The module "Nature’s Values" will be offered for the third time this winter semester 2025/26. The first lecture and tutorial take place on Monday, October 13th. Late registration is still possible from October 13th 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