Prof. Dr. Klaus Eisenack

The Environment and Development Economics team is mainly working on the economics of climate change, in particular adaptation to climate change. The focus is on instruments for strongly regulated sectors with long-living infrastructure, such as the energy and transport sectors. Further research areas are international environmental agreements and modeling of policy instruments.

The combination of both research areas - i.e. environment and development economics - emphasises the strong economic relationship between industrialised countries that contribute disproportionately to climate change and vulnerable countries in the south that face the main burden of global warming.

Driven by different academic backgrounds (economics, mathematics, physics, and political science) the research team pursues an interdisciplinary approach. Both qualitative methods and mathematical modelling (e.g. game theory) are applied.

News

• June 2012
  A new published article by the Chameleon researchers Klaus Eisenack, Rebecca Stecker and adelphi researcher Till Mohns, analyzes the progress of climate adaptation policy in Germany. The article consider a period from the early beginnings in the 1990s until the development of the so-called „Aktionsplan Anpassung“ (Adaptation Action Plan) of the German Adaptation Strategy of the Federal Government in 2011. The article „Anpassung an den Klimawandel – Agenda Setting und Politikintegration in Deutschland“, has been published in „Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht“ (2/2012) and can be downloaded here.
  

• April 2012
  Prof. Dr. Klaus Eisenack participated in the inderdisciplinary symposium on the state and perspectives of sustainability economics at the Oldenburg Center for Sustainability Economics and Management. He emphasized the importance of this field of research.
  
  
• January 2012
  On 16 January 2012, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Benno Rothstein of the University of Rottenburg gave a lecture titled "electricity industry as affected by climate change". Based on the results of numerous research projects Prof. Rothstein presented vulnerabilities in the electricity industry, and highlighted opportunities for adaptation.
  

• September 2011
  Prof. Dr. Klaus Eisenack and Rebecca Stecker participate in a three months visiting scholar program at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis of Nobel Prize for Economics laureate Prof. Dr. Elinor Ostrom at Indiana University, Bloomington. Office hours therefore have to be arranged personally via email.
  
  
• March 2011
  New office hours of Prof. Dr. Klaus Eisenack are Wednesdays from 2-3 p.m.
  
  
• February 2011
  Several new suggestions concerning possible topics for master's and bachelor's theses are available. Students who plan to write their thesis in the field of environmental and development economics are invited to have a look at the topics here (only in German).
  
  
• September 2010:
  The research project Chameleon is looking for an additional student assistant as soon as possible. For further information please go here.
  
  
• August 2010
  The working paper 'Why are Utilities Reluctant to Adapt to Climate Change?' by Rebecca Stecker, Anna Pechan, J. Micha Steinhäuser, Maja Rotter, Gerd Scholl, und Klaus Eisenack has been presented by the Chameleon Research Group at this year's ISEE Conference in Oldenburg.
  
  
• January 2010
  The research project Chameleon led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Eisenack begins its work at the Faculty of Economics and Law. For further information please read the linked press release of the University of Oldenburg (German).