Sabine Sedlacek is an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Sustainability, Governance, and Methods. She was elected Vice-President of Modul University Vienna from 2016-2022. Before joining MODUL University Vienna she was Assistant Professor at the Institute for Regional Development and the Environment at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien). She holds a master?s degree and doctorate from University of Vienna and received a Venia Docendi for the field ?Environmental Studies, Governance and Planning? from WU Wien. She has research experience in the area of economic development and policy, environmental economics, governance, sustainability and sustainability transitions. Her current research interest focuses on urban and regional governance with a specific focus on the role of different stakeholders in fostering transitions, urban and regional sustainability, resilience and carrying capacity.

Sabine's research area balances conceptual and empirical contributions and contributes to the recent academic debate from an interdisciplinary perspective. With her social science-based competencies for analyzing sustainable transitions in different spatial contexts, Sabine Sedlacek is contributing to the intersection between governance and sustainability. This includes research on multistakeholder environments where the role of different stakeholder groups in fostering transitions in terms of their capacity to contribute to resilience and carrying capacity of the respective regions is analyzed. She is collaborating with colleagues from several other disciplines on finding and analyzing complex social-ecological nexus.

• Associate Professor 2008/09/15-
• Associate Professor 2008/09/15-
• Associate Professor 2025/06/10-
• Associate Professor 2024/06/24-2027/06/23
• Associate Professor 2024/08/01-2027/07/31

• Fall 2025/26 Environmental Management and Sustainability
• Fall 2025/26 Fundamentals of Sustainable Development
• Fall 2025/26 Microeconomics of Competitiveness
• Fall 2025/26 Reading Course: Urban Sustainability - a geography, planning and sustainability science approach
• Spring 2025 Advances in Ecological Economics
• Spring 2025 Applications of Economics for the Environment
• Spring 2025 Green Business Strategies
• Spring 2025 Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation
• Spring 2025 Principles of Sustainablity and Economic Development
• Spring 2025 Research Design

https://research.modul.ac.at/en/persons/sabine-sedlacek