The module "Nature’s Values" will be offered for the second time this winter semester 2024/25. The first lecture takes place on Monday, October 14th and the first tutorial on Wednesday, October 16th. Late registration is still possible from October 14th until November 3rd through the late registration portal of the faculty:
Contents:
- History and significance of nature's values in economics
- Normative and ethical foundations of valuing nature
- Empirical methods of valuing nature (e.g. revealed and stated preferences)
- Principles for a sustainable economic use of natural public goods (e.g. climate, fish stocks, forests)
- Policy instruments for the protection of nature's values
- Economic accounting of nature's values
- Benefit-cost analyses for the integrated valuation of nature