Socioecological metabolism: Investigating sustainability across scales

Helmut Haberl, a leading researcher in socio-ecological metabolism, delivered an invited keynote lecture at the "First Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, Critical Zone, and Socio-Ecological Research (eLTER) Conference", held in Tampere, Finland, from June 23–27, 2025.

The eLTER community aims at establishing a European research infrastructure to support site-based monitoring and research on long-term ecosystem and biodiversity changes as well as their socioeconomic drivers and impacts. The lecture discussed current concepts of socio-ecological metabolism research, including the research frontiers tackled in REMASS, i.e. highly granular analyses of the resilience and malleability of social metabolism in our current world of crises.

For more details you can access the presentation here:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15736274

and the conference abstract here:
https://aca.pensoft.net/article/156614/

Visit the eLTER conference website here:
https://www.elter-ri.eu/science-conference