Project: Ko-Evolution von Gesellschaft und Natur...
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| Ko-Evolution von Gesellschaft und Natur im Zuge industrieller Modernisierung | |
| Description: | In diesem Projekt wird untersucht, wie sich die Interaktionen von gesellschaftlichen und natürlichen Systemen im Zuge der Industrialisierung verändert haben. Diese Frage der Koevolution natürlicher und gesellschaftlicher Systeme wird als interdisziplinärer Theorieentwicklungsprozess zwischen Sozial- und Naturwissenschaften gestaltet. Mit einer Kombination von empirischer Erhebung und Theorieentwicklung in Form eines iterativen Prozesses wird versucht zu einer "Grounded Theory" (Strauss & Corbin 1996) zu gelangen. Ausgangspunkt der Theorieentwicklung sind die an der Abteilung Soziale Ökologie entwickelten Konzepte "Gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel" und "Kolonisierung von Natur" (Fischer-Kowalski et al. 1997, Weisz 1998, Fischer-Kowalski & Schandl 1998). Empirisch werden verschiedene exemplarische Fragestellungen untersucht. |
| Keywords: | Lebensqualität, Koevolution von Gesellschaft und Natur, Zucht, Gesellschaftlicher Metabolismus, Capacity Building, Arbeit |
| Co-evolution of society-nature interactions in the course of industrial modernization | |
| Description: | We address long term dynamics, driving forces and feedbacks of society-nature interactions in order to examine key interrelations between socio-economic and ecological changes during industrial modernisation in Austria. The project plan is to (1) propose a theoretical framework to analyse industrial modernisation in terms of society-nature interactions; (2) to show how this framework can discipline empirical studies; (3) to perform two case studies and (4) to conclude strategies for sustainable development. The theoretical model focuses on the mutual dependencies of symbolic/cultural and biophysical processes that are relevant for societal dynamics, thus linking social and economic development to environmental change. The theoretical framework comprises two complementary concepts, "society''s metabolism" and "colonisation of natural processes", to describe the physical interactions between societies and their natural environments. Society''s metabolism is operationalized using various methods of material flow accounting (MFA) and by relating these data to social and economic parameters. The first case study describes industrial modernisation as a process that originates with a fundamental change in the energy system (the transition from a solar based society to a society based on fossil fuels) and is accompanied by an exponentially growing use of energy and material. The key question, then, is how this physical dynamic is linked to economic growth and human welfare and how de-coupling processes can be enhanced. The second case study focuses on methods for identifying the influence of different colonisation strategies on natural and social processes. |
| Keywords: | coevolution of society and nature , quality of life , colonization , breeding , society´s metabolism, labour |
| Short title: | n.a. |
| Period: | 01.01.1999 - 31.12.2001 |
| Contact e-mail: | - |
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Employees
| Employees | Role | Time period |
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| Helga Weisz (internal) |
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| Heinz Schandl (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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