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ZUG_Wien @zug-wien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wir gratulieren Verena Winiwarter zum Sonderpreis für das Lebenswerk des Österreichischen Staatspreises für Geschichtswissenschaften 2026 und wünschen Ihr auch für die Zukunft viel Freude und Begeisterung an der Forschung! www.ots.at/presseaussen...

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Bundesministerin Holzleitner verleiht den Österreichischen Staatspreis für Geschichtswissenschaften 2026

Wien (OTS) - "Geschichte hilft uns, unsere Vergangenheit zu verstehen und unsere Gegenwart kritisch zu betrachten. Sie eröffnet neue Perspektiven und macht sichtbar, was lange zu wenig gesehen wurde.....

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The next European environmental history conference @eseh.bsky.social will be in Salzburg, Sept. 2027! Focusing on inter- and transdisciplinarity, it explicitly invites contributions from neighbouring fields 👉 eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #envhist @zug-wien.bsky.social @bokusec.bsky.social

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CfP: 14th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference – European Society for Environmental History

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Pleased to see that our findings on inequalities in Austrian household CO2 emissions have been isotypified! Thanks for the effort @schmoigl.bsky.social and @kalf.bsky.social

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BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Renommierter Preis für Entwicklungsforschung für die BOKU University: Felix Dorn erhielt den Hauptpreis, Anna-Maria Brunner den Nachwuchspreis. Auch Andreas Melcher wurde gewürdigt. Vergeben vom BMFWF und der OeAD für Beiträge zu globalen Nachhaltigkeitszielen: ℹ️ boku.ac.at/news/newsite...

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Österreichischer Preis für Entwicklungsforschung 2025

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Reminder: four more days to apply for the tenure-track position in environmental history with us at @bokusec.bsky.social 👇

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Robert Groß @robertgro5.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

***CfP*** Die mit der @eseh.bsky.social assoziierte D-A-CH-AG Umweltgeschichte lädt zum zweiten Nachwuchsworkshop diesmal an die @unibe.ch in der schönen Schweiz! Deadline für die Abstracts ist der 15.2.2025 #envhist #histtech Mehr unter: www.hist.unibe.ch/unibe/portal...

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Institute of Social Ecology Vienna @bokusec.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Open Tenure-track Position in our Insitute! career position in compliance with § 99 (5) UG in the field of Environmental History with a focus on longterm socio-ecological research. 🌿 🗓 Application Deadline: January 6 @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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Martin Schmid @maschmid.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

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Institute of Social Ecology Vienna @bokusec.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🌳 Join us for a fascinating SEC Lecture with @pszaboenviro.bsky.social, How history shapes our Forests Today 📅 16 Dec 2025, 17:00 🔗 boku.ac.at/wiso/isec/so... @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

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Institute of Social Ecology Vienna @bokusec.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Read of the day:🌲The Industrialization of Forests. a fascinating chapter on forest transitions, empire, and ecology in Central Europe. 📖by @simonegingrich.bsky.social & @maschmid.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.3167/9781... @zug-wien.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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Robert Groß @robertgro5.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

***Call for Papers*** Dissertant:innen-Tagung Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte 2026 @univie.ac.at #envhist

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Der eben veröffentlichte Report zu Global Tipping Points zeigt, dass manche Kipppunkte im Erdsystem bereits angestoßen wurden. Ein Beispiel ist die tropische Korallenbleiche. Die Risiken steigen mit der weiterhin ungebremst voranschreitenden Erderhitzung. global-tipping-points.org

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Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact

Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳 👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇 www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies... Application deadline: 13.11.2025 Please distribute widely! #envhist #histecol

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,  made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

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Nicolas Roux @n-roux.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

[1/🧵] 🌍 Is decoupling enough to meet U.S. climate targets in agriculture & forestry? Our new study in Ecological Economics looks at >100 years of GHG emissions and carbon fluxes in the AFOLU sector (1910–2022). 📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Is decoupling enough to achieve the U.S. climate targets for agriculture and forestry? Historical greenhouse gas and biomass fluxes from AFOLU sector production in the United States, 1910–2022

The U.S. have committed to a 35 % decrease of non-CO2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (CH4, N2O) by 2030. Around half of these emissions stem from the …

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

How can we effectively reduce emissions? We have a new paper out in Energy Research & Social Science, led by @melaniepichler.bsky.social‬, with @simonegingrich.bsky.social, @n-roux.bsky.social, ‪ @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social @bokusec.bsky.social,‬ @envleeds.bsky.social 1/9 tinyurl.com/ytm2zd9m

