Changing Society

Observing nature can help us feel less pain. Now, for the first time, brain scans confirm what we subjectively feel, and point to why our perception of pain might change.

Science is increasingly facing criticism and political scrutiny - but not all criticism is the same.

Schadstoffe in Lebensmitteln – ein Thema, das selten emotionslos diskutiert wird. Zwischen wachsender Sorge über Mikroplastik, Pestizide und sogenannte Ewigkeitschemikalien einerseits und einer immer differenzierteren wissenschaftlichen Bewertung andererseits ist Raum für viele Fragen.

As one of the ECH's 2025 Seed Funding projects, this project led by ECH-members Stephanie Nitsch and Nils Güttler seeks to understand how scientific evidence has, or has not, been incorporated into legal practice, thereby fostering an in-depth and collaborative approach to horizontal environmental litigation.

This interdisciplinary research project is part of the ECH 2025 Seed Funding projects and led by Giorgio Brocco and Mathew White. It explores the socio-cultural, psychological, and emotional perceptions related to chlordecone and other more recent phytochemical substances used in agriculture in Martinique, a French Overseas Department in the Caribbean.

How can young researchers effectively learn to communicate evidence-based, scientific recommendations[...]

Under the Kyoto Protocol, countries must report their greenhouse gas emissions, including one of the most potent greenhouse gases: Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), used mainly as an insulator in the electrical industry. But the numbers don’t add up. [...]

European researchers are creating an online tool that maps the entire ocean. Will it lead to more science-based diplomatic negotiations or just perpetuate existing problems? [...]

Literature cannot stop climate change, says ECH Member Eva Horn, a literary and cultural studies scholar at the University of Vienna. Yet, it can teach us much about how climate has always shaped human perception. [...]

Der Klimawandel in den Alpen: Ein Thema, das die Menschen in Österreich[...]

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Am 16. September 2024 startet der 53. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft[...]

On September 16, 2024, the 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society[...]

„Der Kampf um globale Nachhaltigkeit wird in den Städten verloren oder gewonnen”,[...]

ECH-Mitglied, Psychologe und Gehirnforscher Claus Lamm hält im[...]

„Klimawandel und urbaner Hitzestress: Wie können Städte der Zukunft begegnen?“[...]

ECH co-director Thilo Hofmann will be member of a[...]

Lee Slater, professor of Geophysics at the Rutgers University Newark, expert[...]

Program Global environmental negotiations have become central sites for studying the interaction[...]

Have you ever tried and failed to achieve a holistic understanding of[...]

Panel discussion with ECH members at the Sustainability Day of the Department[...]

On the 17th of April, ECH members Alina Brad[...]

If climate change is to be tackled, we need both individual behavior[...]

On 24 January, ECH member Katrin Attermeyer and coordinator Timo Bühler, together[...]

Today an international research team, including scientists from the Environment and Climate[...]

At the beginning of this calendar year, the Austrian recycling guidelines for[...]

New materials are considered very promising for solving the acute challenges of[...]

This year, the Wiener Klimateam of the City of Vienna started[...]

ECH member Sanderien Verstappen was a guest on PolgovTalks by PARES, an[...]

On Monday the 24th of July the Sustainability Idea Challenge Award,[...]

What is energy, anyway? Where do young trees come from? Children can[...]

On the question of planetary health and future, science researcher Ulrike Felt,[...]

What still needs to happen for us to finally change our behavior?[...]

Why aren’t governments doing everything in their power to stop climate change?[...]

Numerous public and academic debates focus on the subject of a healthy[...]

The current discussion about climate protests reveals that the public perception of[...]

A key demand of the 2020 climate referendum was the establishment of[...]

In times of acute crises such as the Ukraine war, inflation, or[...]

Kim Doell from the Faculty of Psychology was co-leading one of the[...]

Alina Brad from the Department of Political Sciences and Etienne Schenider from[...]

Mat White at the Cognitive Science Hub is leading “RESONATE”  Horizon Europe[...]

Yuri Kazepov at the Department of Sociology is part of the “GetCoheSive”[...]

Ulrich Brand at the Department of Political Sciences is part of the[...]

Ulrich Brand at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of[...]

Sabine Pahl at the Department of Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods[...]

Yuri Kazepov at the Department of Sociology is leading the case study[...]

Tatiana Konrad at the Department of English and American Studies is leading[...]

Laura Koesten from the Faculty of Computer Sciences at the University of[...]

Sabine Pahl from the Department of Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology[...]

Eva Horn at the Department of German Studies leads the “Landscape, Life[...]

Alexa Färber at the Department of European Ethnology is leading the „PECCK“[...]

Claus Lamm from the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology[...]

Mark Coeckelbergh from the Department of Philosophy is leading the project. Description:[...]