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B.Sc. Environmental Sciences and B.Sc. Forestry and Environment (both in German)
Course | Lecturer | Language | Format | Cycle |
Einführung in Geschichte, Politik, Ökonomie | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf |
deutsch | V+Üb | WS |
Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung natürlicher Ressourcen | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf |
deutsch | V+Üb | SS |
Resilienz und Kollaps ökologisch-ökonomischer Systeme | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner | deutsch | Sem | SS |
M.Sc. Environmental Sciences und M.Sc. Forest Sciences (German and English)
Course | Lecturer | Language | Format | Cycle |
Umweltökonomie | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf |
deutsch | V+Üb | WS |
Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain |
english | Lecture + Workgroup | WS |
Experimental Sustainability Economics | Dr. Stephan Wolf | english | Seminar | WS |
Aktuelle Themen der Umweltökonomie und des Ressourcenmanagements/ Current Topics in Environmental Economics and Resource Management |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf, Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain, Yuki Henselek |
deutsch, english | WS, SS |
M.Sc. Environmental Governance (English)
Course | Lecturer | Language | Format | Cycle |
Economy, Environment and Institutions | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf, Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain |
english | Lecture + Tutorial | SS |
Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain |
english | Lecture + Workgroup | WS |
M.Sc. Renewable Energy Engineering and Management (English)
Course | Lecturer | Language | Format | Cycle |
Scientific Frameworks of REM – Economics | Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain | english | Lecture + Tutorial | WS |
Renewable Energy Economics | Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain | english | Lecture + Tutorial | SS |
Project | Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner | english | WS, SS |
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Here you find detailed course decsriptions of all the courses taught at the Chair of Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management.
Einführung in Geschichte, Politik, Ökonomie | |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf | |
WS / Vorlesung + Übung / B.Sc. | |
Die Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie untersucht, wie gesamtwirtschaftliche System von natürlichen Ressourcen abhängen und umgekehrt die natürliche Umwelt beeinflussen. Leitbild ist der effiziente, d.h. nicht-verschwenderische Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen und ihren menschengemachten Substituten und Komplementen. In dieser einführenden Veranstaltung behandeln wir u.a. die folgenden Themen:
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Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung natürlicher Ressourcen | |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf | |
SS / Vorlesung + Übung / B.Sc. | |
Die Bestände erneuerbarer und nicht-erneuerbarer natürlicher Ressourcen wie z.B. Wald, Fische, fruchtbarer Boden, Öl, Kohle, mineralische Erze etc. sind eine wesentliche Quelle menschlichen Wohlergehens („Naturkapital“). Sie sind daher seit jeher von Menschen gezielt genutzt, und teilweise übernutzt worden. Umgekehrt werden durch mensch¬liche Produktion und Konsum auch natürliche Ressourcenbestände beeinflusst oder neue, nützliche wie schädliche Bestände geschaffen, wie z.B. Bestände an physischem oder Human-Kapital, aber auch CO2 oder Atommüll.
Es gibt kein Lehrbuch für die Veranstaltung als Ganze. Literatur wird in der Veranstaltung zu jedem Kapitel einzeln bekannt gegeben. |
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Grundkenntnisse (Umwelt-)Ökonomie | |
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Resilienz und Kollaps ökologisch-ökonomischer Systeme | |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner | |
SS / Sem / B.Sc. | |
Resilienz bezeichnet die Fähigkeit eines Systems, seine wesentlichen Strukturen und Funktionen auch unter Störungen und Stress aufrecht zu erhalten. Für die nachhaltige Entwicklung ökologisch-ökonomischer Systeme unter Bedingungen großer Unsicherheit und dynamischen Wandels ist die Erhaltung ihrer Resilienz eine Schlüsselvoraussetzung: Wie können wirtschaftlich genutzte Ökosysteme so gemanagt werden, dass die heutige Nutzung ihrer Funktionen und Leistungen nicht die Möglichkeit zukünftiger Nutzung gefährdet? Zur Einführung in das Thema des Seminars für alle Teilnehmenden:
Spezielle Literatur zu den Referatsthemen wird in der Vorbesprechung angegeben. |
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Umweltökonomie | |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. Stephan Wolf | |
WS / Vorlesung + Übung / M.Sc. | |
In diesem Modul lernen Studierende, die natürliche Umwelt und natürliche Ressourcen aus einer ökonomischen Perspektive zu analysieren und zu managen. Dazu lernen Studierende fortgeschrittene Konzepte und Methoden der Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie, sowie der Ökologischen Ökonomie. Diese wenden sie an auf die Analyse von Mensch-Umwelt-Systemen. Im Modul werden u.a. folgende Themen behandelt:
Literatur Es gibt kein Lehrbuch für dieses Modul. Geeignete Literatur für einzelne Kapitel des Moduls sind Teile der folgenden Bücher:
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Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain | |
WS / Lecture + Workgroup / M.Sc. | |
In this course, students will study biodiversity and ecosystem services from an economic perspective. Biodiversity is understood here as ‘the variability among living organisms from all sources ... and the ecological complexes of which they are part’ (United Nations Convention on Biodiversity 1992). Ecosystem services are “the benefits people obtain from ecosystems” (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). This includes provisioning services (e.g. the provision of food, fiber, fuels or clean drinking water), regulating services (e.g. climate regulation, erosion control, or the regulation of pests and diseases), and cultural services (e.g. aesthetic satisfaction, education, recreation, or spiritual fulfillment).
