)
- 1985 - 1986 research cooperation with F. Kreissler (Sorbonne) on unemployment and quality of life (comparison France - Austria)
- 1985 habilitation for sociology at Graz University
- 1982 - 1984 Austrian delegate to and consultant of OECD Paris, program social indicators
- 1971 - 1982 assistant professor for sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
- 1971 PhD in sociology, psychology and history of art (PhD, University of Vienna)
- 1970 - 1972 postgraduate social science studies at Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
- 1970 - 1978 lecturer at the Academy of Social Work, Vienna, for sociology and social psychology, and project learning
- 1967 - 1971 research assistant at the Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna
Awards
- Year: 2017 Awards: Ehrenring der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
- Year: 2017 Awards: Society Award in Industrial Ecology for outstanding achievements (International Society for Industrial Ecology)
- Year: 2016 Awards: Austrian Ministry of Science Award for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Year: 2016 Awards: PROSE Award for co-editing the Encyclopedia for the Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Year: 2015 Awards: Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz I. Klasse für Wissenschaft und Kunst / Austrian State Award for Arts and Sciences, First Class
- Year: 2011 Awards: Ehrenbürgerin von Samothraki / Honorary Citizen of the Municipality of Samothraki
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35 lecures found.
Year: 2022 - On the mutual dynamics of society-nature interaction: Regimes of Metabolism and Colonization
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Long-term processes in Human History: A Tribute to Johan Goudsblom
Period: 17.03.2022 - 19.03.2022 | Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Year: 2022 - Energietransitionen und soziale Revolutionen
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe zu "Klimabewusstsein im Wandel", veranstaltet vom Zentrum für globalen Wandel und Nachhaltigkeit in Zusammenarbeit mit der Landesverteidigungsakademie
Period: 29.03.2022 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2021 - Kolonisierung der Natur und Sozialer Wandel
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Jena Social Theory Colloquium. Schwerpunkt: Neuere Entwicklungen der Kritischen Theorie
Period: 15.12.2021 | Location: Online
Year: 2021 - Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse aus sozialökologischer Perspektive
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Eröffnungsvortrag der Reihe "Herausforderung Nachhaltigkeit in Theorie und Praxis", Institut für Soziologie der Universität Wien
Period: 20.10.2021 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2021 - Energy transitions and social revolutions. How natural resources co-shape human history
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: XV Congreso de la Asociación de Historia Contemporánea, Cordoba, Sept. 7-11, 2021
Period: 07.09.2021 - 11.09.2021 | Location: Cordoba, Spain
Year: 2021 - Nature's role in societal transformation: A socio-metabolic perspective
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Keynote to the Student Conference of the Central European University
Period: 09.12.2021 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2021 - Energy & Sensemaking
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M; Rosa, E
Event: Fireside Chat, Energies United
Period: 06.11.2021 | Location: Online
Year: 2020 - Panel Discussion for the International Resource Panel: Metrics (with Enrico Giovannini, Pavan Sukhdev, Giovanni Ruta, Alessandra Alfieri; Moderation: Diane Coyle)
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: People and Planet: Towards Sustainable Human Development. Virtual Consultation on the 2020 Human Development Report 2020
Period: 01.06.2020 - 04.06.2020 | Location: Online
Year: 2020 - A proposal for how to incorporate the environment in human development
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: People and Planet: Towards Sustainable Human Development. Virtual Consultation on the 2020 Human Development Report 2020
Period: 01.06.2020 - 04.06.2020 | Location: Online
Year: 2020 - Menschliche Arbeit im Wandel sozialmetabolischer Regimes
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: IFK Internationales Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaften, Tagung “Andere Arbeit”
Period: 22.01.2020 - 24.01.2020 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2019 - How science supports a sustainability transition on Samothraki
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Samothraki Open Forum 2019: Sustainable Growth through Synergies
Period: 28.06.2019 - 30.06.2019 | Location: Samothraki, Greece
Year: 2019 - Gesprächspartnerin für Soziale Ökologie, Mitwirkung als Expertin: Langsamer werden!
