In today’s episode we welcome Sigrid Stagl. She is professor and head of the Department of Socioeconomics and founder of the Institute of Ecological Economics at WU Vienna. Being the first person globally who completed a PhD program in Ecological Economics she will introduce us to the term sustainability from an academic standpoint today. Among others, she will touch on the topics: What do we mean when talking about sustainability and what is the current state of the art in research? This episode was recorded remotely.