C Görg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 675686 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C Görg |
| NOMBRES | C |
| APELLIDO | Görg |
| FIRMA | GÖRG C |
| AFILIACIONES | BOKU University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7031-1056 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 281 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Negotiating biophysical limits in the European Union’s bioeconomy
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01543-0
Der Frankfurter Marxismus war immer anders.«
Joachim Hirsch leistete seit Ende der 1960er-Jahre wichtige Beiträge zur historisch-materialistischen Staats- und Gesellschaftstheorie und prägte den Begriff des »radikalen Reformismus«. Als Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der Goethe-Universität (1972-2003) und Redakteur der Zeitschrift links intervenierte er auch in gesellschaftspolitische Debatten. In dem Gespräch blickt er auf seine inhaltliche und praktische wissenschaftliche Arbeit in u…
Biomass from somewhere?” Governing the spatial mismatch of Viennese biomass consumption and its impact on biodiversity
Vienna’s biomass demand is large and nearly all biomass consumed in the city is produced in the regional and global hinterland. This raises the question, how the socioecological conditions at specific places somewhere in the world are impacted by urban consumption and how negative impacts can be addressed and mitigated by urban actors. Here we focus on the city’s biodiversity footprint and argue that the spatial mismatch between the social-ecolog…
From planetary to societal boundaries
The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capital…
Doing more with less
Presentation at the Research Seminar of Social Ecology, 03.06.2020
Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration
Despite considerable advancements over the last couple of years, research on the Anthropocene still faces at least two challenges: (1) integrating different approaches from natural, social and cultural sciences, and (2) clarifying the political relevance of this concept. To address these challenges, we propose an interdisciplinary approach from Social Ecology and Political Economy which combines research on social metabolism with a historical app…
The double materiality of democracy in capitalist societies
The complex relationship between democracy and the ecological crisis in capitalist societies and the associated challenges for social-ecological transformations is addressed. Based on a review that differentiates four strands of literature dealing with the role of the environment and democratic politics, it is argued that, despite their differences, most literature lacks a material foundation of contemporary democracies – both in its social and b…
Conceptualizing energy services
The concept of energy services is used in different contexts and scientific fields mainly to emphasize that it is the services provided by energy rather than energy carriers that people demand and that generate well-being. While the value of the concept is widely acknowledged, there are remarkable differences in how energy services are conceptualized. This article proposes the 'Energy Service Cascade' (ESC) as a conceptual framework aimed at clar…
Combining policy analyses, exploratory scenarios, and integrated modelling to assess land use policy options
Overcoming neoliberal globalization
The ecological crisis has intensified in many respects. Prominent proposals to deal with the crisis are discussed under the header 'sustainability transformations' or even 'Great Transformation'. We argue that most contributions suffer from a narrow analytical approach to transformation ignoring the largely unsustainable dynamics of global capitalism and the power relations involved in it. Thus, a 'new critical orthodoxy' of knowledge about trans…
Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations
Transformation has become a major topic of sustainability research. This opens up new perspectives, but at the same time, runs the danger to convert into a new critical orthodoxy which narrows down analytical perspectives. Most research is committed towards a political-strategic approach towards transformation. This focus, however, clashes with ongoing transformation processes towards un-sustainability. The paper presents cornerstones of an integ…
The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus
Fundamental changes in the societal use of biophysical resources are required for a sustainability transformation. Current socioeconomic metabolism research traces flows of energy, materials or substances to capture resource use: input of raw materials or energy, their fate in production and consumption, and the discharge of wastes and emissions. This approach has yielded important insights into eco-efficiency and long-term drivers of resource us…
Towards a National Ecosystem Assessment in Germany
We present options for a National Ecosystem Assessment in Germany (NEA-DE) that could inform decision-makers on the state and trends of ecosystems and ecosystem services. Characterizing a NEA-DE, we argue that its cross-sectoral, integrative approach would have the advantages of increased scientific understanding, addressing specific policy questions and creating science-policy dialogues. Challenges include objections against a utilitarian perspe…
Nuclear Waste in the Anthropocene
From a scientific perspective, in particular following the Working Group on the Anthropocene of the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( WGA -ISC), the major challenge for determining the Anthropocene and its start is the search for a “golden spike”. The WGA -ISC agreed on nuclear fallout from disasters. For a full understanding of the Anthropocene, it however seems necessary to go further than that. We obtain a much broader understanding o…
Drivers of society-nature relations in the Anthropocene and their implications for sustainability transformations
Austrian climate policies and GHG-emissions since 1990
In 1990 Austria has committed to the Kyoto-protocol and later to the Paris Agreement. Since then, it has developed two climate strategies, has passed its first climate protection act, has adopted a strategy for adaptation to climate change and has implemented many new institutions, programmes and local to provincial climate change mitigation (CCM) measures. Indeed, Austrian GHG-emissions have been decreasing since 2005, giving reasons to suspect …
Zwischen Tagesgeschäft und Erdgeschichte
Der Diskurs um das Anthropozän wirbelt unsere Vorstellungen von Natur und Gesellschaft durcheinander. Obwohl das neue Erdzeitalter noch nicht offiziell erklärt ist, regt es die Wissenschaft und die Öffentlichkeit zu immer neuen Deutungen an. Tatsächlich verweist das Anthropozän auf eine neue Phase in der Dialektik gesellschaftlicher Naturbeherrschung: ,,Der Mensch“ verändert die Natur immer stärker, ist gleichzeitig aber immer weniger in der Lage…
Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the Ipbes
The role and design of global expert organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) needs rethinking. Acknowledging that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist, we suggest a reflexive turn that implies treating the governance of expertise as a matter of political contestation
Transdisciplinary Enrichment of a Linear Research Process
This paper presents an analysis of a research project conducted by a network of environmental research institutes called Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER). Our analysis constitutes a reflection on this research project based on a proposed ideal-typical transdisciplinary research process developed by . The aim of the PRESS project (PEER Research on EcoSystem Services) was to provide support for the development and implementati…
Engaging Local Knowledge in Biodiversity Research
The management of biodiversity represents a research topic that needs to involve not only several (sub-) disciplines from the natural sciences but, in particular, also the social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, over the last couple of years, the need for the integration of other kinds of knowledge (experience based or indigenous knowledge) is increasingly acknowledged. For instance, the incorporation of such knowledge is indispensable for p…
The Promise of the Ecosystem Services Concept for Planning and Decision-Making
Ecosystem services and ethics
Benefits and limitations of the ecosystem services concept in environmental policy and decision making
Anpassung an den Klimawandel – Potenziale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung in DeutschlandAdaptation to Climate Change – Potentials of Social Science Research in Germany
Der anthropogene Klimawandel ist ein gesellschaftliches Problem, das allein mit natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Modellen und Methoden nur unzureichend analysierbar ist. Um die Folgen des Klimawandels zu verstehen sowie wirksame und sozial gerechte Klimaschutz- und Anpassungsmaßnahmen entwickeln zu können, ist die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung unab dingbar. Dieses Positionspapier 2 will dazu beitragen, die Potenziale sozialwissenschaftl…
Second-Order Condensations of Societal Power Relations
This article develops an understanding of the internationalization of the state which draws on materialist state theory, regulation theory and the scale debate in radical geography. It introduces the concept of "second-order condensations of societal relationships of forces" which aims at advancing Poulantzas' state theoretical approach and applying it to the analysis of international state apparatuses, their functions and their relationship to s…
Landscape governance
Second-Order Condensations of Societal Power Relations
This article develops an understanding of the internationalization of the state which draws on materialist state theory, regulation theory and the scale debate in radical geography. It introduces the concept of "second-order condensations of societal relationships of forces" which aims at advancing Poulantzas' state theoretical approach and applying it to the analysis of international state apparatuses, their functions and their relationship to s…
Overcoming neoliberal globalization
The ecological crisis has intensified in many respects. Prominent proposals to deal with the crisis are discussed under the header 'sustainability transformations' or even 'Great Transformation'. We argue that most contributions suffer from a narrow analytical approach to transformation ignoring the largely unsustainable dynamics of global capitalism and the power relations involved in it. Thus, a 'new critical orthodoxy' of knowledge about trans…
Benefits and limitations of the ecosystem services concept in environmental policy and decision making
Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration
Despite considerable advancements over the last couple of years, research on the Anthropocene still faces at least two challenges: (1) integrating different approaches from natural, social and cultural sciences, and (2) clarifying the political relevance of this concept. To address these challenges, we propose an interdisciplinary approach from Social Ecology and Political Economy which combines research on social metabolism with a historical app…
Drivers of society-nature relations in the Anthropocene and their implications for sustainability transformations
Post-Fordist governance of nature
Compared with the stated aims and the claims for urgent action, multilateral environmental agreements show unsatisfying results. Among other reasons – e.g. a deficit in national implementation – lack of coherence among a variety of overlapping and sometimes contradictory international institutions is considered as one major cause which needs to be overcome. In this article, however, it is argued that this lack of coherence is not a result of a la…
The state and the regulation of biodiversity
The double materiality of democracy in capitalist societies
