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2012-02-01 PhD programme in Climate Economics at the University of Gothenburg The Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) at the University of Gothenburg offers five full scholarships in a PhD programme in Climate Economics with admission September 2012. (Assuming the program will be financed). This program will be a continuation of the former program but with a heavier emphasis on Climate change as the prime environmental problem of our time.
2012-01-31 Sterner keynote lecturer at EAAERE 2012 in Indonesia Thomas Sterner, professor of environmental economics in University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a fellow at Resource for the Future (RFF), is invited to give a keynote lecture on “The Design of Environmental Policy Instrument: Efficiency, Informational Requirements and Political Feasibility”at the 2nd Annual Conference of the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE) at Bandung, Indonesia, on February 2-4, 2012.
2012-01-24 | rff usa RFF Activities in Human Cooperation to Manage Natural Resources (COMMONS) program 2011 This is a brief report on Resources for the Future’s use of the Swedish Research Council, Formas, COMMONS program funding in the seven months since a May 2011 contract was signed.
2012-01-20 New edition:Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management This book by Thomas Sterner and Jessica Coria is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture.
2012-01-02 Call for EAERE 2012 and European Summer School 2012 Paper submission and registrations are open for EAERE 19th Annual Conference, 27-30 June 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. Another event organized by EAERE next summer is the EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students. The theme of this Summer School is Management of International Water.
2011-12-01 | Agriculture Forestry Policy design Environmental Valuation course draws participants from around world 21 researchers and PhD students from across the globe currently attend the course Environmental Valuation that is held at School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg in Sweden 7 November – 9 December. A vivid interest in natural resources and environmental issues made them come from China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, Uruguay and Vietnam.
2011-11-09 | central america china eeu sweden ethiopia kenya rff usa south africa tanzania | Climate change Policy design Fuel Taxes and the Poor - RFF/EfD book released Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people.
2011-10-18 Organic certification of coffee changes farmers´behavior Allen Blackman, EfD Research Fellow, said to the Swedish Radio today that organic certification of coffee do change farmers´behavior in a studied area in Colombia. Blackman is invited to a Policy Seminar, arranged by ENTWINED on October 20 in Stockholm, Sweden.
2011-09-29 Call for Papers: 2011 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries December 1-3, 2011, Berkeley, California
2011-09-29 Call for papers: the 2012 Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty The 2012 Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty will take place in Washington, D.C. from April 24-25, 2011.
2011-09-28 EEU receives collaboration prize University of Gothenburg’s annual collaboration prize has been awarded to the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU), which is part of the Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law. The EEU receives the award for their extensive and continuous work to collaborate with public bodies, media and decision-makers, especially through their helpdesk for research-based environmental-economic analysis and advice-service for Swedish public bodies, as well as the Forest, Climate and Livelihood research network (Focali) and the Environment for Development initiative (EfD).
2011-08-16 | Agriculture Agricultural Research for Development conference – Scales & Diversity Agricultural Research for Development is an annual interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder conference on agriculture, livestock and forest research in an international development context. Distinguished international guests will give key note presentations on pertinent research and/or developmental questions. Individual participants are invited to present their research/project in parallel sessions. This year´s conference will be held at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 28- 29 September 2011.
2011-06-14 The EfD Initiative Ranks Second in Sida Tender alongside the Renowned Adam Smith International (ASI) Consultancy
2011-06-14 The 2nd EAAERE Annual Congress 2012, Bandung, Indonesia The East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE) is conducting its 2nd Annual Congress in Bandung, Indonesia on February 2-4, 2012. Paper submission is now open!
2011-05-27 | eeu sweden | Fisheries Policy design Optimum tax on foreign fishing in Africa protects stocks and domestic fishing Press release from University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, Environmental Economics unit, 24 May 2011
2011-05-03 | eeu sweden rff usa | Climate change Policy design How Regressive Are Fuel Taxes? A Comparison of Countries from Around the World Thomas Sterner makes the latest addition to RFF policy commentary series with a piece on whether fuel taxes are indeed regressive. Raising fuel taxes could significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollution from the transportation sector. One of the prime arguments against raising fuel taxes is the perception that they are regressive — that they are more costly to the poor and other socioeconomic groups. But recent research suggests the opposite, particularly for developing countries.
