Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Ressourcenökonomie

Teachers

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn

Dr. Andreas Thiel

Tutor

Marie Populus

Time

Thursday, 2-6pm

Location

Philippstr. 13, House 16, H 7

Start

20.10.2011

Courses online

Environmental and Resource Economics III

Objective

Students will…

• Develop an understanding of ecological economics and conceptualisations of social-ecological issues;
• Develop an understanding of the role of institutions for environmental and natural resource problems;
• Have basic knowledge of important data gathering and analysis approaches for empirical institutional analysis (qualitative and quantitative methods and their combination);
• Have gained an understanding of the linkages between research design, theories, frameworks and methods when analysing specific environmental and natural resource problems;
• Apply their knowledge to structure the analysis of an empirical problem.

Content

The course introduces an understanding of the interactions between the environment and humans that fundamentally differs from conventional environmental economics. It is founded on ecological and institutional economics. The course covers conceptualisations of social ecological systems and focuses on institutions, frameworks for analysis, and theories of institutional change. In addition research design and methodologies for researching institutions are discussed.  An excursion to the “Biosphärenreservat Flusslandschaft Elbe-Brandenburg” is included. The excursion area will provide the examples for which students will subsequently be asked to develop a research design.

Methods

Lecture and exercise, excursion

Examination

Written course work and oral presentation

Desireable requirements

"Institutional Economics and Political Economy I - Basics and application" and "Environmental and Resource Economics II - Valuation and instruments" or the equivalent

Course Description

Handout 2011/2012