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2025

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39
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7786
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2405
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6

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  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Phoebe Koundouri is affiliated with the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a significant emphasis on economics and econometrics, management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, ocean engineering, and water science and technology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Maritime Ports and Logistics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Koundouri have been:

  • Angelos Alamanos
  • Lydia Papadaki
  • Angelos Plataniotis
  • Ebun Akinsete
  • Conrad Landis

Significant publication venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Frontiers in Environmental Economics
  • The Lancet
  • Frontiers in Water

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • "Assessing the sustainability of the European Green Deal and its interlin kages with the SDGs", 2024, published in npj Climate Action
  • "Can Social Innovation Make a Change in European and Mediterranean Marginalized Areas? Social Innovation Impact Assessment in Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, and Rural Development", 2021, published in Sustainability
  • "Resource management and sustainable development: A review of the European water policies in accordance with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals", 2020, published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • "Lancet COVID-19 Commission Statement on the occasion of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly", 2020, published in The Lancet
  • "The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic", 2022, published in The Lancet

In addition to journal publications, Koundouri has contributed to books published by Springer Nature (Netherlands) and Edward Elgar Publishing. Titles include "The Ocean of Tomorrow" (2020) and "Elgar Encyclopedia of Water Policy, Economics and Management" (2024).

Best Publications

  • Using a choice experiment to account for preference heterogeneity in wetland attributes: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece

    Ekin Birol;Katia Karousakis;Phoebe Koundouri

  • Technology Adoption under Production Uncertainty: Theory and Application to Irrigation Technology

    Phoebe Koundouri;Céline Nauges;Vangelis Tzouvelekas

  • Using economic valuation techniques to inform water resources management : A survey and critical appraisal of available techniques and an application

    Ekin Birol;Katia Karousakis;Phoebe Koundouri

  • Information Transmission in Irrigation Technology Adoption and Diffusion: Social Learning, Extension Services, and Spatial Effects

    Margarita Genius;Phoebe Koundouri;Céline Nauges;Vangelis Tzouvelekas

  • Current issues in the economics of groundwater resource management

    Phoebe Koundouri

  • Valuing the Future

    David Pearce;Ben Groom;Cameron Hepburn;Phoebe Koundouri

  • Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project

    Alícia Navarro-Ortega;Vicenç Acuña;Alberto Bellin;Peter Burek

  • Declining Discount Rates: The Long and the Short of it

    Ben Groom;Cameron Hepburn;Phoebe Koundouri;David Pearce

  • Valuing the future: recent advances in social discounting

    David Pearce;Ben Groom;Cameron J Hepburn;Phoebe Koundouri

  • Environmental Effects on Public Health: An Economic Perspective

    Kyriaki Remoundou;Phoebe Koundouri

  • Groundwater dependent ecosystems. Part II. Ecosystem services and management in Europe under risk of climate change and land use intensification

    Bjørn Kløve;Andrew Allan;Guillaume Bertrand;Elzbieta Druzynska

  • Lancet COVID-19 Commission Statement on the occasion of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly

    Jeffrey D. Sachs;Salim Abdool Karim;Lara Aknin;Joseph Allen

  • Valuation of natural marine ecosystems: an economic perspective

    Kyriaki Remoundou;Phoebe Koundouri;Areti Kontogianni;Paulo A.L.D. Nunes

  • The effects of EU agricultural policy changes on farmers' risk attitudes

    Phoebe Koundouri;Marita Laukkanen;Sami Myyrä;Céline Nauges

  • Potential for groundwater management: Gisser-Sanchez effect reconsidered

    Phoebe Koundouri;Phoebe Koundouri

  • Assessing the economic viability of alternative water resources in water-scarce regions: combining economic valuation, cost-benefit analysis and discounting.

    Ekin Birol;Phoebe Koundouri;Yiannis Kountouris

  • Declining Discount Rates : Economic Justifications and Implications for Long-Run Policy

    Christian Gollier;Phoebe Koundouri;Theologos Pantelidis

  • Valuing a wind farm construction: A contingent valuation study in Greece

    Phoebe Koundouri;Yiannis Kountouris;Kyriaki Remoundou

  • The Story of the Moment: Risk Averse Cypriot Farmers Respond to Drought Management

    Ben Groom;Phoebe Koundouri;Céline Nauges;Alban Thomas

  • Discounting the distant future: How much does model selection affect the certainty equivalent rate?

    Ben Groom;Phoebe Koundouri;Ekaterini Panopoulou;Ekaterini Panopoulou;Theologos Pantelidis

  • Social discounting under uncertainty: a cross-country comparison

    Cameron J Hepburn;Phoebe Koundouri;Ekaterini Panopoulou;Ekaterini Panopoulou;Theologos Pantelidis

  • Output Substitution in Multi-Species Trawl Fisheries: Implications for Quota Setting

    Sean Pascoe;Trond Bjorndal;Phoebe Koundouri;Phoebe Koundouri

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred A. Lange
Manfred A. Lange Cyprus Institute
Paulo A. L. D. Nunes
Paulo A. L. D. Nunes Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell
Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell Middlesex University
Sean Pascoe
Sean Pascoe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Bjørn Kløve
Bjørn Kløve University of Oulu
Lara B. Aknin
Lara B. Aknin Simon Fraser University
Kasper Kok
Kasper Kok Wageningen University & Research
Peter J. Hotez
Peter J. Hotez Baylor College of Medicine
Maria Elena Bottazzi
Maria Elena Bottazzi Baylor College of Medicine
Andy Haines
Andy Haines London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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