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Sustainability, Aug 3, 2016

Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) is an inter-and transdisciplinary research field addr... more Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) is an inter-and transdisciplinary research field addressing socio-ecological change over time at various spatial and temporal scales. In the Austrian Eisenwurzen region, an LTSER platform was founded in 2004. It has fostered and documented research projects aiming at advancing LTSER scientifically and at providing regional stakeholders with relevant information for sustainable regional development. Since its establishment, a broad range of research activities has been pursued in the region, integrating information from long-term ecological monitoring sites with approaches from social sciences and the humanities, and in cooperation with regional stakeholders. Based on the experiences gained in the Eisenwurzen LTSER platform, this article presents current activities in the heterogeneous field of LTSER, identifying specific (inter-)disciplinary contributions of three research strands of LTSER: long-term ecological research, socio-ecological basic research, and transdisciplinary research. Given the broad array of diverse contributions to LTSER, we argue that the platform has become a relevant "boundary organization," linking research to its regional non-academic context, and ensuring interdisciplinary exchange among the variety of disciplines. We consider the diversity of LTSER approaches an important resource for future research. Major success criteria of LTSER face specific challenges: (1) existing loose, yet stable networks need to be maintained and extended; (2) continuous generation of and access to relevant data needs to be secured and more data need to be included; and

Historische Anthropologie, Dec 1, 2012

Biogeosciences, Sep 25, 2018

For historians, using life narratives as sources is exciting and problematic. The semifictional c... more For historians, using life narratives as sources is exciting and problematic. The semifictional character of, and the particularistic perspective provided by this kind of text has provoked criticism in our trade. In particular, in the German language tradition of the discipline, there is a manifest distrust of autobiographical sources, and findings about the malleability of memory in psychology and neurology do not help to improve their reputation. One reason for this problematic situation is the lack of an acknowledged method of evaluation. What can be done in order to fruitfully use these stories for historical research-stories that can neither be taken at face value nor be dismissed as irrelevant fiction? Critique of the sources is part of the standard repertoire of any historical method; the question what kind of text is being used is central in this procedure. To understand the result-the text-it helps to find out about the practice that produced it. Besides the material aspect of writing, life writing is foremost a discursive practice. Whoever sits down to write up his or her memories relates to a context of oral and written tradition of recording past events based on one's own testimony. 1 The traditions an author can relate to vary, and the intensification of media communication during the past two centuries has considerably broadened the pool of traditions, models etc. The findings I want to present at this panel are part of the research I did for my doctoral thesis on rural exodus in 20 th century Austria. I was relying on brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Helsingin yliopiston digitaalinen arkisto

NÖ Institut für Landeskunde eBooks, 2021

Das Werk ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Die dadurch begründeten Rechte, insbesondere die der Übe... more Das Werk ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Die dadurch begründeten Rechte, insbesondere die der Übersetzung, des Nachdruckes, der Entnahme von Abbildungen, der Rundfunk-oder Fernsehsendung, der Wiedergabe auf fotomechanischem oder ähnlichem Wege und der Speicherung in Datenverarbeitungsanlagen, bleiben, auch bei nur auszugsweiser Verwendung, vorbehalten. Ein Jahr nach Veröffentlichung des gedruckten Buchs wird dieses Werk als Open-Access-Publikation zur Verfügung stehen. Alle Texte inklusive der Grafiken und Tabellen unterliegen der Creative-Commons-Lizenz BY International 4.0 ("Namensnennung"), die unter https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ einzusehen ist. Jede andere als die durch diese Lizenz gewährte Verwendung bedarf der vorherigen schriftlichen Genehmigung des Verlages. Ausgenommen vom Anwendungsbereich dieser Lizenz sind Abbildungen. Die Inhaber*innen der Rechte sind in der Bildunterschrift genannt und diese Rechte werden auch in der elektronischen Veröffentlichung maßgeblich bleiben.

