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Gunnar Köhlin
Senior Lecturer
Department of EconomicsAbout Gunnar Köhlin
As co-founder of the Environemntal Economics Unit (EEU) I have now spent 20 years working with applications of environmental economics in developing countries. I am currently director of the Environment for Development initiative (EfD), which contributes to poverty alleviation and sustainable development through increased use of environmental economics in developing countries. My research interests focus on environmental resources, development economics and in particular the interface between the two. Methodologically I have a focus on non-market valuation techniques, household production models and broad reviews of existing literature. The applications have been focusing on evaluation of forest interventions in India and Ethiopia. This interest led to a series of papers on domestic energy demand, particularly focusing on India. Currently, my research is focusing on sustainable natural resource management in Africa, particularly adoption of soil conservation and the impacts on productivity in Ethiopia.
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Research areas
- management of natural resources in developing countries
- environmental valuation
- impact evaluation
- energy economics
- sustainable development
Teaching areas
- Environmental valuation
- Natural resource management
- Cost Benefit Analysis
Selected publications
Woodfuels, livelihoods and policy interventions
Arnold, J.E. Michael, Köhlin, Gunnar, Arnold, M., Persson, R.
World Development, 34:3, s. 596-611, 2006
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Low-Income Countries
Di Falco, S., Yesuf, Mahmud, Köhlin, Gunnar, Ringler, C.
Environmental & Resource Economics, 52:4, s. 457-478, 2012
Adoption and disadoption of electric cookstoves in urban Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas, Hassen, Sied, Köhlin, Gunnar
Resources and Energy Economics, 38, s. 110-124, 2014
Fuelwood, Forests and Community Management - Evidence from household studies
Cooke-St. Clair, P.C., Köhlin, Gunnar, Hyde, William F.
Environment and Development Economics, 13, s. 103-135, 2008
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Perceptions of the seriousness of major public health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic in seven middle-income
countries
Thomas Sterner, Richard T. Carson, Michael Hanemann, Gunnar Köhlin, Wiktor Adamowicz, Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, Francisco Alpizar, Emily A. Khossravi, Marc Jeuland, Jorge A. Bonilla, Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, Pham Khanh Nam, Simon Wagura Ndiritu, Shivani Wadehra, Martin Julius Chegere, Julius Chegere, Nnaemeka Andegbe Chukwuone, Dale Whittington
Communications Medicine - 2023 -
Decision-making within the household: The role of division of labor and differences in
preferences
Yonas Alem, Sied Hassen, Gunnar Köhlin
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization - 2023 -
Peter Berck’s Contribution to the Environment for Development Initiative and Sustainable
Development
Gunnar Köhlin, Cyndi Berck
Natural Resource Management and Policy - 2023 -
Allocative efficiency or misallocation of resources? The emergence of forestland rental markets and the forest devolution reform in
China
Y. Y. Yi, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin, J. T. Xu
European Review of Agricultural Economics - 2023 -
The SDG 8 Dilemma: How
the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg is taking action on this
front
Gunnar Köhlin, Marie Stenseke, Jenni Strömstad
Global Focus: the E F M D business magazine - 2022 -
Land rights and the economic impacts of climatic anomalies on agriculture: evidence from
Ethiopia
M. Bezabih, S. Di Falco, A. Mekonnen, Gunnar Köhlin
Environment and Development Economics - 2021 -
COVID-19 and handwashing: Implications for water use in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, Rebecca Afua Klege, Philip Kofi Adom, Gunnar Köhlin
Water Resources and Economics - 2021 -
Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income
countries
M. Jeuland, T. R. Fetter, Y. Li, S. K. Pattanayak, F. Usmani, R. A. Bluffstone, C. Chávez, H. Girardeau, S. Hassen, P. Jagger, M. M. Jaime, M. Karumba, Gunnar Köhlin, L. Lenz, E. L. Litzow, L. Masatsugu, M. A. Naranjo, J. Peters, P. Qin, R. D. Ruhinduka, M. Serrano-Medrano, M. Sievert, E. O. Sills, M. Toman
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews - 2021 -
Recipe for a green recovery: Carbon
taxes
Ira Dorband, Gunnar Köhlin, Thomas Sterner, J Steckel
Foresight Africa 2021 - 2021 -
Preventing Peatland Fires in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: The Role of Economic Incentives and Social
Norms
Yuki Yamamoto, Kenji Takeuchi, Gunnar Köhlin
JOURNAL OF FOREST ECONOMICS - 2020 -
Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Tenure
Security
Z. Gebreegziabher, A. Mekonnen, M. Kassie, Gunnar Köhlin
Land Use Policy - 2020 -
Decision-Making in a Water Crisis: Lessons From the Cape Town Drought for Urban Water
Policy
Johanna Brühl, Leonard Le Roux, Martine Visser, Gunnar Köhlin
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science - 2020 -
Funding Inclusive Green Transition through Greenhouse Gas
Pricing
Thomas Sterner, Richard T. Carson, Marc Hafstead , Peter Howard, Sverker C. Jagers, Gunnar Köhlin, Ian Parry, Ryan Rafaty, E. Somanatan, Jan Christoph Steckel, Dale Whittington, Francisco Alpizar, Stefan Ambec, Claudia Aravena, Jorge Bonilla, Reza Che Daniels, Jorge Garcia, Niklas Harring, Kanishka Kacker, Suzi Kerr, Haileselassie Medhin, German Romero, Pham Khanh Nam, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Mike Toman, Jintao Xu, Min Wang
ifo DICE Report - 2020 -
Property Rights, Land Disputes and Water Scarcity: Empirical Evidence from
Ethiopia
S. Di Falco, J. Laurent-Lucchetti, M. Veronesi, Gunnar Köhlin
American Journal of Agricultural Economics - 2020 -
On the Use of Market Based Instruments to Reduce Air Pollution in
Asia
Jessica Coria, Gunnar Köhlin, Jintao Xu
Sustainability - 2019 -
Rain and impatience: Evidence from rural
Ethiopia
S. Di Falco, P. Berck, M. Bezabih, Gunnar Köhlin
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization - 2019 -
Policy design for the
Anthropocene
Thomas Sterner, Edward B. Barbier, Ian Bateman, Inge van den Bijgaart, Anne Sophie Crépin, Ottmar Edenhofer, Carolyn Fischer, Wolfgang Habla, John Hassler, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Andreas Lange, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Henrik G. Smith, Will Steffen, Gernot Wagner, James E. Wilen, Francisco Alpízar, Christian Azar, Donna Carless, Carlos Chávez, Jessica Coria, Gustav Engström, Sverker C. Jagers, Gunnar Köhlin, Åsa Löfgren, Håkan Pleijel, Amanda Robinson
Nature Sustainability - 2019 -
Climate change adaptation: a study of multiple climate-smart practices in the Nile Basin of
Ethiopia
H. Teklewold, A. Mekonnen, Gunnar Köhlin
Climate and Development - 2019 -
The distributive effect and food security implications of biofuels investment in Ethiopia: A CGE
analysis
Z. Gebreegziabher, A. Mekonnen, T. Ferede, F. Guta, J. Levin, Gunnar Köhlin, T. Alemu, L. Bohlin
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Food Security in a Changing Environment - 2018 -
Decision-making within the Household: The Role of Autonomy and Differences in
Preferences
Yonas Alem, Sied Hassen, Gunnar Köhlin
2018 -
DOES ADOPTION OF MULTIPLE CLIMATE-SMART PRACTICES IMPROVE FARMERS' CLIMATE RESILIENCE? EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE NILE BASIN OF
ETHIOPIA
H. Teklewold, A. Mekonnen, Gunnar Köhlin, S. Di Falco
Climate Change Economics - 2017 -
Does purchase price matter for the waiting time to start using energy efficient technologies: Experimental evidence from rural
Ethiopia?
