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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

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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)

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Raw material blessing or curse? The geopolitical challenge of the energy transition

Jürgen Braunstein writes in the Standard that the global race for critical minerals presents resource-rich countries with opportunities and risks

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Reading Circle on Friedrich Hayek and Carl Schmitt

Please join us! The next session in on 9th December!