Prof. Dr. Bernd Klauer
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 - 235 1702
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 45 1702
Areas of Expertise & Research
- Disciplines: ecological economics, environmental and resource economics, economics of water resources, sustainability science, environmental science; interdisciplinary co-operation with hydrologists, ecologists, lawyers, philosophers etc.
- Themes: theory and methods of decision support, multicriteria analysis, benefit-cost analysis, theories at the interface of economics and ecology, uncertainty and ignorance, transdisciplinarity
- Fields of application: environmental and sustainability politics, EU-Water Framework Directive, integrated river basin management, sustainable development, nature protection, planning, technology assessment
Curriculum Vitae
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
Senior scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Department of Economics
1997
Promotion to doctor of economics. Title of thesis: Sustainability and Valuation of Nature − How Could the Economic Concept of Prices Contribute to Operationalising Sustainability? Supervision by Prof. Dr. Malte Faber, Heidelberg.
1992 - 1997
Doctoral student and teaching assistant at the University of Heidelberg − Alfred Weber Institute for Social Sciences
1989 - 1990
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY/USA: study abroad with an exchange scholarship
1985 - 1992
University of Heidelberg/Germany: Study of mathematics minoring economics and physics; Title: Diplom-Mathematiker (equivalent to master of science)
Current Projects
Completed Projects
The concept of stocks as decision aid in sustainability politics
Regional Sustainability − Bridging Resource Conservation and Economic Development
Sustainable watershed management and land use-the example of the Torgau region
Quantitative cost-benefit analysis as an approach for justifying exemptions according to the EU Water Framework Directive
Verhältnismäßigkeit von Maßnahmekosten im Sinne der EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie
Memberships
since 1997 European Society for Ecological Economics (founding member)
since 1997 International Society for Ecological Economics
since 1993 Verein für Socialpolitik