Professorship for Environmental Economics : Department of Socioeconomics : University of Hamburg

Teaching & Research Focuses

Photo: UHH/Baumann

The team of the Professorship offers inter alia courses on the following topics:

Introductionary Economics (B.A. Socialeconomics)
Environmental Economics (B.A. Socialeconomics)
Climate Economics (B.A. Socialeconomics)
Interdisciplinary Introductury Modul [IGK] (B.A. Socialeconomics)
Microeconomics (M.Sc. Health Economics & Health Care Management)
Decision Theory (M.Sc. Health Economics & Health Care Management)
Environmental Economics for Public Organisations (M.Sc. Public and Non-Profit Studies)
etc.

Photo: UHH/Sukhina

The team of the Professorship conducts research in the following areas:

European Emission Trading System and its interdependencies with other climate protection measures and regulatory options
Intrinsic motivation of households to engage in climate protection and incentives to increase their willingness to do so
Diffusion of environmental technologies and the role of suppliers' market power
Methods to measure life-satisfaction
etc.

Aktuelle Meldungen

Photo: UHH/Feuerböther

How the climate, environment and global resources develop doesn’t depend on physical factors alone – how we live, work and do...

Photo: Unsplash/Tom Seger

Whether or not people choose to attend a climate protest partly depends on its expected size. When they expect a larger protest...

Photo: Pixabay/HesselWisser

Protect the climate and make money while you’re at it! That’s the company Sparkchange’s sales pitch. An article recently published...

Photo: A. Spratt / Pixabay

Meat production is responsible for climate-harmful CO2 emissions. In addition, many animals raised for food suffer from poor...