On Friday the 10th of February 2023, the first edition of the Dutch Environmental And Resource Economist (DEARE) Day took place. After a successful small-scale workshop in Tilburg in March 2022, this year the event scaled up in size and took place at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, organized by Sacha den Nijs, Gerard van der Meijden…

Yuzhi Yang joined our department in September 2021 to work on a research project about river pollution management, under supervision of Steven Poelhekke and Erik Ansink. Her background is quite unusual: ‘I grew up in a Buddhist shrine, Wutai Mountain in Shanxi province of China. On my eighteenth, I went to Harbin Institute of Technology…

The master Spatial, Transport, and Environmental Economics (usually abbreviated as STREEM) obtained the bronze medal in de EW Beste Studies 2022. This means in fact that STREEM is one of the best Economics Masters, and the best Applied Economics Master. EW Best Studies 2022 analyzed 2,273 bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes. 340 individual programmes at…