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Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations (ISSET)RSS

ISSET is an interdisciplinary institute at the Department of Socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business that unites research from geography, socioeconomics, political ecology, governance, and planning which focus on the contours, challenges and consequences of past, current and future spatial and social-ecological transformations: (i) The spatial perspective enables multi scalar, territorial, relational, place-based, and context-sensitive analyses that support integrated forms of policymaking and planning at multiple levels. (ii) The social-ecological perspective facilitates and integrates innovative analyses of socioeconomic dynamics and biophysical processes, e.g. by linking climate change and inequality, biodiversity loss and economic growth. ISSET will investigate spatial and social-ecological transformations in five research units with interdisciplinary teams and interrelated research and teaching agendas:

ISSET is a fusion of the Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development (MLGD) and the Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience (WGI).

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Edited version of Lecture "Destroying Nature to Save it" available!

"Destroying Nature to Save It" Lecture now available online (20 mins), covering financialisation of Nature, profiting from social-ecological crises, the geopolitics of energy transition, the role of…

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Buchpräsentation am 27.02.2025

Am 27.02.2025 wird ab 18:00 Uhr im Clubraum des LC die Präsentation des Buches "Wir alle machen Wirtschaft" stattfinden. Programm Begrüßung: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Lampe, WU Wien Warum dieses…

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Stefanie Peer wins WU Award for Best Paper

Together with her co-authors, Reinhard Hössinger and Maria Juschten, Stefanie Peer won the award for their paper, "Give citizens a task: An innovative tool to compose policy bundles that reach the…