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RESEARCH GRANTS
The German Research Foundation DFG has decided to fund two new research projects at the Research Center for Environmental Economics. One project, involving Timo Goeschl and Daniel Heyen, will examine information acquisition under fundamental uncertainty in the context of environmental regulation. The other project, named CEIBRAL, will study the limits of liability systems for international risk allocation in Geoengineering. This project is funded within the DFG’s Priority Program on Geoengineering. CEIBRAL is a joint undertaking with legal scholars at Trier University, climate modelers at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, and philosophers at Bielefeld that is coordinated by Timo Goeschl. Tobias Pfrommer will be the research associate on this project.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
The paper “The Warnings Puzzle: An Upstream Explanation” by Timo Goeschl and Johannes Jarke has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Regulatory Economics
WORLD CONGRESS 2014
Timo Goeschl, Mark Cohen (Vanderbilt University) and Erinc Yeldan (Yasar University) form the Scientific Program Committee for the Vth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, to be held in Istanbul in June/July 2014.
HCE - KOLLOQUIUM "HEIDELBERGER BRÜCKE"
Das neue Programm der öffentlichen Reihe "Heidelberger Brücke" des HCE für das Sommersemester 2013 ist da. Sie finden das Programm hier.
HCE - Interdisziplinäres Klimaforum: Klimapolitik in der Hand alternder Gesellschaften
Am 13. Juni 2013 von 16.00 - 19.15 Uhr findet in der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Karlstraße 4, 69117 Heidelberg, im Rahmen des Abschluss-Symposiums des Projekts "ClimAge" das Interdisziplinäre Klimaforum: Klimapolitik in der Hand alternder Gesellschaften statt.
Mehr Informationen dazu finden Sie hier. Die Teilnahme steht allen Interessierten offen und ist kostenlos (Registrierung ist erforderlich).
FZU-ZEW EnvEcon Monthly Brownbag
The next FZU-ZEW EnvEcon Monthly Brownbag takes place on May 14, 12.30 to 14.00 hours at the ZEW, L7,1, room Luxemburg, Mannheim
Title: The Intergenerational Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Capabilities and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks
Presented by: Daniel Heyen (FZU)
Abstract:
Solar radiation management (SRM) technologies are considered one of the likeliest forms of geoengineering. If developed, a future generation could deploy them to limit the damages caused by the atmospheric carbon stock inherited from the current generation, despite their negative side effects. Should the current generation develop these geoengineering capabilities for a future generation? And how would a decision to develop SRM impact on the current generation’s abatement efforts? Natural scientists, ethicists, and other scholars argue that future generations could be more sanguine about the side effects of SRM deployment than the current generation. In this paper, we add economic rigor to this important debate on the intergenerational transfer of technological capabilities and pollution stocks. We identify three conjectures that constitute potentially rational courses of action for current society, including a ban on the development of SRM. However, the same premises that underpin these conjectures also allow for a novel possibility: If the development of SRM capabilities is suffciently cheap, the current generation may for reasons of intergenerational strategy decide not just to develop SRM technologies, but also to abate more than in the absence of SRM.
All interested persons are welcome!
The next FZU-ZEW Brownbag will take place on June 18, 12.30 to 14.00 hours at the FZU in Heidelberg.
Lehre
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Sprechstunde Prof. Goeschl: Dienstags 17.00 - 18.00 Uhr. Bitte einen Termin per Email (office@eco.uni-heidelberg.de) vereinbaren.
- Offene Themen für Abschlussarbeiten (Bachelor/Master) finden Sie hier
- Informationen zum Thema "Klausureinsicht" finden Sie hier
Jobs
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Der Ruhrverband sucht im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts zur Bearbeitung ökonomischer und technischer Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit einer möglichen Badegewässernutzung der Ruhr eine/n Diplom-Ingenieur/in. Nähere Informationen finden sie hier
- Die ETH Zürich bietet eine PhD-Position in Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomik. Infos hier
- Das ZEW in Mannheim bietet eine Praktikumsstelle an. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier
