Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Fundamentals of Sustainability Economics (Seminar)

Dozent/in: David Abson, Diego Torralva Becerra

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 40.501 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Economics plays a crucial role in how humans understand and manage their interactions with the natural world. It can be argued that our current economic system (and the values and mind-sets that shape that system) are one of the root causes of humanity’s current unsustainable development trajectory. In this seminar we will explore, the underpinning assumptions of neo-classical economic (the dominant school of economic thought) and contrast this approach with ideas drawn from resource, ecological and steady state economics. Each of these schools of thought will be related to the notion of sustainability with the emphasis on what economics can tell us about both sustainability problems and sustainability solutions. The course will draw on topics ranging from the limits to economic growth, the ethics of placing monetary values on nature, strong versus weak sustainability, the economics of climate change, and notions of justice in relation to the allocation of economic resources.

• Leuphana Bachelor - Major Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ab Studienbeginn WiSe 17/18) - Grundlagen der öffentlichen Nachhaltigkeitssteuerung
• Leuphana Bachelor - Major Umweltwissenschaften (ab Studienbeginn WiSe 17/18) - Grundlagen der öffentlichen Nachhaltigkeitssteuerung