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- Code:
- AGERE-003
- Field:
- Environmental Economics
- Target:
- Master’s students
- Organiser:
- University of Helsinki - Environmental Economics
- Instructor:
- Anna-Kaisa Kosenius
- Period:
- Period 1
- Format:
- Participation in teaching
- Method:
- Blended teaching
- Venue:
- Viikki campus
- Enrollment:
In case of conflicting information consider the Sisu/Course/Moodle pages the primary source of information.
Aalto, Hanken and UH economics students can enroll through their home university’s SISU. Further instructions are available on the How to enroll? page, also for students from other universities.
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Content
This course provides a comprehensive overview of different methods for assessing social and cultural values for the environment, with a specific focus on integrated landscape management. The course places much of its emphasis on participatory GIS, deliberative valuation, narrative assessment of ecosystem services and photo elicitation, and how they can be used to inform policy and practice on integrated landscape management, with particular regard to: The European Landscape Convention, greening efforts in the context of the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the European Commission’s Nature-Based Solutions approach. We will also explore how social and cultural valuation can be used to inform international decision-making on biodiversity through the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. We will also consider methods for integrating social and cultural values of nature with ecological and economic values, in what is broadly referred to as the ‘diverse values of nature’.
Learning outcomes
To understand the theoretical framework of economic valuation of environmental benefits, to apply of economic valuation methods and data analysis techniques.