Dominik Noll
Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED), University of Évora
Évora, Portugal
Member ID 1667
Member since Oct 25, 2017
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Bachelor's in Biology and a Master's in Social Ecology, both in Vienna, Austria. For my Master's thesis, I spent a year in Mumbai, India, conducting a socio-metabolic study on the production of clay bricks, which involved the extraction of fertile agricultural soil for the expansion of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

In November 2021, I earned my PhD from the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, where I focused on a long-term sociometabolic assessment of the Greek island of Samothraki. As co-coordinator of a transdisciplinary project that formed the basis of my PhD research, I engaged in comprehensive socioecological system analysis and transition management, collaborating closely with local partners.

Since July 2021, I have been working at MED in the "Landscape Dynamics and Management" research group. In my current work I focus on the implications of the energy transitions for rural regions by assessing land system transformation in the scope of renewable energy infrastructure projects. In my research I combine sociometabolic with ecosystem services conceptual frameworks.

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Noll, Dominik, Maria Rivera, Georg Wiesinger, Theresia Oedl-Wieser, Fatma Handan Giray, and Maddalena Bettoni. 2025. “10: Enhancing Rural Prosperity through Social Capital.” In A Research Agenda for Social Capital in Economic Development. Eds: I.S. Akçomak and J.Peiró-Palomino https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781035315826/chapter10.xml

Zisopoulos, Filippos K., Brian D. Fath, Susana Toboso-Chavero, Hao Huang, Daan Schraven, Benjamin Steuer, Alexandros Stefanakis, et al. 2025 “Inequities Blocking the Path to Circular Economies: A Bio-Inspired Network-Based Approach for Assessing the Sustainability of the Global Trade of Waste Metals.”Resources, Conservation and Recycling 212 (January):107958.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107958

Noll, Dominik, Panos Petridis, Simone Gingrich, Nikos Skoulikidis, Simron Jit Singh, Marjan Jongen, George Papaioannou, and Marina Fischer-Kowalski. 2024. “Insights into 15 Years of Transdisciplinary Research on a Small Greek Island.” GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Impacts of RWLS, 33/S1: 35–43. https://dx.doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.S1.6

Research Interests

Social (Island/Urban) Metabolism; Stock Modelling; Transdisciplinary Research; Socio-metabolic Transitions; Circular Economy
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Website contributions from this member

31 Oct 2023 Update on the membership proposal “Short-film featuring island industrial ecology activities in Aruba”
28 Mar 2023 Recent Island Industrial Ecology Publications
22 Mar 2023 Can a small island be sustainable?
07 Mar 2022 Is e-waste a threat or an opportunity for small-island economies to transition to a circular economy?
18 Nov 2021 Simran Talwar
24 Oct 2021 Plastic waste management in San Andres Island, Colombia
24 Oct 2021 New Island Industrial Ecology Publications
07 Oct 2021 Chris Matthew
07 Sep 2021 Thomas Y. Chen
09 Aug 2021 Dr. Andrea Thorenz