Public Lecture: Global Climate Change - Economic Costs, Environmental Hazards and Global Inequality

Speaker

Marija Bočkarjova, Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics
 

Abstract

This lecture is sketching a broad picture of the global climate change and its repercussions for global economy. This picture is enhanced by the overlay of environmental hazards, their global distribution in conjunction with global well-being. An array of damage statistics is used to illustrate the multiple dimension and extent of importance of hazard risk on the global scale. Examples from the US and the Netherlands illustrate different approaches to hazard risk management. We conclude with implications of the global environmental changes for global inequality.   
 

Biography

Marija Bočkarjova is Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics. Marija is engaged in educational and research activities round various topics in environmental economics such as the major natural disasters and their impact on modern economies, energy transition and sustainable transportation, living environment, urban nature-based solutions, economic value and valuation of environmental goods and services.