Welcome to the
Research Institute for Managing Sustainability
(RIMAS)
Sustainable development is an important challenge for our time - one
which we at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
wish to thoroughly analyse. Here, the topic is addressed from a variety
of angles including Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility,
Good Governance, innovation research, and sustainable consumption.
A total of ten institutes and departments of the Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration deal with economic, environmental
and social aspects of sustainable development. In the late 1990s, these
activities were consolidated and reinforced in interdisciplinary projects
with the establishment of a Research Centre for Managing Sustainability,
which in 2005 became the Research Institute for Managing Sustainability.
We hope that our website will provide you with necessary background information
on the topics we are dealing with and the projects and publications we
are or have been working on. Besides describing our capabilities, it also
introduces our team and our network. Moreover you can find information
on the FP6 EU project EASY-ECO, which offers conferences and training
possibilities regarding evaluation in the context of sustainable development.
Since we are interested in exchanging experiences and expanding our network
of scholars and practitioners working in the field of sustainable development,
we invite you to contact us.
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Dr.
André Martinuzzi
Associate Professor
Head of the Research Institute
RIMAS - Research Institute for Managing Sustainability
Franz Klein Gasse 1, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43-1-313 36 - 4698
Fax +43-1-313 36 - 904698
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| What's new at RIMAS? |
| Systemic Sustainability Management - call for abstracts |
| The autumn meeting of the Section Sustainability Management of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) will take place 7 and 8 October 2013 at the new campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The meeting will focus on the topic "Systemic Sustainability Management - Complexity, Resilience and Systems Thinking". The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 July 2013. |
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| New FP7 project on resource efficiency and security of supply of raw materials |
| RIMAS is coordinating a new FP7-funded project, COBALT (COntributing to Building of Awareness, Learning and Transfer of knowledge on sustainable use of raw materials) which has started in May 2013. Over a period of two years, the project runs a series of interactive events to mobilise the participation of civil society and industry representatives as well as policy-makers in the areas of resource efficiency and sustainable raw materials use. By doing so, COBALT supports a favourable framework for the development of the European Innovation Partnership on 'Raw Materials' by increasing the awareness and societal acceptance, and tackles the problem of skill shortages in the area of critical and scarce raw materials as well as raw materials with high environmental and social impacts. |
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| Tim Jackson: “Policy must force finance markets to take a longer term view” |
| The transition to a sustainable economy cannot be delivered without transforming the finance system away from one which is dominated by short term speculation and asset bubbles into one that lends far more to the real economy, properly integrates ecological risks into long term investment and helps savers understand how their money is allocated by banks and pension funds. This was the view of a gathering of EU sustainable finance experts at the RESPONDER workshop on "Changing the Finance System to enable the Transition to a Sustainable Economy" held in Brussels on 14-15 May 2013. |
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