Environmental and Energy Studies

It is our pleasure to announce that Yuliya Voytenko's (graduated in 2010) PhD dissertation has been published as a book by Lambert Academic Publishing.

It is available for purchase on amazon.com

Book title and its short description.

Bioenergy in Ukraine: Sustainable pathways for agro-bioenergy development

We are proud to share the following three publications of our doctoral program graduate, Yuliya Voytenko:

Organisational frameworks for straw-based energy systems in Sweden and Denmark - co-authored with Philip Peck

Organization of straw-to-energy systems in Ukraine and Scandinavia - co-authored with with Philip Peck

Pathways for agro-bioenergy transition in Ukraine - authored by Yuliya Voytenko

On 15th February 2012, the Department of Environmental Science & Policy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC), which will promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of wildlife through the joint work of CIC and the Department. After brief talks by Prof. Brandon Anthony (CEU), Mr. Tamas Marghescu (CIC Director General) and Mr.

We are delighted to inform you that the award winners for the Advanced Doctoral studies award from our department are:

Jessica Jewell

We are delighted that Johan Liliestam has won the Academic Achievement Award for First-Year Doctoral Students.

Jessica Jewell, MESPOM Alumnus and CEU PhD student, helped the International Energy Agency (IEA) develop a novel MOdel of Short-term Energy Security (MOSES). MOSES is different from most of the existing energy security studies; it combines some 30 quantitative indicators in a transparent and policy-relevant way to describe different configurations of risk factors and resilience capacities.

PhD Student, Johan Lilliestam won 1st prize of the Desertec award with research fellow Saskia Ellenbeck

Title of the winning journal article: "Energy security and renewable electricity trade—Will Desertec make Europe vulnerable to the ‘‘energy weapon’’?

Johan Lilliestam,

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegrafenberg A31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria

Diane A. Matar, 1st Year PhD Student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy is a top-tier winner of the IRF-WCPA Young Conservationist Award for 2011: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/diane_matar.pdf 

The Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in cooperation with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, The Integrated Assessment Society, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and  with EC Tempus project "EnGo – Environmental Governance for Environmental Curricula", announce summer school "Adaptive Thinking for Navigating the Anthropocene" (Budapest, June 25 - July 6, 2012).