Center for Ecology and Economics (CEE)

The primary objective of the Center for Ecological Economics (CEE) is to contribute to the improvement of knowledge, understanding, and prediction needed to allow various communities, including policy makers to assess, anticipate, and respond to changes of human welfare due to anthropogenic and natural change in the atmosphere.

In order to contribute to this objective, CEE undertakes studies that address the development and application of methods relating the changes of air concentrations of various chemicals to the changes of concentrations in other environmental compartments and the socio-economic effects of these changes to various ecosystems and human health. Scenarios of future human activity are used to develop future changes of concentrations and the health of environment and humans. Monetary valuation methods are developed to assess the environmental benefits from the concentration changes and the cost of action for these changes to occur. These studies require CEE to expand NILUs expertise in traditional atmospheric disciplines and a multidisciplinary team of scientists is needed.
CEE is also engaged in science communication through projects on integration and synthesis of research outcomes and disseminating these outcomes to policy makers and public.

The CEE research themes can be summarized as follows:
1.    Anthropogenic and natural drivers and their pressures on atmospheric composition
2.    Implications of atmospheric change for aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
3.    Implications of atmospheric change for human welfare: health risk evaluation
4.    Towards further development of ecosystem based management approach
 

Jozef Pacyna is director of the center (CEE)

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