Transforming essential provision systems through eco-social corridors (HABITATION-CORRIDORS)

Start date: 15 September 2024
End date: 31 August 2027
Value: 349,566 €
Partners and collaborators: TU Wien, Department of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy (IFIP) at the Institute of Spatial Planning University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Institute of Social Ecology (SEC) University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Institute of Development Research (IDR) Environment Agency Austria
Primary investigator: Dr Richard Bärnthaler
External primary investigator: Michael Getzner (TU Wien)
Co-investigators: Professor Milena Büchs, Professor Lucie Middlemiss, Dr Anne Owen
External co-investigators: Michael Getzner (TU Wien), Leonhard Plank (TU Wien), Anna-Theresa Renner (TU Wien), Simon Grabow (TU Wien), Dominik Wiedenhofer (BOKU), Melanie Pichler (BOKU), Andre Baumgart (BOKU), Christina Plank (BOKU), Lisa Lena Lorenz (BOKU), Daniel Buschmann (Environment Agency Austria), Judith Neumann (Environment Agency Austria), Therese Stickler (Environment Agency Austria), Camilo Molina (Environment Agency Austria).

Funder: Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) | FFG

HABITATION-CORRIDORS explores sufficiency-oriented policy and planning instruments at the interface between housing and mobility to combine social and ecological objectives. The following research goals are pursued: A multi-level analysis of economic and institutional structures provides insights into the current provision of housing and mobility in Austria. This is followed by a systematization of sufficiency-oriented policy and planning instruments in the field of housing and mobility based on existing scientific assessments, democratic deliberations (Austrian Climate Council), and political practice. This systematization informs the stakeholder process, which develops 10 concrete policy and planning instruments from a feminist perspective. The results are quantified through dynamic biophysical modelling, focusing on potentials, limits, and trade-offs between the instruments. In addition, a selection of the instruments developed in the stakeholder process will be further examined regarding the necessary changes in the current economic and institutional framework conditions on one hand and the barriers and potentials as part of a qualitative policy analysis on the other.