Podcast. Not everyone who rebels against high petrol prices is a climate denier. The discontent may be about subsidies for expensive electric cars for people living in cities. This is shown by research from the Stockholm School of Economics and Chalmers University of Technology, at the intersection of climate science and economics. Meet Erik Sterner and Thomas Sterner who are studying economic instruments for a just climate transition and how knowledge and attitudes affect the willingness to pay. Both give popular courses at Chalmers, on the theme of climate policy - for both professionals and students.
Erik Sterner has a PhD from the Department of Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology. Thomas Sterner, Erik's father, has been a professor of environmental economics since 1995. Both are employed at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and work closely with Chalmers in both research and teaching.
Here are the courses mentioned in the podcast:
Policymaking for climate action and cirkular economyi
Policymaking for climate and cirkular economy, including course project
Here is the paper: Understanding the resistance to carbon taxes: Drivers and barriers among the general public and fuel-tax protesters
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About Verapodden
In Chalmers Verapodd you will hear personal conversations with researchers, students, teachers and alumni. What are their experiences, driving forces and visions? What becomes of the knowledge from Chalmers?
Project manager: Cecilia Hillman & Maria Saline, Genie
Original music by Stefan Karlsson
Programme manager, technology & editing: Malin Avenius
Producer: Anne-Christine Nordin.
Vera Sandberg became Sweden's first female engineer in 1917. She studied as the only woman among 500 men. Today, Chalmers University of Technology is home to 10 500 students and a third of them are women.
