NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 borito 4+4 210x210 PR.pdf / 1. oldal WWW.OEAW.AC.AT AKADEMIE IM DIALOG 18 GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN WWW.OEAW.AC.AT ISBN 978-3-7001-8653-3 A MEDIATIZED WORLD NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 borito 4+4 210x210 PR.pdf / 1. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 1. oldal GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN A MEDIATIZED WORLD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, 45 APRIL 2019 AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 1. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 2. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 2. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 3. oldal CONTENTS CONTENTS MICHAEL ALRAM Vice-President, Austrian Academy of Sciences Foreword .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 SIMONE GINGRICH, MATTHIAS KARMASIN, WOLFGANG LUTZ, VERENA WINIWARTER Introductory Remarks of the Program Committee ....................................................................................................................................... 9 MATTHIAS KARMASIN The SDGs in a Mediatized World ..................................................................................................................................................................... 11 NEBOJSA NAKICENOVIC The World in 2050 and the Six Grand Transformations towards the Sustainable Development Goals ................................................ 17 WOLFGANG LUTZ YoGL: One Indicator for Assessing Sustainable Human Wellbeing ........................................................................................................... 37 SIMONE GINGRICH Communicating for Sustainability: Interactive Settings at the Symposium ”Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World” .......................................... 51 MARTIN BERNHOFER Information or Participation? ......................................................................................................................................................................... 63 MARINA FISCHERKOWALSKI Sustainable Development Goals: Reflections from Social Ecology ............................................................................................................. 67 VERENA WINIWARTER Human Nature. The Art of Sustainability ...................................................................................................................................................... 71 PROGRAM: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World ................................................................................................................. 77 ÖAW 3 NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 3. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 4. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 4. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 5. oldal FOREWORD FOREWORD MICHAEL ALRAM The Agenda 2030 challenges the nize an international symposium logue between the disciplines and world to achieve 17 Sustainable to show how science contributes to beyond, with stakeholders outside of Development Goals (SDGs). This achieving the Agenda 2030. The com- the academic world, are needed. In challenge asks people and institutions mittee identified a novel dimension to the final round of the symposium, of to change, to innovate, to rethink. If SDG-driven research: the interaction which two contributions are included we are to accomplish the ambitious between mass media, social media, in this volume, it became clear that goals laid out in the Agenda 2030, and the Agenda 2030. For two days the data challenge cannot be met if we need all the brainpower we can in April 2019, over 300 participants the commitment of governments to get. As Austria’s largest non-univer- asked questions, exchanged ideas, funding statistical data collection and sity research and science institution, and communicated across disciplines interpretation wanes. Public interest many of the brightest minds in Austria and beyond the academic world about needs public funding, in science and work in institutes of the Austrian the SDG agenda and the challenges beyond. Academy of Sciences and many of and opportunities it offers for scholar- The symposium encompassed vari- the brightest minds around the world ship. Questions of how to effectively ous interactive formats, a poster ses- are part of our membership. communicate scientific results to pol- sion and an exhibition. It led. It led The OeAW took stock and looked icy makers and to a broader audience to an episode of the Academy's pod- at what its members, institutes, and were also addressed. One critical cast MIKRO-MAKRO and attracted a researchers are already contributing; prerequisite for sustainable develop- lot of media attention. By hosting this only to discover that all 17 SDGs are ment in all the 17 areas of the Agenda symposium, the OeAW has shown being already addressed in one form 2030 is evidence-based decision- its pro-active approach towards the or another. Needless to say, much making for which trustworthy schol- scholary agenda arising from the more should be done. arly knowledge is required. Such SDGs. It remains committed to the In the spring of 2018, the Presidency evidence rests firmly on the full science-society interface and will of the Academy formed a programm freedom of the scientific world. This continue to play an agenda-setting committe of four members (Simone symposium showed that a free and role in processes such as the SDGs. Gingrich, Matthias Karmasin, Wolfgang independent media and the ability Lutz, and Verena Winiwarter) to orga- and willingness to engage in dia- ÖAW 5 NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 5. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 6. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 6. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 7. oldal OeAW President Anton Zeilinger welcomes Dr. Heinz Fischer, Co-Chair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre who delivered a greeting address to the symposium. ÖAW 7 NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 7. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 8. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 8. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 9. oldal INTRODUCTORY REMARKS INTRODUCTORY REMARKS For all the rich research and discus- reflected, and criticized. Communi- sion that the SDGs ignited, no schol- cation plays an important and some- arly exchange had yet taken place to times decisive role in the individual ask what the ‘mediatization’ of society and public awareness and acceptance, would and could mean for the imple- as well as the political and economic mentation of the Agenda 2030. How- legitimation of the SDGs. Currently, ever, this permeation of mass and digitalization, convergence, and social media discourses into all areas globalization of the societal envi- of society and the changes of com- ronment rapidly change ‘landscapes munication due to the availability of communication’. The symposium of information almost anytime and highlighted these aspects, discussed anywhere is clearly important in the the consequences across disciplines, context of sustainable development. and elaborated on the implications of Thus, the international symposium research related to the implementa- “Global Sustainable Development tion of the Agenda 2030. Goals in a Mediatized World”, organ- The Austrian Academy of Sciences Program Committee (from left to right): ized by the Austrian Academy of intended focus on the contributions Wolfgang Lutz, Simone Gingrich, Verena Sciences, initiated a much-needed dis- that scientists can make to the SDGs Winiwarter, Matthias Karmasin course that will need to be continued. and deepen the interdisciplinary dia- Achieving the goals laid out in the logue among scientists and beyond. Agenda 2030 in a mediatized world International scholarly discussion on poses new challenges and opportu- the SDGs would benefit from scientists nities for all stakeholders, including in all fields, and in particular the less the scientific community. Mediati- present in the international scholarly zation shapes public discourses and discussion on the SDGs, colleagues thus influences the way in which with areas of expertise not typically the Agenda 2030 is implemented, considered when discussing the ÖAW 9 NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 9. oldal NM002150-002 ANM01067-30 beliv88old 4+4 210x210 jav0219 .pdf / 10. oldal INTRODUCTORY REMARKS SDGs were particularly invited to the Austrian Public Radio’s Science The program committee wishes to take part. program, Martin Bernhofer, reflects express its gratitude to the presi- A combination of plenary presenta- on the role of media, while Marina dency of the ÖAW for the initiative, tions, posters, interactive formats, Fischer-Kowalski discusses the SDG to all colleagues, and in particular to and an art exhibition enabled the agenda in the light of many decades of the staff of the Academy of Sciences more than 300 participants to engage research in the sustainability sciences. for the support