The complex relationship between democracy and the ecological crisis in capitalist societies and the associated challenges for social-ecological transformations is addressed. Based on a review that differentiates four strands of literature dealing with the role of the environment and democratic politics, it is argued that, despite their differences, most literature lacks a material foundation of contemporary democracies – both in its social and b…
Contested Regimes in the International Political Economy
This article analyses the complex interconnections between global environmental politics and trade politics against the background of biodiversity politics. Genetic resources are one of the most important inputs in post-Fordist economies: they are the raw materials of the new biotechnology companies. The system of global environmental governance that has emerged in recent years was established by a number of international institutions and organiz…
The Regulation of the Market and the Transformation of the Societal Relationships with Nature
Doing more with less
Presentation at the Research Seminar of Social Ecology, 03.06.2020
Austrian climate policies and GHG-emissions since 1990
In 1990 Austria has committed to the Kyoto-protocol and later to the Paris Agreement. Since then, it has developed two climate strategies, has passed its first climate protection act, has adopted a strategy for adaptation to climate change and has implemented many new institutions, programmes and local to provincial climate change mitigation (CCM) measures. Indeed, Austrian GHG-emissions have been decreasing since 2005, giving reasons to suspect …
Is international democracy possible
The process of globalization seems to undermine the nation-state as well as liberal democracy. In consequence, the need to establish democratic structures on an international level is widely postulated. The argument presented here is that discussions on the alleged loss of the nation-state's sovereignty are characterized by several theoretical deficiencies. First, they employ a limited concept/definition of the state; then they are based on a lim…
Engaging Local Knowledge in Biodiversity Research
The management of biodiversity represents a research topic that needs to involve not only several (sub-) disciplines from the natural sciences but, in particular, also the social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, over the last couple of years, the need for the integration of other kinds of knowledge (experience based or indigenous knowledge) is increasingly acknowledged. For instance, the incorporation of such knowledge is indispensable for p…
Global environmental politics and competition between nation-states
Global environmental politics is often seen as an area where cooperation among nation-states can be improved and common and trans-border issues can be regulated. The article criticizes this view which tends to ignore the complex crisis of the relationships between societies and ongoing economic competition among nation-states. Therefore, the difference between intentional political control and the unintended stabilization of social contradictions…
Post-Fordist Societal Relationships with Nature
Biomass from somewhere?” Governing the spatial mismatch of Viennese biomass consumption and its impact on biodiversity
Vienna’s biomass demand is large and nearly all biomass consumed in the city is produced in the regional and global hinterland. This raises the question, how the socioecological conditions at specific places somewhere in the world are impacted by urban consumption and how negative impacts can be addressed and mitigated by urban actors. Here we focus on the city’s biodiversity footprint and argue that the spatial mismatch between the social-ecolog…
Transdisciplinary Enrichment of a Linear Research Process
This paper presents an analysis of a research project conducted by a network of environmental research institutes called Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER). Our analysis constitutes a reflection on this research project based on a proposed ideal-typical transdisciplinary research process developed by . The aim of the PRESS project (PEER Research on EcoSystem Services) was to provide support for the development and implementati…
Negotiating biophysical limits in the European Union’s bioeconomy
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01543-0
Combining policy analyses, exploratory scenarios, and integrated modelling to assess land use policy options
Is international democracy possible
The process of globalization seems to undermine the nation-state as well as liberal democracy. In consequence, the need to establish democratic structures on an international level is widely postulated. The argument presented here is that discussions on the alleged loss of the nation-state's sovereignty are characterized by several theoretical deficiencies. First, they employ a limited concept/definition of the state; then they are based on a lim…
Kritik der Naturbeherrschung
Global environmental politics and competition between nation-states
Global environmental politics is often seen as an area where cooperation among nation-states can be improved and common and trans-border issues can be regulated. The article criticizes this view which tends to ignore the complex crisis of the relationships between societies and ongoing economic competition among nation-states. Therefore, the difference between intentional political control and the unintended stabilization of social contradictions…
Contradicciones sustentables
El presente artículo aborda la problemática del desarrollo sustentable y del significado de las organizaciones no-gubernamentales en este ámbito dentro de la política internacional. Con el concepto de "desarrollo sustentable" se pretende hacer patente y realizable una nueva comprensión del medio ambiente y de desarrollo. Con el concepto de organizaciones no-gubernamentales (ONGs) se designan actores importantes que deben contribuir de manera deci…
Vorbemerkung der Redaktion zum Thema "Bildung in der 'Wissensgesellschaft'"
Redaktionelle Vorbemerkung zur Debatte "Bildung in der 'Wissensgesellschaft'
The Regulation of the Market and the Transformation of the Societal Relationships with Nature
Widerspruch und Befreiung
Christoph Görg nimmt die Debatte über Globalisierung bzw. die Strukturveränderungen von Gesellschaft und Politik zum Ausgangspunkt, um eine kritische Theorie in den Widersprüchen der heutigen globalen Vergesellschaftung zu verorten. Dabei wird einerseits den Erscheinungsformen globaler Herrschaft nachgegangen, andererseits versucht, die Chancen sozialer Protestbewegungen und emanzipatorischer Praxis einzuschätzen. Gestützt auf Forschungen zur Kom…
Post-Fordist Societal Relationships with Nature
The state and the regulation of biodiversity
Globalización sostenible''? Desarrollo sostenible como pegamento para el montón de cristales trizados del neoliberalismo
En la Cumbre Mundial sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo en Johannesburgo a mediados del año 2002, se pudo ver claramente que los entendimientos y las prácticas del desarrollo sostenible están en un callejón sin salida. Eso tiene que ver con el hecho que se habían ignorado los procesos mucho más dinámicos de la globalización neoliberal y de la reestructuración del mundo, incluyendo la nueva legitimidad de las guerras en los años 90s. Después del 11…
Praxis - der "blinde Fleck" kritischer Theorie
Christoph Görg verweist auf den produktiven Ort, den ein problematischer Praxisbegriff in der kritischen Theorie einnimmt. Er beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aporien der neueren sozialen Bewegungen in Mexiko und Argentinien
Contested Regimes in the International Political Economy
This article analyses the complex interconnections between global environmental politics and trade politics against the background of biodiversity politics. Genetic resources are one of the most important inputs in post-Fordist economies: they are the raw materials of the new biotechnology companies. The system of global environmental governance that has emerged in recent years was established by a number of international institutions and organiz…
Literaturbesprechungen
Natur und Gesellschaft
Wenn Fragen des Umgangs mit der Natur oder spezifische Umweltprobleme zum Thema werden, dann versucht Pädagogik ein Wissen über "die Natur" oder die "natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen zu vermitteln. Dass Soziologie hierfür relevant sein könnte, ist auf den ersten Blick nicht einleuchtend, scheinen hier doch eher die Naturwissenschaften zuständig und technische Lösungen gefragt zu sein. Mehr und mehr hat sich jedoch in den letzten Jahren die Einsicht d…
Landscape governance
Post-Fordist governance of nature
Compared with the stated aims and the claims for urgent action, multilateral environmental agreements show unsatisfying results. Among other reasons – e.g. a deficit in national implementation – lack of coherence among a variety of overlapping and sometimes contradictory international institutions is considered as one major cause which needs to be overcome. In this article, however, it is argued that this lack of coherence is not a result of a la…
Land Use Options – Strategies and Adaptation to Global Change – Terrestrial Environmental Research
A New Link Between Biodiversity Science and Policy
After several years of negotiations, a new scientific advisory body for international biodiversity policy, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), will soon be formally established by the UN General Assembly. This platform intends to fill the gap between biodiversity science and biodiversity policy, ensuring policy relevance while avoiding over-politicisation. There are great opportunities but…
Anpassung an den Klimawandel – Potenziale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung in DeutschlandAdaptation to Climate Change – Potentials of Social Science Research in Germany
Der anthropogene Klimawandel ist ein gesellschaftliches Problem, das allein mit natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Modellen und Methoden nur unzureichend analysierbar ist. Um die Folgen des Klimawandels zu verstehen sowie wirksame und sozial gerechte Klimaschutz- und Anpassungsmaßnahmen entwickeln zu können, ist die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung unab dingbar. Dieses Positionspapier 2 will dazu beitragen, die Potenziale sozialwissenschaftl…
Second-Order Condensations of Societal Power Relations
This article develops an understanding of the internationalization of the state which draws on materialist state theory, regulation theory and the scale debate in radical geography. It introduces the concept of "second-order condensations of societal relationships of forces" which aims at advancing Poulantzas' state theoretical approach and applying it to the analysis of international state apparatuses, their functions and their relationship to s…
Benefits and limitations of the ecosystem services concept in environmental policy and decision making
The Promise of the Ecosystem Services Concept for Planning and Decision-Making
Ecosystem services and ethics
Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the Ipbes
The role and design of global expert organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) needs rethinking. Acknowledging that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist, we suggest a reflexive turn that implies treating the governance of expertise as a matter of political contestation
Transdisciplinary Enrichment of a Linear Research Process
This paper presents an analysis of a research project conducted by a network of environmental research institutes called Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER). Our analysis constitutes a reflection on this research project based on a proposed ideal-typical transdisciplinary research process developed by . The aim of the PRESS project (PEER Research on EcoSystem Services) was to provide support for the development and implementati…
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