Marina Fischer-Kowalski

Affiliation: Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria University
City: Vienna
Country: Austria
E-mail: marina.fischer-kowalski@aau.at
Profile: Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Ph.D. in sociology, prof.em. at the Vienna based Institute of Social Ecology of Alpen Adria University and senior lecturer at Vienna University. She has taught at Griffith (Australia), Roskilde (Denmark), Yale University (USA) and the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She has been, inter alia, president of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK); currently, she is President of the International Society for Ecological Economics. As expert member of UNEP's International Resource Panel, she became lead author to its publications, 'Decoupling resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth' (2011) and 'International Trade in Resources. A biophysical assessment.' (2015). She is member of the team of the FP 7 project WWW (Wealth, Welfare and Work for Europe) and lead author of several of its publications.
Research Interests: • Social ecology
• Social metabolism, material and energy flow analysis
• Socioecological transitions on global, national and local scales
• Theories of social change
• Sustainable resource use
• Environmental sociology
URL: https://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/eng/inhalt/876.htm

Publications related to (urban) metabolism by Marina Fischer-Kowalski

7 publication(s) found.

Title	Author(s)	Year
Social metabolism: a metrics for biophysical growth and degrowth	Marina Fischer-Kowalski Helmut Haberl	2015
Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting	Marina Fischer-Kowalski	2011
Socio-metabolic transitions in subsistence communities. Boserup Revisted	Marina Fischer-Kowalski Simron J Singh Lisa Ringhofer Clemens Grünbühel Christian Lauk Alexander Remesch	2011
Local Studies Manual: A researcher's guide for investigating the social metabolism of rural systems	Simron J Singh Lisa Ringhofer Willi Haas Fridolin Krausmann Marina Fischer-Kowalski	2010
Material Flow Accounting in Amazonia: A Tool for Sustainable Development	Christof Amann Willibald Bruckner Marina Fischer-Kowalski Clemens Grünbühel	2002
Society's Metabolism - The Intellectual History of Materials Flow Analysis, Part I, 1860-1970	Marina Fischer-Kowalski	1998
Society's Metabolism - The Intellectual History of Materials Flow Analysis, Part II, 1970-1998	Marina Fischer-Kowalski Walter Hüttler	1998

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