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Conceptualizing supply- and demand-side climate change mitigation: A typology and new research directions

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Nicolas Roux @n-roux.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Super Video Zusammenfassung des Kapitels zu Landnutzung & Ökosystemen im 🇦🇹 Klimabericht: 🌾 Landwirtschaft = 10 % der THG-Emissionen Österreichs 🌍 16% der Agrarimporte stammen aus klimaanfälligen Regionen Lösungen: 🥩 Weniger Tierprodukte, 🌱 mehr Natur, 🔄 Konflikte fair lösen #AAR2 #APCC

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BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

📘 Die BOKU-Autor*innen des Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsberichts zum Klimawandel rufen zu einer entschlossenen Klimapolitik auf: short.boku.ac.at/92odzp001000...

📸 Von links nach rechts: Keywan Riahi Riahi (IIASA), Margreth Keiler (Universität Innsbruck), Umwelt- und Klimaminister Norbert Totschnig, Harald Rieder (BOKU University) und Daniel Huppmann (IIASA) © BMLUK Hemerka

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Climate Change Centre Austria / CCCA @ccca.ac.at · 17/06/2025

Heute wurde der Klimabericht #AAR2 - der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel - veröffentlicht! In Kooperation & mit Begleitung des CCCA wurde der Bericht von rund 200 Wissenschaftler:innen erarbeitet. Die Vollversion & die Zusammenfassungen findet ihr hier: aar2.ccca.ac.at

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Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2

Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Erstmals seit Mitte der 1960-er Jahre - also seit 60 Jahren - nimmt der Holzvorrat im Wald leicht ab. Damit hat der Wald - trotz nach wie vor leicht wachsender Waldfläche - in der letzten Periode wohl netto keinen Kohlenstoff mehr aus der Atmosphäre aufgenommen. www.bfw.gv.at/pressemeldun...

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🚨Ausschreibung: studentische Mitarbeit! Wir suchen jemanden, der*die bei der Recherche (quantitativer) Informationen zu Waldweide in Österreich im 19. Jh unterstützt🌳🌲🐂📖 . Diverse Studienrichtungen willkommen boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da... @zug-wien.bsky.social

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Melanie Pichler @melaniepichler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Two more job vacancies! post doc position (full time, 6y) in the field of political ecology (e.g., new conflicts, changing geopolitical/North-South relations, more-than-human approaches). Please share widely and contact me for any queries 1/2 boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

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Melanie Pichler @melaniepichler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We are hiring! Post doc (full time, 6y) in the fields of social ecology, ecological/feminist economics or similar (e.g., provisioning systems, degrowth, environmental labor studies, socio-ecological practices). Please share and contact me for any queries. Deadline: 9th Dec boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Time to prepare an abstract: The deadline for the 13th biennial ESEH conference, in Uppsala, Sweden, is on 31 October. Alongside the conventional formats, this conference welcomes "Different World Sessions" like history cafes, poetry slams, debates, artistic interventions and more. #envhist #envhum

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Call for Papers - ESEH CONFERENCE 2025

13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference Climate Histories The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individ...

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Forest recovery can be beneficial for people and nature, but this is not necessarily so. Check out our new paper led by C Kull on nine pitfalls when equating forest transitions with shifts towards more sustainability! Open access now www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Pitfalls for the sustainability of forest transitions: evidence from Southeast Asia | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core

Pitfalls for the sustainability of forest transitions: evidence from Southeast Asia

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

🚨 Endlich heraußen: der APCC Special Report: Landnutzung und Klimawandel in Österreich! Alles darüber, wie Landnutzung in 🇦🇹 - den Klimawandel beeinflusst - vom Klimawandel betroffen ist - das Klima schützen kann Open access e-book hier 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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APCC Special Report: Landnutzung und Klimawandel in Österreich

Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch zur Landnutzung im Zusammenhang des Klimawandels in Österreich aus Sicht vieler wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen.

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

New paper with Léonore Darrobers, Andreas Magerl: "Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis" Using social metabolism indicators, we show how the United States imported more and more wood since 1870, while domestic forests recovered. Open access 👇#envhist

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Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis

The importance of international timber trade in The United States forest transition is poorly understood. Here, we synthesize a variety of historical sources to establish a consistent socio-metabol...

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Very cool new project funded by the Austrian Science Funds. We will investigate the resilience and malleability of social metabolism - that is, how to cope with supply chain disruptions while trying to move towards sustainability & justice. Here IIASA's press release iiasa.ac.at/news/mar-202...