S. Hassen, Gunnar Köhlin
Energy Economics - 2017 -
Thanks but no thanks: A new policy to reduce land
conflict
Martin Dufwenberg, Gunnar Köhlin, Haileselassie Medhin, Peter Martinsson
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management - 2016 -
In search of double dividends from climate change interventions evidence from forest conservation and household energy
transitions
Gunnar Köhlin, Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Erin Sills, Eskil Mattsson, Madelene Ostwald, Ariana Salas, Daniel Ternald
2016 -
DN Debatt: Inga belägg för att ambitiös klimatpolitik ger minskad
tillväxt
Thomas Sterner, Gunnar Köhlin
Dagens Nyheter - 2015 -
Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit
Approach
Yonas Alem, Abebe D. Beyene, Gunnar Köhlin, Alemmu Mekonnen
2015 -
Pricing carbon: The
challenges
Thomas Sterner, Gunnar Köhlin
Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime. Edited by Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro and Jaime de Melo. - 2015 -
The Impact of Food Price Inflation on Subjective Well-being: Evidence From Urban
Ethiopia
Yonas Alem, Gunnar Köhlin
Social Indicators Research - 2014 -
Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land
Conflict
Martin Dufwenberg, Gunnar Köhlin, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin
2014 -
Property rights, tenure security and forest investment incentives: evidence from China's Collective Forest Tenure
Reform
Yuanyuan Yi, Gunnar Köhlin, Jintao Xu
Environment and Development Economics - 2014 -
Adoption and disadoption of electric cookstoves in urban Ethiopia: Evidence from panel
data
Yonas Alem, Sied Hassen, Gunnar Köhlin
Resources and Energy Economics - 2014 -
The Environment for Development Initiative: lessons learned in research, academic capacity building and policy intervention to manage resources for sustainable
growth
Thomas Sterner, Yonas Alem, F. Alpizar, C. S. Berck, C. A. C. Rebolledo, J. Dikgang, S. Kirama, Gunnar Köhlin, J. Mariara-Kabubo, A. Mekonnen, J. T. Xu
Environment and Development Economics - 2014 -
The persistence of subjective poverty in urban
Ethiopia
Yonas Alem, Gunnar Köhlin, Jesper Stage
World Development - 2014 -
Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Avoid Land
Conflict
Martin Dufwenberg, Gunnar Köhlin, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin
2013 -
Tenure and forest management in India: Impacts on equity and efficiency of van panchayats in
Uttarakhand
A. Datta, Gunnar Köhlin
Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management / editors: Stein T. Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, Klaus Deininger - 2013 -
Cropping system diversification, conservation tillage and modern seed adoption in Ethiopia: Impacts on household income, agrochemical use and demand for
labor
Hailemariam Teklewold, Menale Kassie, bekele shiferaw, Gunnar Köhlin
Ecological Economics - 2013 -
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from
Ethiopia
Yonas Alem, Sied Hassen, Gunnar Köhlin
2013 -
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban
Ethiopia
Yonas Alem, Gunnar Köhlin, Jesper Stage
2012 -
Life Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: Trends and
determinants
Yonas Alem, Gunnar Köhlin
2012 -
Strategies to Adapt to Climate Change and Farm Productivity in the Nile basin of
Ethiopia
Salvatore Di Falco, Gunnar Köhlin, Mahmud Yesuf
Climate Change Economics - 2012 -
Urban energy transition and technology adoption: The case of Tigrai, northern
Ethiopia
Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, Gunnar Köhlin
Energy Economics - 2012 -
Capacity Building to Deal With Climate Challenges Today and in the
Future
Thomas Sterner, Maria Damon, Gunnar Köhlin, Martine Visser
Journal of Environment & Development - 2012 -
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Low-Income Countries: Household Level Evidence from the Nile Basin,
Ethiopia
S. Di Falco, Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Köhlin, C. Ringler
Environmental & Resource Economics - 2012 -
Trust, Tenure Insecurity, and Land Certification in Rural
Ethiopia
Mintewab Bezabih, Gunnar Köhlin, Andrea Mannberg
Journal of Socio-Economics - 2011 -
Agricultural Investment and Productivity - Building Sustainability in East
Africa
Gunnar Köhlin, R. Bluffstone
2011 -
Conclusions and Key
Lessons
R. Bluffstone, Gunnar Köhlin
Agricultural Investment and Productivity - Building Sustainability in East Africa (eds. R. Bluffstone and G. Köhlin) - 2011 -
Soil Conservation and Small Scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia: A Stochastic Metafrontier
Approach
Haileselassie Medhin, Gunnar Köhlin
Agricultural Investment and Productivity - Building Sustainability in East Africa (eds. R. Bluffstone and G. Köhlin) - 2011 -
Agricultural Production in East Africa: Stagnation, Investment and
Poverty
R. Bluffstone, Gunnar Köhlin
Agricultural Investment and Productivity - Building Sustainability in East Africa (eds. R. Bluffstone and G. Köhlin) - 2011 -
Are Soil Conservation Technologies "Win-Win? A case study of Anjeni in the north-western Ethiopian
highlands
Menale Kassie, Gunnar Köhlin, S. Holden
Natural Resources Forum - 2011 -
Risk preferences as determinants of soil conservation decisions in
Ethiopia
Hailemariam Teklewold, Gunnar Köhlin
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation - 2011 -
