
Karin Dobernig
Dr. Karin Dobernig- Telephone:
- +43 1 31336 5214
- Email:
- karin.dobernig@wu.ac.at
Affiliation
CV
-
since
2019
- Research Associate Post-Doc, Institute for Ecological Economics 2016-2018
- Research Associate Post-Doc, Institute for Ecological Economics 2013
- Visiting Scholar, New York University, USA since 2010
- Research Assistant, Institute for Ecological Economics
Researcher Identifier
-
No researcher identifier found.
Awards and Honors
- 2019
- Ars Docendi Staatspreis für Exzellente Lehre
- 2018
- Innovative Teaching Award, WU Vienna
Classifications
- 4924 Sustainable development, sustainable economics (Details)
Expertise
-
No expertises found.
Activities
Reviewer for a scientific journal | ||
---|---|---|
since 2018 | Journal of Cleaner Production | |
since 2015 | International Journal of Consumer Studies | |
Organization scientific meeting (Conference etc.) | ||
2013 | Green ICT for Sustainable Consumption? Exploring Emerging Policies and Open Research Questions | |
2012 | Green ICT for Growth and Sustainability? Linking Science and Policy | |
Organization other meeting (Excursion etc.) | ||
2011 | Vienna Workshop on Sustainable Development for Doctoral Students (VWSD) | |
Research and Teaching Stay | ||
since 2013 | New York University, USA - Visiting Scholar | |
Attendance scientific meeting (Conference etc.) | ||
2013 | Urban Agriculture Conference, New York University, New York City, USA | |
2013 | Just Food Conference 2013, New York City, USA | |
2013 | Feedings Cities: Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing World, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA | |
2012 | Social Ecological Economics Workshop, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria | |
2012 | Post-graduate workshop on advanced research methods, Association for Heterodox Economics, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom | |
2012 | Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop in Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York City, USA | |
2012 | 2nd European Dialogue on Sustainable Consumption and Economic Growth, Brussels, Belgium | |
2011 | Thor Heyerdahl Summer School on Environmental Governance: Institutions for Sustainable Development, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway | |
2011 | Summer School of Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, Colchester, England | |
2011 | 1st European Dialogue on Sustainable Consumption and Economic Growth, Berlin, Germany | |
Mentoring | ||
since 2012 | oikos Vienna, International Student Organization for Sustainable Economics and Management - Advisory Board Member |
Publications
Journal article
2020 |
Nikravech, Mariam, Kwan, Valerie, Dobernig, Karin, Wilhelm-Rechmann, Angelika, Langen, Nina. 2020. Limiting food waste via grassroots initiatives as a potential for climate change mitigation: a systematic review. Environmental Research Letters. 15
![]() |
(Details) | |
2019 |
Dobernig, Karin, Schanes, Karin. 2019. Domestic Spaces and Beyond: Consumer food waste in the context of shopping and storing routines. International Journal of Consumer Studies. 43 480-489.
![]() |
(Details) | |
2018 |
Schanes, Karin, Dobernig, Karin, Gözet, Burcu. 2018. Food waste matters - A systematic review of household food waste practices and their policy implications. Journal of Cleaner Production. 182 978-991.