2011-04-27 | eeu sweden | Behavior ec. Policy design Khanh´s research highlighted in Dutch national newspaper In his doctoral thesis, economist Nam Pham Khanh shows that people are generally willing to cooperate and that social influences strongly affect how much individuals choose to contribute to a shared resource. His research was featuring in a half-page article in the Science part of NRC Handelsblad, one of the major national newspapers in the Netherlands, April 13, 2011:
2011-04-15 | china eeu sweden ethiopia kenya tanzania | Forestry Forest Tenure Impact Evaluation Workshop at World Bank completed The Environment for Development initiative arranged a Forest Tenure Impact Evaluation Workshop on April 21, in connection to the World Bank’s annual conference on land and poverty in Washington D.C. on April 18-20. Recent developments in forest management institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania were reviewed during this workshop, and a potential impact evaluation program for forest tenure reform in East Africa was discussed. The workshop was held on Thursday April 21 and was open for all conference participants.
2011-03-18 | eeu sweden | Behavior ec. Policy design Vietnamese villagers show that social influences affect willingness to cooperate Press release from Environmental Economics Unit, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2011-03-18
2011-03-08 | eeu sweden | Agriculture Brazilian beef is worse for the environment than we think Increased Brazilian beef exports indirectly lead to deforestation in the Amazon region. The environmental effect is much larger than previously indicated, according to new research from the University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology and SIK published in Environmental Science & Technology. The researchers are demanding that indirect effects of land use changes be considered when estimating a product’s carbon footprint.
2011-01-27 | eeu sweden | Agriculture Climate change Climate tax on meat and milk results in less greenhouse gases A climate tax corresponding to €60/ton CO2eq on meat and milk could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from European agriculture by around seven per cent. If the land made available is used for bioenergy production, the decrease in emissions can be six times greater. This is shown by the researchers Kristina Mohlin, Stefan Wirsenius and Fredrik Hedenus in an article published in the scientific journal Climatic Change.
2011-01-26 Aeroplanes Without Engines Versus Environmental Social Science Does environmental economics produce aeroplanes without engines? In an upcoming special issue of the journal Environmental and Resource Economics, the editors professor Henk Folmer and professor and EfD research fellow Olof Johansson-Stenman critically review conventional environmental economics.
2011-01-25 | eeu sweden | Agriculture Climate change Forestry How can people interact to solve environmental issues? Plans for the research program Human Cooperation to Manage Natural Resources were elaborated on January 17-19 at Indiana University in Bloomington. Project partners are Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom's research group at Indiana University, Resources for the Future in Washington, and the Environmental Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg.
2011-01-12 3 post-doctoral positions in Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg Applications are welcome for three, two-year post-doctoral positions in Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg. Application must be received no later than February 28, 2011
2010-12-16 | Climate change Upcoming climate change special issue edited by Berck A special Climate Change issue of the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research will be published on January 10, 2011. Peter Berck, SJ Hall Professor and EfD Research Associate, is the guest editor of the special issue entitled "Climate Change Challenge: Policy Perspectives" which include several EfD authors.
2010-12-06 Invitation to apply to MSc in Economics Invitation to apply to the Master of Science in Economics with a track in environmental economics at the Graduate School, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics, and Law – Application period for students with an international degree: 1 December (2010) – 17 January 2011.
2010-12-02 Challenges to design climate agreements - Sterner speaks at SANDEE The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, SANDEE, will celebrate a decade of research and training with a conference on ‘Environment and Development in South Asia' on December 6-7th 2010. Keynote speakers include Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and Sir Partha Dasgupta. Professor Thomas Sterner from the EfD/Environmental Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg, will give a plenary session speech about the challenges to design climate agreements.
2010-11-29 New policy for environmental and climate issues in Swedish development cooperation The Swedish Government has adopted a policy for environmental and climate issues in Swedish development cooperation for 2010-2014.
2010-11-24 EEU/EfD contributed to World Bank pilot program on Strategic Environmental Assessment in Policy and Sector Reform Researchers at EEU and EfD Kenya have played a key role in the evaluation of the World Bank pilot program on institutions and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in policy and sector reform.
2010-11-22 Charging for plastic bags cut bag consumption by half in China Press release from the Environmental Economics Unit, School of Business Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 22/11/10

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