JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Thesis preparation IV

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Course title Thesis preparation IV
Course code KECHT/1TP4
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 25
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
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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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.11.2024 23:51. Data created for academic year 2024/2025