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Schwarzmarkt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen NR. 20. Das Rote Wien 1919 - 2019 - 2119 (organisiert von der mobilen Akademie Berlin)
Period: 28.09.2019 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2019 - Energy Transitions and Social Revolutions
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: 2nd Austrian Conference on International Resource Politics 2019 - Resources for a social-ecological transformation
Period: 28.02.2019 - 02.03.2019 | Location: Innsbruck, Austria | Organizer: University of Innsbruck | Organizer: Universität Innsbruck (Institut für Geographie), Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (ÖFSE), Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (Institut für Soziale Ökologie), Universität Wien (Institut für Politikwissenschaft)
Year: 2019 - Sustainable Development Goals: Reflections from Social Ecology
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: International Symposium Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World 2019
Period: 04.04.2019 - 05.04.2019 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2019 - The Island Samothraki as A Real-World Lab for Sustainable Livestock Farming
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Noll, D; Wiedenhofer, D; Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: 4th NEST Conference 2019 - Transitions to where? Shared values and visions for sustainability transitions
Period: 04.04.2019 - 05.04.2019 | Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Year: 2019 - Global Use of Natural Resources
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Public Symposium on Land Use Ecology (an event to the honour of Prof. Gerhard Glatzel, organized by the ÖAW, BOKU and IIASA)
Period: 19.11.2019 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2019 - Paradise lost – back to a future? Sustainable Development goals and cllimate targets: intersections and contradictions
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Keynote at the 2nd ICTA-UAB Spring Symposium
Period: 16.05.2019 - 17.05.2019 | Location: Barcelona, Spain
Year: 2019 - The role of science in the sustainability transition of agriculture: A case study from Samothraki, Greece
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Noll, D; Fischer-Kowalski, M; Wiedenhofer, D
Event: XVII European Rural Development Network Conference: CAP 2021+: balanced development among the dimensions of rural sustainability
Period: 24.09.2019 - 26.09.2019 | Location: Velké Bílovice, Czech Republic
Year: 2019 - Integral Ecology: Chances and Obstacles
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Invited Contribution to the International Conference of the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation
Period: 07.06.2019 - 08.06.2019 | Location: Rome, Italy
Year: 2018 - The Interrelation of Infrastructure Expansion and Waste Generation on the Island of Samothraki, Greece
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Noll, D; Wiedenhofer, D; Miatto, A; Singh, SJ; Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: International Symposium Science to Support Circular Economy 2018
Period: 19.09.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2018 - Downscaling or upscaling. A sociometabolic contribution to the Anthropocene debate
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Science Talk at the Institute of Systems Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research, Univ. Graz
Period: 30.01.2018 | Location: Graz, Austria
Year: 2018 - Energy Transitions and Social Revolutions
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M; Rovenskaya, E; Krausmann, F; Pallua, I; McNeill, J
Event: Gordon Research Conference: The Role of Industrial Ecology in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals
Period: 20.05.2018 - 25.05.2018 | Location: Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Year: 2018 - The role of transdisciplinary socioecological research in facilitating the sustainability transition of an island
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Petridis, P; Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: 15th Congress of the International Society for Ecological Economics 2018 - Ecological Economics and Socio-ecological Movements: Science, policy and challenges to global processes in a troubled world
Period: 10.09.2018 - 12.09.2018 | Location: Puebla, Mexico | Organizer: International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
Year: 2018 - Festvortrag: Was kann Soziale Ökologie leisten? Ein Streifzug durch Konzepte und Projekte
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Symposium Soziale Ökologie beim FWF Science and Society Festival
Period: 10.09.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2018 - Energiesysteme verändern Gesellschaftsstrukturen – und umgekehrt. Zur Theorie und Empirie sozialmetabolischer Regimes
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Vortrag im Rahmen der studentisch organisierten Ringvorlesung "Energiedemokratie"
Period: 20.01.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2018 - Industrial Ecology’s contribution to remain within planetary boundaries and achieve the SDGs
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Workshop on Mentorship back to back with the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology
Period: 20.05.2018 | Location: Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Year: 2018 - Sociometabolic transitions
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Advanced Training Course 1 (COUPLED), SEC Wien
Period: 17.09.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2018 - Analyzing the socio-ecological system’s dynamic of an island in search for sustainable solutions
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: 5th International Summer School
Period: 03.06.2018 - 12.06.2018 | Location: Samothraki, Greece
Year: 2018 - Zur Rolle biophysischer Ressourcen in der Ökonomie
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Vortrag am Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation
Period: 24.09.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2016 - Long-term sociometabolic transition trajectories of China and India compared
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M; Schaffartzik, A
Event: Joint conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) 2016, 12th Socio-Economic Metabolism section conference and 5th Asia Pacific conference
Period: 28.09.2016 - 30.09.2016 | Location: Nagoya, Japan
Year: 2016 - Supporting a socioecological transformation of local communites
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: Joint conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) 2016, 12th Socio-Economic Metabolism section conference and 5th Asia Pacific conference
Period: 28.09.2016 - 30.09.2016 | Location: Nagoya, Japan
Year: 2008 - Global human appropriation of net primary production in the year 2000: patterns and magnitude
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Haberl, H; Erb, KH; Krausmann, F; Gaube, V; Bondeau, A; Plutzar, C; Lucht, W; Fischer-Kowalski, M
Event: 4th IGBP Congress 2008 - Sustainable Livelihoods in a Changing Earth System
Period: 05.05.2008 - 06.05.2008 | Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2006 - The MEFASPACE-hist. model, Material flows and transport in agrarian societies
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M; Krausmann, F; Rainer, G
Event: Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology 2006
Period: 06.08.2006 - 11.08.2006 | Location: Oxford, UK
Year: 2005 - Transitions in the North, Transitions in the South. Towards identifying and comparing transitions of coupled socio-ecological systems
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Fischer-Kowalski, M; Krausmann, F; Schandl, H;
Event: 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community 2005
Period: 10.10.2005 - 13.10.2005 | Location: Bonn, Germany | Location: Bonn, Germany
Year: 2003 - European Material Matters. Trends and Patterns in Material Flows in the European Union Countries 1970-2000
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Weisz, H; Amann, C; Eisenmenger, N; Erb, KH; Fischer-Kowalski, M; Krausmann, F; Hunbacek, K
Event: 2nd Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology
Period: 29.06.2003 - 03.07.2003 | Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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