Der Beitrag, der zunächst auf Sozialstaatstypisierungsversuche a Ia Esping-Andersen eingeht, analysiert ausführlich die Höhe und die langfristige Dynamik von Sozialausgaben in Österreich und anderen ausgewählten OECD Ländern, vorwiegend Westeuropas und der USA. Neben dem Aufriss jüngerer...

We have developed an integrated modeling framework (IMF) to quantify indicators for ecosystem services (ES) and economic development (ED) in agricultural landscapes. Austria serves as a case study in which impacts, trade-offs, and synergies of ES and ED are assessed for different agricultural...

Even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped at once, temperatures are predicted to continue rising due to the inertia of the climate system. As skiing tourism in the Austrian Alps is highly climate sensitive, higher temperature and changed precipitation patterns require increased artificial...

This paper develops a stochastic model to assess storm risk in Austria, which relates wind speed and actual losses. By virtue of a building-stock-value-weighted wind index, we use suitably normalised historical loss data of residential buildings over 12 years and corresponding wind speed data to...