Found 8 relevant results in 2.79s where lecturer="Karen Pittel"
Economic Policy and Structural Adjustment in Agriculture
Wirtschaftspolitik und Strukturanpassung im Agrarsektor
Changes in the economic structure are investigated from the perspective of international trade theory and modern growth theory. The fundamentals of both theories are taught and the resulting policy implications are discussed.
Economics of Sustainable Development
Ökonomische Theorie der Nachhaltigkeit
Concepts and indicators of sustainable development, paradigms of weak and strong sustainability;neoclassical and endogenous growth models;pollution, environmental policy and growth;role of substitution possibilities and technological progress;Environmental Kuznets Curve: concept, theory and empirical results;economic growth in the presence of exhaustible and renewable resources.
Environmental Policy and Structural Change
Forstliche Ressourcenökonomie III
Selected topics in forest policy and resource economics. Institutional settings and economic aspects of important environmental resources and their use.Organisation of the resource users, long-term effects of institutional regulation.
Environmental Policy and Structural Change
Umweltpolitik und struktureller Wandel
The lecture examines the long-run effects of environmental policy on economic structural change. The focus of the analysis is on intersectoral, intrasectoral and regional structural effects. As driving forces behind the observed structural change preferences, prices, technological progress and institutional change are identified.
Environmental Policy and Structural Change
Umweltpolitik und struktureller Wandel
The lecture examines the long-run effects of environmental policy on economic structural change. The focus of the analysis is on intersectoral, intrasectoral and regional structural effects. As driving forces behind the observed structural change preferences, prices, technological progress and institutional change are identified.
Forest Resource Economics I
Forstliche Ressourcenökonomie I
Introduction to resource economics, monetary evaluation of forest services, protection provided by forests and risk, problems of resource use and sustainability, economics of non-renewable resources, renewable resources, case studies, and discussion of selected examples.
Microeconomic principles; General equilibrium in closed and open economies; Traditional trade theory; Importance of increasing returns to scale; Imperfect competition; Public policies; Empirical content of trade theory
Sustainability and Long-run Ecnomic Development
Nachhaltigkeit und langfristige Wirtschaftsentwicklung
The lecture firstly introduces different concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. Building on this foundation and following a general introduction to the modelling of economic growth, conditions for growth to be sustainable are derived. The focus is thereby on the different implications arising from the scarcity of renewable versus non-renewables resources.