PhD course: Behavioural Environmental Economics, 7.5 ECTS
The course aims to provide understanding of topics in environmental and resource economics from a behavioral economics perspective. Participants will learn how to apply theory and research methods to the environmental issues to discover how individuals actually behave.
Start date: 11 August 2025 20:00
End date: 12 September 2025 16:00
Organiser: Department of Forest Economics
Location: Online, Uppsala
Last day of registration: 26 June 2025
The course consists of lectures and student seminars meant to ensure that participants receive feedback related to their research ideas from both the lecturers and the other participants. This popular course, first offered in 2018 (when it received the best PhD course prize from SLU), and then 2019, online in 2021 and again fully online in 2022.The course especially invites graduate (PhD) students who are working on topics in environmental economics from a behavioural economics perspective with an environmental bent. Master students, early career researchers and students from other fields of social sciences are also welcome to participate in the course (subject to availability of space and fulfilling the course pre-requisites).
For any questions related to application and course details, please contact phd-economics@slu.se.
Prerequisites: The course is specifically aimed at PhD students within social sciences, in particular economics. Knowledge in basic microeconomics and good knowledge in English (spoken and written) are vital for participating in the course.