Seminar: Bewertung natürlicher Ressourcen/ Valuation of natural resources

The project topic this semester will be: Bees and pollination services – economic evaluation and political action

Literature and other materials for the course are organised via MOODLE.

Please, also register for the course on MOODLE:

http://moodle-web.uni-greifswald.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=33

Basic literature for valuation of natural resources:

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2003): Ecosystems and Human Well-being. Island Press. (online Version verfügbar unter: http://www.maweb.org/en/Framework.aspx)

Hanley & Barbier (2009). Pricing Nature. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy.

TEEB Foundations (2010). The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations. Edited by Pushpam Kumar. Earthscan, London. (online Version verfügbar unter: http://www.teebweb.org)

TEEB in Local Policy (2011). The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Local and Regional Policy and Management. Edited by Heidi Wittmer and Haripriya Gundimeda. Earthscan, London. (online Version verfügbar unter: http://www.teebweb.org)

Further literature are given during the course.

All materials to the lecture are available on MOODLE.

M.Sc. Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation - elective module

• Passed module Cost Benefit Analysis
• Knowledge in environmental and conservation economics as well as cost-benefit analysis

You will pass this seminar by contributing to the different parts

(1) discussion of research articles (individual work) as well as

(2) own research to a topic including a presentation as well as a written paper (group work of 2 persons).

M.Sc. Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation