Marina Fischer-Kowalski
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Austrian socoiologist and professor
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- PhD Sociology University of Vienna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marina Fischer-Kowalski is an Austrian sociologist and social ecologist and a professor emeritus of the University of Klagenfurt, currently teaching at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, the University of Klagenfurt and the University of Vienna. She is known for founding the Vienna School of Social Ecology and for her pioneering work on the widely used metric for material and energy flows to complement economic accounting. Fischer-Kowalski works on socio-environmental change, sustainable development and the Anthropocene.
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Published Works
- Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems (2007) (1298)
- Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century (2009) (926)
- Society's Metabolism (1998) (623)
- The Weight of Nations : Material Outflows from Industrial Economies (2000) (472)
- Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting (2011) (425)
- Decoupling : natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth (2011) (421)
- Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (MEFA) can offer (2004) (338)
- A socio‐metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation (2011) (328)
- From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research (2006) (255)
- The Global Sociometabolic Transition (2008) (253)
- The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption (2006) (241)
- Socioecological Transitions and Global Change (2007) (221)
- Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want (2019) (214)
- Beyond IPAT and Kuznets Curves: Globalization as a Vital Factor in Analysing the Environmental Impact of Socio-Economic Metabolism (2001) (210)
- Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Forty Years of Evidence (2018) (207)
- Contributions of sociometabolic research to sustainability science (2019) (156)
- Analyzing the global human appropriation of net primary production — processes, trajectories, implications. An introduction☆ (2009) (150)
- Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions (2009) (147)
- Sustainable development: socio‐economic metabolism and colonization of nature (1998) (143)
- Tons, joules, and money: Modes of production and their sustainability problems (1997) (127)
- The Weight of Nations (2000) (119)
- SOCIETY AS HYBRID BETWEEN MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC REALMS : TOWARD A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF SOCIETY-NATURE INTERACTION (2006) (118)
- Society's metabolism: on the childhood and adolescence of a rising conceptual star (1997) (116)
- A sociometabolic reading of the Anthropocene: Modes of subsistence, population size and human impact on Earth (2014) (113)
- Metabolism and colonization. Modes of production and the physical exchange between societies and nature (1993) (109)
- Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications (2016) (105)
- Gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel und Kolonisierung von Natur : ein Versuch in Sozialer Ökologie (1997) (98)
- Analyzing sustainability transitions as a shift between socio-metabolic regimes (2011) (83)
- Past and Present Metabolic Profiles and Their Future Trajectories (2008) (80)
- The Anthropocene Review: Its significance, implications and the rationale for a new transdisciplinary journal (2014) (77)
- The Intellectual History of Materials Flow Analysis, Part I, I 860- I 970 (1998) (63)
- The Energetic Metabolism of the European Union and the United States: Decadal Energy Input Time‐Series with an Emphasis on Biomass (2006) (60)
- Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity. Assessment Report for the UNEP International Resource Panel. Pre-publication final draft (2017) (55)
- Bridging barriers to advance global sustainability (2018) (55)
- Global Environmental Change and Historical Transitions (2001) (50)
- Society's Metabolism (1998) (48)
- Energy in nature and society: general energetics of complex systems (2009) (47)
- Socio-metabolic transitions in developing Asia (2009) (46)
- Social metabolism: a metric for biophysical growth and degrowth (2015) (44)
- Ester Boserup: An interdisciplinary visionary relevant for sustainability (2010) (43)
