Research and teaching at the Chair focus on the application of economic knowledge to problems of environmental and resource management, in particular the preservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. Methods and approaches include, among others, ecological-economic modelling, the development of decision support software, as well as stakeholder interviews and choice experiments.
News
An article co-authored by Cosima van Mierlo has been published in the journal Earth System Governance. The article is titled “Integrating political economy and financial markets in qualitative scenario analysis to elicit EU decarbonization pathways” and is available online here.
Caterina De Petris has a new paper available with the title:"Farmers’ spatial targeting, landscape elements, and the cost-effectiveness of result-based versus measure-based payments: Insights from an ecological-economic model". It is published in Resource and Energy Economics.
Mai Nusir has published her first paper on 20th of March 2026 in the International Journal of Water Resources Developmentwith the title:"‘It’s our water now’: why informal institutions and tribalism matter in the success of water user associations in Jordan Valley".
On March 16 and 17, the third workshop of the DFG Model2Adapt network, organized by Anna Cord and Frank Wätzold, took place at the University of Bonn. Robert Finger gave the keynote speech.
Frank Wätzold and Anna F. Cord have published a new paper titled: “Next-generation agri-environment schemes: Integrating innovations in biodiversity monitoring, farming technologies, and digital tools.” The article appeared in Biological Conservation and can be found here.