Haberl CV
Keynote Presentations from the 1st ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 27 August - 8 September 2006
Speaker: Helmut Haberl
Helmut.Haberl -at- uni-klu.ac.at
Institute of Social Ecology, Klagenfurt University, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Vienna, Austria
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Title of the talk: Towards long-term socio-ecological research platforms: Concepts, approaches and links to biodiversity (pdf: 5MB)
Biosketch
Born 12 January 1965 in Linz, Austria. Habilitation 2001 in human ecology, PhD 1995 in ecology, MSc 1991 in population ecology (all at the University of Vienna). Study of biology, mathematics at the Universities of Salzburg 1983-1986 and Vienna 1986-1991.
Dr. Haberl is associate professor of Human Ecology at the Institute of Social Ecology, IFF Vienna, Klagenfurt University. He is deputy head of the Institute of Social Ecology since 1997 and served as managing head of the Institute 1-10/1997 and 10/2002-9/2003. He is Director of the Master Degree Course "Social and Human Ecology" at the Institute of Social Ecology and lectures at the Institute of Social Ecology and at the Institute of Ecology of the University of Vienna since 1992. He was researcher at the Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology 1989-2002 and served as head of its Dept. of Energy and Environment, 1993-1997.
Dr. Haberl was editor of a bi-monthly newsletter on energy and environment 1992-2002. He served as project manager of several large interdisciplinary and international research projects, above all focusing on interrelations between society’s metabolism and land-use change. From 2002-2005 he was project manager of the project "Land-use change and socio-economic metabolism" officially endorsed by the LUCC International Project Office.
Dr. Haberl’s research interests include society’s energetic metabolism and carbon flows, land-use change and socio-economic metabolism, human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), theory of society-nature interaction and it’s long-term history. Academic teaching in human and social ecology.
Among others, Dr. Haberl is member of the scientific committee of the European Environment Agency, member of the scientific steering committee of the Global Land Project, member of the Research Council of Klagenfurt University, and member of the Austrian government’s advisory board for it’s sustainability strategy ("Forum nachhaltiges Österreich").
