Former Team Members

Prof. Dr. Irene Ring

Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Economics
Chair of Ecosystem Services, TU Dresden


Technische Universität Dresden
International Institute Zittau
Chair of Ecosystem Services
Markt 23
02763 Zittau

Tel.: +49 3583 612 - 4167
Fax: +49 3583 612 - 4009

irene.ring@tu-dresden.de

Dr. Irene Ring

Curriculum Vitae

since 8/2016

Chair of Ecosystem Services at the International Institute (IHI) Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden

2011

Habilitation at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Leipzig on "Economic Instruments for Conservation Policies in Federal Systems"

2009 - 2016

Lecturer at the University of Bayreuth

WS 2008/09

Visiting Professor for "Ecological Services" at Bayreuth University, Master Programme Global Change Ecology, Elite Network of Bavaria

2004 - 2016

Deputy Head, Department of Economics

2002 - 2015

Head of the Working Group "Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity"

2006/2000/
1999/1996

Guest researcher at CSERGE, University of East Anglia, UK,
Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., USA

1994 - 2011

Lecturer at Leipzig University

1992 - 2016

Researcher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig

1993

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Bayreuth

1989 - 1992

Ph.D. student at the Institute for European Environmental Policy, Bonn, Germany

1983 - 1989

Studies in Geoecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

1981 - 1983

Industrial apprenticeship at Siemens AG, Munich, Germany


Memberships and committees

2015 to date

Editor of the Journal
Ecological Economics

2015 - 2016

Member of the Scientific Board of the
Progressive Economy Initiative

2012 to date

Subject editor of the journal
Nature Conservation

2010 to date

2005 - 2014

National Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS Germany

2000 - 2008

Committee on Sciences of the
German UNESCO-Commission

1996 to date


Teaching Experiences

Lectures and seminars at Bayreuth University

  • The Economics of Global Environmental Change
  • Ecological Services
  • Socio-economic Drivers
  • Environmental Economics/Biodiversity Economics
  • The Economics of Climate Change

Lectures and seminars at the University of Leipzig

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Governance
  • Public Finances
  • Financing Public Ecological Functions
  • Economics of Nature Conservation
  • Economic Instruments in Environmental Policy
  • Emissions Trading
  • Sustainable Development

Interdisciplinary lecture at Leipzig University in 2000 on

  • Natural Resources Conservation and Economic Development

Guest lectures since 1994 on various topics at New University of Lisbon, Portugal, CSERGE, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA, Leipzig University, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Braunschweig University