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Marieke Baaken at the EAERE 2024 Conference in Leuven, Belgium

The 29th Annual Conference of the  European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) was held from 1 to 4 July, 2024 in Leuven, Belgium. About 700 participants joined the conference.

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DFG funds new Research Training Group "ECORISK" for the next five years

The  German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the Research Training Group  "Ecological Regime Shifts and Systematic Risks in Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems (ECORISK)" at Osnabrück University from October [...]

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Nautilus article includes insights from Katharina Hembach, Tobias Vorlaufer, and Stefanie Engel

A recent  article in Nautilus discusses the costs of faulty disaster warnings and includes insights from an article by our former PhD student Katharina Hembach together with Tobias Vorlaufer and Stefanie Engel.

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FRAMEwork annual project meeting in Pisa

From 18 to 20 March, project partners from the  EU project FRAMEwork met for the annual project meeting in Pisa, Italy.  For the Department of Environmental Economics, Moritz Fritschle and Thomas Rellensmann participated in the meeting.

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Data collection of DFG project on vision-building for collective action in the Colombian Andes concluded in 2023

Data collection for a research project funded by the  German Research Council (i.e. DFG) and implemented by the Department of Environmental Economics concluded in Lake Tota (in Boyacá province, north-eastern Colombia) at the end of 2023.

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Joint workshop of the IUSF working groups in Bremen

On the 8th of February 2024, members of the Department of Environmental Economics took part in a joint workshop with other  Institute of Environmental Systems Research (IUSF) working groups in Bremen.  

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Official end of the CoVaCoa-Project

After three and a half years, the DBU-funded interdisciplinary  CoVaCoa-Project officially ended on January 31, 2024.