Studien Verlag eBooks, 2015

Wien und Niederösterreich – eine untrennbare Beziehung? = Festschrift für Willibald Rosner

Peripheral Memories, 2012

Historische Anthropologie, 2012

Get big or get out, „Wachsen oder Weichen“, „strukturverbesserung“ – all diese etiketten bezeichn... more Get big or get out, „Wachsen oder Weichen“, „strukturverbesserung“ – all diese etiketten bezeichnen, trotz unterschiedlicher nationalstaatlicher provenienz, dasselbe phänomen: die scheinbar alternativlose expansion landund forstwirtschaftlicher Betriebe in den industrialisierten teilen der Welt in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die logik dieser entwicklungsstrategie lag für viele zeitgenössische Agrarexperten auf der Hand: sollten die einkommen im schrumpfenden Agrarsektor mit jenen im wachsenden industrieund Dienstleistungssektor mithalten, dann musste pro Arbeitseinheit entsprechend mehr produziert – kurz, die Arbeitsproduktivität gesteigert – werden. Der Agrarsektor spielte demzufolge eine „paradoxe rolle“ im gesamtwirtschaftlichen „strukturwandel“: er sollte gleichzeitig schrumpfen – etwa hinsichtlich seines Anteils an gesamtbeschäftigung und -produktion – und wachsen – etwa hinsichtlich der Höhe der (Arbeits-)produktivität. Auf Betriebsebene heruntergebrochen lautete die regieanweisung der Agrarexperten: weniger input an Arbeit, mehr input an (sach-)Kapital, mehr output pro (Arbeits-)einheit. Die Kapitalintensivierung, vor allem mittels organischund mechanisch-technischer neuerungen, bildete zusammen mit Flächenkonzentration und produktspezialisierung die imperative des Produktivismus, der im nachkriegseuropa bestimmenden Akkumulationsund regulationsweise im Agrarund ernährungsbereich. Wenn Betriebe den vom agrarischen expertensystem ausgegebenen imperativen nicht entsprachen, galten sie über kurz oder lang als „auslaufend“. ihren dramaturgischen

Forest – Knowledge – State. The Emergence of Forest Science. The role of wood as a resource chang... more Forest – Knowledge – State. The Emergence of Forest Science. The role of wood as a resource changed during 19th century from the main source of energy to an important material for industries and the building sector. This transitional process emerged together with the development of forestry as a technological practice and as a field of research and policy. More than other economic sectors, forest management required governance transferred to rural areas. Forsteinrichtung was a technological approach to this aim; Forstpolizei focused on the legal and administrative regulations. The actors in this process were a group of (often noble) forest owners and their expert staff. In the course of the development of both government structures and academic institutions over the course of the century, the power of definition shifted from forest owners to forestry experts. As the main forest hinterland of the capital Vienna, Lower Austria and its forests played a defining role in this process.

Forest ecosystems play an important role in the global climate system, and are thus intensively d... more Forest ecosystems play an important role in the global climate system, and are thus intensively discussed in the context of climate change mitigation. Over the past decades temperate forests were a carbon (C) sink to the atmosphere. However, it remains unclear to which degree this C uptake is driven by a recovery from past disturbances vs. ongoing climate warming, inducing high uncertainty regarding the future temperate forest C sink. Here our objectives were (i) to investigate legacies within the natural disturbance regime by empirically analyzing two disturbance episodes affecting the same landscape 90 years apart, and (ii) to unravel the effects of past disturbances and future climate on 21 st century forest C uptake by means of simulation modelling. We collected historical data from archives to reconstruct vegetation and disturbance history of a forest landscape in the Austrian Alps from 1905 to 2013. The effect of past legacies and future climate was determined by simulating 32 different combinations of past disturbances (including natural disturbances and management) and future climate scenarios. We found only moderate spatial overlap between two episodes of wind and bark beetle disturbance affecting the landscape in the early 20 th and 21 st century, respectively. The future forest C sink was driven by past disturbances, while climate change reduced forest C uptake. Historic management (and its cessation) had a considerably stronger influence on the future C balance than the natural disturbance episodes of the past. We conclude that neglecting disturbance legacies can substantially bias assessments of future forest dynamics.

Sustainability, 2016