Prof. Dr. Bernd Klauer

Deputy Head of the Department of Economics

Honorary Professor for Sustainability and Water Resources Management, University of Leipzig

Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Economics
Working Group Social-science Water Research

Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

phone: +49 341 6025 1702

bernd.klauer@ufz.de

Prof. Dr. Bernd Klauer, Photo: Sebastian Wiedling/UFZ

Areas of Expertise & Research

Currently I am mainly doing research as a water economist on water scarcity and quality problems in Germany, the EU, Jordan, and India.

  • Disciplines: economics of water resources, ecological economics, environmental and resource economics, sustainability science, governance research; interdisciplinary collaboration with hydrologists, ecologists, lawyers, philosophers, and political scientists, among others.
  • Main topics: Hydro-economic modeling, governance of water resources, decision support and integrated assessment, multi-criteria and monetary valuation, theory at the interface of economics and ecology, uncertainty, and ignorance, transdisciplinarity, valuation of scientific outputs
  • Fields of application: Food-Water-Energy Nexus, Integrated Water Resources Management, water scarcity, water quality, implementation of EC Water Framework Directive, nature and biodiversity conservation, German federal transportation planning, research management, technology assessment.

Curriculum Vitae

since 2017

Deputy Head of the Department of Economics

since 2015

Honorary Professor for Sustainability and Water Resources Management, University of Leipzig

2007 - 2018

Speaker of the working group "Social-science Water Research"

2004 - 2007

Speaker of the working group "Integrated Assessment and Decision Support"

2002 - 2004

Speaker of the working group "River Basin Management"

since 1997

Research associate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Department of Economics

1997

Doctorate in economics. Title of the dissertation: “Sustainability and the problem of valuing nature”

1992 - 1997

Research assistant at the chairs of Economic Theory and General Business Administration, Credit Economics and Finance at the Alfred Weber Institute for Social and Political Sciences at Heidelberg University

1989 - 1990

Study abroad at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY, USA

1985 - 1992

Studies of mathematics, minors in economics and physics at the University of Heidelberg (degree: Diplom-Mathematiker)


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