Changing Society
A global sustainable transformation needs social, cultural, and institutional change
How can our society transition from an unsustainable to a sustainable human-environmental system respecting planetary boundaries? Substantial changes are necessary in our relationship with the natural environment under climate change to ensure equity of access to water, energy, food, housing, healthcare, and mobility for the global population as well as future generations.
The focus area on changing society includes all scientists at the ECH that analyze facets of the socio-ecological transformation through the lens of the public sphere, economic factors, governance, and human behavior. Their unique interdisciplinary background fosters new and innovative research at the cross-section between nature, ecosystem services, and human society.
News and Stories
10.04.2024
(DE) Erster Nachhaltigkeitstag am Institut für Soziologie
Podiumsdiskussion mit ECH-Mitgliedern beim Nachhaltigkeitstag des Instituts für Soziologie Der erste Nachhaltigkeitstag[...]
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10.04.2024
Workshop: Carbon Dioxide Removal as a Building Block of Climate Policy
On the 17th of April, ECH members Alina Brad[...]
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12.03.2024
The Public is Ready for Climate Reform – so What now? A Talk With Kimberly Doell
If climate change is to be tackled, we need both individual behavior[...]
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24.01.2024
Review: ECH in Discussion With Viennese Students
On 24 January, ECH member Katrin Attermeyer and coordinator Timo Bühler, together[...]
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13.11.2023
The Power of Neuroscience to Fight Against Climate Change
Today an international research team, including scientists from the Environment and Climate[...]
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11.10.2023
(DE) Nachbericht: 10. Umwelt im Gespräch – „Unser Leben mit Abfall: Zwischen Konsum und Umweltschutz“
Zum zehnjährigen Jubiläum von „Umwelt im Gespräch“ beschäftigte sich die Veranstaltungsreihe mit[...]
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11.10.2023
What the Future Is Made Of
New materials are considered very promising for solving the acute challenges of[...]
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25.09.2023
Thilo Hofmann Selected for the Wiener Klimateam
This year, the Wiener Klimateam of the City of Vienna started[...]
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11.09.2023
Bicycle, Politics, and Social Transformation in Indonesia
ECH member Sanderien Verstappen was a guest on PolgovTalks by PARES, an[...]
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25.07.2023
1st Sustainability Idea Challenge Award
On Monday the 24th of July the Sustainability Idea Challenge Award,[...]
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10.07.2023
Kinderuni Goes Into 21st Edition
What is energy, anyway? Where do young trees come from? Children can[...]
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20.06.2023
Review: Semester Question Panel Discussion – „Can We Still Be Saved?“
On the question of planetary health and future, science researcher Ulrike Felt,[...]
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15.06.2023
Vodcast: Sabine Pahl and Andreas Stohl on #microplastics and #climateaction
What still needs to happen for us to finally change our behavior?[...]
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02.06.2023
Podcast: The Climate Between Politics and Science
Why aren’t governments doing everything in their power to stop climate change?[...]
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31.05.2023
(DE) Nachbericht: 9. Umwelt im Gespräch – „Landwirtschaft und Planetary Health – Möglichkeiten für eine gesunde und nachhaltige Ernährung“
Die Frage nach einer gesunden und nachhaltigen Ernährung ist Gegenstand zahlreicher öffentlicher[...]
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24.05.2023
For a Healthier Planet: Climate Activism Must Be Rewarded
The current discussion around the climate protests show that the social perception[...]
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Projects
20.03.2024
The Many Labs Megastudy to Promote Climate Action Across the Globe
Kim Doell from the Faculty of Psychology was co-leading one of the[...]
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01.10.2023
FOCAL-Points: Leverage Points for Demand-Side Mitigation
Alina Brad from the Department of Political Sciences and Etienne Schenider from[...]
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01.06.2023
RESONATE: Resilience Through Nature-Based Therapies
Mat White at the Cognitive Science Hub is leading „RESONATE“ Horizon Europe[...]
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01.04.2023
GetCOheSive: Governance Enhancement for Cohesive Societies
Yuri Kazepov at the Department of Sociology is part of the „GetCoheSive“[...]
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07.01.2023
Permanent Latin American Working Group „Alternatives to Development“
Ulrich Brand at the Department of Political Sciences is part of the[...]
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01.01.2023
Beyond Development. Toward Systemic Emancipatory Transformations
Ulrich Brand at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of[...]
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27.09.2022
SOS-ZEROPOL2030: Source to Seas – Zero Pollution 2030
Sabine Pahl at the Department of Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods[...]
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06.01.2022
MUNEX: Municipal Neighborhood Experiments
Yuri Kazepov at the Department of Sociology is leading the case study[...]
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06.01.2022
Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World
Tatiana Konrad at the Department of English and American Studies is leading[...]
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01.11.2021
Talking Charts
Laura Koesten from the Faculty of Computer Sciences at the University of[...]
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01.10.2021
ZeroPM: Zero Pollution of Persistent, Mobile Substances
Sabine Pahl from the Department of Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology[...]
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01.09.2020
Landscape, Life, Form: Anthropocene Poetics in Contemporary German Fiction
Eva Horn at the Department of German Studies leads the „Landscape, Life[...]
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06.01.2020
PECCK: Pre-Enacting Climate Change Knowledge
Alexa Färber at the Department of European Ethnology is leading the „PECCK“[...]
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