Climate Change Policy in Africa with Special Reference to Energy and Land
Use
Gunnar Köhlin, A. Mekonnen, Lisa Westholm
Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research - 2011 -
The Economics of Sustainable Land Management Practices in the Ethiopian
Highlands
Menale Kassie, Precious Zikhali, J. Pender, Gunnar Köhlin
Journal of Agricultural Economics - 2010 -
Farmers' Choice between Public Goods and Agricultural Extension Packages in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference
Analysis
Alemu Mekonnen, Mahmud Yesuf, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin
Bennett, J. and E. Birol (eds.): Choice Experiments in Developing Countries. Implementation, Challenges and Policy Implications - 2010 -
Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and
Determinants
Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, Gunnar Köhlin
2010 -
How can emissions from fuelwood be
reduced?
O. Hofstad, Gunnar Köhlin, J. Namaalwa
Angelsen, A, M. Brockhaus, M. Kanninen, E. Sills, W.D. Sunderlin, S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff (eds.): Realising REDD+: National strategy and policy options - 2010 -
Biomass Fuel Consumption and Dung Use as Manure - Evidence from Rural Households in the Amrahara Region of
Ethiopia
Alemu Mekonnen, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
Risk Implications of Farm Technology Adoption in the Ethiopian
Highlands
Mahmud Yesuf, Menale Kassie, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
The Role of Production Risk in Sustainable Land-Management Technology Adoption in the Ethiopian
Highlands
Menale Kassie, Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology
Matter?
Menale Kassie, Precious Zikhali, John Pender, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
The Role of Soil Conservation on Mean Crop Yield and Variance of Yield - Evidence from the Ethiopian
Highlands
Menale Kassie, John Pender, Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Köhlin, Elias Mulugeta
2009 -
Economics of Soil Conservation Adoption in High-Rainfall Areas of the Ethiopian
Highlands
Menale Kassie, Stein Holden, Gunnar Köhlin, Randy Bluffstone
2009 -
Soil Conservation and Small-Scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia A Stochastic Metafrontier
Approach
Haileselassie A. Medhin, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions - A Case Study from the Highlands of
Ethiopia
Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
Estimating Returns to Soil and Water Conservation Investments - An Application to Crop Yield in
Kenya
Wilfred Nyangena, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
Determinants of Household Fuel Choice in Major Cities in
Ethiopia
Alemu Mekonnen, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of
elephants
Edwin Muchapondwa, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
The Value of Time saved due to community plantations in developing countries: The case of the Orissa Social Forestry
Project
Gunnar Köhlin
2009 -
Production risk impact on agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from the Ethiopian
highlands
Menale Kassie, M. Yesuf, Gunnar Köhlin
The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 16th Annual Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2008 - 2008 -
Organic Farming Technologies and Agricultural Productivity: The case of Semi-Arid
Ethiopia
Menale Kassie, Precious Zikhali, John Pender, Gunnar Köhlin
2008 -
Estimating returns to soil conservation adoption in the northern Ethiopian
highlands
Menale Kassie, M. Pender, Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Köhlin, R. Bluffstone, E. Mulugeta
Agricultural Economics - 2008 -
Wildlife management in Zimbabwe: Evidence from a contingent valuation
study
Edwin Muchapondwa, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin
South African Journal of Economics - 2008 -
Fuel Demand Elasticities for Energy and Environmental Policies: Indian sample survey
evidence
Haripriya Gundimeda, Gunnar Köhlin
Energy Economics - 2008 -
Fuelwood, Forests and Community Management - Evidence from household
studies
P.C. Cooke-St. Clair, Gunnar Köhlin, William F. Hyde
Environment and Development Economics - 2008 -
Aspects of Land Degradation in Lagging Regions: Extent, Driving Forces, Responses, and Further Research with Special Reference to
Ethiopia
Gunnar Köhlin
Agriculture and Development, G Kochendorfer-Lucius, B Pleskovic, editors - 2008 -
Woodfuels, livelihoods and policy interventions: Changing
perspectives
M. Arnold, Gunnar Köhlin, R. Persson
World Development - 2006 -
Preferences for domestic fuel: Analysis with socio-economics factors and rankings in Kolkata,
India
G. Gupta, Gunnar Köhlin
Ecological Economics - 2006 -
Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want? A Stated Preference
Analysis
Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin, Alemu Mekonnen, Mahmud Yesuf
2005 -
Welfare Implications of Community Forest Plantations in Developing Countries: The Orissa social forestry
project
Gunnar Köhlin, Gregory S. Amacher
American Journal of Agricultural Economics - 2005 -
Contingent valuation of community plantations in Ethiopia: a look into value elicitation formats and intra-household preference
variations
Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin, Alemu Mekonnen
2004 -
Fuelwood Revisited: What has changed in the last
decade?
