The Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resources Economics (AERNA, www.aerna.org) announces the second edition of the AERNA Awards for the best Master Thesis and the best Ph.D. Thesis defended in Spain or Portugal within the field of Environmental and Resource Economics.
The aim of these awards is to recognize outstanding works of young researchers, contribute to the sensibilization of society to environmental problems and offer possible solutions based on economic approaches.
Participants must meet the two following conditions:
- Authors must have defended their Master Thesis or Ph.D. Thesis in a public or private university in Spain or Portugal in the academic years 2022-2023 or 2023-2024.
- The Master or D. Thesis must be in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics.
Categories and prizes:
– Master Thesis: €400.
– Ph.D. Thesis: €800.
Applications should be sent by email to Angel Bujosa ([email protected]) not later than 25 May, 2025 and should include documents 1 to 4 in PDF format (see below):
- Online application with the personal data of the applicant.
- Document 1: A copy of the Master or Ph.D. Thesis written in English or any of the official languages of Spain and
- Document 2: A summary of the thesis in English (1,000 to 2,000 words) including the motivation for the work, the objectives of the study, the employed methodology (description and justification), and the discussion of the results including a comparison to previous results.
- Document 3: An academic certificate that reflects the author and title of the thesis, the date of the defense, the academic year and the grade obtained.
- Document 4: A short CV.
For any additional information or clarifications please contact [email protected].
Second edition of the AERNA Awards for the best Master Thesis and best PhD Thesis in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics (years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024).
For the category of Best PhD Thesis, a committee formed by Pedro Pintassilgo, UALG, Jordi Josep Teixidó Figueras, UB and Sofia Franco, UCI proposed Iban Ortuzar Fernández as the winner of award for the best Ph.D. thesis. He defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Universitat de Girona under the supervision of Angels Xabadia. The title of the thesis is “Multisectoral Models for Water Management under Droughts and Climate Change”.
The selection committee formed by María Alsina Pujols, ETHZ, Begoña Casino Martínez, UV and Santiago Rubio, UV proposed Isabel De La Puerta Herrera as the winner of award for the best Master thesis. She defended her prize-winning Master thesis within the Master program offered by the University of Cantabria, University of the Basque Country and the University of Oviedo under the supervision of Amaya de Ayala, UPV/EHU. The title of the thesis is “The recreational impact of the Tajogaite volcano eruption in La Palma: an estimation using the Travel Cost Method”.
First edition of the AERNA Awards for the best Master Thesis and best PhD Thesis in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics (years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022).
For the category of Best PhD Thesis, a committee formed by Renan Goetz (chair, U. Girona), Montserrat Villadrich (U. Lleida) and Renato Rosa (U. Coimbra) has reached the unanimous decision (endorsed by the AERNA council). The winner in this category is Francesca Tomori (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) for her PhD Thesis entitled “Environmental Policies in International Markets” and supervised by Dr. Bernd Theilen and Dr. José Manuel Giménez Gómez.
For the category of best Master Thesis, a committee formed by Alexandra Leitão (chair, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa), Nuria Osés Eraso (Universidad Pública de Navarra) and Lennart Vogelsang (University of Graz) has reached the unanimous decision (again endorsed by the AERNA council) to give the award to Tobias Albrecht (Universitat de Barcelona), for his work entitled «Does Decentralization matter for Renewable Energy Sources?”, supervised by Dr. Enrique López-Bazo.