![]() |
(Details) | |
2016 | Mincyte, Diana, Dobernig, Karin. 2016. Rethinking Work and Distance in Alternative Agro-Food Economies: Urban Farming in the North American Metropolis. Environment and Planning A 48 (9), 1767-1786. | (Details) | |
2015 | Dobernig, Karin, Stagl, Sigrid. 2015. Growing a lifestyle movement? Exploring identity-work and lifestyle politics in urban food cultivation. International Journal of Consumer Studies 39 (5): S. 452-458. | (Details) | |
2010 | Dobernig, Karin, Lobinger, Katharina, Wetzstein, Irmgard. 2010. Covering Conflict: Differences in Visual and Verbal Coverage on the Gaza-Crisis 2009 in Four Weekly News Media. Journal of Visual Literacy 29 (1): 88-105. | (Details) |
Chapter in edited volume
2017 | Spash, Clive L., Dobernig, Karin. 2017. Theories of (un)sustainable consumption. In: Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature & Society, Hrsg. Clive L. Spash, 203-2013. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. | (Details) | |
2016 | Dobernig, Karin, Veen, Esther , Oosterveer, Peter. 2016. Growing Urban Food as an Emerging Social Practice. In: Practice Theory and Research: Exploring the dynamics of social life, Hrsg. Spaargaren, G., D. Weenink and M. Lamers, 153-178. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. | (Details) |
Contribution to conference proceedings
2014 | Sedlacko, Michal, Martinuzzi, Robert-Andre, Dobernig, Karin. 2014. A Systems Thinking View on Cloud Computing and Energy Consumption. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference ICT for Sustainability, Hrsg. Mattias Höjer, Patricia Lago, Josefin Wangel, 95-102. Amsterdam: Atlantis Press. | (Details) | |
2011 | Cent, Joanna, Lawton, Ricky , Dobernig, Karin. 2011. Knowledge Brokerage in the Science-Policy Interface: An institutional perspective. In Proceedings of the Thor Heyerdahl Summer School in Environmental Governance: Institutions for Sustainable Development, Vol. 1., Hrsg. Movik, Synne and Arild Vatn, 1-14. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway: | (Details) | |
2009 | Dobernig, Karin, Lobinger, Katharina, Wetzstein, Irmgard. 2009. Who's in the picture about war? A content analysis of reports on the Gaza-Crisis 2009 in four news media. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing 2009, Hrsg. Xiao, Yingcai, Tomaz Amon, and Piet Kommers, 177-183. Algarve, Portugal: IADIS Press. | (Details) |
Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium
2020 | Dobernig, Karin, Hartl, Barbara, Marth, Sarah, Kastner, Gregor. 2020. Country of Green: Findings of a representative survey on pro-environmental behaviors in Austria. Sustainable Consumption Research & Action Initiative (SCORAI) International Conference, Boston, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 10.06.-12.06. | (Details) | |
Nikravech, Mariam, Kwan, Valerie, Dobernig, Karin, Wilhelm-Rechmann, Angelika, Langen, Nina. 2020. Limiting food waste via grassroots initiatives as a potential for climate change mitigation: a systematic review. Sustainable Consumption Research & Action Initiative (SCORAI) International Conference, Boston, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 10.06.-12.06. | (Details) | ||
2019 | Dobernig, Karin, Schanes, Karin, Hartl, Barbara. 2019. Motives for Food Sharing: A quantitative study in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. 6th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, Utrecht, Niederlande, 27.06.-29.06. | (Details) | |
Dobernig, Karin, Schanes, Karin, Hartl, Barbara. 2019. Sharing, not wasting: A study on motives of participation in food sharing initiatives. European Roundtables of Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP), Barcelona, Spanien, 15.10.-18.10. | (Details) | ||
2018 | Dobernig, Karin, Schanes, Karin. 2018. Domestic spaces and beyond: Consumer food waste in the context of shopping and storing routines. 3rd International Conference of the Sustainable Consumption and Production Initiative (SCORAI), Copenhagen Business School, Dänemark, 27.06.-29.06. | (Details) | |
2017 | Dobernig, Karin, Schanes, Karin. 2017. Tackling the Consumer Food Waste Dilemma: An exploration of household strategies and lock-ins. ERSCP2017: European Roundtable of Sustainable Consumption and Production, Skiathos Island, Griechenland, 01.10.-05.10. | (Details) | |
2016 | Dobernig, Karin. 2016. Lebensmittelabfälle als Konsum(enten)problem? Eine qualitative Studie zu Perspektiven und Praktiken von urbanen Haushalten, September 2016, University of Graz. . Multiperspektivische Verbraucherforschung, 2. Symposium des Netzwerks ¿Konsum Neu Denken" University of Graz, Österreich, 22.09.-23.09. | (Details) | |
