Course: Advanced biophysical methods in nanomaterial research

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Course title Advanced biophysical methods in nanomaterial research
Course code KECHT/1ABNR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 20
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Wróbel Dominika Zofia, Ph.D.
  • Malý Jan, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Trögl Josef, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Contents: 1. Basic economic theories: utility, demand and supply; 2. Relationship between economics and the environment, basic economic approaches to the environment (neoclassical environmental economics, ecological economics, institutional approaches, market approaches, etc.); 3. Environmental protection policy tools; 4. Ecosystem service concept (regulating, provisional and cultural services), different approaches to their classification and valuation; 5. Innovative and alternative tools (payments for ecosystem services); 6. Valuation of ecosystem services, component methods (willingness to pay/accept compensation, market prices, hedonic pricing, choice experiment, etc.); 7. Application of experiments and games in applied economics in the environmental area (flood management, forestry, etc.); 8. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA); 9. Regulatory impact analysis in the environmental area.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • BALMFORD, A., BRUNER, A., COOPER, P., COSTANZA, R., FARBER, S., GREEN, R.E., JENKINS, M., et al. Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature. Science, 297(5583): 950-953. 2002.
  • BATEMAN, I.J., HARWOOD, A.R., MACE, G.M., WATSON, R.T., ABSON, D.J., ANDREWS, B.; BINNER, A., CROWE, A., DAY, B.H., DUGDALE, S., et al. Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-Making: Land Use in the United Kingdom. Science 341, 45?50. 2013.
  • BRAAT, L. C., DE GROOT, R. The ecosystem services agenda: bridging the worlds of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy. Ecosystem Services, 1(1): 4-15. 2012.
  • CAPISTRANO, D. (Ed.). Ecosystems and human well-being: multiscale assessments: findings of the Sub-global Assessments Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Washington: Island Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55963-185-6.
  • CONSTANZA, R. D´ARGE, R. DE GROOT, R., FARBER, S. GRASSO, M. HANNON, B., LIMBURG, K., NAEEM. S., O´NEIL, R. PARUELO, J. RASKIN, R., SUTTON, P., VAN DEN BELT, M. he value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387:253-260.
  • COSTANZA, R., DE GROOT, R., SUTTON, P., VAN DER PLOEG, S., ANDERSON, S.J., KUBISZEWSKI, I., FARBER, S., TURNER, R.K. Changes in the global value of ecosystem services. Global environmental change 26:152-158. 2014.
  • DE GROOT, R. Function-analysis and valuation as a tool to assess land use conflicts in planning for sustainable, multi-functional landscapes. Landscape and urban planning 75(3-4): 175-186. 2006.
  • DE GROOT, R.S., ALKEMADE, R., BRAAT, L., HEIN, L., WILLEMEN, L. Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making. Ecological Complexity 7: 260-272. 2010.
  • DE GROOT, R.S. Functions of Nature: Evaluation of Nature in Environmental Planning, Management and Decisionmaking. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1992.
  • ENGEL, S., PAGIOLA, S., WUNDER, S. Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues. Ecological Economics, 65, 663-673. 2008.
  • GÓMEZ-BAGGETHUN, E., DE GROOT, R., LOMAS, P. L., MONTES, C. The history of ecosystem services in economic theory and practice: From early notions to markets and payment schemes. Ecological Economics, 69. 2009.
  • LIENHOOP, N. SCHRÖTER-SCHLAACK, C. Involving multiple actors in ecosystem service governance: Exploring the role of stated preference valuation. Ecosystem services 34: 181-188. 2018.
  • LOUDA, J., VOJÁČEK, O., SLAVÍKOVÁ, L. Achieving Robust and Socially Acceptable Environmental Policy Recommendations: Lessons from Combining the Choice Experiment Method and Institutional Analysis Focused on Cultural Ecosystem Services. Forests 12(4): 484. 2021.
  • MACHÁČ, J., DUBOVÁ, L., LOUDA, J., HEKRLE, M., ZAŇKOVÁ, L., BRABEC, J. Methodol-ogy for Economic Assessment of Green and Blue Infrastructure in Human Settlements. Ústí nad Labem: Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy, 2019.
  • PERMAN, R., MA, Y., MCGILVRAY, J., COMMON, M. Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. Pearson ? Addison Wesley, 2003.
  • SLAVÍKOVÁ, L., VEJCHODSKÁ, E., SLAVÍK, J. a kol. Ekonomie životního prostředí ? teorie a politika. Praha: Alfa Nakladatelství, 2012. ISBN 978-80-87197-45-5.
  • WUNDER, S. Payments for environmental services: Some nuts and bolts. CIFOR Occasional Paper, (42). 2005.


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