Justus Wesseler

Justus Wesseler ( born March 25, 1963) is a German agricultural economist and professor of Agriculture and Food Economics at the Technical University of Munich, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan.

Life

Justus Wesseler received his PhD in 1996 in agronomy, economics focus in agricultural, environmental and natural resources at the University of Göttingen. The dissertation dealt with the theme of " The Economics of Introducing Fruit Trees into the Highlands of Northern Luzon, Philippines". In 2000 Wesseler received an appointment as Assistant Professor Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. He was appointed to the status of an associate professor in 2005. 2010 completed a two-month sabbatical at the Wesseler LICOS, Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

In 2011 he received an appointment as Professor of Agriculture and Food Economics, at the Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan at the Technische Universität München.

Justus Wesseler lives in Belgium. He is married and has three children.

Scientific Contributions

Justus Wesseler is known for his research on the economic importance of the bioeconomy. The emphasis is on the importance of sustainability in the evaluation of new technologies and government intervention in the market by using the theory of Real Options. Major contributions are an indicator to measure the sustainability of the use of transgenic plants (Maximum Incremental Social Tolerable Irreversible Costs, MISTICs ), takes into account the uncertainties and potential irreversible costs and benefits of the technology and thus an application of the precautionary principle ( precautionary principle ) in the evaluation permits as well as models for the economic evaluation of coexistence between the cultivation of transgenic and non-transgenic plants.

Scientific experience

Research, education and travel grants, awards

Since 2001 Wesseler worked on a variety of international, mostly multi-year research projects, partly as a project coordinator. These include, among others:

Projects of the European Union:

2012 INBIOSOIL - Innovative biological products for soil pest control AIMS at providing concrete and measurable environmental, social and economic improvements by Developing innovative formula tion and novel eco -efficient technologies using sustainable, environmentally friendly biological control agents ( BCAs ) to control soil borne crop pests as to alternative to Conventional chemical pesticides. 15 partners. http://inbiosoil.uni-goettingen.de/

2011 PRICE - Practical Implementation of Coexistence in Europe. 14 partners. http://price-coexistence.com/

2007 EXIOPOL, A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis, 6th Framework Programme, Priority 6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems.

2007 CASES, Cost Assessment for Sustainable Energy Systems. 6thFramework programs, Priority 6.1.3.2.5, Programe "Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area" Sustainable Energy Systems.

2006 Trans Container, Developing efficient and stable biological containment systems for genetically modified plants, 6th Framework Programme, Priority 5, Food Quality and Food Safety. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_RCN=8820547

2006 DIABR -ACT, Harmonise the strategies for fighting Diabrotica virgifera virgifera. 6th Framework Programme, Area 8.1.B.1.2, tools and assessment methods for sustainable agriculture and forestry management.

2005 RECREATE Restructuring higher education in resource and environmental economics in East - Asian transition economies.

2002 ECOGEN: Soil ecological and economic evaluation of genetically modified crops. 5th Framework, Subject: Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources.

Other research projects, seminars and workshops that Wesseler since 2002 coordinated or in which he took part, came from the German Research Society ( DFG), Nanjing University, Nederlandse Organisatie before Weetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO ), The Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature management and Fisheries, Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate research ( WIMEK ) and other institutions.

Activity in international organizations

Justus Wesseler is a member of the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research ( ICABR ): ( http://www.icabr.org/ ) and co-editor of AgBioForum ( http://www.agbioforum.org/ ). He is instrumental in the introduction of the Master Programme Life Science Economics and Policy ( http://www.mslep.wzw.tum.de/index.php?id=2 ) at the Science Center Weihenstephan of the Technical University Munich.

Publications

  • Beckmann, Volker, Claudio Soregaroli, Justus Wesseler (2006): Co - Existence Rules and Regulations in the European Union. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88 (5) :1193 - 1199th
  • Beckmann, Volker and Justus Wesseler (2007): Spatial Dimension of Externalities and the Coase Theorem: Implications for Coexistence of Transgenic Crops. In Heijman W. (ed. ) Regional Externalities, 215-234. Berlin: Springer.
  • Demont, Matty, Justus Wesseler, Eric Tollens (2004): Biodiversity versus transgenic sugar beets - the one Euro question. European Review of Agricultural Economics 31 ( 1) :1- 18th
  • Wesseler, Justus, Sara Scatasta, Eleonora Nillesen (2007): The Maximum Incremental Social Tolerable Irreversible Costs ( MISTICs ) and other Benefits and Costs of Introducing Transgenic Maize in the EU-15. Pedobiologia 51 ( 3) :261 - 269th
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