The course addresses ecosystem services, their value for society, the causes of their degradation, the stakeholders involved in their provision and use, and policies to reduce their degradation. One focus is on environmental economics approaches, highlighting their potential and limitations. During the spring of 2023 this course will focus on these issues through the case of the Brazilian Amazon.

Environmental decision-making is at the core of sustainability policies and management of human-environment systems. This lecture provides an introduction to the conceptual background for environmental decision-making and teaches the practicalities of environmental decision-making by means of exemplary real world cases.

This module addresses the implementation of (digital) strategies and innovative business models of the future and elucidates the drivers, inhibitors and challenges of business model innovation. Using suitable methods and procedures, participants in the module develop, evaluate and refine prototypes of sustainable future business models.

Analysis and presentation of research papers from the involved chairs, relating to topics from human-environment systems.