Maria Waldinger

Maria Waldinger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Sustainable Economic Policy, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research focuses on environmental economics, analyzing climate change's economic and political impacts, societal adaptation mechanisms, and disparities in pollution effects. She employs historical and contemporary data to study long-term climate-economy interactions and modern climate movement efficacy.

Research Interests:

• Climate change's economic and political impacts
• Environmental pollution disparities
• Historical climate effects on societies
• Modern climate activism's policy influence
• Equitable adaptation strategies
• EU climate-development policy

Publication Trends span climate economics, historical analysis, and policy evaluation, with recent work on youth-led climate movements, Sub-Saharan Africa's sustainability challenges, and institutional responses to climate change. Her 2025 studies examine public-private adaptation roles and voter-politician-media dynamics.