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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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We have advertised a vacancy at ISSET!

We have a vacancy for a Teaching and Research Associate for our unit "Social-Ecological Provisioning". Please enter the Job ID 2715 as a keyword to find our job offer: Current vacant positions at the…

[Translate to English:] Corinna Dengler

New position of Corinna Dengler

We are happy to inform you that Corinna Dengler has started a new position at ISSET. She has signed a tenure-track agreement, starting March 1st 2026, that will allow her to advance from her current…

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Two projects funded by ÖAW

Data:Research:Austria-projects acquired by Linda Li, Daniel Grabner and Jürgen Essletzbichler as well as Franziska Disslbacher with two colleagues