Helga Weisz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6285033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helga Weisz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helga |
| FAMILY NAME | Weisz |
| SIGNATURE | WEISZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8208-5199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“We are still here” climate change, gender and immobility in highly mobile Himalayan communities
In this paper we ask: why do people in rural agrarian communities facing increasing migration pressures from changing climatic conditions, stay? We aim to understand why people stay, who stays, what are the impacts of migration on those who stay, and what are their needs for adaptation? We study a population of people who do not migrate from Himalayan communities of Uttarakhand, India, despite their livelihoods being already severely disrupted by…
The energy–population dividend: Evidence from energy-specific population projections
In a climate-constrained world, understanding the energy required to achieve universal access to modern energy is critical. This requires making assumptions on future population trajectories. Although access to modern energy can affect population dynamics, this feedback has not yet been accounted for in demographic models. Access to modern energy leads to fertility declines as it reduces child mortality, improves health, increases women’s access …
The effects of environmental and non-environmental shocks on livelihoods and migration in Tanzania
Disruptive events and calamities can have major consequences for households in the predominantly agrarian communities of Eastern Africa. Here, we analyze the impacts of environmental and non-environmental shocks on migration in Tanzania using panel models and longitudinal data from the Tanzania National Panel Survey between 2008 and 2013. Shocks are defined as events that lead to losses in income, assets, or both. We find shocks resulting from ch…
Thirty years of Gaia: A constant in a fast-changing world
The energy and carbon inequality corridor for a 1.5 °C compatible and just Europe
The call for a decent life for all within planetary limits poses a dual challenge: provide all people with the essential resources needed to live well and, collectively, not exceed the source and sink capacity of the biosphere to sustain human societies. We examine the corridor of possible distributions of household energy and carbon footprints that satisfy both minimum energy use for a decent life and available energy supply compatible with the …
Fertility transition powered by women’s access to electricity and modern cooking fuels
The environmental footprint of health care: A global assessment
BACKGROUND: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health. Previous studies have quantified the carbon emissions resulting from health care at a global level. We aimed to provide a global assessment of the wide-ranging environmental impacts of this sector. METHODS: In this multiregional input-output analysis,…
International comparison of health care carbon footprints
Climate change confronts the health care sector with a dual challenge. Accumulating climate impacts are putting an increased burden on the service provision of already stressed health care systems in many regions of the world. At the same time, the Paris agreement requires rapid emission reductions in all sectors of the global economy to stay well below the 2 °C target. This study shows that in OECD countries, China, and India, health care on ave…
City-level climate change mitigation in China
Technological advancement in industrializing cities is critical for reducing CO 2 emissions while maintaining economic growth.
Transitions in Sociometabolic Regimes Throughout Human History
The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School
Consumption‐based Material Flow Accounting: Austrian Trade and Consumption in Raw Material Equivalents 1995–2007
In 2007, imports accounted for approximately 34% of the material input (domestic extraction and imports) into the Austrian economy and almost 60% of the GDP stemmed from exports. Upstream material inputs into the production of traded goods, however, are not yet included in the standard framework of material flow accounting (MFA). We have reviewed different approaches accounting for these upstream material inputs, or raw material equivalents (RME)…
Carbon footprints of cities and other human settlements in the UK
A growing body of literature discusses the CO2 emissions of cities. Still, little is known about emission patterns across density gradients from remote rural places to highly urbanized areas, the drivers behind those emission patterns and the global emissions triggered by consumption in human settlements - referred to here as the carbon footprint. In this letter we use a hybrid method for estimating the carbon footprints of cities and other human…
Society–nature coevolution: Interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber's heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainable development. Geography's recent re‐engagement in th…
The probability of the improbable: Society–nature coevolution
This article aims to show how evolutionary theory, social‐metabolism and sociological systems theory can be utilized to develop a concept of society–nature coevolution. The article begins with a conception of industrialization as a socio‐metabolic transition, that is, a major transformation in the energetic and consequently material basis of society. This transition to industrial metabolism was essential for the emergence and maintenance of indus…
Reducing energy and material flows in cities
Handbook of Input‐Output Economics in Industrial Ecology edited by Sangwon Suh
Wenn alles bleiben soll, wie es ist, muss sich alles ändernIf We Want Things to Stay as They Are, Things Will Have to Change
The Energetic Metabolism of the European Union and the United States: Decadal Energy Input Time-Series with an Emphasis on Biomass
Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures
Physical and monetary input–output analysis: What makes the difference
The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption
Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (Mefa) can offer
Global Environmental Change and Historical Transitions
What do transition processes in rural areas in Thailand, biomass consumption in nineteenth-century Austria and the ecology of hunter-gatherers have to do with the appropriation of plant production and global environmental change? More than one might think of in the first place. They are part of a scholarly discourse on our changing relations with the environment. We argue that global change can be analysed in terms of transitions between major mo…
Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (Mefa) can offer
Reducing energy and material flows in cities
Society–nature coevolution: Interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber's heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainable development. Geography's recent re‐engagement in th…
The probability of the improbable: Society–nature coevolution
