Verena Winiwarter
Biographic Data
| ID | 77090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Winiwarter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Winiwarter |
| SIGNATURE | WINIWARTER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Klagenfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6033-4219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Stocks, flows, services and practices
A rewarding experience in many ways
The 3rd World Congress of Environmental History, held in Florianópolis, Brazil had the theme: “Convergences: The Global South and the Global North in the Era of Great Acceleration”. The short paper gives an overview of the rewards such congresses can bring. It specifically deals with the plenary talks by Robert Billot and Brigitte Baptiste, highlights the role of scholarly co-operation and makes a case for the opportunity offered by such congress…
A rewarding experience in many ways
The 3rd World Congress of Environmental History, held in Florianópolis, Brazil had the theme: “Convergences: The Global South and the Global North in the Era of Great Acceleration”. The short paper gives an overview of the rewards such congresses can bring. It specifically deals with the plenary talks by Robert Billot and Brigitte Baptiste, highlights the role of scholarly co-operation and makes a case for the opportunity offered by such congress…
Notes from the Icehouse
An environmental history perspective on the UN agenda 2030 (‘Sustainable development goals’)
The 2030 Agenda as a challenge to life sciences universities
Life sciences universities (LSUs) play a specific role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . A number of SDGs address topics that have been focal points for LSUs throughout their history of research, teaching and societal mission. Furthermore, LSUs traditionally have strong links to stakeholders central to the transformative process, such as the food sector, forestry and renewable energies. However, life sciences universities an…
Eseh Notepad
Urban Waters and the Development of Vienna between 1683 and 1910
The development of cities and their rivers is closely intertwined. Urban environmental histories have explored river–city interactions in detail, but none has focused on an entire waterscape and the ways its different hydro-morphological features have influenced river uses and urban development. Our research on Vienna’s aquatic environment examined how the nature of rivers co-determined urban residents’ utilization of them. We combined an in-dept…
The Other Kind of Research
Research about interdisciplinary research is less and less done by those doing it. This paper tries to reflect upon my own interdisciplinary practices and experiences. In the first part, I present an example of successful interdisciplinary research. Then, I attempt to introduce two nested cases of interdisciplinary scholarship and their development, one being my ‘Fakultät’ (which roughly equals a department) and the other, smaller one, being my r…
Plutopia
Viele Arbeiter (innen) sind bei der Herstellung von Plutonium sowie durch Störfälle in Plutoniumfabriken in Ost und West radioaktiv kontaminiert worden. Gleichzeitig genossen sie zahlreiche Privilegien, die sie zufrieden- und ruhigstellten. Dahinter verbirgt sich eine fatale Logik, die bis heute in die Gesellschaft hineinwirkt: Konsumgüter als Gegenleistung für den Verzicht auf das Recht auf die Unversehrtheit des Körpers
Die Wurzeln der ökologischen Krise
The Onset of the English Agricultural Revolution
The English Agricultural Revolution began during a period of climate change in which temperatures decreased significantly. Lower temperatures meant less bacterial activity, a slower release of mineral nitrogen into cultivated soils, and a shorter growing season for crops-a combination that tended to diminish yields. The English farmers reacted by increasing the flow of organic matter and manure into the soil, thus mitigating the negative effect o…
Why Legacies Matter
Social Ecology
Die Universität als Akteurin der transformativen Wissenschaft
Grand challenges, Transformation, third mission: Wissenschaft und Universitäten sind zunehmend gefordert, gesellschaftlichen Wandel verantwortlich und aktiv mitzugestalten. Immer häufiger wird deswegen transdisziplinär geforscht. Doch bislang fehlt eine systematische Beschreibung, Bewertung und Anerkennung dieser wissenschaftlichen Leistungen. Scientific research aimed at transforming society has a normative basis. Here, we will examine the poten…
The rise and fall of Munich’s early modern water network
Until the 19th century, not just the Isar River and its natural branches but also the “Stadtbäche”, artificial canals, provided Munich with water for drinking, commerce, waste discharge, defense, ostentatious display and for other functions. In particular, the streams were the main transport route and offered hydropower for many mills and other hydropower-dependent facilities in the Preindustrial and Early Industrial Ages. The Isar—an alpine rive…
