Crime Prevention
CSD Talk 27 April 2021
Some are Hazardous Environmental Legacy Sites, some are Monsters: Why sustainable development needs to include environmental crime
The Committee on Sustainable Development cordially invites its member organisations to a talk by Prof. Verena Winiwarter (BOKU) on Hazardous Environmental Legacy Sites
| When | Tuesday, 27 April 2021 |
| Time | 6:30 – 8:30 pm |
| Zoom-Link | Link |
| Meeting-ID | 843 4442 0182 |
| Kenncode | 882737 |
About Verena Winiwarter
Professor of Environmental History at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt since 2007, transferred to BOKU 2018 with the Institute of Social Ecology. She holds a PhD in Environmental History (1998) and a venia legendi in Human Ecology (2003) from University of Vienna. Since 2016, she is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW), Chairperson of the Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies, and co-founded the European Society of Environmental History. Her main research interests comprise the history of landscapes, in particular rivers and the environmental history of soils and legacy sites. Her 2014 co-authored book “Umwelt hat Geschichte. Sechzig Reisen durch die Zeit” was elected as Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres in Austria and Umweltbuch des Jahres in Germany and is now in its 3rd imprint. In 2013, she was „WissenschaftlerIn des Jahres“ in Austria and in December 2019 she was awarded the “Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften”.
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Review
UNODC Statement by the CSD
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Can Mother challenge extremism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
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