GRK 488:  The Economics of the Environment and its Resources

• Subject Area: Economics
• Term: from 1998 to 2004
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 272641

In the first year Ph.D. students of the Graduiertenkolleg participate in a mandatory curriculum in methods (microeconomics, empirical methods) and in advanced courses on ecology, environmental economics, resource economics, and environmental management. The research projects are on dynamic incentives of environmental policy instruments, hold-up problems, energy and resource saving technical progress, analysis of ecological tax reforms by means of CGM models, traffic and the environment, econometric estimations of abatement costs. Several projects treat environmental problems and policy in the third world, among others: joint implementation and clean-development mechanism in India, consequences of energy use in China, children's work and resource exploitation, geography and economy of natural catastrophes, allocation of water in India, comparative advantages of waterintensive agriculture and international trade, sustainable development and population growth as well as migration. Finally there are projects in environmental management, in particular about the Porter Hypothesis and reduction economy.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Klaus Conrad (†)
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Clive Bell; Professor Dr. Malte Faber; Professor Dr. Peter Frankenberg; Professor Dr. Oskar Gans; Professor Dr. Hans Gersbach; Professor Dr. Martin Kappas; Dr. Dietfried Günter Liesegang; Professor Dr. Till Requate; Professor Christoph Schmidt, Ph.D.