Dr. Jasper Meya

Environmental Economist German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

Jasper Meya is an environmental economist and works at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. In search of societal answers to the crisis in the human-nature relationship, he studied economics, political science and mathematics and earned his PhD on "Inequality and the Value of Nature" at Humboldt University Berlin in 2018.

In his research, Jasper Meya investigates ways to more comprehensively take into account the values of biodiversity and natural capital in public decisions. He researches the distributional effects of global environmental change, as well as the distributional effects of policy instruments in the context of ecological transformation. He is co-editor of a special issue on "Inequality and the Environment" at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Jasper Meya is involved in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and is lead author for the Transformation chapter of the German National Biodiversity Assessment. Since 2020, he has held a lectureship in "Climate Policy and Instruments" at the University of Bayreuth. Jasper Meya's research has appeared in leading environmental economics journals and has repeatedly found its way into national and international media coverage.