Environmental and Energy Studies

Environmental Studies: Environmental policy, governance and management. Environmental justice. Environment and security. Sustainable development. Climate change. Environment, markets and democracy. Environment and livelihoods
Energy Studies: Sustainable energy policies and practices including on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Energy governance at the national and global level. Energy security. Future energy scenarios.

Alan Watt

Academic rank: 
Assistant Professor
Position: 
Head of Department
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Ph.D. (Warwick University): Head of Department; environmental philosophy and political theory; academic writing for environmental sciences and policy. I have research interests in the areas of environmental ethics/values and sustainable lifestyles and would be interested in accepting new doctoral students (for 2012-15 intake) with projects in these fields.

Progress report on the establishment of the National Ecological Network in Hungary

Progress report on the establishment of the National Ecological Network in Hungary, Edited by Rozália Érdi. Budapest: National Authority for Nature Protection, Ministry for Environment , 2002.
Unit: 
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Tamara Steger

Academic rank: 
Associate Professor
Position: 
Sustainability Advisory Committee
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

My work is focused on teaching and research that are respectively geared toward innovative student-centered learning and action research useful for understanding and supporting social movements for environmental and social justice. My current research is on the anti-fracking movement and the Occupy movement. The courses that I teach include: Environmental Politics, Qualitative Research Methods, and Theoretical Debates on Environmental Problems. I am a member of the CEU Sustainability Advisory Committee.

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

Academic rank: 
Professor
Position: 
Director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policies (3CSEP)
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP)

Ph.D. (UC Berkeley and UCLA), MSc (ELTE, Budapest):  Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; energy policies for economies in transition; CO2 emission mitigation; climate change policy; EU enlargement and sustainable energy policy.

Ruben Mnatsakanian

Academic rank: 
Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.

Aleksandra Novikova

Position: 
Senior Analyst
Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG)

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany; Lead Author of the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)which has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, 2007; Lead Analyst of the forthcoming Global Energy Assessment (GEA), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Rescue of Sturgeon Species in the Ural River Basin

Rescue of Sturgeon Species in the Ural River Basin In NATO Science for Peace and Security Series: Environmental Security, Edited by V. Lagutov. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.
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Unit: 
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Environmental Systems Laboratory

Making the Case for Environmental Justice in Central and Eastern Europe

Making the Case for Environmental Justice in Central and Eastern Europe, Edited by T. Steger. Budapest and Brussels: Center for Environmental Policy and Law, Environmental Justice Program; Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), 2007.
Unit: 
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
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