Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie

In 1992, the economist Christiane Busch-Lüty [de] and the physicist Hans-Peter Dürr gave a joint talk at a conference of Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) on the topic of “economics and nature”.

[1] Busch-Lüty initiated in 1996 the establishment of VÖÖ as part of a small, interdisciplinary group of scientists as a German-speaking section of International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE).

[3] Based on the insight that economic growth would be the wrong answer to persistent ecological problems, the scientists wanted to act strategically to alter the academic landscape.

VÖÖ is working in research groups and organizes annual conferences,[7] workshops und releases publications such as a series of discussion papers[8] and books.

[24][25] Laureates were Michael Flitner [de] and Dagmar Vinz (2004), Niko Paech and Bianca Borowski [de] (2006), Fabian Scholtes and Eva Koch (2008), Lasse Loft and Oliver Stengel (2010), Gerolf Hanke and Anja Humburg (2012), Matthias Schmelzer, Corinna Burkhart and Dirk Posse (2014), Lorenz Stör, Christian Arndt and Johannes Buhl (2016) as well as Steffen Lange, Barbara Plank and Marius Rommel.