Main research areas:
Austrian and European environmental economics, agricultural sociology, agricultural economics,
climate change, inter- and transdisciplinary methods
Languages:
German, English
Publications
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Kröner, Verena; Falkner, Katharina; Schmid, Erwin; Mitter, HermineCalculating non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions at the farm level: Methods, emission factors, and data requirements with application examples from Austria. Vienna, Austria. Discussion paper Nr. DP-04-2025 of the Institute of Sustainable Economic Development, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien. 2025.Forschung: Andere Veröffentlichung > Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung
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Schmidt, J.; Mitter, H.; Baumann, M.; Boza-Kiss, B.; Huppmann, D.; Wehrle, S.; Zwieb, L.; Klingler, M.Need for speed: Co-creating scenarios for climate neutral energy systems in Austria in 2040.In: Energy Policy. 198. 2025. 1-21. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114493Forschung: Beitrag in Zeitschrift > Originalbeitrag/Fachbeitrag
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Loacker, Andrea; Schmid, Erwin; Mitter, HermineActors' frames and advocacy coalitions in the CAP reform process 2013 in Austria's agricultural media.In: Agriculture and Human Values. 42. 2025. 1497-1519. doi:10.1007/s10460-024-10689-7Forschung: Beitrag in Zeitschrift > Originalbeitrag/Fachbeitrag
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Seebauer, Sebastian; Posch, Eva; Thaler, Thomas; Winkler, Claudia; Mitter, HermineUnder which conditions can shocks stimulate transformative recovery: the Strategy Shock Implementation Reaction (SSIR) framework.In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 30,5. 2025. 1-29. doi:10.1007/s11027-025-10221-0Forschung: Beitrag in Zeitschrift > Originalbeitrag/Fachbeitrag
Career
- since 2024 Professor of Sustainability, Climate Change and Human Behaviour, University of Graz, Institute of Environmental Systems Science
- 2017 - 2024 Senior Scientist, BOKU Vienna
- 2023 Visiting researcher, L'Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, France.
- 2022 Habilitation at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; authorisation to teach environmental economics and environmental sociology
- 2022 Visiting researcher at the University of Hamburg - KlimaCampus Hamburg
- 2016 - 2017 Research Assistant Professor at the New Mexico State University, USA
- 2011 - 2016 Research Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU Vienna
- 2011 - 2015 Doctoral studies as part of the Doctoral Programme Sustainable Development (dokNE), BOKU Vienna
- 2009 - 2011 Research assistant at the Institute for Spatial Planning and Rural Reorganisation, BOKU Vienna
- 2007 - 2009 Employee at the Federal Institute "Statistics Austria", Directorate of Spatial Economics
- 2006 Degree in Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- 2006 Degree in Landscape Planning and Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Awards and honours
- 2018 Award: Best lecture at the annual conference of the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics
- Year: 2017 Award: BOKU Talent Award
- Year: 2017 Award: Klaus Fischer Innovation Award for Technology and Environment
- Year: 2017 Award: UV research grant
- Year: 2016 Award: 1st prize at the 10th CAS Semester Touchdown
- Year: 2016 Award: Agrana research grant
- Year: 2016 Award: Award of the Austrian Hail Insurance
- Year: 2016 Award: Scientific Award of the Vienna Environmental Protection Department (MA 22)
- Year: 2006 Award: Recognition Award of the Dr Maria Schaumayer Foundation
- Year: 2006 Award: Sponsorship award from the Dr Karl Schleinzer Foundation
- Year: 2006 Award: Sponsorship award from the Austrian Association of Municipalities and the Austrian Association of Towns and Cities
- Year: 2006 Award: Dr Tyczka Energy Prize of the Tyczka Energy Foundation in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
- Year: 2006 Award: TGB Science Prize
- Year: 2006 Award: Prize of the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics