Projects of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.11.2009 – 31.10.2014

    Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise

    Impact Assessment (IA) has the potential for delivering more sustainable development as well asenhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of decision making. Policies aiming at sustainabledevelopment need a solid…

  2. Project // 01.08. – 31.10.2009

    Perspectives for Economic Research on Climate Change

    The project described current research themes in the economics of climate change and outlines user needs in industry, finance, policy and science. It assessed the economic reseach on climate change issues and…

  3. Project // 01.05.2009 – 30.04.2012

    World Input Output Database: Construction and Applications

    Policy makers and societies at large are facing increasingly pressing trade-offs between socio-economic and environmental developments. Increases in production induce growth in the use of non-renewable resources…

  4. Project // 01.03.2009 – 31.05.2011

    International Climate Policy and Fairness Preferences: An Experimental Study, Continuation

    The continuation project "International climate policy and fairness preferences" had two objectives. The first objective was to analyse whether preferences for fairness can be distinguished from preferences for…

  5. Project // 01.03.2009 – 31.12.2010

    Determinants and Impacts of Eco-Innovations - An Empirical Analysis for Germany

    The project carried out an additional survey to the innovation survey 2009 and analyse it. All firms having responded in the innovation survey 2009 that they have introduced eco-innovations were asked for more…

  6. Project // 01.01.2009 – 31.01.2012

    Spatial – Economic – Ecological Model for the Assessment of Sustainability of Russian Federation

    The objective of the study was to develop and implement an integrated spatial–economic–ecological modelling approach for Russia that could be used to assist policy makers in their choice of sustainability…

  7. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2009

    Giving behaviour and fairness preferences – An empirical analysis

    This project examines empirically in how far fairness preferences have an influence on giving behaviour of individuals, especially on the purpose donations go to. To this end we conduct an experiment where…

  8. Project // 01.01. – 13.10.2009

    Broadening the Scope of the Analysis of the Possible Risk of Carbon Leakage on Energy Intensive Industries

    The overall objective of the study was to analyse the possible risk of carbon leakage on European energy intensive industries as a consequence of the EU Climate Action. In particular, if no international agreement…

  9. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2009

    Stability of International Environmental Agreements - Empirical Evidence

    Within international environmental agreements coalitions of several countries are often implemented in order to jointly improve environmental quality. This project investigated the implementation and stability of…