A 101 on Sustainability with Prof. Sigrid Stagl

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In today’s episode we welcome Sigrid Stagl. She is professor and head of the Department of Socioeconomics and founder of the Institute of Ecological Economics at WU Vienna. Being the first person globally who completed a PhD program in Ecological Economics she will introduce us to the term sustainability from an academic standpoint today. Among others, she will touch on the topics: What do we mean when talking about sustainability and what is the current state-of-the-art in research?

Below we provide you with links to interesting sources on Sigrid Stagl’s research and sustainability! // The book recommendation: The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin and C. J. Polychroniou: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646903/climate-crisis-and-the-global-green-new-deal-by-noam-chomsky-and-robert-pollin-in-conversation-with-cj-polychroniou/

// Find more information here: Professor Stagl’s list of publications: https://www.wu.ac.at/ecolecon/institute/team/sstagl/ WU Researcher of the Month video: https://www.wu.ac.at/forschung/wu-forscherinnen/rom18/sigrid-stagl The WU competence center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR): https://www.wu.ac.at/en/star The International Society for Ecological Economics: http://www.isecoeco.org/ The European Society for Ecological Economics: https://ecolecon.eu/