Research

  • Research Lines

    1. Coastal and Marine Economy

    This research area studies the economics of pollution, the economics of natural resources, and environmental valuation methods, focusing on the coastal and marine environment. Topics studied include: the economics of climate change, public policies for the sea, the use and conservation of biodiversity, economic assessment of environmental and human impacts, exploitation of natural resources, economic studies of productive sectors (oil, gas, fishing, and tourism), and economic analyses of the impacts of policies consolidating naval and port hubs on the country's coastal and marine development.

     

    This program has 8 teaching professors who work directly in it, who are:

    a) Andre Filipe Zago De Azevedo (permanent)
    b) Cassius Rocha de Oliveira (collaborator)
    c) Fábio Luiz Vargas Machado (collaborator)
    d) Gibran da Silva Teixeira (permanent)
    e) Patrizia Raggi Abdallah (permanent)
    f) Pedro Henrique Soares Leivas (permanent)
    g) Rodrigo da Rocha Gonçalves (permanent)
    h) Vinícius Halmenschlager (permanent)

     

     

    2. Welfare Economics

    This line of research covers topics involving societal problems that are directly or indirectly associated with issues of economic and social efficiency. The work developed in this line of research presents discussions on topics such as: (i) security, (ii) poverty, (iii) labor market, (iv) health, (v) environmental and natural resource economics, and (vi) sustainable regional development.

     

    This program has 7 teaching professors who work directly in it, who are:

    a) Cristiano Aguiar de Oliveira (permanent)
    b) Eduardo André Tillmann (permanent)
    c) Jorge Alberto Orellana Aragon (permanent)
    d) Rafael Mesquita Pereira (permanent)
    e) Ricardo Aguirre Leal (permanent)
    f) Tiarajú Alves de Freitas (permanent)
    g) Vivian dos Santos Queiroz (permanent)

  • Research Groups

    The PPGE has two research groups:      

     

    1 - Unidade de Pesquisa em Economia Costeira e Marinha (UPEC) - Research Unit in Coastal and Marine Economics: https://upec.furg.br/pt/   

    2- Núcleo de Economia Regional, Urbana e Ambiental (NERUA) - Center for Regional, Urban, and Environmental Economics: https://nerua.furg.br/