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Department of Environmental and Resource Economics
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Section overview
Description
The focus of the section is the economic valuation of ecosystem services, and the development of policy instruments for their conservation. It entails four specific study areas:
1. The development and implementation of valuation methods for ecosystem services;
2. Incorporating the value of ecosystem service into welfare economic analysis (cost-benefit analysis);
3. The development of policy instruments for protecting natural resources;
4. The integration of ecosystem services in neoclassical utility theory and welfare economics.
Activities
- Research
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Contact
Department of Environmental and Resource Economics
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
37073 Göttingen
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 551 39 4829
Fax: +49 (0) 551 39 4812
Email: cschnor(@)uni-goettingen.de
