Project: SIF Fund: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung

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SIF Fund: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung
Description: Der Sustainable Indigenous Futures (SIF) Fonds ist eine der österreichischen Hilfsinitiativen nach dem Tsunami vom 26. Dezember 2004. IFF Soziale Ökologie hat den Fonds gemeinsam mit André Hellers "Austria for Asia" und Caritas Österreich gegründet. Das Forschungsteam berät den SIF Fonds bei der Verwendung der Spendengelder für die Sicherung einer nachhaltigen Zukunft für die Stämme der Andamanen-Nikobaren Inselgruppe. Die Finanzierung des Forschungsprojektes "Recover" übernimmt der FWF, der damit hilft eine der letzten indigenen Kulturen der Welt zu retten.
Keywords: nachhaltige Entwicklung
Contribution to the Sustainable Indigenous Futures (SIF) Fund
Description: The Sustainable Indigenous Futures (SIF) Fund is one of the initiatives in Austria that came about in response to the tsunami of December 26, 2004. The IFF-Social Ecology was one of the co-founders / donors to the SIF Fund, together with the Universal Music Company (proceedings of the sale from André Heller’s music CD Austria for Asia) and Caritas Austria. The primary goal of this fund is to support the self-rehabilitation efforts of the indigenous people of the Nicobar Islands, a region that was highly affected by the catastrophe by virtue of their being close to northern Sumatra. Living along the coast, and subsisting from fishing, pig rearing, hunting, gathering, and raising coconut plantations, the Nicobarese were reduced by a substantial number, and those surviving found themselves homeless and without an economy to support them. The fund aims to strengthen self-relying, self-organising and resilience capacities inherent in the indigenous peoples as well as to enhance disaster preparedness. IFF Social Ecology provides the chair to this Fund, and, on the basis of its long-standing research in this region, provides expert advice on the local situation.
Keywords: sustainable development
Short title: n.a.
Period: 01.06.2005 - 30.06.2013
Contact e-mail: -
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Employees
Employees Role Time period
Simron Jit Singh
Simron.Singh@aau.at
Research activities
To visiting card
(internal)
  • Research staff
  • 01.06.2005 - 30.06.2013
Marina Fischer
Marina.Fischer-Kowalski@aau.at
Research activities
To visiting card
(internal)
  • Project leader
  • 01.06.2005 - 30.06.2013

Assignment
Organisational unit
Fakultät für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung
  Institut für Soziale Ökologie (BOKU)
Schottenfeldgasse 29
1071 Wien
Austria
http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/
To organisation

Categorisation
Project type Grant-supported research
Funding type §27
Research type
  • Applied research
  • Fundamental research
Subject areas
  • 5425 - Environmental sociology *
  • 2944 - Human ecology *
  • 5924 - Environmental economics *
  • 5368 - Sustainable development, sustainable economics *
  • 1921 - Long-term ecological research *
  • 5914 - Environmental research *
Research Cluster No research Research Cluster selected
Gender aspects 0%
Project focus
  • Science to Science (Quality indicator: n.a.)
Classification raster of the assigned organisational units:
working groups No working group selected

Funding
Funding program
SIF
Organisation: SIF

Cooperations
No partner organisations selected