Foundations of Environmental Economics

Wolfgang Buchholz has studied Mathematics, Economics and Political Science at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, where he got his Ph.D. in Economics in 1982 and finished his Habilitation in 1987. In 1988 he became an Associate Professor of economics at the University of Regensburg. After an interplay as a professor at the newly founded European University in Frankfurt (Oder) between 1992 and 1996 he returned to Regensburg – now as a full professor of public and environmental economics. His main fields of research are international environmental economics, the theory of public goods, intertemporal evaluation and discounting, social protection and distribution policy and the links between economics and ethics. Since 2002 he is Research Professor at the ifo Institute (Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich). Christiane Reif joined Hochschule Landshut, University of Applied Science, in 2023 as Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business Administration. Previously, she worked for the Headquarters of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft first as Advisor for Industrial Solutions and later as Representative for Structural Transformation and Accompanying Research (2021-2023). From 2019 to 2020 she was a Researcher and Project Manager at the Center for Economics of Materials at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS. During her time at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research as Researcher and Senior Researcher in 2009-2019, she led research projects on environmental economics and sustainability. Dirk Rübbelke is Professor of Economics at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Before he joined TU Bergakademie Freiberg, he was IKERBASQUE Research Professor at BC3 in Bilbao (2010-2014), Senior Research Fellow at CICERO in Oslo (2008-2010) and Juniorprofessor at Chemnitz University of Technology (2002-2008). He was the first CURE-Visiting Professor of Sustainability – Economics and Policies at Ruhr University Bochum (2022-2023) and is Research Associate at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, and Fellow Member in the CESifo Research Network, Munich. Dirk Rübbelke did research and taught at internationally renowned universities and research centres. These are, inter alia, Australian National University in Canberra, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich and University of Nottingham.

Chapter 1. Economics and Environmental Degradation.- Chapter 2. Environmental Externalities and their Internationalization Through Voluntary Approaches.- Chapter 3. Monetary Valuation of the Environment.- Chapter 4. Assessing Environmental Policy Instruments.- Chapter 5. International Environmental Problems.- Chapter 6. Climate Change and Water Supply: Strategic Aspects of Adaptation Conflicts.