Institution

Business, Economics, and Social Sciences

Department

Volkswirtschaftslehre

Teaching staff

Piero Basaglia, Prof. Dr. Moritz Alexander Drupp

SDG-topic cluster

Basic needs, Nature conservation and sustainable use of resources, Empowerment, Sustainable infrastructure, cities, and communities, Climate change

Comments/contents

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?  

Didactic concept

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