Valentin Fiala
Dipl.-Ing.Dr. Valentin Fiala
Institute of Development Research
Institute of Landscape Planning
Location Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Wien
Email v.fiala@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73111
Career
- 2023 Research Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development and the Institut of Landscape Planning at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna
- 2021 - 2023 Post-doc at the Free University of Berlin at the Research Center for Sustainability
- 2019 - 2021 Research fellow at the Division of Organic Farming at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna
- 2015 - 2019 Research assistant at the Division of Organic Farming, University of Natural Resources and Live Science, Vienna
- 2015 - 2015 Research sta at the University of Minnesota, MN US
- 2014 - 2020 Doctoral studies (PhD) of Social and Economic Sciences; University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna, Division of Organic Farming
- 2010 - 2013 Individual master's programme; Environment and Bioresources Management; University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna
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Publications
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Presentations
19 lecures found.
Year: 2025 - Exploring How Research Creates Positive Effects in Biosphere Reserves - Insights from the BIOSS project
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V
Event: Institutsseminar Intitut für Nachhaltige Wirtschaftsentwicklung SS 2025
Period: 25.02.2025 - 01.07.2025 | Location: Wien, Wien, Österreich | Location: Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Wien, Österreich | Organizer:
Eigenfinanzierung - Department für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Year: 2025 - Golfclub Asphalt! Playful interventions to re-imagine and retake urban public spaces
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V; Puchner, L
Event: 16th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference 2025
Period: 24.06.2025 - 26.06.2025 | Location: Lissabon, Lissabon, Portugal | Organizer:
Sustainability Transition Research Network
Year: 2025 - What matters for the future of Mountain Hay Meadows? A Q-study on Stakeholder views in Austria
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Janisch, J; Fiala, V; Thaler, T; Horvath, C; Gugerell, K
Event: International Mountain Conference Innsbruck (IMC) 2025
Period: 14.09.2025 - 18.09.2025 | Location: Innsbruck, Österreich | Location: #IMC Conference Area | Location: Innsbruck | Organizer:
Universität Innsbruck | Organizer:
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Year: 2025 - How to establish science-society research collaborations? Insights from five mountainous Biosphere Reserves .
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Radinger-Peer, V; Janisch, J; Mitrofanenko, A; Fiala, V;
Event: IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress
Period: 02.09.2025 - 05.09.2025 | Location: Bratislava, Slowakei | Organizer:
International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE)
Year: 2024 - Artistic interventions for sustainable (urban) food system transitions? Insights from the “Feldversuche” Art Symposium
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V; Puchner, L
Event: 15th International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2024
Period: 16.06.2024 - 19.06.2024 | Location: Oslo, Norwegen | Organizer:
Universitetet i Oslo
Year: 2023 - Science-society interaction in protected areas: Types, methods and roles
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Penker, M; Fiala, V
Event: Presentations and round table organisation at the first Conference of the European Chapter of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, Institute for Ecology at the Technische Universität Berlin
Period: 08.03.2023 - 10.03.2023 | Location: Berlin, Germany
Year: 2023 - Biosphere Reserves as Models for Science-Society Interaction to spur Sustainability Transformations in Mountainous Areas & Beyond
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Gugerell, K; Thaler, T; Radinger-Peer, V; Fiala, V; Knaus, F; Mitrofanenko, A; Penker, M
Event: Earth-System-Science Symposium (ESS)
Period: 01.06.2023 | Location: Vienna
Year: 2023 - Biosphere Reserves as Models for Science-Society Interaction to Spur Sustainability Transformations in Mountainous Areas and Beyond
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Mitrofanenko, A; Gugerell, K; Thaler, T; Radinger-Peer, V; Fiala, V; Knaus, F; Penker, M
Event: Caucasus Mountain Forum
Period: 04.07.2023 - 06.07.2023 | Location: Kutaisi, GEORGIA
Year: 2023 - Biosphere Reserves as Models for Science–Society Interaction to Spur Sustainability Transformations in Mountainous Areas and Beyond.
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Fiala, V; Mitrofanenko, A; Penker, M; Radinger-Peer, V
Event: 1st International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR) European Hub Conference 2023
Period: 08.03.2023 - 10.03.2023 | Location: Berlin, Deutschland | Organizer:
International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR)
Year: 2021 - Food Systems in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: Critical Reflections on Health and Ecological Crises
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Freyer, B; Amare, Y; Bieling, ; Lopez Cifuentes, M; Ellssel, P; Fiala, V; Kiskaye, V; Sanjuan, L D; Wieck, C; Bingen, J
Event: iV ISA Forum of Sociology
Period: 27.02.2021 | Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Year: 2018 - Get Big or Get Out? - How Organic Farmers Find Their Ways – Case Studies from Austria and Germany
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Hertler, C; Fiala, V; Freyer, B
Event: AFHVS/ASFS Conference 2018. Agroecoprospect. The Politics of integrating Values, Food, and Farming.
Period: 13.06.2018 - 16.06.2018 | Location: Madison, WI, USA
Year: 2018 - Sustainable Development Goals – Is There an Organic Farming Position?
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Freyer, B; Paxton, R; Klimek, M; Fiala, V; Dietrich, P; Bingen, J
Event: Agroeco Prospect; The Politics of Integrating Values, Food and Farming. AFHVS/ASFS
Period: 13.06.2018 - 16.06.2018 | Location: Madison, WI, USA
Year: 2018 - Facilitating Change in Food and Farming Through Higher Education: A Space to Share
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Klimek, M; Fiala, V; Freyer, B; Bingen, J
Event: Agroeco Prospect; The Politics of Integrating Values, Food and Farming. AFHVS/ASFS
Period: 13.06.2018 - 16.06.2018 | Location: Madison, WI, USA
Year: 2018 - How to train transdisciplinary competences? Insights from a lecture on “System Analysis and Scenario Technique”
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V; Klimek, M; Freyer, B; Fahringer, A
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 - “Organic +” – How advertisement campaigns construct a shattered image of organic farming
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V. Freyer, B.
Event: 19th Organic World Congress IFOAM 2017 - An Organic World Through an Organic India
Period: 09.11.2017 - 11.11.2017 | Location: New Delhi, India
Year: 2015 - Hicks, Hi-techs and Hippies: Understanding and mirroring perceptions of farmers through participatory photography
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V.; Klimek, M.; Paxton, R.,
Event: Bridging the Past, Cultivating the Future: Exploring Sustainable Foodscapes - AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference
Period: 24.06.2015 - 28.06.2015 | Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Year: 2015 - Hicks, Hi-techs and Hippies: How images in public media and pop – culture influence the perceptions of farmers.
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V; Klimek, M; Paxton, R
Event: 26th ESRS European Society for Rural Sociology Congress 2015 - Places of Possibility? Rural Societies in a Neoliberal World
Period: 18.08.2015 - 21.08.2015 | Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Year: 2014 - Institutional Adaptive Capacity of Organic Farmer Associations in growing Organic Agrifood Systems
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V.; Freyer, B.; Paxton, R.; Bingen, J.
Event: 11th European International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Symposium 2014
Period: 01.04.2014 - 04.04.2014 | Location: Berlin, Germany
Year: 2014 - The Missing Link: Can Zombies as a MEATaphor bridge the Gap between Agent Based Modelling and qualitative Social Science?
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Fiala, V.; Paxton, R.; Oßwald, J.
Event: EMCSR 2014 - European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research - Civilisation at the Crossroads – Response and Responsibility of the Systems Sciences
Period: 22.04.2014 - 25.04.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria