Vienna 2003

Vienna landmark

and includes sites of high botanical interest. From 2000 to 2004, volunteers sent by the environmental charity Earthwatch helped to gather biodiversity data to back the scientific case for the sanctuary. Using this research, Earthwatch and NCRC demonstrated to the tribal chiefs that the creation of a sanctuary would provide a profitable alternative to unsustainable hunting and fishing. Investme...

The Air in Vienna

Between Frankfurt and Vienna:

In this paper we consider the conflicts between two traditions of political ecology. The two traditions might be crudely characterised as physicalist and culturalist. The first is apparent in much of the work in ecological economics in particular, but also in the materialist left and more practically in conservation policy. It is concerned with the physical and biophysical conditions for human ...

New head in Vienna

management issues may be harder to tackle. This part of the crisis dates back to June 2004, when the assembly refused to approve the institute’s annual report because of the impending financial troubles. While Pasteur is a private nonprofit organisation that uses its income from patents to fund further research, its research is intertwined with the public funding bodies including CNRS and INSER...

Logical positivism & Vienna Circle

Logical positivism (later and more accurately called logical empiricism) is a school of philosophy that combines empiricism, the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge of the world, with a version of rationalism, the idea that our knowledge includes a component that is not derived from observation. It grew from the discussions of the so-called "First Vienna Circle" that...