Dr Heinz Schandl’s research focuses on the link between social and natural systems to improve our understanding of interventions into social systems supporting sustainability transitions.
Current activities
Dr Heinz Schandl leads and contributes to research into sustainability transitions at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems.
He is leading CSIRO's Regional and Community Resource Dynamics research stream within the Regional Sustainable Development research theme.
His research looks at how social systems can be guided towards a sustainable future, investigates society’s potential for sustainable development, and provides information to support planning, decision making and policy formulation.
His current research looks at how social development and the necessary natural resources can be organized in an economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sound way, allowing for restructuring and reorganising of basic support systems of nutrition, transport, mobility, housing and energy provision.
Background
Dr Schandl joined CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, as a senior research leader in October 2006.
He has a background in international research focusing on:
He aims to identify entry points for sustainability transitions and improve decision-making processes by providing sound scientific analysis to stakeholders.
Dr Schandl started his career as a researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, Austria, in 1994.
He was assistant professor at the Institute of Social Ecology from 2001-06, where he was the head of the transition studies program.
Academic qualifications
Dr Schandl is looking at how social systems can be guided on pathways towards a sustainable future.
Dr Schandl completed his graduate studies in social and economic sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1997.
He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, also from the University of Vienna, in 2001 with a thesis on the political economy of the industrial transformation in the United Kingdom (UK).
Achievements
Dr Schandl plays a leading role in the methodological development of physical accounting and environmental indicators research. His affiliations include:
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consultant to the OECD working group on Environmental Information and Outlooks
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leading member of the EUROSTAT material flow task force
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founding member of the Liphe4 summer school on integrated and participatory analysis of sustainability.
He has coordinated international research projects in Europe and South-East Asia exploring possible pathways towards sustainability and improving the political decision making process.
His empirical research focussed on the UK's economic history and current development in South-East Asia.
Dr Schandl received a research fellowship from the European Union Program for Advances in the Social Sciences for his doctoral research at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics, UK.
Dr Schandl is:
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an active member of the industrial transformation program of the International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP)
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an active member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology
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an active member of the International Society for Ecological Economics
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a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research
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guest editor of a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Industrial Ecology on material use across world regions.
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