This article aims to show how evolutionary theory, social‐metabolism and sociological systems theory can be utilized to develop a concept of society–nature coevolution. The article begins with a conception of industrialization as a socio‐metabolic transition, that is, a major transformation in the energetic and consequently material basis of society. This transition to industrial metabolism was essential for the emergence and maintenance of indus…
Fertility transition powered by women’s access to electricity and modern cooking fuels
Global Environmental Change and Historical Transitions
What do transition processes in rural areas in Thailand, biomass consumption in nineteenth-century Austria and the ecology of hunter-gatherers have to do with the appropriation of plant production and global environmental change? More than one might think of in the first place. They are part of a scholarly discourse on our changing relations with the environment. We argue that global change can be analysed in terms of transitions between major mo…
Global Environmental Change and Historical Transitions
What do transition processes in rural areas in Thailand, biomass consumption in nineteenth-century Austria and the ecology of hunter-gatherers have to do with the appropriation of plant production and global environmental change? More than one might think of in the first place. They are part of a scholarly discourse on our changing relations with the environment. We argue that global change can be analysed in terms of transitions between major mo…
Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (Mefa) can offer
Physical and monetary input–output analysis: What makes the difference
The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption
The Energetic Metabolism of the European Union and the United States: Decadal Energy Input Time-Series with an Emphasis on Biomass
Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures
Handbook of Input‐Output Economics in Industrial Ecology edited by Sangwon Suh
Wenn alles bleiben soll, wie es ist, muss sich alles ändernIf We Want Things to Stay as They Are, Things Will Have to Change
Reducing energy and material flows in cities
Society–nature coevolution: Interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber's heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainable development. Geography's recent re‐engagement in th…
The probability of the improbable: Society–nature coevolution
This article aims to show how evolutionary theory, social‐metabolism and sociological systems theory can be utilized to develop a concept of society–nature coevolution. The article begins with a conception of industrialization as a socio‐metabolic transition, that is, a major transformation in the energetic and consequently material basis of society. This transition to industrial metabolism was essential for the emergence and maintenance of indus…
Carbon footprints of cities and other human settlements in the UK
A growing body of literature discusses the CO2 emissions of cities. Still, little is known about emission patterns across density gradients from remote rural places to highly urbanized areas, the drivers behind those emission patterns and the global emissions triggered by consumption in human settlements - referred to here as the carbon footprint. In this letter we use a hybrid method for estimating the carbon footprints of cities and other human…
Consumption‐based Material Flow Accounting: Austrian Trade and Consumption in Raw Material Equivalents 1995–2007
In 2007, imports accounted for approximately 34% of the material input (domestic extraction and imports) into the Austrian economy and almost 60% of the GDP stemmed from exports. Upstream material inputs into the production of traded goods, however, are not yet included in the standard framework of material flow accounting (MFA). We have reviewed different approaches accounting for these upstream material inputs, or raw material equivalents (RME)…
Transitions in Sociometabolic Regimes Throughout Human History
The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School
City-level climate change mitigation in China
Technological advancement in industrializing cities is critical for reducing CO 2 emissions while maintaining economic growth.
International comparison of health care carbon footprints
Climate change confronts the health care sector with a dual challenge. Accumulating climate impacts are putting an increased burden on the service provision of already stressed health care systems in many regions of the world. At the same time, the Paris agreement requires rapid emission reductions in all sectors of the global economy to stay well below the 2 °C target. This study shows that in OECD countries, China, and India, health care on ave…
The environmental footprint of health care: A global assessment
BACKGROUND: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health. Previous studies have quantified the carbon emissions resulting from health care at a global level. We aimed to provide a global assessment of the wide-ranging environmental impacts of this sector. METHODS: In this multiregional input-output analysis,…
The energy and carbon inequality corridor for a 1.5 °C compatible and just Europe
The call for a decent life for all within planetary limits poses a dual challenge: provide all people with the essential resources needed to live well and, collectively, not exceed the source and sink capacity of the biosphere to sustain human societies. We examine the corridor of possible distributions of household energy and carbon footprints that satisfy both minimum energy use for a decent life and available energy supply compatible with the …
Fertility transition powered by women’s access to electricity and modern cooking fuels
Thirty years of Gaia: A constant in a fast-changing world
“We are still here” climate change, gender and immobility in highly mobile Himalayan communities
In this paper we ask: why do people in rural agrarian communities facing increasing migration pressures from changing climatic conditions, stay? We aim to understand why people stay, who stays, what are the impacts of migration on those who stay, and what are their needs for adaptation? We study a population of people who do not migrate from Himalayan communities of Uttarakhand, India, despite their livelihoods being already severely disrupted by…
The energy–population dividend: Evidence from energy-specific population projections
In a climate-constrained world, understanding the energy required to achieve universal access to modern energy is critical. This requires making assumptions on future population trajectories. Although access to modern energy can affect population dynamics, this feedback has not yet been accounted for in demographic models. Access to modern energy leads to fertility declines as it reduces child mortality, improves health, increases women’s access …
The effects of environmental and non-environmental shocks on livelihoods and migration in Tanzania
Disruptive events and calamities can have major consequences for households in the predominantly agrarian communities of Eastern Africa. Here, we analyze the impacts of environmental and non-environmental shocks on migration in Tanzania using panel models and longitudinal data from the Tanzania National Panel Survey between 2008 and 2013. Shocks are defined as events that lead to losses in income, assets, or both. We find shocks resulting from ch…
Economics (18 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Population (6 works)