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Welcome to the Institute for Ecological Economics

The Institute is a leading institution for ecological economic research, teaching, learning, knowledge exchange, and community engagement. Over 30 researchers, a secretary, a research coordinator, and a graduate program coordinator make up the Institute’s staff.

Research is generally grouped into five research groups: Sustainable Work, Macroeconomics & Environment, Climate Economics and Finance, Global Resource Use, and Energy Transition & Socio-Ecological Transformation.

The Institute was founded in July of 2014. Until then its activities were part of the Environment Group at the Institute for the Environment and Regional Development. Its predecessor organization was the Institute for Environment and Economy, which was founded in 1991 and led by Professor Uwe Schubert.

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New Job Offers at our Institute

Koordinator*in in Forschung Studentische*r Mitarbeiter*in im Bereich Datenvisualisierung und Webentwicklung

FWF Klaus Ranger

Stefan Giljum part of winning team for FWF “Emerging Fields” funding

Stefan Giljum from Ecological Economics is one of seven researchers that have been awarded for their research project Resilience and Malleability of Social Metabolism (REMASS). REMASS will establish…

CCCA

Nationaler Energie- und Klimaplan (NEKP) für Österreich

Wissenschaftliche Bewertung der in der Konsultation 2023 - vorgeschlagenen Maßnahmen