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Welcome to the Institute for Ecological EconomicsRSS

The Institute is a leading institution for ecological economic research, teaching, learning, knowledge exchange, and community engagement. Over 30 researchers, a secretary, a research coordinator, and a graduate program coordinator make up the Institute’s staff.

Research is generally grouped into five research groups: Sustainable Work, Macroeconomics & Environment, Climate Economics and Finance, Global Resource Use, and Education for Sustainable Development.  

The Institute was founded in July of 2014. Until then its activities were part of the Environment Group at the Institute for the Environment and Regional Development. Its predecessor organization was the Institute for Environment and Economy, which was founded in 1991 and led by Professor Uwe Schubert.

Irene Monasterolo presents at he European Systemic Risk Board/ATC Workshop on Stress Testing

Irene Monasterolo present the article entitled "A Climate Stress-test of the financial system" (Battiston et al. 2017) at the European Systemic Risk Board/ATC Workshop on Stress Testing "Wind of…

Irene Monasterolo organizes COP25 side event at UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid

This year, Irene Monasterolo, Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance, will co-organize a side event at the UN Climate Change Conference UNFCCC COP25 conference in Madrid on 9 December…

Stephan Lutter among the most cited researchers in Austria

Clarivate Analytics has published the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2019". Accordingly, 6,216 people make up the top one percent of the most cited researchers. Of these, 44 are at least partially…

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