Sigrid Stagl

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Sigrid Stagl (born December 4, 1968 in Vienna ) is an Austrian economist and university lecturer .

Youth and education

Sigrid Stagl grew up on a farm in the Waldviertel . She studied business administration and economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). She learned from Fulbright Visiting Professor John Gowdy that he was planning to establish a PhD program in ecological economics in the Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . She agreed on a short research stay that resulted in participation in the doctoral program. In 1999 she became the first person in the world to obtain a doctorate in ecological economics.

Academic work

From 2001 to 2005 she worked as a lecturer at the University of Leeds , from 2005 to 2009 as a research assistant at the University of Sussex in Great Britain . In 2008 she became professor at the Institute for Regional and Environmental Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . In 2014 she founded the Institute for Ecological Economics (EcolEcon) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, which she headed until 2019. She was also a co-founder of the research institute Economics of Inequality , which she headed from 2015 to 2019 together with Wilfried Altzinger and Karin Heitzmann . Since 2020 she has been Head of Department at the Department of Socio-Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

She also worked for the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) for over ten years, and was President of ESEE from 2010 to 2013.

Her main research interests are sustainable work, ecological macroeconomics, integrated assessment methods and socio-economic theory of action. Her empirical focus is on energy and food.

Publications (selection)

  • together with Michael Getzner and Clive Spash : Alternatives for Environmental Valuation. Routledge, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-31012-3 .
  • together with Michael Common: Ecological Economics - An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-01670-4 .
  • together with Florian Stangl and Peter Kaufmann: Economic instruments in water protection. Manz, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-214-09392-1 .

Awards

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Sigrid Stagl. In: openscience4sustainability.at. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Researcher of the Month 2018 \ Sigrid Stagl. WU Vienna , 2019, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Sigrid Stagl. WU Vienna , accessed on January 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stagl, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna