As professor of environmental economics in Gothenburg University, Thomas Sterner has, during the last two decades, built up the Unit for Environmental Economics with a staff of about a dozen PhDs and another dozen graduate students. The unit gives a unique PhD program in environmental economics with a large participation of graduate students from developing countries (financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida), masters and undergraduate programs and a large number of other research and teaching activities.
In 2012-2013 he was on sabbatical leave from...