Stefanie Engel
Stefanie Engel (* as Stefanie Kirchhoff, June 18, 1968 ) is a German environmental economist.
Stefanie Engel studied economics (Agricultural and Resource Economics) at the University of Arizona with a master’s degree in 1994 and received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1999 . In 2005 she completed her habilitation at the University of Bonn . She conducted research in 1998/99 in Bogota in Colombia (Universidad de Los Andes, Fedessarolo Economic Research Institute) and led a junior research group leader (institutions for the management of natural resources in developing countries, from 2002 natural resources) at the University of Bonn (center for development research) from 2000 to 2006. In 2005 she completed her habilitation in Bonn at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (Habilitation thesis: Designing institutions for sustainable resource management and environmental protection). In 2006 she became assistant professor and in 2013 professor for environmental economics and environmental policy at the ETH Zurich . In 2014 she received a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Osnabrück .
She examines how different groups and individuals deal with natural resources and the environment, for example using methods from behavioral economics and game theory.
She is a member of the committee for environmental and development economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik .
Fonts (selection)
- Editor with C. Palmer: Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change, Routledge 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Change of name when married in 2002
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engel, Stefanie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirchhoff, Stefanie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German environmental economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1968 |