The WU Institute for Ecological Economics was one of the institutes with the highest presence of researchers at the 12th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) (link: http://esee2017budapest.org/).

The conference took place at the Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, from 20-23 June (Link: http://esee2017budapest.org/index.php/venue/).

Researchers from our institute contributed 12 oral presentations in various sessions, covering topics such as sustainable work, environmental justice, climate finance as well as material consumption and CO2 emissions. In addition, 3 posters were presented and 2 special sessions organised.

All presentations and posters as well as the outlines for the special sessions are available for download below.

Oral presentations:

Ernest Aigner

, Lucia Baratech, Heidi Leonhardt: Conceptualizing good work for all. A social-ecological perspective.

Martin Bruckner, Stefan Giljum

, Günther Fischer, Sylvia Tramberend, Jan Börner: The global cropland footprint of the non-food bioeconomy.

Emanuele Campiglio

, Antoine Godin, Elena Dawkins, Eric Kemp-Benedict: Climate financial bubbles: How market sentiments shape the transition to low-carbon capital.

Stefanie Gerold, Michael Soder

: Killing three birds with one stone? Exploring the effects of a working-time reduction policy on well-being, gender and the environment.

Stefan Giljum, Martin Bruckner, Mirko Lieber, Hanspeter Wieland

: Developing a spatially explicit, global material flow model to trace environmental impacts embodied in international trade.

Stephan Lutter

: Sustainable water use – the way forward towards comprehensive measurement and management.

Reinhard Mechler,

Thomas Schinko: Climate risks beyond adaptation: Balancing principles of distributional and compensatory justice for identifying the space for Loss and Damage.

Irene Monasterolo

,Marco Raberto: Could governments support the green transition by phasing out fossil fuels subsidies? A Stock-Flows Consistent model approach.

Liesbeth de Schutter, Stefan Giljum, Burcu Gözet Hanspeter Wieland

: Patterns of environmental inequality in the EU?

Michael Soder,

Hendrik Theine,

Sigrid Stagl

: Trade union responses to the reconstruction of the Austrian energy sector and the increase of renewable energies in the energy mix.

Hanspeter Wieland, Stefan Giljum, Martin Bruckner

, Richard Wood, Anne Owen: Structural Production Layer Decomposition. A new method to measure differences between MRIO databases for footprint assessments.

Katarzyna Gruszka:

On the tragedy of sharing (and the ‘uberization’ of the sharing economy)

Poster presentations:

Stefanie Gerold, Michael Soder

, Michael Schwendinger: Company schemes for working-time reduction in Austria: Barriers and supporting factors for a successful implementation.

Asjad Naqvi, Klara Zwickl

: Fifty Shades of Green: Revisiting Decoupling by Economic Sectors and Air Pollutants. <link en ecolecon institute news news-details-ecolecon detail best-poster-award-at-eese-2017-for-asjad-naqvi-and-klara-zwickl>(winner of the EESE Best Paper Award)

Liesbeth de Schutter, Martin Bruckner, Stefan Giljum, Asjad Naqvi, Ines Omann

: Towards a framework to assess functionalities of the EU bioeconomy in a social-ecological transformation.

Special sessions:

Filka Sekulova,

Ines Omann

, Jérôme Pelenc: Vulnerability and conflict: implications for human wellbeing in a society embarking on degrowth.

Jerome Pelenc, Filka Sekulova

, Ines Omann

: How to define and assess needs and well-being in a degrowth perspective.