Fischer-Kowalski CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Marina Fischer-Kowalski Marina.Fischer-Kowalski -at- uni-klu.ac.at Institute of Social Ecology, Schottenfeldgasse 29/5, A - 1070 Vienna, Austria |
Title of the talk: Sociometabolic transitions in human history and present, and their impact upon biodiversity (pdf: 3MB)
Biosketch
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Ph.D. in sociology, is professor of social ecology at Klagenfurt University and director of the Vienna based Institute of Social Ecology at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF). She has been teaching sociology at the Institute of Advanced Studies (Vienna), researched quality of life and gender inequality for OECD, Paris, she taught environmental sociology and social ecology at Griffith (Brisbane), at Roskilde (Denmark), at Yale (New Haven) and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Besides her scientific career she raised two children and engaged in various NGO activities (she was, for example, for many years chair of Greenpeace Austria and member of the GP International Board). At the time being she is, inter alia, president of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK). Most recently, she published the book with H.Haberl „Socioecological Transitions and Global Change. Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use“, Cheltenham (Edward Elgar) 2007.
