Long-term socio-ecological research in practice: Lessons from inter- and transdisciplinary research in the Austrian Eisenwurzen

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Gingrich, Simone ^a   Schmid, Martin ^a   Dirnböck, Thomas ^b   Dullinger, Iwona ^a,c   Garstenauer, Rita ^d   Gaube, Veronika ^a   Haberl, Helmut ^a   Kainz, Martin ^e   Kreiner, Daniel ^f   Mayer, Renate ^g   Mirtl, Michael ^b   Sass, Oliver ^h   Schauppenlehner, Thomas ⁱ   Stocker Kiss, Andrea ^b   Wildenberg, Martin ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Zentrum für Migrationsforschung   (Austria)

^e DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^f Department of Nature Conservation Research   (Austria)

^g Agricultural Research and Education Center Raumberg Gumpenstein   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^j VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

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Author keywords

Eisenwurzen LTSER platform; Long term ecological research (LTER); Long term socio ecological research (LTSER); Transdisciplinary cooperation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LONG-TERM CHANGE; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL CHANGE; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AUSTRIA; LOWER AUSTRIA; MOSTVIERTEL-EISENWURZEN;

EID: 84983775807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8080743     Document Type: Article

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