Biodiversity Economics
The Biodiversity Economics research group aims at improving the scientific basis for establishing sustainability in human-nature relationships. Main areas of research are the sustainable use of renewable natural resources (e.g. marine fish stocks, rangelands, forests) and the conservation of biodiversity from regional to global scales. We study how economic incentives shape human behaviour towards nature, how sustainability – understood as justice in human-nature relationships – can be conceptualized, and how economic policy instruments could contribute to this. Our methodical expertise comprises quantitative ecological-economic modelling, dynamic optimization, statistics, economic experiments, conceptual modelling, and approaches from game theory and capital theory. Our research group is internationally well connected. We engage in integrative interdisciplinary research with natural and social scientists and researchers from the humanities.
News
15.01.2024 | ValuGaps
Summer School "Economic Valuation of Natural Capital: From Theory to Practice"
08.–13. July 2024, International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm, Germany.
11.01.2024 | Interview
Environmental economist: "There is no justification for subsidising agricultural diesel"
Interview with Martin Quaas, head of Biodiversity Economics research group.
22.12.2023 | ECO-N
Open Postions in ECO-N Research Training Group
14 open doctoral researcher positions in new research training group “Economics of Connected Natural Commons” at Leipzig University
17.07.2023 | New Publication
The historical social cost of fossil and industrial CO2 emissions
New Publication by Wilfried Rickels, Felix Meier and Martin Quaas in Nature Climate Change.
06.06.2023 | New Publication
New Publication by Fabian Marder, Torsten Masson, Julian Sagebiel, Christina Martini, Martin Quaas and Immo Fritsche in PLOS Climate.
16.03.2023 | Media Release
How fishermen benefit from reversing evolution of cod
Under long-term fisheries management, evolutionary change, that has resulted in smaller maturation sizes, can be reversed profitably.
16.03.2023 | New Publication
The Economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution
New Publication by Hanna Schenk, Fabian Zimmermann and Martin Quaas in Nature Sustainability.
Contact
Postal adress
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig