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Christian Kerschner is a PhD student in Ecological Economics, interested principally in resource scarcities and general issues of economic scale. He started his academic formation with an MA in Business and Economics at the University of Vienna. He read two of this four-year course in England: first at the University of Reading and then at Westminster University. In his master thesis he analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the steady-state economy (SSE) as a policy option for sustainability. In 2006 he received a Masters degree in Ecological Economics from ICTA, after having spent 7 months at the University of Leeds as a Marie Curie Fellow. In his thesis he studied the potentials of using Input-Output (IO) Analysis for assessing resource scarcities (Peak Oil). He his now approaching the successful completion of his PhD thesis – also at ICTA. Therein he continues to explore different alternative models within IO analysis, with ideas he brought back from his 4 month research stays at the University of Groningen (NL) and Leeds (UK). Moreover he recently published an influential article consolidating the SSE with the newly emerging field of economic de-growth. Finally, together with a colleague from the University of York, he is currently using online questionnaires for testing a framework for analyzing attitudes towards technology.
Research Interests: Peak-Oil, Input-Output Analysis, Steady-State / degrowth economy, ecological economics theory, attitudes towards technology,
Selected Publications:
Kerschner, C. and K. Hubacek (2009). “Assessing the suitability of input-output analysis for enhancing our understanding of potential economic effects of Peak Oil.” Energy 34(3): 284-290.
Kerschner, C. (2010). “Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy.” Journal of Cleaner Production 18(6): 544-551.
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