- On the History of Industrial Metabolism (2003) (42)
- The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School (2016) (41)
- Conceptualizing, Observing and Comparing Socioecological Transitions (2007) (40)
- Sociometabolic transitions in subsistence communities: Boserup revisited in four comparative case studies (2011) (35)
- Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) as indicator for pressures on biodiversity (2007) (34)
- Global Socio-metabolic Transitions (2013) (32)
- Material Flow Accounting in Amazonia A Tool for Sustainable Development Christof Amann Willibald (2002) (31)
- The role of science in sustainability transitions: Citizen science, transformative research, and experiences from Samothraki island, Greece (2017) (29)
- Exploring the history of industrial metabolism (2002) (24)
- Reaching a socio-ecological tipping point: Overgrazing on the Greek island of Samothraki and the role of European agricultural policies (2018) (24)
- Transforming the Greek Island of samothraki into a UNESCO biosphere reserve: An experience in transdisciplinarity (2011) (22)
- Gesellschaft als Verzahnung materieller und symbolischer Welten (1998) (21)
- The energetic metabolism of the EU-15 and the USA. Decadal energy input time- series with an emphasis on biomass (2006) (19)
- Energy availability and energy sources as determinants of societal development in a long- term perspective (2015) (19)
- Core Concepts and Heuristics (2016) (19)
- Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability: Orientations for Contemporary Research (2014) (19)
- Greening Growing Giants (2012) (18)
- Energy transitions and social revolutions (2019) (18)
- Island Sustainability: The Case of Samothraki (2016) (16)
- Latecomers to the Fossil Energy Transition, Frontrunners for Change? The Relevance of the Energy ‘Underdogs’ for Sustainability Transformations (2018) (14)
- Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use (2016) (12)
- Large scale societal transitions in the past (2014) (11)
- ConAccount workshop Ecologizing societal metabolism: designing scenarios for sustainable materials management, November 21st 1998, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1999) (11)
- Gesellschaftlicher Metabolismus, Territorium und Nachhaltigkeit (2003) (10)
- Conclusions: Likely and Unlikely Pasts, Possible and Impossible Futures (2007) (10)
- Exploring local opportunities and barriers for a sustainability transition on a Greek island (2013) (10)
- Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies (2013) (9)
- Developing Resource Use Scenarios for Europe. WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 25 (2013) (8)
- Developing Resource use Scenarios for Europe (2013) (8)
- Social Metabolism and Hybrid Structures (2011) (8)
- Introduction: The Metabolism of Islands (2020) (8)
- Samothraki in Transition: A Report on a Real-World Lab to Promote the Sustainability of a Greek Island (2020) (8)
- Decoupling and Sustainable Resource Management: Scoping the challenges (2010) (7)
- Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development (2014) (6)
- Large-scale Societal Transitions in the Past. WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 55 (2014) (6)
- MEFASPACE: A Model Predicting Freight Transport from Materials Flows, and Transport Activity in Europe (2006) (6)
- Nature, Society and History. Long Term Dynamics of Social Metabolism (2001) (5)
- More Productive, Less Sustainable? On the Need to Consider Material Resource Flows (2016) (5)
- The Sustainability of Humanitarian Aid: The Nicobar Islands as a Case of ‘Complex Disaster’ (2018) (5)
- Toward a Socioecological Concept of Human Labor (2016) (5)
- Growth and sustainability in a material world: the self-reinforcing cycle of population, GDP and resource use (2017) (4)
- Arbeit, gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel und nachhaltige Entwicklung (2008) (4)
- Zur sozialmetabolischen Transformation von Gesellschaft und Soziologie (2011) (4)
- Synthesis Conceptualizing , Observing , and Influencing Social – Ecological Transitions (2009) (4)
- Von den Tugenden der Weiblichkeit : Mädchen und Frauen im österreichischen Bildungssystem (1986) (3)
- A Major Challenge of Our Planet (2012) (3)
- Kapitel 1. Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse Globale Transformationen der Energie- und Materialflüsse (2010) (3)
- SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEMS AND HISTORICAL TRANSITIONS--A DESCRIPTION IN TERMS OF CHANGES IN METABOLISM AND COLONIZATION STRATEGIES (1998) (3)
- Boserup's Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transitions (2014) (3)
- The Local Base of Transitions in Developing Countries (2007) (3)
- An optimal policy mix for resource use (2014) (2)
- Europe’s Path Towards the Socio-Ecological Transition (2016) (2)
- Achieving absolute decoupling? Comparing biophysical scenarios and macro-economic modelling results (2015) (2)
- Societal Metabolism and Human Population (2001) (2)
- I RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS Society's Metabolism (1999) (2)
- An Optimal Policy Mix for Resource Use. WWWforEurope Policy Brief No. 5 (2014) (2)
- Theoretische Grundlagen für die gesellschaftliche Beobachtung nachhaltiger Entwicklung (2002) (2)
- How to Conceptualise the Collapse of Civilisations – A Plea for a Social-Ecological Theory of Society Den Zusammenbruch von Zivilisationen konzeptualisieren – Plädoyer für eine sozialökologische Gesellschaftstheorie (2009) (2)
- Linking Society to Nature, Past to Future (2001) (2)
- Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume (2014) (1)
- Optionen für die Entwicklung von Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau in Wien. Endbericht (2002) (1)
- A Socio-metabolic Reading of the Long-term Development Trajectories of China and India (2017) (1)
- Weibliche Moral und Öffentlichkeit: (Kommentar) (1989) (1)
- Operational features for managing sustainable development in Amazonia (2002) (1)
- Der sozial-ökologische Wirkungszusammenhang (1998) (1)
- Towards a model predicting freight transport from material flows Marina Fischer-Kowalski (2004) (1)
- Christian Fleck (2015): Sociology in Austria since 1945 (2017) (0)
- Books: Ecology and the World System, edited by Walter L. Goldfrank, David Goodman, and Andrew Szasz (2000) (0)
- Transition pathways of the Greek island Samothraki from an agrarian sociometabolic regime to modern tourism and beyond: a real world lab in sustainability (2020) (0)
- Integral Ecology: An unexpected support for Ecological Economics by Pope Francis (1970) (0)
- Freisetzungsversuche mit rekombiniertem Informationsmaterial (1997) (0)
- Book Review of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, by Andreas Malm. Brooklyn, NY, USA: Verso Books, 2016, 496 pp., ISBN 9781784781293, paperback, $29.95. (2017) (0)
- Längerfristige Veränderungen im Bildungswesen : Stufen eines Entwicklungsprozesses von Klassenauseinandersetzungen? (1981) (0)
- Das industrielle sozialökologische Regime und globale Transitionen (2008) (0)
- A socioecological systems perspective on the Island of Samothraki. presented at ISEE2014 (2015) (0)
- Social Science and Practical Knowledge: Toward New Paradigms (1983) (0)
- Sozialwissenschaften, Natur und Bodenschutz (2001) (0)
- '1958-hooligans and 1968-students: one generation and two rebellions' (1982) (0)
- Diskussionsbeiträge zur Schulßveranstaltung: Kultur und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung - eine Podiumsdiskussion (1989) (0)
- Drivers, pressures, and natural resource use trends (2020) (0)
- Europe’s Path Towards the Socio-Ecological Transition (2016) (0)
- Austria: An “Eco-Land”? (2002) (0)
- polizei und oeffentlichkeit: eine untersuchung der wiener sicherheitswache und ihres verhaeltnisses zur bevoelkerung 1972. endbericht (1982) (0)
- strukturen der sozialen ungleichheit; teil i und ii: 1. zwischenbericht ; i.a. des bm fuer wissenschaft und forschung (1976) (0)
- Möglichkeiten der Umsetzung von Optionen für Landwirtschaft und Erwerbsgartenbau in Wien (2003) (0)
- strukturen der sozialen ungleichheit in oesterreich; teil ii: sozialbericht - endbericht, band 3 ; i.a. des bm fuer wissenschaft und forschung (1978) (0)
- Gesamtgesellschaftliche Entwicklungen als Bezugsrahmen wirtschaftlichen Handelns (1999) (0)
- More Productive, Less Sustainable? On the Need to Consider Material Resource Flows (2016) (0)
- Christian Fleck (2015): Sociology in Austria since 1945 (2017) (0)
- Causer-Related Indicators for Stresses Upon the Environment (1993) (0)
- The Vienna School of Social Ecology – an Enrichment or Too Interdisciplinary a Challenge for Environmental Sociology? (2016) (0)
- the social structure of oecd-countries 1960-1980 and its implications for selected aspects of wellbeing (1985) (0)
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