Irene Ring

Irene Ring (* 1961 ) is a German environmental economist . She has been Professor of Ecosystem Services at the International University Institute Zittau (IHI) at TU Dresden since 2016 .

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Irene Ring studied geoecology from 1983 to 1989 at the University of Bayreuth and at the University of East Anglia . She then was a doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Bonn until 1992; In 1993 she did her doctorate in Bayreuth on the subject of possibilities and limits of market-based environmental policy from an ecological point of view . From 1992 to 2016 she worked at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, from 2004 as deputy head of the Department of Economics. In 2011 she completed her habilitation at the University of Leipzig on the subject of ecological fiscal transfers ( Economic Instruments for Conservation Policies in Federal Systems ). From 2009 to 2016 she was a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth, and from 2011 to 2016 also a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 2016 she was offered a professorship at TU Dresden, where she is professor for ecosystem services.

From 2013 to 2018 Ring was President of the European Society for Ecological Economics . She has been co-editor of the journal Ecological Economics since 2015 .

Her research focus is on economic instruments of environmental policy (in particular ecological fiscal transfers) and ecosystem services. She took part in international research projects in this context, including significantly in TEEB (including the German follow-up project Natural Capital Germany - TEEB DE) and IPBES .

Selected publications

• Ring, I., Barton, D .: Economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem governance . In: Martínez-Alier, J., Muradian, R. (Eds.): Handbook of Ecological Economics . Edward Elgar Publishing , Cheltenham, S. 413-439 .
• Ring, I., Hansjürgens, B. , Elmqvist, T., Wittmer, H., Sukhdev, P .: Challenges in framing the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: the TEEB initiative . In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability . tape 2 , no. 1–2 , 2013, pp. 15–26 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cosust.2010.03.005 .
• Ring, I .: Integrating local ecological services into intergovernmental fiscal transfers: the case of the ecological ICMS in Brazil . In: Land Use Policy . tape 25 , no. 4 , 2008, p. 485-497 , doi : 10.1016 / j.landusepol.2007.11.001 .
• Ring, I .: Ecological public functions and fiscal equalization at the local level in Germany . In: Ecological Economics . tape 42 , no. 3 , 2002, p. 415-427 , doi : 10.1016 / S0921-8009 (02) 00124-6 .
• Ring, I .: Evolutionary strategies in environmental policy . In: Ecological Economics . tape 23 , no. 3 , 1997, p. 237-249 , doi : 10.1016 / S0921-8009 (97) 00582-X .
• Ring, I .: Market-based environmental policy from an ecological point of view: Possibilities and limits . Teubner, Stuttgart, Leipzig 1994.

Web links

• Profile on the website of IHI Zittau
• Expert profile on the website of the German IPBES coordination office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ESEE Governance , accessed March 19, 2019.