The long-term evolution of urban waters and their nineteenth century transformation in European cities. A comparative environmental history
The nineteenth century was marked by a fundamental change in city-river relations. The environmental history perspective employed in this article illustrates how the complex interplay between the diverse natural and societal endowment of four European cities (Brussels, Lyon, Munich, and Vienna) shaped urban aquatic networks. Throughout the long-term co-evolution of the urbanites and their aquatic network, different sources of waterpower in the ci…
Using and abusing a torrential urban river
The Wien River is the largest tributary of the Viennese Danube and was a center of urban production during industrialization. It’s highly dynamic flow regime with small average discharge as well as recurrent big, fast floods posed challenges to its use. In this study we focus on the role of this urban watercourse for supplying water to crafts and industries and for wastewater discharge in the 19th century. Animal slaughtering, tanning, dyeing, te…
Die Bodenlosigkeit der fossilnuklearen Gesellschaft
Commodifying snow, taming the waters. Socio-ecological niche construction in an Alpine village
White belts of snow clad mountains all over the world each winter. Even if there is no snow, the tourism industry is able to produce the white finery at the push of the button, thereby consuming large amounts of water. Studying Damüls, a well-known ski resort in Austria's westernmost province Vorarlberg, we can show that the development of a service sector within agro-pastoral landscapes was connected with novel water uses and massive interventio…
Interdisziplinär und transdisziplinär forschen
Wissenschaft, die sich an gesellschaftlichen Problemen orientiert, ist heute inter- und transdisziplinär. Dieses Buch gibt Einblicke in die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen: Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler verlassen das sichere Terrain akademischer Disziplinen. Ihre Expertise wird relativiert, methodisches Neuland wird betreten. Auf Basis von dreißig Jahren Erfahrung fokussieren die Beiträge auf die Forschungspraxis und reflektier…
Interdisziplinär und transdisziplinär forschen
Two steps back, one step forward
As part of an interdisciplinary project on the environmental history of the Viennese Danube, the past river landscape was reconstructed. This article describes the different types of historical sources used for the GIS-based reconstruction, the underlying methodological approach and its limitations regarding reliability and information value. The reconstruction was based on three cornerstones: (1) the available historical sources; (2) knowledge a…
Looking at half a millennium of co-existence
Which insights can be gained from a long-term study for river management today? Vienna’s layout and city budget are still influenced by interventions undertaken in the 19th century or even earlier. This introduction to a thematic issue on the Viennese Danube’s environmental history from 1500 to 1890 offers a short overview of important events in Vienna’s and the Danube’s intertwined histories as well as an overview of the study’s conceptual basis…
Changes in water and land
Medieval Vienna was situated at the main arm of the swiftly flowing alpine Danube. From the fourteenth century onwards, the river gradually moved away from the city. This marked the beginning of 500 years of human intervention to prevent further displacement of the river and to preserve the waterway as a vital supply line. Archival research and the GIS-based reconstruction of the past riverscape allow a new view about the co-evolution of the city…
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
A socio‐metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation
Over the last two million years, humans have colonized almost the entire biosphere on Earth, thereby creating socio‐ecological systems in which fundamental patterns and processes are co‐regulated by socio‐economic and ecological processes. We postulate that the evolution of coupled socio‐ecological systems can be characterized by a sequence of relatively stable configurations, here denoted as ‘socio‐metabolic regimes’, and comparatively rapid tra…
From LTER to LTSER
Haberl, H., V. Winiwarter, K. Andersson, R. U. Ayres, C. Boone, A. Castillo, G. Cunfer, M. Fischer-Kowalski, W. R. Freudenburg, E. Furman, R. Kaufmann, F. Krausmann, E. Langthaler, H. Lotze-Campen, M. Mirtl, C. L. Redman, A. Reenberg, A. Wardell, B. Warr, and H. Zechmeister 2006. From LTER to LTSER: conceptualizing the socioeconomic dimension of long-term socioecological research. Ecology and Society 11(2): 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01786-11…
Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (Mefa) can offer
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Changes in water and land
