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Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations (ISSET)RSS

ISSET is an interdisciplinary institute at the Department of Socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business that unites research from geography, socioeconomics, political ecology, governance, and planning which focus on the contours, challenges and consequences of past, current and future spatial and social-ecological transformations.

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The Good Council: Deliberating Inequality in a Field Experiment

New Working Paper by Franziska Disslbacher et.al.

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UNU WIDER event on 16th October 2025 with Franziska Disslbacher

The event is live in-person at the UNU-WIDER Library in Helsinki, Finland. Online attendance is accommodated through Zoom.

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Klimafreundliche Transformationspfade - Anmeldung ist ab sofort geöffnet!

Veranstaltung am 28.10.2025 mit Reinhold Binder, Leonore Gewessler, Helga Kromp-Kolb, Andreas Novy, Stefanie Peer, Max Schachinger und Sigrid Stagl.