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
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
Completed Projects
→ Integration approach to financing biodiversity: Evaluation of results and analysis of options for the future
Memberships and committees
2015 to date
Editor of the Journal
Ecological Economics
2015 to date
2015 to date
2015 - 2016
Member of the Scientific Board of the
Progressive Economy Initiative
2013 to date
President of the
European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE)
2012 to date
Subject editor of the journal
Nature Conservation
2010 to date
Member of the Board of the
European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE)
2005 - 2014
National Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS Germany
2000 - 2008
Committee on Sciences of the
German UNESCO-Commission
1996 to date
1996 to date
Founding Member of the
European Society for Ecological Economics
1994 to date
1987 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