Medieval Vienna was situated at the main arm of the swiftly flowing alpine Danube. From the fourteenth century onwards, the river gradually moved away from the city. This marked the beginning of 500 years of human intervention to prevent further displacement of the river and to preserve the waterway as a vital supply line. Archival research and the GIS-based reconstruction of the past riverscape allow a new view about the co-evolution of the city…
Looking at half a millennium of co-existence
Which insights can be gained from a long-term study for river management today? Vienna’s layout and city budget are still influenced by interventions undertaken in the 19th century or even earlier. This introduction to a thematic issue on the Viennese Danube’s environmental history from 1500 to 1890 offers a short overview of important events in Vienna’s and the Danube’s intertwined histories as well as an overview of the study’s conceptual basis…
Socioeconomic Metabolism and Colonization of Natural Processes in SangSaeng Village
Toiling in Paradise
Four centuries of colonial extraction lead to severe ecological degradation of the forests and soils of the Atlantic region of Brazil. After an overview of the history of colonial plantation agriculture, we discuss the knowledge developed in this context. Over the course of time, several agricultural manuals were published for or in the colony. Landowners recommended agricultural techniques developed for European temperate climates, but also incl…
Where has the water come from
past water management and social relations to water use have become increasingly relevant to our understanding of future scenarios of water use. Second, recently many research findings demonstrating high-quality scholarship on water history have been published in diverse journals. While the recent publication of some of these articles focused on water history suggests that the field is expanding in both size and scope, it also shows that the fiel…
The Onset of the English Agricultural Revolution
The English Agricultural Revolution began during a period of climate change in which temperatures decreased significantly. Lower temperatures meant less bacterial activity, a slower release of mineral nitrogen into cultivated soils, and a shorter growing season for crops-a combination that tended to diminish yields. The English farmers reacted by increasing the flow of organic matter and manure into the soil, thus mitigating the negative effect o…
The long-term evolution of urban waters and their nineteenth century transformation in European cities. A comparative environmental history
The nineteenth century was marked by a fundamental change in city-river relations. The environmental history perspective employed in this article illustrates how the complex interplay between the diverse natural and societal endowment of four European cities (Brussels, Lyon, Munich, and Vienna) shaped urban aquatic networks. Throughout the long-term co-evolution of the urbanites and their aquatic network, different sources of waterpower in the ci…
Using and abusing a torrential urban river
The Wien River is the largest tributary of the Viennese Danube and was a center of urban production during industrialization. It’s highly dynamic flow regime with small average discharge as well as recurrent big, fast floods posed challenges to its use. In this study we focus on the role of this urban watercourse for supplying water to crafts and industries and for wastewater discharge in the 19th century. Animal slaughtering, tanning, dyeing, te…
Two steps back, one step forward
As part of an interdisciplinary project on the environmental history of the Viennese Danube, the past river landscape was reconstructed. This article describes the different types of historical sources used for the GIS-based reconstruction, the underlying methodological approach and its limitations regarding reliability and information value. The reconstruction was based on three cornerstones: (1) the available historical sources; (2) knowledge a…
Nationalized Nature on Picture Postcards
Tourism is an important part of many national economies in Europe and beyond. Tourism imagery is a reflection of national environmental values and national claims upon nature. Postcards are a good example for the use of images in environmental history, and an important medium of tourist discourse. They are designed to sell tourist dreams about landscapes. In some ways, they are very uniform. They depict blue skies, green meadows, mountains, snow,…
Urban Waters and the Development of Vienna between 1683 and 1910
The development of cities and their rivers is closely intertwined. Urban environmental histories have explored river–city interactions in detail, but none has focused on an entire waterscape and the ways its different hydro-morphological features have influenced river uses and urban development. Our research on Vienna’s aquatic environment examined how the nature of rivers co-determined urban residents’ utilization of them. We combined an in-dept…