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Pioneering project investigating crisis effects on social systems wins FWF Emerging Fields Funding

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded the Resilience and Malleability of Social Metabolism (REMASS) project funding of over six million euros for the next five years. This is an important milest...

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

New paper out: "Livestock increasingly drove global agricultural emissions growth from 1910–2015" We quantify and analyze long-term emissions from global agricultural activities. Growing livestock production played a key role & overcompensated efficiency increases of agricultural industrialization👇

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Livestock increasingly drove global agricultural emissions growth from 1910–2015 - IOPscience

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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

The Austrian 🇦🇹 climate-science community is writing a national Climate Assessment Report (#AAR2) following the process & structure of the IPCC - and at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, we're hiring an earlycareer researcher to support the co-chairs & authors geographie.uibk.ac.at/unicms/chls/...

The Working Group Coupled Human Landscape System: Risk & Resilience at the Department of Geography is seeking candidates for a Research Scholar (f/m/d) (20 h/week), Start/Duration: March 2024 - July 2025

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Wie kann Landnutzung helfen das Klima zu schützen? Dazu habe ich im Online Standard mit Karlheinz Erb und Christian Lauk einen kurzen Beitrag geschrieben.

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Wie die Landnutzung helfen kann, das Klima zu schützen

Auch ein anderer Umgang mit Wald und Nutztieren ist gefragt, um die Erwärmung des Planeten zu verhindern

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

📢2 open PhD positions: Environmental history of Austrian forests 🌳🍃 🌲Funding for 3 years each, part of FWF-project INFEST "The industrialisation of Austrian Forests 1766-1914" at Social Ecology, BOKU Vienna with Martin Schmid and me. German language skills (reading) required. #envhist Please spread!

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 27/11/2023

Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change | @drsimevans.bsky.social @vernerviisas.bsky.social Read here: bit.ly/46w5U15

The top 20 countries for cumulative CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, cement, land use, land use change and forestry, 1850-2023, billion tonnes. CO2 emissions that occurred within each country’s national borders are shown in dark blue, while those that took place overseas during periods of imperial rule are coloured red. Emissions reallocated to former imperial powers are shaded light blue. EU+UK is shown in addition to the relevant individual countries. Source: Carbon Brief analysis of figures from Jones et al (2023), Lamboll et al (2023), the Global Carbon Project, CDIAC, Our World in Data, the International Energy Agency and Carbon Monitor. Chart by Carbon Brief.

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

"Multiperspektivität ist die Voraussetzung für die klimapolitische Wende." Lesenswerter Kommentar aus der österreichischen sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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Julia Knogler @juliaknogler.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

"Demokratisch zur Suffizienz: Wie kann das gehen?" Kommt zum Workshop am #BOKUNachhaltigkeitstag von @simonegingrich.bsky.social, Willi Haas & Christian Dorninger (SEC) Nachhaltigkeitstag: 7.11.2023 Workshopslot: 15:30 – 17:30 Ort: BOKU Schwackhöfer Haus, 1180 Wien short.boku.ac.at/NHT2023

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Robert Groß @robertgro5.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Am 13.11.2023 wird Patrick Kupper (Uni Innsbruck) im Rahmen des 101. ZUG Minisymposiums an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien zum Thema "Just Transition? Energiegeschichte und gesellschaftlicher 'Wandel" sprechen #envhum #envtech #envhist #energy Details unter: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

The Austrian 🇦🇹 climate science community is writing an assessment report (AAR2) on climate change from a national perspective, closely following procedures and style of the IPCC reports. The open scientific review of the First-Order-Draft is starting today! 👉 aar2.ccca.ac.at/en/scientifi...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/10/2023

Friends and colleagues in Potsdam, Berlin, Brno and Vienna—next week I'll be on one of my bundled trips in Central Europe. If you're in the area I'd love to see you at one of the 5 public events I'm doing (in addition to many others) - or you can watch the live streams! See below for more.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/10/2023

Please give @carbonbrief.bsky.social a follow, as well as my first-mover colleagues @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @leohickman.bsky.social Help us encourage more colleagues to make the leap!

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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Neue Ringvorlesung. Kommenden Mittwoch darf ich gemeinsam mit @astridschoeggl.bsky.social (Arbeiterkammer) & Lucia Steinwender (System Change not Climate Change) den Beitrag der Alltagsökonomie für eine sozialökologische Transformation diskutieren. Der QR-Code führt zum öffentlichen online-Link.

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Hi bluesky and new followers👋 Glad that this platform is getting traction! Once i'm accustomed i'll mostly post about climate, land use, history and sustainability🌡️🌳📖🌍

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