Vita

Dr. Katharina Hembach-Stunden studied economics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (B. Sc.) and at Hamburg University (M. Sc.). Subsequently she pursued her doctorate in behavioural environmental economics at Osnabrück University. In her research, she analysed how climate change and the destruction of ecosystems influence local resource management and decision-making in groups.

Since December 2022, Katharina Hembach-Stunden is working in the Energy and Climate department at GWS mbH. Her research focus and interests include the economic effects of climate change adaptation and mitigation and the clean energy transition.

As part of the Service Centre for Industrial Transformation in the Regions project, she is involved in the design and creation of key regional economic indicators for location analyses in the context of industrial transformation for the Economic and Social Department at GWS mbH.

Research Interests

Environmental and energy economics

Impact assessment of climate change and climate adaptation

International trade and supply chains

Energy transition

Publications of Katharina Hembach-Stunden

Stöver, B., Fehnker, D., Hembach-Stunden, K. & Ulrich, P. (2026): Same Same but Different: Similarities and Differences in Regional Conditions for the Energy and Heating Transition. GWS-Kurzmitteilung 2/2026, Osnabrück.
Hembach-Stunden, K., Stöver, B. & Ulrich, P. (2025): Transformation der Wärmeversorgung – modellgestützte Analyse mit PANTA RHEI. GWS Discussion Paper 2025/ 2, Osnabrück.
Ulrich, P., Hembach-Stunden, K., Stöver, B. & Distelkamp, M. (2025): The new RIMES model – input-output tables and a scenario framework at the German district level. GWS Research Report 2025/ 2, Osnabrück.
Löckener, R., Ulrich, P., Becker, L., Hembach-Stunden, K., Sundmacher, J. & Timmer, B. (2025): Energiewende in Baden‑Württemberg – neue Herausforderungen für Beschäftigung, Fachkräfte und Qualifizierung. Forschungsförderung Working Paper Nr. 377, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf.
Lutz, C., Becker, L., Hembach-Stunden, K., Ulrich, P. & Kenkel, L. (2025): Welche gesamtwirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen hat die Strompreissenkung um 5 Cent je Kilowattstunde? GWS-Kurzmitteilung 5/2025, Osnabrück.
Hembach-Stunden, K., Banning, M., Becker, L., Lutz, C., Matschoss, P., Klann, U. & Horst, J. (2024): Future Installation, Production and Global Trade of Clean Energy Technologies. Sustainability 2024, 16(23), 10482, https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310482
Hembach-Stunden, K., Vorlaufer, T. & Engel, S. (2024): Threshold ambiguity and sustainable resource management: A lab experiment. Ecological Economics 226, December 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108353.
Hembach-Stunden, K., Vorlaufer, T. & Engel, S. (2024): False and missed alarms in seasonal forecasts affect individual adaptation choices. Q Open, 2024, 4, 1–22.
Ulrich, P., Hembach-Stunden, K., Stöver, B., Ragnitz, J., Kremer, A., Landsberger. A. & Nitschke, R. (2024): Chancen und Risiken von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen für die Sächsische Wirtschaft. Hrsg.: Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie (LfULG), Dresden.
Többen, J., Banning, M., Hembach-Stunden, K., Stöver, B., Ulrich, P. & Schwab, T. (2023): Energising EU Cohesion. Powering up lagging regions in the renewable energy transition. Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh.
Banning, M., Becker, L., Hembach-Stunden, K., Horst, J., Klann, U., Lutz, C. & Matschoss, P. (2023): Zentrale Technologien und Länder der globalen grünen Transformation. Methoden und Analysen vor dem Hintergrund des „Low Carbon Leakage“-Risikos. GWS Research Report 2023/07, Osnabrück.
Hembach-Stunden, K. (2022): Collective action and individual adaptation in natural resource management under the threat of ecosystem change: Insights from economic experiments. Dissertation. Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück, DOI: 10.48693/262, Osnabrück.