Environmental Economics

We are a research and teaching unit at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The unit has four full professors, three associate professors, eight research fellows/post docs, some 15 PhD candidates, four policy advisors, a communications officer and a number of support staff.

Research
Much of our research concerns climate, transport, industry and natural resource management, particularly in developing countries. Our work focuses on two distinct areas: firstly, experimental and valuation studies and their behavioural foundations. Secondly, we work with the selection and design of policy instruments for transport, industrial environmental problems and welfare-related issues.

Education
We provide a PhD programme and a number of specialisation courses, and we offer stipends financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to students from developing countries to study environmental economics at our department. We have been training PhDs from developing countries for almost twenty years and now have an unusually broad network of alumni in various countries.

PHD COURSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS SPRING 2012

The EEU will be organizing a suite of three coordinated courses during the spring of 2012.
These courses are part of our PhD program in environmental economics with a particular focus on developing countries, finance by Sida. We have a much larger focus than earlier on climate economics, catering to a need we have identified for more climate economists in capacity building in many counitries. We will be giving the following courses.
N.B!! Application deadline for the PhD course in Natural Resource Economics , (19th January-21st February, 2012) is November 30th, 2011. Other PhD courses in the spring of 2012 are Climate and Ecosystem Change, (22nd February-23rd March, 2012) and Policy Instruments for Environmental and Climate Economics, (26th march-27th April, 2012).

Applications are open for either one or several of these courses. Courses 1 and 3 are graduate courses in environmental economics to which we have, for meany years, admitted extra studenst (researchers and teachers) from abroad. We award 8 Sida-funded full scholarships to candidates from developing countries. The scholarship includes airfare, accommodation and subsistance grant.
Course 2 is a partly new course that is intended for economists but its content is more on the functioning of ecosystems and of the climate system. The second half of the course will be taught in Stockholm at the Beijer Institute.- We expect most applicants to apply to one course but applications to two or even three courses will be considered if they are well motivated.
See more info under each course.

Environment for Development initiative
The Environment for Development initiative is the latest step we have taken to support the building of environmental economics capacity in developing countries. This is a collaboration with our friends and colleagues in Central America, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. We are proud that the EfD initiative is run jointly with Resources for the Future in the US, the world¿s leading academic think-tank in environmental and natural resources. Find out more at www.efdinitiative.org

GMV Environmental Economics and Policy group
GMV Environmental Economics and Policy group, former EEU advisory services for Environmental Economics, has a long experience of giving advice in Environmental Economics at University of Gothenburg. For example, since 1991 the group has worked with advice to Sida, with the overall objective to support the integration of environmental and climate change risks and opportunities’ in Swedish development cooperation. The work is often conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU), and the Environment for Development (EfD).

Information brochure on the Environmental Economics Unit (pdf)

Information in Swedish

Professor Thomas Sterner