Environmental Economics

The ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS group translates physical measures and observations into monetary values that can be understood and used by relevant stakeholders. As a member of CMK, the group focuses on  techno-economic, environmental and social assessments of clean technologies, and on the monetary valuation of ecosystem services and nature's contribution to people. A particular focus is placed on improving the evidence-base in these domains to improve decision-making, for example by means of meta-analyses.  The group publishes in leading economic and interdisciplinary journals and is involved in several major international research consortia with funding from EU framework programs and Belgian and Flemish funding sources, among others. It collaborates with leading research institutions around the world.

Recent top publications

• Döbbeling-Hildebrandt, N., Miersch, K., Khanna, T. M., Bachelet, M., Bruns, S. B., Callaghan, M., ... & Minx, J. C. (2024). Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing. Nature Communications, 15(1), 4147.
• Mokas, I., Lizin, S., Brijs, T., Witters, N., & Malina, R. (2021). Can immersive virtual reality increase respondents’ certainty in discrete choice experiments? A comparison with traditional presentation formats. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, 102509.
• Bruns, S. B., Csereklyei, Z., & Stern, D. I. (2020). A multicointegration model of global climate change. Journal of Econometrics, 214(1), 175-197.
• Nobel, A., Lizin, S., Witters, N., Rineau, F., & Malina, R. (2020). The impact of wildfires on the recreational value of heathland: A discrete factor approach with adjustment for on-site sampling. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 101, 102317.
• Rineau, F., Malina, R., Beenaerts, N., Arnauts, N., Bardgett, R. D., Berg, M. P., ... & Vangronsveld, J. (2019). Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments. Nature Climate Change, 9(11), 809-816

List of all publications of Environmental Economics

• dr. Nele Witters -> Valorisation manager at CMK, UHasselt
• Prof. dr. Tom Kuppens -> Professor at VUB and UHasselt on teaching economics
• Prof. dr. Sebastien Lizin -> Professor at UHasselt on environmental economics
• dr. Ellen De Schepper -> Senior manager PMO IT at H. Essers
• dr. Miet Van Dael -> Researcher at VITO; TEA team lead
• dr. Eloi Schreurs -> Finance and accountancy director at OPZ Hospital Geel
• dr. Dries Maes -> Policy advisor at EWI 
• dr. Rob Hoogmartens -> Technology developer castings at Atlas Copco
• dr. Janka Vanschoenwinkel -> Researcher at VITO/Energyville
• Prof. dr. Yann de Mey -> Associate Professor at Wageningen uni  (Netherlands)
• Prof. dr. Frederic Ang -> Associate Professor at Wageningen uni  (Netherlands)
• Prof. dr. Tine Compernolle -> Assistant Professor at UAntwerpen
• dr. Silvie Daniels -> Affiliate faculty member at Oregon State University (United States)
• dr. Katharina Biely -> Postdoc at Wageningen University (Netherlands)
• dr. Parisa Rafiaani -> Sustainability scientist at ETEX
• dr. Gwenny Thomassen -> Postdoc at Ghent University
• dr. Sophie Van Schoubroeck -> Postdoc at UAntwerp
• dr. Bert Lenaerts -> Postdoc at IRRI
• dr. Anne Nobel -> Court of Audits (Netherlands)
• dr. Ilias Mokas -> Senior data scientist at Novo Nordisk (Denmark)
• dr. Alessandro Martulli -> Postdoc at UHasselt
• dr. Hajar Lamhamedi -> Public engagement officer at WUSC (Canada)
• dr. Lise Janssens -> UHasselt staff position
• dr. Rosaly Severijns -> Postdoc at UAntwerp 
• dr. Madina Beckchanova -> Sustainability consultant at the Cornerstone
• dr. Luca Campion -> Climate consultant at Econopolis

• Pieter Fonteyn -> Researcher at VITO
• Jie Yang -> R&D project manager at Umicore

Update: February 2025