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Experimental Sustainability Economics | |
Dr. Stephan Wolf | |
WS / Seminar with lecture elements / M.Sc. | |
Mainstream economics is being criticized for its reliance on an unrealistic model of rational decision making. Behavioral and institutional economists therefore apply more realistic assumptions about human behavior, such as altruism, reciprocity, risk aversion, excessive discounting of the future, and limited access to and processing of information. By and large, behavioral and institutional economists study actions and decision of “real” human beings and confront their results with rational decision making. For example, such studies can help us understand how the management of scarce and vulnerable natural resources actually works and where existing rules can be improved in order to avoid the overexploitation of commons. Especially the latter point is crucial for “sustainable” management of resources: good rules should also be immune against egoistic overutilization by certain users. At the same time, resource consumption inherently raises the question who legitimately has a right to access and appropriation. Hence, fairness considerations play a crucial role in common pool resource utilization, too. Similar considerations apply for most “environmental problems” where pollutants (as a side-effect of production or consumption) decrease the quality of “the environment”, raising the question about legitimate boundaries of acceptable pollution.
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Mandatory: Environmental Economics / Umweltökonomie | |
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Current Topics in Environmental Economics and Resource Management/ Aktuelle Themen der Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner Dr. A.M. Tanvir Hussain, Dr. Stephan Wolf, Yuki Henselek |
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WS, SS / Independent Study ( Lehrforschungsprojekt) / M.Sc. | |
This module serves for deepening knowledge and expertise in the area of environmental and resource economics in a research-oriented manner for those student who have taken the basic module "Environmental Economics" in the 1st semester, and at least one of our elective modules in the 3rd semester. The "Topics"-module then allows students to work out an ambitious and operational proposal for their master thesis in the area of environmental and resource economics. In contrast, the module is not suitable for students without these prerequisites, or without the ambition to do a master thesis in our group. In this module, students will independently work on an individual topic from one of the research areas of the Chair of Environmental Economics and Resource Management (see here for a first overview). The choice of a topic will be individually negotiated between students and supervisors. One aim in attending this module would be for students to get acquainted with the current state of knowledge on their topic. Another, aim would be to prepare a research proposal for a master thesis. In any case, the tangible product from this module will be a term paper at the front of knowledge. Participation in this module is by personal invitation only (“privatissime”). If you are interested in attending and have not been invited yet, please, sign up for the module, come to the first meeting (which will take place in the first or second week of the semester), and introduce yourself. We will then discuss your motivation, background and ambitions, and may invite you to attend the module. |
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Economics, Institutions, and the Environment | |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner, Dr. A.M. Tanvir Hussain, Dr. Stephan Wolf | |
WS / Lecture + Tutorial / M.Sc. | |
The aim of the course is to familiarize MEG students with the analysis of environmental problems from an economic perspective. Participants of the course will be introduced to theoretical concepts and methods of Environmental Economics and Institutional Economics. The course starts with a theoretical overview of Neoclassical concepts and continues with Environmental Economics giving some examples on how economic instruments for governing and tackling environmental problems can be applied. Because most of environmental goods and services are not being priced through a market - in divergence to the character of their scarcity - there is no incentive to internalize costs of pollution and degradation. Thus the risk of overuse is omnipresent. “Free-riding” is one of the consequences of this situation. One attempt to consider this problem is to integrate environmental goods and services into the market system and make them available to decision making processes. Participants of the course will get familiarized economic instruments used currently for solving the above mentioned problems. After a more conceptual treatment of the neoclassical market model and the market based instruments for tackling environmental problems, student will get an introduction to some basic micro-economic tools for analyzing environmental issues at a formal level. Given the well-known criticism of the neoclassical rational choice model, the second part of the course systematically addresses the consequences stemming from cognitive limits to individual decision making. We will see how institutions, interpreted as behavioral constraints and decision making heuristics, shape individual and collective action. Students will get an introduction to fundamental concepts of New Institutional Economics and get familiarized with the application of institutional thinking to economics at large and environmental issues in particular. |
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Scientific Frameworks of REM – Economics | |
Dr. A.M. Tanvir Hussain | |
WS / Lecture + Tutorial / M.Sc. | |
The economics part of the module presents an overview of basic concepts and methods of microeconomics. Main topics include fundamental principles of economics, consumer theory, producer theory, and market equilibrium and efficiency. Students acquire adequate understanding of microeconomic theory and they are able to apply this to practical contexts. The economics part prepares students for the “Society & Economy” module which builds on the basic concepts in consumer and producer theory. After completion, students should gain adequate understanding of producer and consumer theory, market equilibrium, basics of energy economics and should be well prepared for the “Renewable Energy Economics” module in the upcoming summer semester. |
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Renewable Energy Economics | |
Dr. A.M. Tanvir Hussain | |
SS / Lecture + Tutorial / M.Sc. | |
This module will, broadly, comprise of three sections. The first section deals with demand in, pricing and structure of energy markets. Main focus for the second section is the microeconomics of risk and insurance and theory of portfolio investments. The last part of the module covers failure of energy markets and appropriate regulations. After completion, students should acquire knowledge and understanding on the role of markets in efficient allocation of energy, decision-making under risk (especially in the context of renewable energies) and what happens when markets fail. |
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