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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 socioeconomics, geography, political ecology, and planning focusing on the contours, challenges, multiple causes, and consequences of past, current, and future spatial and social-ecological transformations. In cooperation with the International Karl Polanyi Society, it aims at contributing to an interdisciplinary social science of economics by linking economics and other social sciences.

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News

[Translate to English:] Vererbtes Land

Franziska Disslbacher in der Ö1 Sendereihe "Dimensionen"

Vererbtes Land - Warum Vermögen in Österreich nicht in Bewegung kommt

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City of Vienna’s WU Jubilee Fund for project SHAREVIE

Corinna Dengler and Quirin Dammerer were recently awarded funding by the City of Vienna’s WU Jubilee Fund for their project “Shared Housing for Affordable and Resilient Environments in Vienna…

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Social Sciences and Humanities class meeting on December 11, 2025, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m

Lecture (in German language) by Andreas Novy (hybrid event)