PEAK-Expert
Patrick Kupper
Focus
ECONOMIC-, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Contact
E-Mail:
patrick.kupper@uibk.ac.at
Phone:
+43 512 507 43233
Web:
Department of History and European Ethnology
Personal Homepage
Languages: English, German
Patrick Kupper is Professor of Economic, Social and Environmental History at the University of Innsbruck. His research examines how societies have dealt with nature, the environment and climate since the European modern era. He combines approaches from global, technological and scientific history, paying particular attention to the Alpine region and its environmental history. A central field of research is the history of nature conservation: in 2024, for example, he collaborated with students to create the blog Naturschutzgeschichte(n) (Nature Conservation History/Stories) to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Tyrolean nature conservation law. With his textbook Umweltgeschichte (Environmental History), published in 2021, he has also presented an introduction that highlights the connections between social developments, ecological processes and climate change over the last two and a half centuries.
Focus cloud: Transnational economic, social and environmental history of modern Europe, global history, history of technology and science, history of the Alps and mountain regions
About
Patrick Kupper has been Professor of Economic, Social and Environmental History at the University of Innsbruck since 2014. He studied general history and environmental sciences at the University of Zurich and Humboldt University in Berlin. He wrote his dissertation on the history of the civilian use of nuclear energy (published in 2003) and his postdoctoral thesis on the transnational history of national parks (published in 2012). Research stays took him to Washington DC, Munich, Basel, Mainz, Prague and Leipzig. He is interested in exploring the concept of sustainable development in greater historical depth. To this end, he analyses how economic, social and ecological change were interrelated in the history of modern Europe.
In the news
- Die Presse: Der englische Gentleman und das Blei
- Uni Innsbruck: Praxisnah und vielseitig im Hörsaal
- Meine Energie: Eine Geschichte von Mangel und Überfluss
- Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Ausstellung Im Wald: Eine Kulturgeschichte, 2022, Podcast Folge 1: Wald aufforsten, und einen Nationalpark schaffen.
- Interview, Deník Referendum, 11.12.2024: Nové energetické technologie nestačí. Potřebujeme proměnu společnosti (New energy technologies are not enough. We need social change)