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Thomas Sterner
Professor Thomas Sterner
Research Fellow
thomas.sterner@economics.gu.se
tel.+46-31-786 1377
Environmental Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg
Environment for Development in Sweden, Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 640,
SE 405 30,
Gothenburg,
Sweden
tel.+46-31-786 1000
fax.+46-31-786 1043
Thomas Sterner is a professor of environmental economics in Gothenburg and a university fellow at RFF. He is currently on sabbatical working as Visiting Chief Economist
at EFD, Environmental Defense Fund in New York. Can be reached there at
tsterner@edf.org.
Sterner has initiated the unit for environmental economics in Gothenburg and participated in its build-up since 1990. He is currently President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Thomas Sterner’s main research interests lie in the design of policy instruments. He has written a large number of books and articles on different applications ranging from energy and climate, through natural resource management such as fisheries to issues relating to industrial and transport pollution. His work covers institutions in different kinds of economies, market, planned and developing. Thomas Sterner teaches PhD and undergraduate courses in environmental and resource economics and is also active in a number of boards and networks such as CEEPA, LACEEP, SANDEE, and AERC.
Sterner has initiated the unit for environmental economics in Gothenburg and participated in its build-up since 1990. He is currently President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Thomas Sterner’s main research interests lie in the design of policy instruments. He has written a large number of books and articles on different applications ranging from energy and climate, through natural resource management such as fisheries to issues relating to industrial and transport pollution. His work covers institutions in different kinds of economies, market, planned and developing. Thomas Sterner teaches PhD and undergraduate courses in environmental and resource economics and is also active in a number of boards and networks such as CEEPA, LACEEP, SANDEE, and AERC.
Expertise/Research area:
Environmental Economics
Resource Economics
Development Economics
Researchers
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