Verena Winiwarter

Prof. Verena Winiwarter
Institut für Soziale Ökologie SEC
BOKU
Schottenfeldgasse 29
AT-1070 Wien
Austria


Phone: +43 1 47654-73712
E-mail: verena.winiwarter(at)boku.ac.at


Additional functions:
International Consortium of Environmental History Organisations (ICEHO): President (2016-19);Journal GAIA: Co-Editor; Journal Environment and History: Editorial Board; Journal Global Environment, Editorial Board; Rachel Carson Center Munich: Chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Board. Austrian Academy of Sciences: Full member of the historical-philosphical class (elected 2016) and Chair of the Commission of Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies. Member of the Kuratorium of Technisches Museum Vienna and Deutsches Museum, Munich.


Key Publications of Verena Winiwarter (up to ten) :
Verena Winiwarter, Hans-Rudolf Bork. Umwelt hat Geschichte. 60 Reisen durch die Zeit. Primus, 2014, 2. Aufl. Theiss 2015.

Verena Winiwarter, Martin Schmid, Helmut Haberl, Simron J. Singh, Why Legacies Matter: Merits of a Long-Term Perspective. In: „Perspectives of Social Ecology“, H. Haberl, F. Krausmann, M. Fischer-Kowalski, V. Winiwarter (eds.), Springer, 2016,149-168.

Gertrud Haidvogl, Richard Hoffmann, Didier Pont, Mathias Jungwirth, Verena Winiwarter, Historical ecology of riverine fish in Europe. In: Aquatic Sciences 77/3, 2015, 315-324.

Dino Güldner, Fridolin Krausmann, Verena Winiwarter, From farm to gun and no way back: Habsburg gunpowder production in the eighteenth century and its impact on agriculture and soil fertility. In Regional Environmental Change 16/1 (2016), 151-162. First online: 14 December 2014

Verena Winiwarter, Robert Gross, Commodifying snow, taming the waters. Socio-ecological niche construction in an Alpine village. In: Water History 7 (4), 2015, 489-509.

V. Winiwarter, M. H. Gerzabek et al., Endangered soils: A long-term view of the natural
and social ramifications of biomass production in agriculture and forestry. In: V. Winiwarter and M. H. Gerzabek (eds.) The challenge of sustaining soils: Natural and social ramifications of biomass production in a changing world (= Interdisciplinary Perspectives No. 1 (2012), Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 12-47.

Verena Winiwarter, Martin Knoll, Umweltgeschichte. Eine Einführung. UTB Wissenschaft, 2007.

John McNeill, Verena Winiwarter, Breaking the Sod. Humankind, History and Soil. SCIENCE Vol 304 11 June 2004, 1627-1629.

Verena Winiwarter, Nationalized Nature on Picture Postcards: Subtexts of Tourism from an Environmental Perspective. In: Global Environment 01/2008, 192-215.

J. R. McNeill, Verena Winiwarter (eds.), Soils and Societies. Perspectives from Environmental History, The White Horse Press, Strond, 2006.




Expertise of Verena Winiwarter:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic HydrosphereHydrosphere
Fresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes
Topic PedospherePedosphere
Soil Degradation / Erosion / Desertification
Topic BiosphereBiodiversity
Topic EcosystemsEcosystems
Topic SocietySociety
Education / Communication / Participation
Topic Culture/HistoryCulture / History
Topic SustainabilitySustainability
Alpine ConventionAC Population&Culture

Specialties of Verena Winiwarter:
Environmental History, especially with regard to Landscapes and Soils

Last update: 12/19/19
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