The Other Kind of Research
Research about interdisciplinary research is less and less done by those doing it. This paper tries to reflect upon my own interdisciplinary practices and experiences. In the first part, I present an example of successful interdisciplinary research. Then, I attempt to introduce two nested cases of interdisciplinary scholarship and their development, one being my ‘Fakultät’ (which roughly equals a department) and the other, smaller one, being my r…
Commodifying snow, taming the waters. Socio-ecological niche construction in an Alpine village
White belts of snow clad mountains all over the world each winter. Even if there is no snow, the tourism industry is able to produce the white finery at the push of the button, thereby consuming large amounts of water. Studying Damüls, a well-known ski resort in Austria's westernmost province Vorarlberg, we can show that the development of a service sector within agro-pastoral landscapes was connected with novel water uses and massive interventio…
Making Land and Water Meet
Medieval and early modern records show certain practices were common in European aquaculture. These, combined with advice in coeval treatises on agricultural management, demonstrate how European agroecosystems linked terrestrial and aquatic operations to pursue a net energy gain in their outputs. Critical reading of three distinct bodies of sources: early modern European agricultural manuals, literature on fish culture compiled in western Latin C…
Buying a Dream Come True
Postcards are symbolic depictions of vistas and views, that is, pictures of the way tourists are persuaded to look at landscapes. Their history closely parallels that of tourism. This is no coincidence. Tourism in the modern world serves as a main way to act out fantasies. Postcards are frozen tourist dreams. Postcards help in creating sights and guide tourist perception. They are an important tool for communicating tourist success and perpetuati…
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…
Christian Pfister
Buying a Dream Come True
Postcards are symbolic depictions of vistas and views, that is, pictures of the way tourists are persuaded to look at landscapes. Their history closely parallels that of tourism. This is no coincidence. Tourism in the modern world serves as a main way to act out fantasies. Postcards are frozen tourist dreams. Postcards help in creating sights and guide tourist perception. They are an important tool for communicating tourist success and perpetuati…
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…
Christoph Ernst, Den Wald entwickeln
Der umwelthistorische Beitrag zur Diskussion um nachhaltige Agrar-Entwicklung
Agro-ecological history, the environmental history of agricultural systems, can offer a long-term perspective for the discussion on sustainability. By integrating data on population dynamics, the development of the production system and the flows and interdependencies within the agro-ecological system, an interdisciplinary perspective can be generated Models prove a valuable tool for such an undertaking. Four central categories are discussed: Yie…
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Socioeconomic Metabolism and Colonization of Natural Processes in SangSaeng Village
Environmental History in Europe from 1994 to 2004
This review presents European scholarship in environmental history by highlighting a limited number of works which have proved significant in their respective countries. The decade from 1994-2004 saw the development of a new scholarly network for environmental history in Europe. Members of this network have contributed to an overview about important work done in their region during the last ten years. A series of case studies on the UK, Sweden, F…
B. Marquardt
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Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (Mefa) can offer
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Das Ende der Fläche
Nachhaltig durch Governance? Ein umwelthistorischer Zwischenruf
From LTER to LTSER
Haberl, H., V. Winiwarter, K. Andersson, R. U. Ayres, C. Boone, A. Castillo, G. Cunfer, M. Fischer-Kowalski, W. R. Freudenburg, E. Furman, R. Kaufmann, F. Krausmann, E. Langthaler, H. Lotze-Campen, M. Mirtl, C. L. Redman, A. Reenberg, A. Wardell, B. Warr, and H. Zechmeister 2006. From LTER to LTSER: conceptualizing the socioeconomic dimension of long-term socioecological research. Ecology and Society 11(2): 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01786-11…
Vom stummen Frühling zum Lärm um den Klimawandel
Umweltberichte
Political science (32 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Geography (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Engineering (16 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Biology (12 works)