2015 | Dobernig, Karin. 2015. The Enthusiasm for Urban Food Growing from a Cultural Political Economy Perspective. Transformations: 11th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, University of Leeds, Großbritannien, 30.06-03.07. | (Details) | |
2014 | Dobernig, Karin. 2014. Back to the Roots?! Exploring Urban Agriculture in the North American Metropolis. WU Competence Day, Vienna, Österreich, 18.11. | (Details) | |
Dobernig, Karin, Mincyte, Diana. 2014. Rethinking Work and Distance in Alternativen Agro-Food Networks: An Exploration of Urban Farming in the North American Metropolis. 26th Annual EAEPE Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Zypern, 06.11.-08.11. | (Details) | ||
Sedlacko, Michal, Martinuzzi, Robert-Andre, Dobernig, Karin. 2014. A Systems Thinking View on Cloud Computing and Energy Consumption. 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, Stockholm, Schweden, 24.8-28.9. | (Details) | ||
Dobernig, Karin. 2014. Going Hyper-Local? Exploring Urban Farming in New York City. ISEE 2014: Wellbeing and Equity Within Planetary Boundaries, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Island, 13.08.-15.08. | (Details) | ||
Dobernig, Karin. 2014. Urban Farms as New Sites of Consumption. SCORAI Europe Workshop on Sustainable Consumption, London, Großbritannien, 30.09.-01.10. | (Details) | ||
2013 | Dobernig, Karin, Mincyte, Diana. 2013. Alternative Economies Unbound: Urban Farms as Spaces of Consumption and Production. SCORAI 2013: The Future of Consumerism and Well-Being in a World of Ecological Constraints, Worcester, MA, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 12.06.-14.06. | (Details) | |
Dobernig, Karin. 2013. We Are What We Grow: Exploring Motivations for Urban Farming in New York City. Yale Food Systems Symposium: Urbanization and Food Systems Transformation, Yale University, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 18.10.-19.10. | (Details) |
Poster presented at an academic conference or symposium
2017 | Schanes, Karin, Dobernig, Karin, Gözet, Burcu. 2017. Waste Matters: A Systematic Review of Household Food Waste Practices And Their Policy Implications. 18. Österreichischer Klimatag, Universität Wien, Österreich, 22.05.-24.05. | (Details) |
Working/discussion paper, preprint
2017 | Spash, Clive L., Dobernig, Karin. 2017. Theories of (Un)sustainable Consumption. Discussion Paper Series of the Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development, WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. | (Details) | |
2013 | Dobernig, Karin, Scholl, Gerd, Brumbauer, Tanja, Grubbe, Magnus. 2013. Green ICT for Sustainable Consumption? Exploring Emerging Policies and Open Research Questions. Background Paper. 2nd Multinational Knowledge Brokerage Event. | (Details) | |
2011 | Pirgmaier, Elke, Dobernig, Karin, Polzin, Christine, Scholl, Gerd, Sedlacko, Michal. 2011. Background Paper. 1st European Dialogue on Sustainable Consumption and Economic Growth. | (Details) |
Research report, expert opinion
2018 | Foster, Gillian Joanne, Dobernig, Karin, Gruszka, Katarzyna, Schanes, Karin, de Schutter, Elisabeth Marie Louise. 2018. Chapter 5. Sustainable Consumption and Production. In Lutter, S., Luks, F., Stagl, S. (Eds.), Towards a Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Economy. Background Report for “Growth in Transition”. Vienna: Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business. | (Details) |
Unpublished lecture
2019 | Schanes, Karin, Dobernig, Karin, Hartl, Barbara. 2019. Sharing, not wasting: A study on motives and determinants of participation in food sharing initiatives. 4. Symposium "Konsum Neu Denken" Vienna, 17.10.19 | (Details) |
Miscellaneous
2016 | Schanes, Karin, Dobernig, Karin, Gözet, Burcu. 2016. Climate Change & Consumption: An Inseparable Couple? Kurswechsel, Heft 3/2016. | (Details) |
Projects
- 2019
- High-dimensional statistical learning: New methods to advance economic and sustainability policies (2019-2023) (Details)
- 2016
- FoodClim: Reducing the contribution of food waste to Austria’s GHG emissions (2016-2018) (Details)
- 2011
- RESPONDER - Linking REsearch and POlicy making for managing the contradictions of sustaiNable consumption anD economic gRowth (2011-2014) (Details)
- 2010
- Environmentally significant behaviours: Insights from Neuroscience ("Green Neuroeconomics") (2010-2010) (Details)