Project: Die Kolonisierung der Landschaft: Indik...
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| Die Kolonisierung der Landschaft: Indikatoren für nachhaltige Landnutzung | |
| Description: | Auf Basis der Konzepte gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel und Kolonisierung von Natur versucht dieses Projekt, Indikatoren für landschaftsrelevante gesellschaftliche Eingriffe in Natur zu formulieren und empirisch zu erfassen. Diese Indikatoren stellen die Grundlage dafür dar, die Beziehungen zwischen gesellschaftlichen Eingriffen in die Natur und der Veränderung von Naturzuständen zu erforschen. Das Projekt konzentriert sich auf jene Sektoren bzw. Aktivitäten, die für Kulturlandschaften besonders relevant sind, nämlich Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Bauen und Tourismus. Darüber hinaus befasst es sich mit der Erforschung gesellschaftlicher Eingriffe in den Energiehaushalt von Ökosystemen, der menschlichen Aneignung von Nettoprimärproduktion (NPP). Schlagworte: - gesellschaftliche Aneignung von Nettoprimärproduktion - Gesellschaftlicher Metabolismus - Gesellschaft-Natur-Interaktionen - Kolonisierung von Natur - Nachhaltige Entwicklung - nachhaltige Land- und Forstwirtschaft - nachhaltiges Bauen - Operationalisierung von nachhaltiger Entwicklung - top-down Planungsindikatoren |
| Keywords: | Gesellschaft-Natur-Interaktionen, nachhaltige Land- und Forstwirtschaft, gesellschaftliche Aneignung von Nettoprimärproduktion, Kolonisierung von Natur, Gesellschaftlicher Metabolismus, nachhaltiges Bauen, Nachhaltige Entwicklung |
| Colonizing Landscapes. Indicators for Sustainable Land Use | |
| Description: | The project is part of the research program "Cultural Landscapes" of the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport. It aims at the development of indicators describing the socio-economic pressures on the environment with high relevance for the development of cultural land-scapes. It focuses on the inter-relations between land use, i.e. the colonization of landscapes, and material and energy flows, or socio-eco-nomic metabolism. High attention is paid to the identifica-tion of socio-economic driving forces. Subpro-jects work on agriculture and forestry, construction, and the appropriation of plant net primary produc-tion (NPP). NPP appropriation is an indicator for the colonization of ecological energy flows through land use and biomass harvest. Results: A major overall conclusion of the project is that the widely used pressure-state-re-sponse (PSR) scheme has to be modified to be able to design systems of sustainability in-dicators. While pressure and state are considered useful categories, it is proposed to in-clude the two categories of "socio-economic driving forces" and "feedback of environ-mental change on society" instead of the policy-oriented class of "response indicators". This allows for the development of process models of the interaction between societal and natural systems. The results include a comprehensive indicator system for the socio-economic activity of construction, comprising of ecological (material and energy flow), economic, and social indicators, mostly spatially disaggregated time-series for the last decades. For the sectors of agriculture and forestry, qualitative models are developed which show the development of sustainability-relevant trends and changes. The NPP ap-propriation in Austria is described in high spatial detail on the basis of satellite imagery and statistical land use / cover data. A time series for NPP appropriation covering the period between 1910 and 1995 has been estab-lished as well as estimates for 1830 and 1880. Policy relevance: Indicator are used as guidelines for the development of policies as well as for evaluating the progress towards sustainability. This project shows that policies aimed at influencing the material and energy flows of a society will also impact on the patterns and intensity of land use. It shows that climate protection policies aimed at the reduction of CO2 emissions by promoting the use of biomass instead of fossil fuels should be envisaged with caution because they could increase NPP appropriation and thus lead to an increased intensity of the colonization of landscapes. |
| Keywords: | capacity building, material flows , cultural landscapes , colonization , sustainable land use , indicators for sustainable development , energy flows |
| Short title: | n.a. |
| Period: | 01.02.1997 - 01.04.1999 |
| Contact e-mail: | - |
| Homepage: | http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/affil/IN4/framesetIN4.htm |
Employees
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| Fridolin Krausmann (internal) |
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| Helmut Haberl (internal) |
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| Christof Amann (internal) |
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| Harald Payer (internal) |
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| Karlheinz Erb (internal) |
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| Walter Hüttler (internal) |
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| Helga Weisz (internal) |
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| Marina Fischer (internal) |
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| Heinz Schandl (internal) |
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| Niels Schulz (internal) |
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| Verena Winiwarter (internal) |
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Fakultät für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung
Institut für Soziale Ökologie (BOKU)
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| Project type | Grant-supported research |
| Funding type | Other |
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| Gender aspects | 0% |
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