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Helmut Haberl

Helmut Haberl

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Ecology and Evolution
Austria
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
98
Citations
36308
World Ranking
308
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Helmut Haberl is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria, contributing extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research covers a broad range of topics including Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Their recent publications highlight critical areas of sustainability and environmental research. Notable works include:

  • A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth (2020, Conservation Letters)
  • Potential for future reductions of global GHG and air pollutants from circular waste management systems (2022, Nature Communications)
  • From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation (2021, Sustainability Science Practice and Policy)

Haberl frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Dominik Wiedenhofer, Doris Virág, Karl-Heinz Erb, David Frantz, and Franz Schug. These partnerships have resulted in numerous joint publications, reflecting strong interdisciplinary and collaborative research efforts.

Their work is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, Ecological Economics, Resources Conservation and Recycling, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology. This diverse range of publication venues underscores their engagement with both open-access platforms and specialized journals in the environmental and ecological domains.

Within Environmental Science, Haberl's research places particular emphasis on subfields like Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Ecology. Their focus on these subfields aligns with their exploration of sustainability challenges and resource management on multiple scales.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems

    Helmut Haberl;K. Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann;Veronika Gaube

  • Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

    Pete Smith;Mercedes Bustamante;Helal Ahammad;Harry Clark

  • Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands.

    Christopher Bren d’Amour;Femke Reitsma;Giovanni Baiocchi;Stephan Barthel

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment.

    Felix Creutzig;Nijavalli H. Ravindranath;Göran Berndes;Simon Bolwig

  • Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

    Fridolin Krausmann;Karl-Heinz Erb;Simone Gingrich;Helmut Haberl

  • A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

    Helmut Haberl;Dominik Wiedenhofer;Doris Virág;Gerald Kalt

  • Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

    Karl Heinz Erb;Thomas Kastner;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar;Anna Liza S. Bais

  • Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use

    Fridolin Krausmann;Dominik Wiedenhofer;Christian Lauk;Willi Haas

  • How much land based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals

    Pete Smith;Helmut Haberl;Alexander Popp;Karl Heinz Erb

  • A socio‐metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation

    Helmut Haberl;Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Fridolin Krausmann;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

    John A. Dearing;Rong Wang;Ke Zhang;James G. Dyke

  • How to calculate and interpret ecological footprints for long periods of time: the case of Austria 1926–1995

    Helmut Haberl;Karl-Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (MEFA) can offer

    Helmut Haberl;Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Fridolin Krausmann;Helga Weisz

  • Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: resolving conceptual challenges

    Mathis Wackernagel;Chad Monfreda;Niels B Schulz;Karl-Heinz Erb

  • Challenges for land system science

    Mark D.A. Rounsevell;Bas Pedroli;Karl-Heinz Erb;Marc Gramberger

  • Global patterns of socioeconomic biomass flows in the year 2000: A comprehensive assessment of supply, consumption and constraints

    Fridolin Krausmann;Karl-Heinz Erb;Simone Gingrich;Christian Lauk

  • Ruminants, climate change and climate policy

    William J. Ripple;Pete Smith;Helmut Haberl;Helmut Haberl;Stephen A. Montzka

  • Ecological footprint time series of Austria, the Philippines, and South Korea for 1961–1999: comparing the conventional approach to an ‘actual land area’ approach

    Mathis Wackernagel;Chad Monfreda;Karl-Heinz Erb;Helmut Haberl

  • Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

    Martin Rudbeck Jepsen;Tobias Kuemmerle;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb

  • A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts

    Justin Kitzes;Alessandro Galli;Marco Bagliani;John Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl-Heinz Erb
Karl-Heinz Erb BOKU University
Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
Christoph Plutzar
Christoph Plutzar BOKU University
Simone Gingrich
Simone Gingrich BOKU University
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alberte Bondeau
Alberte Bondeau Aix-Marseille University
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Anette Reenberg
Anette Reenberg University of Copenhagen

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