Fischer-Kowalski CV
Keynote Presentations from the 4th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 17 September 2009
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Speaker: Simron Jit Singh on behalf of Marina Fischer-Kowalski Simron.Singh -at- uni-klu.ac.at Institute for Social Ecology, IFF - Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Klagenfurt University, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Vienna, Austria http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/ |
Title of the talk: Sociometabolic transitions in human history and present, and their impact upon biodiversity (pdf: 200KB)
Biosketch Simron Jit Singh
Simron Jit Singh (Ph.D. Human Ecology) researches and teaches at the Institute for Social Ecology, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main scientific interests are in understanding local and regional (non-industrial) socio-ecological systems within the framework of sustainability science. This includes an empirical examination of the altering patterns of society-nature interactions using indicators such as material and energy flows, human appropriation of net primary production, and time-use variables. At the same time, he is engaged in efforts in generating scientific support for sustainability transitions in some regions of India, primarily the Nicobar Islands and the Central Himalayas.
Biosketch Marina Fischer-Kowalski
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.
