Profilseminar: Inequality and the Environment
Einrichtung
Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Fachbereich
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Lehrende
Piero Basaglia, Prof. Dr. Moritz Alexander Drupp
SDG-Cluster
Grundbedürfnisse, Naturschutz und nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung, Empowerment, Nachhaltige Infrastruktur, Städte und Gemeinschaften, Klimawandel
Kommentare / Inhalte
At the onset of the 21st century, (environmental) economics faces two mega-challenges: On the one hand, the loss of environmental goods and services is widespread and accelerating, while, on the other hand, concerns about economic inequalities become more prevalent in science, policy and society. These two challenges are inter-related: Economic inequality may influence environmental valuation and policy, while environmental policy may affect economic inequality in turn. The two challenges should therefore be studied and treated at the same time. The seminar addresses this interrelation by addressing a number of key issues. For example: (1) How does distribution of income within a society affect the economic valuation of the environment and nature? (2) What are individual and societal preferences for a more equal distribution of income and environmental quality? (3) Who benefits from better environmental quality? (4) Who bears the costs of environmental policy? (5) How can environmental policies be designed to take distributional effects into account?
Vorgehen
- 1. session (12.04.2019): Introduction to the seminar, presentation of topics; assignment of topics; hints on writing term papers.
- In-between: Individual work on the topics and creation of an exposé (2-4 pages)
- 2. meeting (10.05.2019): Peer-to-peer feedback on the exposés; Further details on the preparation of the term paper, seminar presentation and discussion of another paper
- In-between: Individual work on the term papers, feedback in office hours
- 09.06.2018 (23:59 o’clock): Submission of the term paper (as PDF and Word.docx via e-mail)
- In-between: Creation of the presentation and the discussion of another seminar paper, which will be sent to you by the lecturer on 10.06.2018.
- Block-session (21-22.6.2019): Presentations and discussions
Semester
SoSe 19
Kompetenzzentrum Nachhaltige Universität
Mittelweg 177
20148 Hamburg
www.nachhaltige.uni-hamburg.de