Environmental and Energy Studies

Measuring the Productivity Impacts of Energy-Efficiency: The Case of High Efficiency Buildings - article in Cleaner Production by Dr. Chatterjee and Prof. Ürge-Vorsatz

September 10, 2021

Dr. Souran Chatterjee and Prof. Ürge-Vorsatz have recently published their research (based on the doctoral research of Souran) on measuring health and productivity impacts of the high-efficiency buildings at the Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact factor 9.279).

The Urban Nature Atlas of the Naturvation project has become a standard recommended source for the EU research area

May 19, 2021
Urban Nature Atlas

"With an eye toward sustainable development, CEU's NATURVATION (NATure based URban innoVATION) project has yielded the Urban Nature Atlas – a database of urban nature solutions across 100 European cities.

Interview with our guest speaker, Federico Demaria on 'The Case for Degrowth'

February 24, 2021

Federico Demaria is an Assistant Professor in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology at the University of Barcelona, and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Feasibility analysis of the Plus-Energy District renovation of CEU's new home in the Otto Wagner area

February 24, 2021
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Prof. Diana Urge-Vorsatz and Dr. Souran Chatterjee from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU has participated in a project on the feasibility of Positive Energy Districts in Otto-Wagner-Areal.

Congratulations to our Doctoral Student Award recipients!

We are proud to announce this year's CEU doctoral student award recipients in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy:

Call for Applications to our ONLINE Summer Universities in 2021

CEU Summer University - ONLINE
Budapest, Hungary

Application deadline: 22 March 2021

Cultures and Geographies of Energy Transitions
JUNE 7-17, 2021

Co-funded by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) 

Life and classes in Vienna: meet Sophie Röhrl, CEU General Alumni recipient from MESPOM batch 16

November 17, 2020
Sophie Rohrl

Meet Sophie Röhrl, MESPOM student batch 16 and CEU General Alumni Scholarship recipient. Sophie is part of the first class starting their MESPOM journey at the Vienna campus.

Stephen Awoyemi has been awarded Presidential Scholar Award

We announce with great pleasure that our 3rd year doctoral student, Stephen Awoyemi has been awarded the prestigous Presidential Scholar Award

Spotlight on CIVICA’s Focus Area "Societies in Transition and Crises of Earth"

October 8, 2020
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CIVICA’s Work Package 6 (WP6) focuses on research and its activities will be implemented by a design team consisting of researchers from across the alliance. Divided into four thematic groups, WP6 addresses the following key topics: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century; Societies in Transition and Crises of Earth; Europe Revisited; and Data-Driven Technologies for the Social Sciences.

The Urban Nature Explorer

October 7, 2020
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CEU’s team launched a new tool developed as a contribution to the Horizon 2020-funded 
NATURVATION project, the Urban Nature Explorer at the 9th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns in Mannheim in a virtual session on October 2.