Gunnar Köhlin, M. Arnold, R. Persson, G. Shephard
2003 -
Fuelwood - Crisis or
Balance?
Gunnar Köhlin
Workshop proceedings edited by G. Köhlin. Workshop at Göteborg University, 2003 - 2003 -
A Fuelwood Crisis: Where and for
whom?
Gunnar Köhlin, Priscilla Cooke St Clair, William Hyde
Published in G. Köhlin (ed.), Fuelwood - Crisis or Balance? Proceedings from workshop at Göteborg University, 2003 - 2003 -
What Do We Know About the Fuelwood Scenario in
India?
Gunnar Köhlin, Haripriya Gundimeda
Published in G. Köhlin (ed.), Fuelwood - Crisis or Balance? Proceedings from workshop at Göteborg University, 2003 - 2003 -
Environmental Taxes in
Europe
Thomas Sterner, Gunnar Köhlin
Public Finance and Management - 2003 -
Impact of Plantations on Forest Use and Forest Status in Orissa,
India
Gunnar Köhlin, Madelene Ostwald
Ambio - 2001 -
Contingent Valuation in Project Planning and Evaluation: The case of social forestry in Orissa,
India
Gunnar Köhlin
Environment and Development Economics - 2001 -
Spatial Variability and Disincentives to Harvest: Deforestation and fuelwood collection in South
Asia
Gunnar Köhlin, Peter J. Parks
Land Economics - 2001 -
Politicera inte
katastrofbiståndet
Madelene Ostwald, Gunnar Köhlin
Göteborgs Posten - 2000 -
Spatial Variability and Incentives to Harvest: Deforestation and Fuelwood Collection in South
Asia
Gunnar Köhlin
2000 -
Social Forestry
Reconsidered
Gunnar Köhlin, William F. Hyde
Silva Fennica - 1999 -
The Value of Social Forestry in Orissa,
India
Gunnar Köhlin
1998 -
Capacity Building of Environmental Economics in Developing Countries - Synthesis of Experience
Workshop
Gunnar Köhlin
1996 -
Approaches to valuation of the Orissa Social Forestry
Project
Gunnar Köhlin
1995 -
Comparison of Methods for Valuation of Social Forestry Projects: Cases from Orissa,
India
Gunnar Köhlin
1994 -
Sustainability, Deforestation and Policies in
Africa
Gunnar Köhlin
Economic Policies for Sustainable Development - 1994 -
The Political Economy of
Evaluation
Gunnar Köhlin, Anders Ekbom, Jerker Carlsson
1994 -
Sustainability, Deforestation and Policy Implications for
Africa
Gunnar Köhlin
1993 -
Natural resource accounting : a survey of techniques, problems and some recent studies in developing
countries
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Strukturanpassningsprogrammens effekter på miljön - en skiss över möjliga
samband
Gunnar Köhlin, Lena Höglund
1993 -
Making the rich pay for the global
environment
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Economic Valuation of the Environment in Developing Countries: A Review of Methods and Case
Studies
Gunnar Köhlin
1992 -
Disaster Prevention in Wollo: The effects of
food-for-work
Gunnar Köhlin
1987